Brian Curran is senior vice president of strategic marketing and product management at MasterControl Inc. Curran joined MasterControl in 2002 to direct and expand MasterControl's product development efforts. He has more than a decade of experience leading the direction for enterprise and entrepreneurial software development companies. Curran began his career with IBM, where he spent five years leading consulting engagements with Fortune 500 companies, such as MCI, BellSouth, and many others. After this, he held several director and VP-level product management and marketing positions for entrepreneurial software development companies in the telecommunications and Web analytics sector. Curran has an MBA with an emphasis in information systems.