Jeffrey P. Stamen is Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Strategy for Progress Software Corporation (PSC). In this role, he is responsible for corporate development and product strategies for PSC overall, as well as its operating companies.

Stamen has a long and distinguished career in the software industry, which included his role as a board member when PSC was founded in the early 1980s. Prior to returning to PSC, he was CEO of Syncra Systems, a leading company in the supply chain collaboration space, and co-founded a company which developed Internet marketing technology. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Oracle Corporation, responsible for Oracle's business intelligence and data warehousing products. Stamen also served as president of IRI Software, a position he assumed after IRI acquired Management Decision Systems where he oversaw the Express OLAP product (the first true "multi dimensional database") as senior vice president of development.

Stamen began his career as a database developer, leading a joint MIT Harvard project where he developed an entity-relationship database for query and analysis. Afterward, he joined Mitrol, Inc., where he headed the development of the MIMS 4GL, an antecedent of the Progress 4GL.

Stamen is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.