Christopher O'Malley (born January 24, 1963) is the president and
CEO
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of
LogRhythm an American security software company headquartered in
Broomfield, Colorado
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.
Career
Christopher O'Malley became president and CEO of
LogRhythm in February 2022. Since his appointment, LogRhythm has introduced a quarterly cadence of innovation delivery under the theme, "Promises Made. Promises Kept." which including the release of Axon, a cloud-native security operations platform. The Colorado Technology Association gave LogRhythm their 2023 Company of the Year Award.
O’Malley was formerly president and CEO of
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation was an American software company based in Detroit. The company offered products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses, and its services also included testing, development, automation and p ...
,
a software company headquartered in
Detroit, Michigan
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, in December 2014
after being its president of mainframe operations for six months. His nomination came soon after the acquisition of the company by
Thoma Bravo
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It ...
for $2.5 billion
and its split of the mainframe business into a new company.
O'Malley led the turnaround of Compuware and the introduction of tools to enable Agile and DevOps on the mainframe. In March 2020, Compuware was acquired by
BMC Software
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History
The company was founded in Houston, Texas, by former Shell employees Scot ...
. He was best known for his advocacy of the mainframe platform, as well as enabling
Agile software development
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,
DevOps toolchain
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Gen ...
s and
value stream methods in managing the mainframe.
O'Malley has held senior management and board member positions in a number of IT companies, including
LogRhythm (October 2021 – Present), Greenphire (October 2021 – Present),
Compuware
Compuware Corporation was an American software company based in Detroit. The company offered products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses, and its services also included testing, development, automation and p ...
(December 2014 - 2020),
Bluenog (December 2009 – March 2016),
Nimsoft
Nimsoft was an independent company software vendor that offered information technology (IT) monitoring, service desk products, and services. It was acquired by CA Inc. in 2010, and since October 2012 its products were integrated into that busines ...
, Inc. (April 2011 - July 2012), YJT Solutions (July 2012 - March 2015), and VelociData, Inc. (September 2012 – July 2015). He has also founded Christopher Ventures LLC established in July 2012.
From October 1988 to July 2012, O'Malley was at
CA, Inc.
O'Malley has been interviewed on Bloomberg national radio and by the Wall Street Journal for his thought leadership within IT and is an interviewee and contributor of podcasts, articles and columns to technology, business and government focused publications. O'Malley was one of the top 50 names to know in IT by Crain's Detroit Business in 2017, named best DevOps evangelist by DevOps.com in 2019, and one of the Top 25 Government IT Executives of 2020 by IT Services Report, and selected by
Sigma Chi
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fraternity as a Significant Sig in 2017.
O'Malley is the founder & board member of the O'Malley Foundation, a charitable organization that grants college scholarships and supports youth arts programs and Catholic charities.
References
External links
The O'Malley Foundation
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1963 births
Living people
People from Mound, Minnesota
American technology chief executives
University of Minnesota alumni