Gus Bjorklund
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Gus Bjorklund (aka Wizard) is vice president of technology for Progress Software Corporation and works in the Corporate Development & Strategy Group. In this role, he works with technical and business leaders across all the company's operating units to clarify technical strategies, identify technical synergies, evaluate new technology directions and coordinate cross-unit technology efforts in areas of common interest, particularly data management.
Previously, Bjorklund served as vice president of technology for the Progress Real Time Division, a role in which he drove the overall technical strategy for real-time data services and played a key role in the acquisitions of Persistence Software and Apama. He was also vice president of technology for the Progress OpenEdge Division, where he was responsible for defining overall technical strategy, as well as providing leadership and technical guidance to the engineering and product management groups that created and supported the Progress OpenEdge e-business platform.
One of the company's senior technical leaders, Bjorklund joined Progress in 1989, and subsequently designed and implemented many of the key elements of the OpenEdge RDBMS and Progress 4GL. His prior experience includes data communications, industrial automation, real-time control, manufacturing quality control, compilers, operating systems and financial systems.
Bjorklund studied physics at George Mason University in Virginia, and learned about software by doing computational physics in solid-state energy-band theory.
"Gus has a long and distinguished history with Progress," said Gordon Van Huizen, CTO of Progress Software Corporation. "We are pleased to have his breadth and depth of experience, as well as his creative energy to help drive our corporate-wide technical strategies forward."
"Working at Progress is exciting because we have such great customers," Bjorklund said. "I am often amazed at the wonderful things they do with our products and really enjoy learning from them. The people at Progress have made the company successful not just because they build great software that delivers, but because they really care about the customer's success, too. I'm glad I get to work with so many exceptional people."
