ROBERT STROUD
Vice President and IT Service Management and IT Governance Evangelist
CA, Inc.

Robert Stroud is Vice President and IT Service Management and IT Governance Evangelist at CA. In this role, he helps ensure that the company’s solutions adhere to best practices and mentors organizations on driving maximum business value from their ITIL initiatives.

A 25 year IT veteran, Robert was recently elected International Vice President of ISACA (previously known as the Information Systems and Control Association) and Vice President of ISACA’s research affiliate, the IT Governance Institute (ITGI). He is a recognized industry speaker and leader, serving on the USA itSMF Advisory Board, its Governance Committee and the COBIT Steering Committee. He worked on the ITIL Version 3 project as part of the ITIL Advisory Group and as a Mentor and Reviewer for some of the newly published ITIL V3 volumes. He has authored several titles on ITIL and COBIT and served as a reviewer of the COBIT 4.0 to ITIL Version 2 mapping document.


Governance, COBIT and the Cloud a match made in the sky!

As IT professionals it is not enough to align with the business we must integrate IT with the business whilst predicting demand and then balancing the scarce resources to ensure that we deliver to correct level of service and at the correct time and the appropriate cost and meeting all government regulations. As IT professionals we much balance the emerging technological advances in virtualization, SaaS and Cloud computing, the proliferation of network connected devices and the ever increasing rate of IT enabled business change. Robert Stroud, ISACA International Vice President and internationally recognized Governance and Service Management evangelist at CA, Inc will share his thoughts on the requirements for the future of Governance and COBIT in the Cloud to empower you and your business.