Mike Gregoire CEO CA Technologies

Mike Gregoire joined CA Technologies as CEO in January. He had been in retirement after selling his former company, Taleo, to Oracle in 2012 for $1.9 billion. CA is a huge and interesting challenge for Gregoire. Like other aging enterprise software companies, it needs to figure out how to shake off its dusty image and make itself relevant for the next generation of data centers. Gregoire has his eye on security software for the Internet of Things and new forms of network management managing software that work well in the cloud, he told us.