Michael Hilmen is senior director of technology in Solace's business development team. With nearly 30 years in the integration and middleware space, he’s worn just about every hat—professional services, sales, engineering, architecture, and business development—across companies ranging from scrappy startups to global giants.

For the past decade at Solace, he's helped enterprises embrace event-driven architecture to reduce the complexity of their system and accelerate the performance of their business. He specializes in showing organizations how EDA forms the backbone of the complex environments it takes to operate efficiently on a global scale.