Eric Anderson is the AVP of Innovation at BMC Software who has 25+ years of working in the IT, cyber security, cloud and IT services industry. He joined BMC in 2016 bringing his experience and expertise in SaaS development, SaaS operations, cloud, and automation to help transform BMC into a SaaS first company. He currently lead’s BMC’s Core-Tech Innovation Labs research division.  Prior to that, he was the Deputy CTO and Chief Architect for Cloud and Automation Transformation at IBM. He is a serial innovator that has well over a hundred patents to his name and enjoys scuba diving, snowboarding and woodworking in his free time.