Hayden Lindsey
VP, WW Engineering & Architecture for Mainframe at Broadcom

Hayden Lindsey is responsible for Broadcom’s Mainframe Business Unit Software Engineering and Architecture organization where he brings more than 30 years of experience in software development, offering management, DevOps and M&A.

Hayden joined us from IBM where he was both Vice President and Distinguished Engineer for IBM’s Z DevOps and Compilers business. He started his career in 1985 as a programmer working on the PC DOS version of Cross System Product and became an early adopter of iterative and Agile development techniques and methodologies, currently holding 14 patents. While his background is cross platform, he has spent the last 10 years focused on mainframe customers and the modernization of their environments. He is absolutely focused on helping mainframe customers be successful with the platform to drive real business value; an excellent fit with our DNA.

George DeCandio
CTO, Mainframe Division

George has recently joined Broadcom as the CTO of the Mainframe division. He is responsible for the team of architects that lead product development across the entire Mainframe portfolio.

Prior to joining Broadcom, George worked at IBM for 25+ years and attained the level of Distinguished Engineer. While at IBM George served many roles including developer, architect, development manager, and executive. George has focused his entire career on application development tools and process. Over the last 2 decades he has been responsible for leading the app dev tools teams that created the Rational ALM tool suite, including Eclipse IDEs, DOORS Next Generation, Rational Asset Manager, and large configuration management systems.

George is based in North Carolina and is an alum of the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Stuart McIrvine
Director, Product Management

Stuart is Director of Product Management for the Mainframe Security products and the Mainframe Intelligent Operations and Automation products at Broadcom. In his role Stuart leads the development of the strategy for his portfolio and manages the product direction to ensure the needs of the Broadcom customers are met.

Previously, Stuart spent 5 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) leading product management in both the Security and IT Operations Management business units.

Before HPE, Stuart spent 21 years at IBM. His most recent role was leading the development of IBM's overall portfolio strategy for cloud computing. In this role, Stuart was responsible for driving offering plans, M&A activities, and key partnerships as well as aligning the various IBM business units around a common strategy. Prior to this, Stuart was the Director of Market Management for Tivoli Software's Emerging Markets and prior to that he was the Director for the IBM Corporate Security Strategy. During his career, Stuart has held many marketing positions in IBM's Software Group in areas including Networking & Security and Business Integration and Portals. Stuart started with IBM as an engineer and spent 6 years in both hardware engineering and software engineering.

Jeff Henry
VP of Strategy & Product Management for Mainframe at Broadcom

Jeff Henry is responsible for Broadcom’s Mainframe Division strategy, product management and design. In this role, Jeff is leading innovation across Broadcom solutions to help transform how clients build, operate and secure their mission critical applications and enable their organizations to optimize and transform to become a digital business, leveraging DevSecOps, machine learning/AI & Security and Compliance.

Jeff has over 30 years of industry experience leading software organizations, specializing in business services delivery, cloud deployments, and bringing Systems of Engagement together with Systems of Record for enterprise customers.

Vikas Sinha
Vice President, Global Customer Experience and Strategic Alliances, Mainframe Division

Vikas Sinha is VP, Global Customer Experience and Strategic Alliances for Broadcom’s Mainframe business unit. His mission is to help Broadcom Mainframe customers succeed and realize greater value from their Mainframe investments. To this end, Vikas oversees all the field technical resources that directly serve customers and partners, including presales, professional services, support, engineering services, competitive conversions, education and training, and strategic alliances. With these functions aligned in a single organization under Vikas’s leadership, Broadcom will partner with customers through their entire mainframe journeys.

Vikas joined Broadcom through the CA Technologies acquisition. At CA, he led offering management for machine learning, operational intelligence, and enterprise data security for the mainframe portfolio. He also led software engineering for database management systems and security. Prior to Broadcom/CA Technologies, Vikas spent a number of years at IBM and SPSS, leading R&D for their predictive analytics portfolio.

Vikas’ leadership style fosters participation and collaboration, a bias toward action, and a culture of trust and accountability in all interactions.

A passionate supporter of lifelong learning, Vikas recently earned a Master’s degree in Predictive Analytics and a Certificate for Advanced Graduate Studies in Data Sciences from Northwestern University. He also has Engineering degrees from Sri Venkateswara University in India and Florida Atlantic University, as well as executive management education from Kellogg School of Management. He has over two dozen publications in international conferences and journals in the fields of engineering design and expert systems.