Tom Pisello CEO and Founder Alinean, Inc. Tom Pisello has built his 15-year career with a single-minded vision: helping companies prove and improve the business value from IT investments. Tom’s latest endeavor, Alinean, was founded in 2001 to develop software, methodologies and tools for accurately evaluating, presenting and measuring the value of IT investments using benchmarking and ROI analysis; particularly helping vendors use business value selling to streamline the justification of new investments and assuring true value delivery. Alinean has exclusive partnership with leading IT industry analyst firm IDC, and customers including Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Intel, BellSouth and Dell, many of the world’s leading consultancies and CIOs. Tom is a regular contributor to ComputerWorld, CIO Decisions and other Tech Target publications, CIOInsight and other leading IT publications.