SPEAKER PROFILE

Darren Crowder is the Head of Solution Consulting for UKI, Netherlands. Solution Consulting is a team of domain specific experts / trusted advisors supporting TIBCO’s customers & ecosystem, focused on incubating & ideating new industry innovations which drive’s TIBCO’s thought leadership around TIBCO’s Connected Intelligence Strategy & Vision.

In his role he and his team are engaging and advising TIBCO’s most strategic customers helping them to understand how disruptive innovations (IOT, Block Chain, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, etc) can be applied in the most practical and cost effect way to enable them to reimagine their business models , data & processes whilst achieving their growth aspirations and moving them into “Blue Ocean” territory.

Prior to joining TIBCO, Mr Crowder served for 13 years at SAP SE in numerous roles from leading business development to managing solution management with his last position being Chief Technology Officer for Northern EMEA. Before SAP he was at BEA Systems where he worked with customers and partners on enabling the next generation of middleware across hybrid platforms including telecommunications and financial services. Mr Crowder has devoted several years in senior management and marketing roles at Microsoft and Borland International where he successfully launched & fostered .NET / Java adoption, and solutions such as Delphi (Turbo Pascal) / Borland C++, VisiBroker across Sub Saharan Africa. In his career, he led various teams & activities whilst at these companies focused on Business Strategy, Vision and Execution thereof. Mr Crowder is based out of the United Kingdom and speaks frequently at many international events.