Keynote Speakers
Mark Bishof
Chief Executive Officer,
Acresso Software
Mark Bishof brings a wealth of leadership and software experience to Acresso Software. Most recently, Mr. Bishof served as general manager and executive vice president of Macrovision's Software Business Unit. Prior to that, he led worldwide sales, services and engineering in the independent software providers and enterprise Information Technology markets. Mr. Bishof is a software and management consulting industry veteran and brings a diverse background in selling and delivering enterprise integration and technology solutions for Global 2000 customers. Before joining Macrovision, Mr. Bishof held executive positions at IBM, including vice president of worldwide industry solutions sales and vice president of worldwide sales for WebSphere Business Integration. Mr. Bishof was brought into IBM as part of the company's acquisition of CrossWorlds Software, where he was senior vice president of global sales and services.
Prior to CrossWorlds, Mr. Bishof was a partner at Deloitte Consulting in the Global Telecommunications & Media practice. He has also worked as an associate with Booz-Allen Hamilton and as a consultant to Warburg Pincus in their Information Technology and Communications practice. Mr. Bishof serves on the board of directors for Solstice Software and holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Maryland.
Roger Bottum
Senior Vice President of Marketing,
Acresso Software
As senior vice president of marketing, Roger Bottum leads Acresso's global marketing team, with responsibilities for overseeing product management and the strategy, tactics, and programs used to create interest, demand, and recognition for Acresso's products and solutions.
Mr. Bottum brings a wealth of experience in product strategy and marketing in the enterprise software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) segments. He has held top marketing and product management roles at System Software Associates, Inc. and served as an associate partner at Accenture.
More recently, Mr. Bottum held lead marketing and product strategy roles at Endeavor Information Systems, a Reed Elsevier company, where he marketed and transitioned key products to a Software-as-a-Service model, and at two early stage SaaS application companies. Earlier, he was vice president of marketing at ShowCase Corporation, a business intelligence software company, where he helped launch a successful initial public offering.