John Bates

Dr John Bates is chief technology officer (CTO) at Progress Software. In this role he is responsible for leading the team that creates and evolves the Progress vision and strategy, leads market research and due diligence for acquisitions to support the strategy, and evangelizes the Progress strategy and solutions to customers, partners and other constituencies. A recognised visionary and entrepreneur in the software industry, Bates has a strong track record of innovation in areas such as event-driven architectures, smart environments and real-time computing. In particular, he is recognised as one of the foremost driving forces behind the emergence of complex event processing (CEP) and has pioneered the commercial use of event processing in business solutions. Bates also led the initiative to develop the Progress Responsive Process Management strategy - bringing together solutions including business process management (BPM) and CEP to deliver responsive business operations to industries including financial services, telecommunications, airline operations and logistics. With an extensive background in the capital markets industry, Bates has pioneered new techniques in algorithmic and high frequency trading, real-time risk and market surveillance.

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John Bates