Alastair Green (CTO)

Alastair Green is a co-founder of Choreology and the company's CTO, responsible for the company’s technical direction and strategy. From January 2001 to January 2004 he was CEO of the company, working closely with the then chairman, Mark Hemsley, who became CEO in January 2004.

He is a co-author of the OASIS Business Transaction Protocol (BTP) 1.0 Committee Specification and an active participant in the WS-BPEL Technical Committee.

He has worked in commercial computing for twenty-five years, with a very longstanding specialization in the architecture and development of distributed transaction processing systems. For ten years he ran a small consultancy firm in London, whose clients came from two camps: software vendors (such as IBM Transarc, IONA and Rogue Wave) and banks in the City and on Wall Street. He has lived and worked in the United States.

Prior to founding Choreology, Alastair was the Principal Architect of Hewlett-Packard's Arjuna Labs. At HP Arjuna (and in its prior incarnations as Bluestone Arjuna Lab and Arjuna Solutions Ltd) he was a leading figure in the team charged with making a commercial success of the Arjuna Java transaction service - a product which required significant productization to transcend its roots in a university research project.

Alastair led the seed investment group in Newcastle University spin-off Arjuna Solutions Ltd in 1999, became its Technical Marketing Director, and was the primary negotiator for its trade sale to Bluestone Software Inc in July 2000 for a total of $13.2m in cash and shares.

In 1995 Alastair became the first U.K. employee of Transarc (provider of the Encina distributed transaction toolkit), and was closely involved in the licensing of Transarc’s CORBA Object Transaction Service offering to IONA Technologies.