Executive Officers

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Robert E. Beauchamp
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer

Robert "Bob" Beauchamp is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of BMC Software, the recognized leader in business service management.

After joining the company in 1988 as a sales executive, Beauchamp rose rapidly through the BMC ranks. During his tenure, he has led key business initiatives, including research and development, strategic marketing and corporate development. Named CEO in 2001, Beauchamp led BMC's highly successful transformation from a mainframe tools vendor to the company that delivers the industry's most strategic enterprise management and automation solutions, enabling customers to automate IT and prove their business value.

Beauchamp has been active and served on the boards of numerous non-profit, industry and civic organizations during his career including Baylor University and National Oilwell Varco among others.

Beauchamp holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in management from Houston Baptist University.

Paul Avenant
Senior Vice President of Solutions

Paul Avenant is senior vice president of solutions. He oversees the company’s five product lines, including Service Support, Data Center Automation & Cloud Management, Workload Automation, Performance & Availability and Data Management. He has served in several leadership positions since joining BMC in 2004, including as senior vice president of the Enterprise Service Management business unit. Avenant has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry including nine years with Hewlett-Packard's OpenView group.

Kia Behnia
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Kia Behnia is senior vice president and chief technology officer for BMC Software. Behnia is a recognized luminary in the IT industry and brings his considerable expertise to determining BMC's vision and direction across its entire portfolio of solutions, including mainframe, IT service management, virtualization management and cloud computing. Additionally, Behnia leads BMC's marketing and communications organization, thus ensuring that BMC's marketing and communications activities directly align to the vision and objectives of the company.

Under Behnia's leadership, BMC has developed industry-leading cloud management solutions and continues to drive innovation for businesses that need to implement a cloud computing strategy. Behnia also represents BMC as a commissioner for the Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2). Further, he has been instrumental in developing BMC's Business Service Management into a world-class technology platform. During his tenure at BMC, Behnia has also served as BMC's chief corporate architect and held the role of chief technology officer (CTO) for the change and configuration products.

Behnia joined BMC in 2004 through the acquisition of Marimba Inc., where he served as CTO. He has more than 19 years of experience in enterprise service, infrastructure and application management. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California at Davis.

Ken Berryman
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development

Ken Berryman is the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development for BMC Software, Inc. In this role Berryman is responsible for BMC's corporate strategy, global alliances, and M&A activities. He joined the company in September of 2010.

Prior to joining BMC, Berryman served in several roles at Symantec Corporation, most recently as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Emerging Businesses. In this capacity, he led a number of acquisitions for Symantec, including the acquisition of PGP and VeriSign's authentication businesses. He also spent time as the leader of Symantec's NetBackup product group, and drove the development of Symantec's endpoint virtualization products. Before Symantec, Berryman was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he led the firm's North American software practice and worked with clients across a range of technology sectors.

Berryman holds a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

T. Cory Bleuer
Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

T. Cory Bleuer joined BMC Software, Inc. in August 2006 as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer.  

Bleuer has extensive finance and accounting experience in the enterprise software industry, most recently serving as the Vice President and Controller of EMC Corporation's Captiva Software group, a position he assumed following EMC's acquisition of Captiva Software Corporation where he was Vice President and Corporate Controller.  Bleuer previously served in the roles of Corporate Controller and Director, Corporate Finance with Fair Isaac Corporation, following Fair Isaac's acquisition of HNC Software, Inc. where he was Corporate Controller.  Earlier in his career, Bleuer was an experienced Audit and Business Advisory Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.  

Bleuer holds a Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Accounting concentration, from Indiana University and holds a CPA certificate issued by the State of Georgia.  Bleuer is a member of Financial Executives International (FEI).

Hollie Castro
Senior Vice President, Administration

Hollie Castro is the Senior Vice President, Administration for BMC Software, Inc.  In this role, Castro is responsible for managing the company's Global Human Resources, Community and Government Relations and Global Real Estate activities.

Castro joined BMC Software in September 2009 from Talisman-Energy, where she was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Services.  Prior to joining Talisman-Energy, she was the Vice President, Human Resources at Cisco Systems and served in various Human Resource roles at General Electric.  Additionally, she founded a coaching and consulting company, Global Rainmakers, which specializes in acceleration coaching for Generation X/Y professionals, leveraging technology and cohort learning.

Castro holds an MBA from Thunderbird University, which focuses on international experiences and her undergraduate degree is from Marlboro College.  Castro is fluent in a number of languages, including Italian, Portuguese, French and Spanish.

Steve Goddard
Senior Vice President, Business Operations

Steve Goddard is senior vice president, business operations for BMC Software, Inc.

Goddard served as the vice president of assurance from April 2007 until being named senior vice president, business operations in November 2008. He served as the senior director of internal controls from September 2005 to March 2007 and joined BMC Software, Inc. in July 2003 as the director of IT governance.

Prior to joining BMC Software, Inc., Goddard was with Arthur Andersen for twenty-five years, serving in various leadership positions including the gulf coast managing partner.

Goddard received a Bachelors in Business Administration degree from Texas A&M University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

William D. Miller
Chief Operating Officer

Bill Miller serves as Chief Operating Officer responsible for Solutions, Sales, and Support and Maintenance. Previously, Mr. Miller served as President of Mainframe Service Management.

Miller joined BMC Software in July 15, 2002, from BindView Development, where he had served as senior vice president and chief operating officer. Subsequent to joining BindView, Miller spent 21 years at IBM, where he held a variety of positions including in sales, marketing and general management.

Miller received a Bachelor of Science – Engineering degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Dallas.

Carv Moore
Senior Vice President of Sales

Carv Moore is senior vice president of sales for BMC Software, Inc.  Moore joined BMC in January 2012. 

Moore’s proven executive and sales leadership experience spans more than 25 years. Prior to joining BMC, Moore was senior vice president of Sun Microsystems’ global software business and responsible for driving worldwide software product and services sales in more than 160 countries. During his tenure with Sun, he consistently exceeded revenue targets and growth expectations, delivering solid results for four consecutive fiscal years. 

In previous roles, Moore served as president of four market-leading companies including SeeBeyond, Novell, Cambridge Technology Partners, and Excell Data Corporation. He has also held executive and sales positions at IBM and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Moore holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles and has served on several boards including the Washington Technology Industry Association.        

Stephen B. Solcher
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Stephen B. Solcher is senior vice president, chief financial officer for BMC Software.

Solcher served as interim chief financial officer and treasurer of BMC Software from August 2005 until he was named senior vice president and chief financial officer in December 2005. Previously, Solcher served as vice president of Finance and treasurer from 2000 to 2005 and corporate treasurer from 1992 to 2000. Solcher joined BMC Software in 1991 as assistant treasurer.

Prior to joining BMC Software, Inc., Solcher was an experienced audit manager with Arthur Andersen & Co.

Solcher also serves as a member of Mays Business School's Development Council and is a board member of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston and Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Solcher received a Bachelor of Administration degree from Texas A&M University.

Patrick K. Tagtow
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer

Patrick Tagtow serves as BMC's general counsel and corporate secretary. In addition, Tagtow's responsibilities include that of chief compliance officer. Tagtow served as interim general counsel of BMC Software from May 2011 until he was appointed to his current position in November 2011.

Prior to being named general counsel, Tagtow served as BMC's vice president of litigation and compliance with responsibility over global litigation management, legal and regulatory enterprise risk management and BMC's compliance and ethics program. Tagtow joined BMC in 1999 from the law firm of Haynes and Boone, L.L.P. where he practiced commercial and employment litigation.

Tagtow received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a master's of business administration and doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Houston. He has been practicing law since 1993.