Biographical Sketch: Jonathan Adams is vice president and general manager of ZSolutions and Select Technologies at BMC Software, Inc. He leads product management, research and development, and marketing for the company’s full suite of mainframe products as well as those in its Select Technologies portfolio. During Adams’ 20-year career with BMC, he has proved himself adept at significantly improving product reliability and delivering new releases that target customers’ top needs. He has held positions of increasing responsibility leading product development for DB2, IMS and MainView solutions. In his current role, he leads the company’s Mainframe Cost Optimization mission which focuses on delivering products to lower customers’ mainframe costs and provide them better availability. Since 2013, this initiative has delivered Cost Analyzer for zEnterprise, Intelligent Capping for zEnterprise, Subsystem Optimizer for zEnterprise and Application Accelerator for IMS. Adams began his career as a systems programmer for BellSouth Services. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama and a master’s of business administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.