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Futurum Advisory Analysts
Brendan Burke
Research Director, Semiconductors
Leads Futurum's Semiconductors Practice covering edge AI, generative AI, and hyperscale silicon architectures.
Daniel Newman
CEO, The Futurum Group
Daniel is the CEO of The Futurum Group. Living his life at the intersection of people and technology, Daniel works with the world's largest technology brands, exploring Digital Transformation and its influence on the enterprise. From the leading edge of AI to global technology policy, Daniel makes the connections between business, people, and tech that are required for companies to benefit most from their technology investments. A 7x Best-Selling Author, including his most recent book, "Human/Machine," Daniel is also a Forbes and MarketWatch (Dow Jones) contributor.
Erik Bethke
Chief Technology Officer
Erik Bethke, The Futurum Group's CTO, combines deep game development expertise with strategic tech foresight. His 30 years of entrepreneurial experience includes creating the Starfleet Command series, founding GoPets, and achieving a successful exit to Zynga. Erik held leadership roles on FarmVille and Mafia Wars, contributing to over $2 billion in sales. His aerospace engineering background, bolstered by work on JPL's Galileo and Cassini missions, enriches his innovative strategies.
Guy Currier
Chief Analyst, Visible Impact
Guy is responsible for positioning, go-to-market, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy's specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs-xPUs, and systems lifecycle management. Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight.
Keith Kirkpatrick
VP & Research Director, Enterprise Software
Covers enterprise applications, digital workflows, and the intersection of AI with enterprise software strategies.
Nick Patience
VP & Practice Lead, AI Platforms
25+ years covering AI and enterprise software. Co-founded 451 Research. London-based analyst covering AI platforms and infrastructure.
Olivier Blanchard
Research Director, Intelligent Devices
Covers intelligent devices, edge AI, sustainability, and the convergence of silicon and software at the edge.
Richard Gordon
VP & Practice Lead, Semiconductors
Richard Gordon is Vice President & Practice Lead, Semiconductors for The Futurum Group. He has been involved in the semiconductor industry for more than 30 years, first in engineering and then in technology and market research, industry analysis, and business advisory. For many years, Richard led Gartner's Semiconductor and Electronics practice, building a 20-person global team covering all aspects of semiconductor industry research, from manufacturing to chip markets and end applications. Richard is a sought-after technology industry analyst, both as a trusted advisor to clients and also as an expert commentator speaking at industry events and appearing on live TV shows such as CNBC.
Techstrong Editors
Alan Shimel
CEO, Founder at Techstrong
Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum’s executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the cybersecurity community and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices and culture into mainstream enterprise technology discussions. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation. Through his writing, videos, interviews and commentary, he reaches technology executives and practitioners around the world and hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. Over the course of his career, Shimel has founded, co-founded and helped build multiple technology and media businesses. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John’s University and a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School. Away from work, he enjoys traveling, spending time on his boat, Fruition, and being with his wife Bonnie, their two adult sons and Kai’a, the family’s English bulldog.
Andy Patrizio
Senior Editor
Andy Patrizio is a freelance journalist based out of southeastern Massachusetts. He is a regular contributor to publications such as Network World, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Redmond magazine, and data center knowledge. He has also held staff positions with Information Week, InternetNews, and PC Week.
Gal Naor
Editor
Republished from techstrong.it.
Jack Poller
Editor
Jack Poller writes for Techstrong.IT, covering enterprise technology and semiconductor industry developments.
Jaime Hampton
Editor
Republished from techstrong.it.
James Maguire
Editor
An award-winning journalist, James has held top editorial roles in several leading technology publications, covering enterprise trends in cloud computing, AI, data analytics, cybersecurity and more. He regularly communicates with industry analysts and experts and has interviewed hundreds of technology executives.
Jon Swartz
Editor
Republished from techstrong.it.
Mike Vizard
Editor-in-Chief at Techstrong
Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
Sulagna Saha
Editor
Sulagna Saha writes for Techstrong.IT, covering enterprise technology and semiconductor industry developments.