Based in Europe, Marcel den Hartog is a frequent speaker at industry events including GSE, IDUG and other conferences where he discusses CA’s mainframe strategy, vision and other IT trends. In his current role, he is responsible for CA Technologies EMEA Marketing for a variety of (mainframe) solutions, and serves as a member of the CA Council of Technical Excellence, a group of the company’s leading technical advocates. Prior to joining CA Technologies as a Pre-sales consultant for both mainframe and distributed products in 1986, Marcel worked as a programmer/systems analyst on VSE and MVS systems, starting with CICS DL1/IMS and later with DB2. He never lost touch with the technical aspects of IT and still has hands-on experience with many CA products. He was responsible for managing CA’s pre-sales teams in The Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa for a number of years where he worked on IT projects with some of the largest companies in the Benelux, Europe and Africa.