Tom Bishop

CTO, BMC Software

Tom Bishop is the Chief Technology Officer of BMC Software, Inc. (NYSE: BMC), a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage IT from a business perspective.

Bishop joined BMC in 2005 from VIEO, Inc., in Austin, Texas, where he served as Chief Technology Officer and was named one of the top 25 CTOs by InfoWorld in 2004. While at VIEO, Bishop pioneered the architecture and design of an applications-focused, quality of service-oriented enterprise systems management solution.

For more than 20 years, he has served in senior technology and strategy roles at leading organizations including UNIX International, Tandem Computers and CompuCare Management Systems. Bishop was an early employee of Tivoli Systems and rose quickly through the organization, serving first in key development roles before being named Chief Technology Officer and General Manager for IBM Tivoli's Embedded Solutions business unit.

A well-known technology innovator, Bishop holds nine patents in fault tolerant computing and in leading the development of industry standards such as the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and POSIX.

He is a member of the Board of Directors for Symbiot, an Austin-based software startup and serves on the technical advisory board for AlterPoint, based in Austin, Texas, and Qlusters, based in Palo Alto, Calif.

Bishop received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees, both in Computer Science, from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.