GIGAOM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
- Member of the Leadership Team
Adam is Bay Area born and raised, with a decade of leadership in the service industry. He is putting his experience to good use on the sales team, working with clients to assess and meet their goals for growth.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- Research Manager
Adell has 18+ years as a corporate communications professional. She is a south Louisiana native with a BS in aviation. She loves to travel, aviation, college football, beekeeping, and all things dogs.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP of Sales
Adrian is a research-focused sales leader who consults with clients and helps them work with forward-leaning, engineering-driven analysts.
Alan Rodger has worked in industry analyst roles for almost 20 years, supporting clients mainly by writing, advising or speaking on IT governance and security, as well as other tech and business topics. His broad focus is on enabling vendors, service providers, and enterprises to express and understand the essential linking of security technology requirements to business drivers. This has expanded into key content on the topics of:
Digital- and cybersecurity-related risk and governance
Governance/risk/compliance (GRC) markets and technologies
Data governance and risk (especially relating to privacy and GDPR)
Organizational implementation and practices relating to these technology areas.
Job Titles:
- Independent Industry Analyst
Alastair Cooke is an independent industry analyst who has been writing about the challenges and changes in the IT industry for over ten years. IT infrastructure, virtualization, end-user compute, and public cloud technologies are all focus areas. Alastair started his thirty-year career as a hands-on technical consultant for global companies such as Glaxo Welcome and VMware, as well as smaller New Zealand-based companies. In the second half of his career, Alastair has been a technical trainer and content creator, making videos and writing about enterprise IT topics. As a trainer, Alastair taught courses for VMware, HPe, Nutanix, and AWS. He is a host of Build Day Live, doing hands-on video education with enterprise IT vendors such as HPe, Dell, Pure Storage, Oracle, Supermicro, Cohesity, and NetApp.
Amy has 20+ years of experience developing digital content products. Amy's experience includes The New York Times Company, AOL, Time Warner brands including HBO, CNN, The Cartoon Network, and more.
Job Titles:
- Semiconductor Industry Executive
Anand Joshi is a semiconductor industry executive with more than 25 years of experience. He is a recognized artificial intelligence expert and analyst. His reports on computer vision, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and chipsets have been used by top semiconductor and OEMs for strategic planning purposes, and he has also worked with several prominent AI chip companies, including NanoSemi, Wave Computing, and Redpine Signals. Anand has built state-of-the-art AI chipsets and vision-based software analytics products, and worked with Tier One customers in consumer, automotive, and enterprise markets to understand and implement AI products per their needs.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Developer, CTO, Analyst, Research Director
- Lead Analyst - ( Data, AI, Analytics )
Andrew has tracked the Big Data industry since its inception and has held developer, CTO, analyst, and research director positions at City of New York, Cap Gemini, Gigaom, and Datameer.
Andrew Brust has held developer, CTO, analyst, research director, and market strategist positions at organizations ranging from the City of New York and Cap Gemini to Gigaom and Datameer. He has worked with small, medium, and Fortune 1000 clients in numerous industries and with software companies ranging from small ISVs to large clients like Microsoft. The understanding of technology and the way customers use it that resulted from this experience makes his market and product analyses relevant, credible, and empathetic.
Andrew has tracked the Big Data and Analytics industry since its inception, as Gigaom's Research Director and as ZDNet's lead blogger for Big Data and Analytics. Andrew co-chairs Visual Studio Live!, one of the nation's longest-running developer conferences. As a seasoned technical author and speaker in the database field, Andrew understands today's market in the context of its extensive enterprise underpinnings.
Job Titles:
- Independent Industry Analyst and Consultant
Arjan Timmerman is an independent industry analyst and consultant with a focus on helping enterprises on their road to the cloud (multi/hybrid and on-prem), data management, storage, data protection, network, and security. Arjan has over 23 years of experience in the IT industry and worked for organizations across various verticals such as the Shared Service Center for the Dutch Government, ASML, NXP, Euroclear, and the European Patent Office to just name a few.
Growing up as an engineer and utilizing that knowledge, Arjan currently provides both technical and business architectural insight and management advice by creating High-Level and Low-Level Architecture advice and documentation. As a blogger and analyst at TECHunplugged.io blog, Gestalt IT, Amazic World, and other outlets, Arjan is also from time to time participating in podcasts, discussion panels, webinars, and videos. Starting at Storage Field Day 1 Arjan is a long-time Tech Field Day Alumni, former NLVMUG leader, and active member of multiple communities such as Tech Field Day and vExpert.
Arjan is a tech geek and even more important he loves to spend time with his wife Willy, his daughters Rhodé and Loïs and his son Thomas sharing precious memories on this amazing planet.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Leadership Team
Ben is the CEO and co-founder of GigaOm, the market leader in engineering-led research. As CEO, Ben focuses on strategy, future directions, and products. Ben is a Bay Area native, based in Santa Barbara.
Ben is based in West London, UK, and is a seasoned IT consultant, and technical program manager, who has worked with all scales of organization from early-stage technology startups to global enterprises; Ben was an Executive Director in Engineering at Goldman delivering large scale software development programs, and specialized in the assessment and implementation of SaaS vendor solutions. His career has given him a broad range of experience from Google-sponsored retail tech to media and fintech. Ben is also a passionate agile practitioner coaching teams to excel at delivery.
Based in the Basque Country, Brenton's an experienced IT and cybersecurity practitioner. He has worked for IT and cybersecurity organizations across the pharmaceutical, healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce, media, and technology spaces. He's currently working as a consulting security engineer to help companies modernize and develop sustainable, autonomous, and more effective security operations processes and detection pipelines. Previously, he worked as an application analyst, SOC analyst, and as a detection engineer.
An advocate for universal cyber awareness and training, Brenton believes that cybersecurity and IT professionals should teach and share their expertise and techniques for safe and secure internet usage with users of all ages, not solely in corporate environments. Additionally, he believes that efficient collaboration and knowledge sharing in diversified communities is the most effective approach to engage creative problem solving and augment our ability to learn.
When off the clock, he's an avid cyclist, competes in cyber capture the flag competitions, or is spending time in the mountains with his wife, 2-year-old daughter, and their oversized dogs.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- PMO Director
Catina Ross has a 20 year career leading and executing complex projects for three global corporations and spent two years in the prison reform space. Her passion for change and diversity fuels her love for executing projects with excellence. Traveling with family and watching a good movie is how she spends her downtime.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Creative Technologist
- VP of Research Operations
Chris Grundemann is a passionate, creative technologist and a strong believer in technology's power to aid in the betterment of humankind. He is currently expressing that passion by helping technology
Chris Ray is a veteran of the cyber security domain. He has a collection of experiences ranging from small teams to large financial institutions. Additionally, Chris has worked in healthcare, manufacturing & tech. More recently he has acquired an extensive amount of experience advising and consulting with security vendors, helping them find product-market fit as well as deliver cyber security services.
Job Titles:
- Director of Business Development
Dave is a senior sales executive who has helped tech companies achieve growth and business success. In his spare time, he follows Boston sports teams and hikes with his Glen of Imaal terrier, Lucy.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
Donald is a new entrant into the tech world, spending the last ten years in DTC sales in the entertainment space. Post pandemic, he transitioned to GigaOm looking to bring his value-driven philosophy for service.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- Senior Research Editor
Well-versed in technical writing and editing, Eileen is passionate about helping businesses leverage technology to solve business challenges and achieve strategic goals. She loves exploring the hill country in Austin, TX.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Head of Product Management
Enrico Signoretti has more than 25 years in technical product strategy and management roles. He has advised mid-market and large enterprises across numerous industries, and worked with a range of software companies from small ISVs to global providers.
Enrico is an internationally renowned expert on data storage-and a visionary, author, blogger, and speaker on the topic. He has tracked the evolution of the storage industry for years, as a Gigaom Research Analyst, an independent analyst, and as a contributor to the Register.
Farhad Sayeed has been an IT leader in various software development, insurance, and airline industries for more than 25 years. He spent the last 17 years with one of the largest airlines, implementing enterprise technologies in various lines of business, such as cargo, loyalty, employee technology, regional airlines, and more.
Farhad provides vision and technical know-how in a wide variety of areas, including compute (on-prem and cloud), storage, data protection (backup, archiving, and so on), load balancing, virtual desktops, and infrastructure as code. He is a pioneer in hyperconverged/converged and virtualization technologies, and he led an OpenStack implementation to support Pivotal PaaS for vital airline applications.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Business Development Director
Sales Professional with 15+ years of experience supporting and advising his clients to achieve their goals and objectives. Frank is married with a young daughter and golden retriever.
Geoff is an IT architect with 25 years of experience delivering secure workloads in the cloud and in the data center. His background ranges from system engineering and product management to leadership in agile collaboration and DevSecOps.
He was part of the StorageNetworks team around the year 2000-a company that pioneered backup-as-a-service for enterprises by delivering remote storage services across metro fibre from a nearby co-location facility-something we would call a private cloud today. Over the years, Geoff has worked with technology vendors such as Cisco, eBay, PayPal, and StorageTek. And in addition to service providers such as AT&T and Sprint, he has also helped European government agencies and the military in their digital transformation journey.
Geoff assisted the research and development efforts at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center related to sustainable datacenter operations. His research topics of interest are cloud, security, and blockchain technologies, as well as applying quantitative methods to solving problems in the digital humanities.
Geoff graduated Cum Laude from Brigham Young University with a BA in philosophy and logic.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- Resourcing Manager Research
Gill has a passion for developing and mobilizing talent and teams. She has traveled a varied path as a commercial manager, academic educator, and international project manager.
Howard Holton has worked in IT for three decades, the last half in executive leadership, as a CIO and CTO. He has been an engineer, an architect, and a leader in telecom, health care, automotive, retail, legal, and technology.
Howard Holton is an analyst at Gigaom. He has worked in IT for three decades, the last half in executive leadership, as a CIO and CTO. He has been an engineer, an architect, and a leader in telecom, health care, automotive, retail, legal, and technology.
In the last decade, Howard focused on cloud technology and economics, data analytics, and digital transformation. As CTO of Hitachi Vantara, he spent his time developing digital transformation, IT, and data strategies for Fortune 1000 companies and global governments.
His years at Rheem Manufacturing, Hitachi Vantara, and others provided the experience that helped him develop a mind for leadership-the successful execution of vision and culture to inspire. Successful leadership is all about maximizing your team's potential, as Howard has demonstrated over the course of his career.
Howard is also a technologist at heart; passionate about how data science and new technologies can be used to accelerate time-to-market and better serve the customer, now and in the future. Howard has been a trusted advisor and agent of change to a number of organizations, bringing vision and successful execution to internal and external customers alike.
Iben Rodriguez began his security career in the 80s maintaining the data communication systems used by military reconnaissance overseas, and followed this with stints in the global pharmaceutical and fabless semiconductor industries. He has been an advisor to executive teams from both enterprise and government organizations, such as AT&T, Brocade, CA, Cisco, eBay, Ericsson, Google, Huawei, Intuit, Juniper, Microsoft, US Navy, Pentagon, Spirent, and VMware.
Iben helps financial services customers connect cloud security solutions using DevOps methods. He works with Center for Internet Security (CIS) on the Amazon AWS, Google GPC, Microsoft Azure, and VMware ESX benchmarks, and is active with Linux Foundation, OPNFV, Palo Alto Networks, VMware, and HyTrust
Formerly an enterprise architect and management consultant focused on accelerating time-to-value by implementing emerging technologies and cost optimization strategies, Ivan has over 20 years' experience working with some of the world's leading Fortune 500 high-tech companies crafting strategy, positioning, messaging, and premium content. His client list includes 3D Systems, Accenture, Aruba, AWS, Bespin Global, Capgemini, CSC, Citrix, DXC Technology, Fujitsu, HP, HPE, Infosys, Innso, Intel, Intelligent Waves, Kalray, Microsoft, Oracle, Palette Software, Red Hat, Region Authority Corp, SafetyCulture, SAP, SentinelOne, SUSE, TE Connectivity, and VMware.
An avid researcher with a wide breadth of international expertise and experience, Ivan works closely with technology startups and enterprises across the world to help transform and position great ideas to drive engagement and increase revenue.
Jake Dolezal is a contributing analyst at GigaOm. He has two decades of experience in the information management field, with expertise in analytics, data warehousing, master data management, data governance, business intelligence, statistics, data modeling and integration, and visualization. Jake has solved technical problems across a broad range of industries, including healthcare, education, government, manufacturing, engineering, hospitality, and restaurants. He has a doctorate in information management from Syracuse University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Software Engineer
- Software Engineer
Jamie is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in web development. Eight of those years were spent working specifically with media companies. Jamie enjoys finding solutions to empower authors.
Jason Collier has over 20 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur in the technology industry. He was the founder and chief evangelist at Scale Computing, a pioneer in the hyperconvergence space. Previously, Jason served as VP of Operations at Corvigo where he oversaw sales engineering, technical support, internal IT, and datacenter operations. Prior to that, as VP of Information Technology and Infrastructure at Radiate, he architected and oversaw the deployment of the entire Radiate ad-network infrastructure, scaling it from under one million transactions per month to more than 300 million.
Jason is an innovator in the field of hyperconvergence and an expert in virtualization, data storage, networking, cloud computing, data centers, and edge computing. In his current role as an analyst, Jason provides creative technology and intelligent strategy solutions in both enterprise and startup settings.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Global Director
Jeff is an industry veteran from various companies, including Microsoft, 451 Research, and Fast Company. Jeff guides technology organizations in building strategic content that delivers.
Jeremy is recognized by major vendors, clients, and former colleagues as a thought leader in customer experience and engagement. Formative experiences in IBM throughout the 1990s convinced him of the critical importance to the business success of understanding the world from the customer's viewpoint. To thrive any business must sense, respond and adapt to customer behaviors, and provide a convenient and contextually relevant experience. Over the last 23 years, he has provided advisory support for a wide range of global and UK-based businesses. Not just helping them select the right CRM systems or customer engagement platforms, but also how to extract value from them.
Before setting up his own advisory company, CX-Create Ltd in January 2021, he was a principal analyst at Ovum (now Omdia) continuing his focus on what it takes to remain relevant to customers to drive profitable growth and the crucial role of advanced CRM applications and CEPs. In May 2022, Jeremy was identified as a top 50 global thought leader in CRM by Thinkers360.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Business Development Director
Jim has worked as a sales professional and trusted advisor to vendor clients for more than 30 years.
Joe Fay is a contributing analyst for GigaOm, producing Business Technology Impact reports. He has been covering the technology industry for 30 years and has edited publications in London and San Francisco.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- Content Production Manager
John Baltisberger is a native-born Austinite and award-nominated author of speculative fiction and poetry. When not working at GigaOm, he manages the horror publishing company Madness Heart Press.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP, Research
Jon Collins has nearly 35 years of experience in IT. He has worked as an industry analyst for a number of years and has advised some of the world's largest technology companies on product and go-to-market strategies.
Jon Collins has nearly 35 years of experience in IT. He has worked as an industry analyst for a number of years, and has advised some of the world's largest technology companies, including Cisco, EMC, IBM, and Microsoft in product and go-to-market strategy. He has acted as an agile software consultant to a variety of enterprise organizations, advised government departments on IT security and network management, led the development of a mobile healthcare app and successfully managed a rapidly expanding enterprise IT environment. Jon is frequently called on to offer direct and practical advice to support IT and digital transformation initiatives, has served on the editorial board for the BearingPoint Institute thought leadership program, and is currently a columnist for IDG Connect.
A technology enthusiast since his youth and a biomedical engineer by training, Joe is now getting into the tech future as he assists with cutting-edge research. He also enjoys soaking up rays with an ice-cold Dr. Pepper.
Kerstin is a technology enthusiast and has been rooted in the ICT world for over 20 years. She has been writing about technology since 2012 - mostly for others - and speaks at events about the opportunities and challenges of smart grids, the origins of cloud computing at Bletchley Park in 1943 or open source. From time to time she (co-)organized technology events, such as in-house fairs, community events and even cooked for more than 200 angels in a CCC camp.
The increasing convergence of IT-services suits her very well. The all-rounder cannot and will not commit herself to just one area. She started her career with a developer of terminal emulation software. In 1999, she switched to the telco scene and in 2009 to high security. Together with other thought leaders, she worked on a reference architecture for an open cloud infrastructure in the 2010s. In between, storage crossed her path every now and then. Her firm conviction is that true convergence can only happen in silicon. In the meantime, she is looking at other technology approaches.
Together with the husband and soulmate Wolfgang, she hosted her first own event in 2019. This dream burst relatively quickly in the flood of digital events during a pandemic that followed in 2020. In response, she initiated her own online magazine.
Kerstin likes Seymour Cray mainframes, large networks and is obsessed with next generation firewalls. She is a cocktail mixer, beer lover, the house electrician and lives with a husband, a cat and a tomcat in the wasteland just outside the German-Austrian border. Someday she will eventually emigrate to Eastern Europe, perhaps Bohemia or the Balkans.
Lesley has a diverse background working in law, training, and people operations. She is part of the support team for GigOm's Research division. She is motivated by supporting organizational growth and scaling.
Logan Andrew Green is an experienced technologist, whose areas of expertise include enterprise IT, fintech, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and fixed and mobile connectivity. His engineering experience as an operational support system designer and radio networks optimization engineer helps him assess new technologies from both a technical and commercial perspective. Currently, Logan oversees Vodafone's portfolio of managed IT products targeted at large enterprises. He has also been working as a technical writer and business strategist across the technology industry, helping mid-sized organizations define their propositions, offerings, and market positioning.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- Engagement Manager, Analyst Experience
Marisa is a data-driven, award-winning content strategist and project manager living in San Francisco Bay. She has a passion for portfolio growth and helping authors deliver high-quality content to the end-user.
Mark Chillingworth has been observing, speaking, writing about, and hosting chief information officers (CIO) community events and podcasts since January 2008. Over the last 12 years he has interviewed CIOs from across the globe and in every vertical market, ranging from the CIO of the British Army, major Dutch ports, international media conglomerates, global manufacturers, and retailers through to national and local government as well as startup technology pioneers.
Today Chillingworth works as a writer, editor, and moderator for leading publications, including Diginomica, the Financial Times, HotTopics, iCIO, and IDG Connect. CIOs and IT Teams as well as foremost technology service providers commission Chillingworth as a professional storyteller to write and convey how technology is reshaping organizations, cultures, and business processes. Alongside writing commissions, Chillingworth chairs the Horizon CIO Network, a specialist community of European and UK CIOs and CTOs.
Chillingworth entered the CIO and CTO community in 2008 as the Editor in Chief of CIO UK magazine. During his editorship, he created the CIO Summit, at the time the largest CIO event, and the CIO 100 powerlist formats in a tenure that took the title from failure to award winner. Leaving CIO UK magazine in 2016, Chillingworth and a business partner created the first podcast for CIOs.
Away from the world of CIOs and CTOs Chillingworth is father to two daughters and is obsessed with mountain biking in France or the North Downs.
Mark has held IT executive and CIO roles at Ericsson, Apcera, HP, Gilead, VMware, and Switch SUPERNAP. Mark Thiele's successful career in IT spans 30 years and has focused on both operating roles and on driving IT innovation, efficiency and cloud adoption across enterprises of all sizes. Mark speaks globally at leading industry events on topics like cloud adoption, data center, IT organization, Edge Computing and more.
Mark has deep industry experience and extensive knowledge of the requirements for building IT solutions that optimize for value and speed, while enabling innovation. In his current role at Ericsson he is providing strategy and engineering for edge cloud in the network and telco vertical.
He is the president and founder of Data Center Pulse, an organization created to promote best practices in the data center industry. He has also contributed to nonprofit industry groups, including the Chair of the IDCA Technical Committee, the Cloud Native Compute Foundation, The Green Grid and Infrastructure 2.0.
Matt Kruczek has been practicing programming and technology for over 20 years. He has consulted in many different business verticals including financial, retail, legal, manufacturing, insurance, and government and has done work for several Fortune 500 companies such as USAA, Travelers, Microsoft, Bank of America, and Johnson and Johnson. Matt has extensive experience in the software industry and has been responsible for architecting many different enterprise-level applications, frameworks, and guidelines to expedite and enhance application engineering. He is versed in numerous software categories, including substantial experience in cloud and web development.
Matt has also been an entrepreneur, partnering with his father to start his own software company right out of college that focused on developing software for Environmental Engineers. This gave him the opportunity to develop end-to-end solutions in a real-world environment as well as prepare him for his future leadership roles.
Job Titles:
- Independent Industry Analyst
Max Mortillaro is an independent industry analyst with a focus on storage, multi-cloud & hybrid cloud, data management, and data protection.
Max carries over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, having worked for organizations across various verticals such as the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HSBC, Dimension Data, and Novartis to cite the most prominent ones. Max remains a technology practitioner at heart and currently provides technological advice and management support, driving the qualification and release to production of new IT infrastructure initiatives in the heavily regulated pharmaceutical sector.
Besides publishing content/research on the TECHunplugged.io blog, Gestalt IT, Amazic World, and other outlets, Max is also regularly participating in podcasts or discussion panels. He has been a long-time Tech Field Day Alumni, former VMUG leader, and active member of the IT infrastructure community. He has also continuously been running his own technology blog kamshin.com since 2008, where his passion for content creation started.
Max is an advocate for online security, privacy, encryption, and digital rights. When not working on projects or creating content, Max loves to spend time with his wife and two sons, either busy cooking delicious meals or trekking/mountain biking.
Michael Azoff is a Consulting Analyst at Gigaom, covering all aspects of artificial intelligence: research, software, and hardware, as well as many disciplines in software development, from agile and DevOps, to cloud native computing, software lifecycle management, and more. He was previously Chief Analyst at Kisaco Research, where he introduced the first industry analyst comparison charts on AI chips, and before that Distinguished Analyst at Informa/Ovum.
After completing his PhD in the field of solid state electronics at University of Sheffield, Michael worked at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and published academic papers. He went into R&D in industry, building neural networks when backpropagation was invented, had a startup for his Prognostica Microsoft Excel add-in for time series forecasting, and published a book on the topic for Wiley in 1994.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Global Leader
- Lead Analyst - ( Cloud, DevOps, Applications )
Michael Delzer is a global leader in technology. He spent 15 years as American Airlines' Chief Infrastructure Architecture Engineer and delivers competitive advantages to companies.
Michael Delzer is a global leader with extensive and varied experience in technology. He spent 15 years as American Airlines' Chief Infrastructure Architecture Engineer, and delivers competitive advantages to companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 corporations by leveraging market insights and accurate trend projections. He excels in identifying technology trends and providing holistic solutions, which results in passionate support of vision objectives by business stakeholders and IT staff. Michael has received a gold medal from the American Institute of Architects.
Michael has deep industry experience and wide-ranging knowledge of what's needed to build IT solutions that optimize for value and speed while enabling innovation. He has been building and operating data centers for over 20 years, and completed audits in over 1,000 data centers in North America and Europe.. He currently advises startups in green data center technologies.
Job Titles:
- VP of Content & Creative Services
Veteran IT editor, author, and former EIC of MSDN Magazine. Enjoys craft beer, skiing, and everything else about living in Vermont. Mike thinks dogs are great conversationalists and that summer is way overrated.
Michael Levan is a seasoned engineer and consultant who spends his time working with startups and enterprises around the globe on cloud and DevOps projects. He also performs technical research as an analyst, creates real-world, project-focused content, and coaches engineers on how to cognitively embark on their engineering journey.
He has worked in industries ranging from healthcare, government, technology, security, and Bitcoin agencies, including Microsoft, HYPR, Vitals, Pluralsight, CBT Nuggets, and many government sectors. He has been able to leverage the vast knowledge gained from multiple technical positions and industries into technical research, content creation, and helping organizations reach levels of performance that weren't previously in sight.
Michael is an engineer at heart. He loves helping the community by speaking internationally, blogging, writing books, and creating courses. His mission is to put his knowledge to work all around the world as a mentor and consultant on cloud and DevOps projects.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
Michael is always looking for ways to help clients solve business problems by leveraging research and analysis to make practical technology decisions.
Michael Stump is an IT professional with over 20 years' experience designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise infrastructure solutions. Stump has expertise in the design and operation of VMware virtualization solutions in the public health sector. His work is rooted in a deep understanding of IT security principles, which plays an integral role in his solutions. A trusted advisor to directors and executives, Mr. Stump is passionate about the effective use of technology to enable a business's mission. He excels in process automation, operations management, and enjoys sharing his knowledge with clients and colleagues.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- Technical Research Project Manager
Mike has managed projects of all sizes and complexities across a range of technology sectors around the globe. Having landed in the PNW he feels perfectly at home in the rain so reminiscent of his native British Isles.
Miya Knights has 25 years experience as an analyst, journalist, and editor specializing in enterprise retail technology use. She is the owner and publisher of Retail Technology magazine and has co-authored two best-selling books about Amazon and Omnichannel Retail. She has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4, and Euronews and commented in The Telegraph, The Times, and The Financial Times among others, as well as regularly speaking at or moderating industry events. She was also recently recognized as 2021 Arts & Media Senior Leader by the Black British Business Awards.
Job Titles:
- Director of Business Development
Career long veteran in IT and IT Research. Myron excels at helping align the client's needs with the right solutions.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- Project Manager
- Research Engagement Project Manager
- Strategist
Rachel is a project manager and content strategist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She enjoys critical analysis and breakfast pastries.
Ryan Roman is an army veteran living in Santa Maria, CA who loves building PCs.
Scott serves as the central point for GigaOm's visual brand experience. From website design to product design and sales enablement materials, he ensures a consistent brand voice for GigaOm.
Job Titles:
- Editor
- Member of the Research Team
- Senior Research Editor
Sharon is a seasoned editor with over 20 years of experience in providing innovative content for both online and print formats at a variety of technical magazines, including PC Magazine and MSDN Magazine.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Research Team
- Technical Research Project Manager
Travaar is a 9-year veteran of the U.S. Army / Virginia Army National Guard who has managed a variety of projects in both the military and private sectors. He holds an MBA in Tech Management and a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP of Marketing
Will is an international digital marketing executive with over 10 years of driving go-to-market strategy for brands in the cloud & data center industry. He has an acute eye for business innovation and creative strategy.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Lead Analyst - ( Data, AI, Analytics )
William McKnight is a former Fortune 50 technology executive and database engineer. An Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. He helps enterprises with technology architectures and strategies.