About the author - Demian Entrekin

Demian is the founder and CEO of Project Arena, an on demand software company focused on helping organizations take a project portfolio management approach to improving the performance and alignment of projects and resources.

Prior to Project Arena, he co-founded Convoy Corporation and was the Chief Architect of its initial products. Convoy made Software Magazine's 1998 list of the top 500 software companies and led the 1998 middleware market with an annual growth rate of 670 percent. New Era of Networks (NEON) purchased Convoy in June 1999. Demian worked in the trenches as a software engineer developing core business applications from 1988 through 1993 at Transamerica and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. During his 15 year career, Demian has assumed leadership roles as a consultant and as an entrepreneur delivering commercial and corporate database applications.

Demian’s latest thoughts on critical PPM issues facing business today can be found over at Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Today. Here he describes the current and future states of PPM and elicits meaningful conversations while providing practical insights to making PPM a competitive advantage.