IMAGINE SUMMIT 2020

Patrick Donovan

Chief Executive Officer, Axway

Axway Chief Executive Officer, appointed by the Board of Directors on 9 April 2018, Patrick Donovan joined the company to put the finishing touches to Axway's strategic project update and steer its implementation at the head of the company. He is an established "Corporate entrepreneur," working with technology start-ups to major divisions of international groups, and will use this solid experience to step up Axway's development, speed up innovation and keep the Group ahead of the game in the ever-evolving middleware and digital business market.

Vince Padua

Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Axway

Vince Padua, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, leads his team in aggressively driving innovation of the Axway technology and product portfolio into a hybrid integration platform. His focus is to capitalize on technology trends, drive portfolio and architecture transformation, accelerate new business models, and foster co-innovation with partners, developer communities, and customers. Vince built a 18-year career driving innovation within tech companies including IBM (Watson, Cloud, and Tivoli), Dell, and Intel. Within IBM Watson Group, Vince was most recently responsible for leading the development and deployment of IBM Watson platform, products, and industry-oriented solutions. Additionally, he and his team designed, built, and delivered the Watson Developer Cloud platform that now serves as the basis for the IBM Cognitive Business strategy. Vince has also held various leadership and founder roles in commerce and platform start-ups. IPivot, his first start-up, was an innovator in payment commerce and web transaction processing. IPivot was acquired by Intel in 1999. Furthering the innovation in the commerce space, Vince founded WireCACHE in 2001, successfully delivering the industry's first transparent web application accelerator. Vince holds 6 patents, a B.S. in Computer Science from Fresno State, and an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler Business School).

Paul French

Chief Marketing Officer, Axway

Paul French rejoined Axway as CMO in July 2019 after 5years serving in similar capacities with Armor and Allegro Development. With more than 20 years of marketing and sales executive management, Mr. French’s responsibilities at Axway include focusing the company’s global marketing strategy and vision on achieving ambitious growth objectives. He is a proven leader with creative and analytical skills well suited to elevating Axway’s marketing efforts to new levels. He is committed to generating strong, metric-based results through both digital and non-digital channels that align with the company’s strategic plans for long-term business growth.

Mr. French served as Vice President of Strategy & Markets in his previous time with Axway. He lives in Texas, where he enjoys fishing with his family and volunteering in his local community. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Eyal Sivan

Head of Open Banking, Axway

Eyal Sivan is the Head of Open Banking at Axway, where he is responsible for positioning the firm as the number one thought leader and integration solution provider in the open banking space. As a member of the elite Catalyst team, he brings a high-degree of specialization in API and microservices technologies within the FSI sector, with a particular focus on how they accelerate digital transformation.

In his efforts to drive advancements in open banking around the world, Eyal has also created the unique personal brand Mr. Open Banking. Under this name, Eyal hosts the only podcast dedicated to the open banking community, where he interviews the key leaders, innovators and influencers who are driving and shaping the global emergence of open banking.