Look to the Source

Phil Odence Vice President of Business Development for Black Duck Software, makers of enterprise app development tools that address management, compliance and security challenges associated with open source. In that role Phil is responsible for expanding Black Duck's reach, image and product breadth by developing partnerships in the multi-source development ecosystem. He came to Black Duck from Empirix a leader in carrier VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), contact center and Web application testing and monitoring. He served there as Vice President of Business Development successfully developing the firm's alliance program, creating strategic partnerships, starting up new businesses and supporting M&A activities. Prior to Empirix, Phil was a partner at High Performance Systems, a computer simulation modeling firm where he was responsible for consulting and partnerships with leading management consultancies, including McKinsey and A.T. Kearney.

Black Duck counts a long list of so then-known research companies as partners. These include IBM, Novell, Red Hat, HP, Intel and Microsoft.