Management Team
| Sasha Gilenson | Chief Executive Officer, co-founder |
| Eyal Oz | Vice President, R&D |
| Bill Grant | Sr. Director of Technical Sales and Services |
Sasha Gilenson
Chief Executive Officer, co-founder
Sasha Gilenson is Founder and CEO of Evolven with a background in both technology and business. Prior to founding Evolven in 2007, he spent 13 years with Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP), managing the QA organization and participating in establishing Mercury Interactive's Software as a Service (SaaS). Sasha played a key role in the development of Mercury Interactive's worldwide Business Technology Optimization (BTO) strategy and drove field operations of the Wireless Business Unit, all while taking on the duties as the Mercury Interactive's top "guru" in quality processes and IT practices domain.
In this capacity, Sasha advised numerous Fortune 500 companies on technology and process optimization, and in turn, acquired a comprehensive and rare knowledge of the market and industry practices. Sasha saw how many enterprises were frustrated with critical business systems going down or underperforming, seeing repeatedly how complexity and gaps in IT operations created problems that no technology filled. Looking at these issues from a new perspective, he envisioned a revolutionary approach for handling the abundant and dynamic data that IT teams needed for maintaining performance and availability of their business operations. Sasha pushed ahead and founded Evolven to show how his approach for quickly handling changes in the modern data center is possible, and can result in tremendous savings and opportunities for enterprises.
The innovative solution developed at Evolven has been praised and recognized by Forrester's Vice President and Principal Analyst, Jean-Pierre Garbani: "Evolven represents the original BSM spirit: effective solutions that provide immediate results by building a bridge between the end user and IT operations."
Sasha was named a Finalist in the 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® New Jersey Award.
Sasha's insights and observations have appeared in leading industry resources:
- The Crucial Role DevOps Plays in Change & Configuration Management, CM Crossroads
- Control and Agility in IT: An Interview with Evolven's Sasha Gilenson, BSM Review
- Why Release Validation is Critical for Effective Deployments and Releases, Technorati
- 3 Ways Release Validation Improves Your Release Management, Business Computing World
Sasha holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Latvian University and MBA from London Business School.
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Eyal Oz
Vice President, R&DBringing many years of software development and management experience to Evolven's recognized team of industry experts, Eyal has demonstrated management success across various development organizations – from startup to global enterprises. With a focus on execution and customer satisfaction, he adds a unique ability to translate customer needs and pains into new software products. Prior to joining Evolven, Eyal spent 12 years in various R&D roles at Mercury Interactive (acquired by Hewlett Packard [NYSE: HPQ] in 2007). Eyal's leadership was integral to the rollout of their leading products, contributing an innovative business-centric approach to managing applications. Eyal brings a deep knowledge in developing software solutions in the areas of change and configuration management, performance and availability monitoring. He holds BA degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
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Bill Grant
Sr. Director of Technical Sales and ServicesPrior to joining Evolven, Bill worked for nearly 10 years at Rational Software (acquired by IBM), where he consulted clients on applying modern software engineering practices and automating IT governance. Bill has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars, and has published articles on software testing. Most recently, Bill lead IBM Rational's technical team in New York City, with a focus on banking and insurance clients. Bill began his career as a software programmer and development lead.
Bill's expertise extends to many aspects of the software development lifecycle: change and release management, functional and performance testing, requirements management, object-oriented analysis and design, and project and process management. Bill has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University.
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