Gregor Petri

Gregor Petri is a Lean IT and Cloud Computing Advisor at CA Technologies, coordinated the Smart Enterprise program for Europe and is currently rolling out The Cloud Academy, an initiative he started in Europe, where the academy is running in several counties in cooperation with partners such as Amazon Web Services, Cap Gemini, Cisco and NetApps and which is now being launched globally.

Gregor is also a regular expert or keynote speaker at industry events throughout Europe and author of “Shedding Light on Cloud Computing”. He is also a columnist at ITSM Portal, contributing author to the Dutch “Over Cloud Computing” book, member of the Computable expert panel on SOA , SaaS & Cloud Computing and his LeanITmanager blog is syndicated across many sites worldwide. He was recently named by Cloud Computing Journal as one of world’s Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing.

Earlier in his career, Gregor worked as a management trainee in the office of the CIO at Akzo, helped roll out Just in Time Manufacturing at Philips. In the following years he was instrumental in the introduction of several IT innovations into the European market , like the first Object Oriented ERP application for Marcam Solutions, where he was Director Product Marketing for Europe, and the first XML server for Software AG, where he was Director sales and marketing for the Netherlands.

Gregor was a co-founder of the Dutch Web-Services Association and board member of the XML Users Group Holland and of Geel-Zwart field hockey, where he still plays competition. Gregor studied Business Economics and Information Technology in Rotterdam and Tilburg, during this study he wrote and marketed one of the first European shareware applications.