Melinda Ballou
Program Director ,  IDC's Application Lifecycle Management Research
Melinda Ballou serves as Program Director for IDC's Application Lifecycle Management research. In this role, Ms. Ballou provides thought leadership, expert opinion, research, and analysis through comprehensive research on application lifecycle management (ALM), with specific focus on software lifecycle process configuration and management, software quality, and IT governance software. Ms. Ballou also offers competitive intelligence and consulting on key aspects of the ALM market to service providers, investment firms, and G2000 end-user companies.

Dominic Tavassoli
Vice President of Product Marketing ,  Telelogic
Dominic is responsible for Application Lifecycle Management based on products such as Synergy™ and Change™. Prior to Telelogic, Mr Tavassoli ran the French operation for the Requirements Management, Systems Engineering and Enterprise Architecture pioneer, Ascent Logic Corporation, and drove the deployment of software best practices at MBDA.