Ali Siddiqui, Chief Product Officer at BMC Software

Ali Siddiqui serves as the chief product officer at BMC Software, a professional service company that prides itself in solving complex information technology problems.

As CPO, Siddiqui holds end-to-end responsibility for the company’s whole product portfolio, which includes packaged software solutions for service management, automation, operations and mainframes.

Siddiqui has more than 30 years of experience in leading and developing software businesses, BMC said.

BMC CEO Ayman Sayed describes Siddiqui as an “accomplished product leader with a solid track record of innovation.”

Before joining the company in February 2020 as its first CPO, Siddiqui served as head of IT operations at Broadcom’s enterprise software division.

He was CA Technologies’ general manager for enterprise and cloud management. Before that, he served as vice president and general manager at Cisco, according to his LinkedIn profile.

BMC said that earlier in his career, Siddiqui founded a company that provided real time personalization for wireless carrier portals. He was also part of several Silicon Valley startups.

Siddiqui earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in engineering systems from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Occidental College.