John Bates (technology executive)

John Bates received his PhD in mobile and distributed computing (computer science) at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in 1993.[1] His PhD advisor was Jean Bacon.

Bates has been CTO of IONA Technologies Limited since December 2009 and its Executive Vice President since 2011. He serves as CEO of PLAT.ONE Inc. He has been the CEO of TestPlant Limited since February, 2017. He has been CTO of Terracotta, Inc. since October 2013. He was a member of the Technology Council at C5 Capital Ltd.[2][3]

Bates was co-founder, President and CTO of Apama, the pioneering streaming analytics company. He was the Chief Marketing Officer at Software AG (alternate name Software Aktiengesellschaft) from 2014 to 2015. He was CTO of Intelligent Business Operations & Big Data at Software AG since October, 2013. He served as Head of Industry Solutions at Software AG. He was an EVP of Progress Software Corp since 3 May 2011 and served as its Divisional General Manager. He was CTO of Progress Software Corp. from 2009 to 2013 and its Decision Analytics Business Line Leader from 2012 to 2013.

Earlier on, he was a lecturer and Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge until 2000.[4] At Cambridge, he led several research projects, often in collaboration with industry, and designed and taught courses covering operating systems, distributed systems, software engineering and mobile computing.

Bates is an entrepreneur in the software industry, focusing on areas such as event-driven architectures, smart environments and business activity monitoring.

In 2011 Wall Street and Technology magazine named him as one of the "10 innovators of the decade".[5] In 2011, 2012 and 2013, Institutional Investor named him in its "Tech 50" of disruptive technologists.

Bates has published a book entitled Thingalytics: Smart Big Data for the Internet of Things.[6]