Gordon Van Huizen

Chief Technology Officer

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Gordon Van Huizen is chief technology officer (CTO) for Progress Software Corporation. He and his team provide senior technical guidance to the product divisions, establish strategic partnerships for the company, lead company-wide standards strategies, and promote technology and product synergies across the company’s product lines.

In his previous executive roles as General Manager of the Enterprise Infrastructure Division, vice president of SOA products, and Sonic CTO, he has led the strategy, engineering, and delivery of the Actional, DataXtend, OpenEdge, and Sonic product lines, as well as the company’s technical and market strategies for service-oriented architecture (SOA). Van Huizen provided a driving force in bringing the industry's first enterprise service bus Sonic ESB® to market and establishing the enterprise service bus (ESB) product category within the industry. Prior to Progress Software, Van Huizen served as director of engineering for BEA's flagship WebLogic Server product.

Van Huizen has over 26 years of software experience covering a broad range of technologies, including real-time systems, object frameworks, graphical editors, Java application servers and XML. He has been leading the development and design of Internet applications, application servers and middleware since 1996.

A popular speaker and authority on SOA, Van Huizen has delivered keynote speeches at numerous conferences and has been published in Network World, Business Integration Journal, Java Developer's Journal and JavaWorld, as well as Professional Java Server Programming, J2EE Edition. InfoWorld magazine also named Van Huizen one of its "2004 InfoWorld CTO 25" for his leadership in integration technology and pioneering vision for the enterprise service bus.