About BMC

David Cramer is president of the Digital Service Operations product line at BMC Software, Inc. In this role, he is responsible for BMC’s market-leading TrueSight and BladeLogic portfolios, which enable customers to automate and optimize the performance, security and cost of workloads in the data center and in the cloud.

David joined BMC in 2015 as vice president of product management for Data Center and Cloud Management. In 2016, he was promoted to general manager of the Security Operations business.

Prior to joining BMC, David spent six years at CA Technologies. He began his tenure at CA as vice president of product management for the IT Automation business. After introducing several new products that advanced the business from monitoring to true automation, he was recruited to run strategy and product management for a new business unit, Application Delivery. David helped define the strategy and integrate three acquired companies to establish the business, which over time, became the strategy and growth engine for the entire company.

Previously, David held senior leadership roles in product management and product marketing at AlterPoint, Motive, NetSolve, and Nortel Networks.

David received his MBA from Southern Methodist University and a BS in finance from Georgia State University.

Imran Khan is senior vice president of Customer Success at BMC Software, Inc. He leads the company’s Services and Education business, Services Sales, the Customer Support organization, and the Chief Customer Office function.

Previously Imran was senior vice president of global services and a member of the executive team at JDA Software, a supplier of software to world-class retailers and manufactures. Imran’s 1,500-strong organization was responsible for providing consulting and strategic services to most of the globe’s top supply chains, with services accounting for a third of JDA’s revenue.

Prior to JDA Imran was vice president for worldwide network consulting at Hewlett Packard where he was responsible for developing the industry’s leading networking consulting business, including a strategy and operating plan that supported the new HP networking product set. Earlier Imran was vice president of global services at 3Com Corporation, running all aspects of 3Com’s service business, including training and education, and was a leader and key collaborator on the integration team that managed 3Com’s acquisition by HP.

Imran is a qualified accountant and holds a degree in business and finance from the University of Middlesex, United Kingdom.

Bill Miller is president of ZSolutions and Select Technologies/Mid-Market for BMC Software, Inc. As head of ZSolutions, Bill has full P&L responsibility for the company’s suite of industry-leading Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) solutions including DB2, IMS, MainView, Security, MLC Cost Reduction, Predictive Analysis, and Root Cause Analysis.

Previously, Bill served as BMC’s chief operating officer, president of its Mainframe Solutions Management business unit, and general manager of Data Management.

Bill joined BMC from BindView Development, where he was senior vice president and chief operating officer. Earlier in his career, Bill spent 21 years at IBM, where he held a variety of positions including in sales, marketing and general management.

Bill earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Dallas.

Nayaki Nayyar is the president of the Digital Service Management product line at BMC Software, Inc., where she is leading BMC’s evolution into the cognitive era with the transformation of IT service management into cognitive service management driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this role, she has been instrumental in driving double-digit cloud growth with the release of the latest innovations in the BMC Helix suite on a cloud-agnostic containerized platform with embedded AI/ML capabilities.

Prior to joining BMC, Nayaki served as general manager and global head of SAP’s Internet of Things division. She also held senior management positions in strategy, and she was the senior vice president of SAP’s cloud business unit, where she drove significant growth in the company’s cloud, CRM, and mobile business unit. Nayaki gained tremendous industry experience during her tenures at Shell and Valero, and she was instrumental in Valero’s rapid growth into the largest independent refining company in North America.

She holds a B.E. in mechanical engineering from Osmania University (India) and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Houston, and she is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. Nayaki also serves on the board of Veritone, one of the leading providers of an operating system for artificial intelligence.

Steve Solcher is the senior vice president of Finance and Business Operations and chief financial officer for BMC Software, Inc.

Prior to being named SVP of Finance and CFO in 2005, Steve served as the company’s treasurer and was a vice president of Finance. He joined the company in 1991 as assistant treasurer and became treasurer the following year. During his tenure, BMC grew from nearly $130 million in annual revenue to $2.2 billion in annual revenue in 2013, its last year operating as a public company. In addition to leading many M&A acquisitions as CFO, Steve was instrumental in BMC’s transition from being a publicly traded company to becoming a private held company in 2013.

Previously, he was employed by Arthur Andersen as a certified public accountant.

Steve is a member of the board of directors of Main Street Capital Corporation, and he also serves on the development board of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He was recognized by the Houston Business Journal as 2012 Best CFO–Large Public Company.

Gur Steif is the president of the Digital Business Automation product line for BMC Software, Inc. Under Gur’s leadership, the business has tripled in size.

Previously, Gur was the general manager and vice president for the precursor to Digital Business Automation, the Workload Automation product line, as well as the Performance & Availability business line. During this time, he grew the Workload Automation business at triple the market growth rate while also delivering a double-digit increase in customer satisfaction for Performance & Availability.

In his 25-year career in technology, Gur has held leadership roles in strategy, product management, R&D, sales, marketing and M&A in IT operations management, application management and workload automation.

Gur holds a Master of Business Administration from Tel Aviv University and has more than 25 years of experience in systems management and data center automation.

Patrick Tagtow serves as BMC’s general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer.

Prior to being named general counsel, Patrick served as BMC’s vice president of litigation and compliance with responsibility over global litigation management, legal and regulatory enterprise risk management and BMC’s compliance and ethics program.

He joined BMC in 1999 from the law firm of Haynes and Boone, L.L.P. where he practiced commercial and employment litigation.

Patrick received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a master’s of business administration and doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Houston. He has been practicing law since 1993.