Currently Ben is both the co-founder of the Competitive Marketing Summit and a member of the competitive and product marketing team at Red Hat solutions. Prior to Red Hat, Ben’s 20+ years of industry experience includes product & competitive marketing at VMware, Quest Software and software sales, consulting, product and solutions marketing at CA Technologies. Ben’s contributions include; numerous speaking engagements, published articles and white papers on IT management related topics. Ben holds a master’s degree in Computer Information Systems from The University of Denver, an undergraduate degree in marketing from Western Michigan University, is Pragmatic Institute Foundations certified and ITIL® V3 Foundation certified.