Steve Craggs has been in the IT industry for more than 25 years, much of that time in IBM. Steve held various positions in the IBM development organization, culminating in becoming the Worldwide Executive in charge of IBM's MQSeries middleware, now renamed as WebSphereMQ. Steve has been an independent consultant and analyst for the last 7 years, and is recognized as one of the leading authorities in the world on business integration software and solutions, and middleware in general. Steve is President of Saint Consulting, a Director of Illuminatus and Vice-Chairman of the Integration Consortium, a global not-for-profit group for furthering the understanding of integration.

Steve is a regular speaker at shows, events and webcasts in the US and Europe,  and is a frequent contributor to a wide range of global IT publications.