Previous Experience

Before joining Gartner, he envisioned Trend Micro's technology stack & drove the strategic vision for a pure multi-tenant cloud endpoint & email solution. Previous to Trend Micro, Mr. Hinner created the identity & authentication strategy at Gemalto, now Thales, that led to the acquisition of SafeGuard. Ahead of Gemalto, Franz established a cloud strategy, Borland's application lifecycle business & testing solutions to the cloud. These SaaS solutions achieved the goal to make Borland profitable & led to the acquisition of Borland by Micro Focus, during which he became a certified Scrum Master & Agile Coach while living the day-to-day DevOps experience. Before Borland, Franz had several leadership positions in Product Management at Vignette, Tivoli Systems & IBM. Before moving to the US with Tivoli, Franz worked for Tivoli System as the EMEA chief architect & as the Director of the Center of Competence at IBM in London. Franz is a published author with Markt & Technik, having written extensively about network protocols & local area networks. In addition, Franz has worked on 8 IBM Redbooks, spanning from topics like LDAP, X.500 to local area network (LAN) solutions & remote access solution sets.

Professional Background

• Borland, Senior Director Product Advocacy & Management, 2 years
• Gemalto now Thales, Senior Director Product Management & Marketing - Security Solutions, 1 year
• Trend Micro, Dir. Product Experience Multi-Tenant & xSP/MSP/MSSP & Chief Strategist SaaS, 12 years

Industry Awards/Accolades

• 12+ years experience creating & managing security SaaS products
• 12+ years in technical solution & architecture consulting
• 20+ years experience in building SaaS infrastructure, products & platforms