Bhagat Nainani is currently Vice President of Product Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware and is responsible for product development and strategy for Business Process Management, Event Processing, and User Productivity Kit products. Over the past 18 years, he has held various technical leadership roles in database transaction processing, messaging, and middleware product groups at Oracle. He has extensive experience with SOA, process management, distributed systems, and EAI technologies. He has also contributed to many industry standards and holds patents in distributed systems.
Bhagat holds a BS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi (India), a MS in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.
Prasen Palvankar has over 25 years of experience in information technology and is currently working as a Director of Product Management at Oracle. He is responsible for outbound SOA Suite and BPM Suite product-related activities such as providing strategic support and architectural and design consultation to Oracle's SOA Suite and BPM Suite current and prospective customers. His responsibilities also include field and partner enablement, and creating and rolling out advanced deep-dive training workshops. Prasen joined Oracle in 1998 and worked as a Technical Director in the Advanced Technology Solutions group in Oracle Consulting delivering large-scale integration projects before taking on his current role as Product Management Director in 2005. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation.
Prasen has co-authored booksGetting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1— A Hands-On Tutorial Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1— A Hands-On Tutorial
Robert Patrick is a VP in Oracle's Fusion Middleware Development organization, responsible for a team of Solution Architects (known as the A-team) covering core middleware and integration technologies-related engagements. Robert has 19 years experience in the design and development of distributed systems, and he specializes in designing and troubleshooting large, high performance, mission-critical systems built with various middleware technologies. Prior to joining Oracle, Robert spent years working for BEA Systems (most recently as their Deputy CTO) where he spent most of his time advising Fortune 1000 companies how to best apply middleware technology to solve their business problems. He has written papers, magazine articles, and was one of the co-authors of Professional Oracle WebLogic Server (Wrox, 2009) and Mastering BEAWebLogic Server (Wiley, 2003) as well as sp at various industry conferences.
