Analyst Directory

Futurum Research

Mitch Ashley

Vice President & Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering
Mitch Ashley is a technology executive and entrepreneur who is an advisor, analyst, product creator and tech leader, bringing 30+ years in cybersecurity, cloud, AI, product development, software engineering and

Fernando Montenegro

Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience
Fernando Montenegro serves as the Vice President & Practice Lead for Cybersecurity & Resilience at The Futurum Group. In this role, he leads the development and execution of the Cybersecurity

Nick Patience

Vice President & Practice Lead, AI Platforms
Nick is VP and Practice Lead for AI Platforms. He is a thought leader on the development, deployment, and adoption of AI — an area he has been researching for

Alex Smith

GM, Futurum Research, VP & Practice Lead, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces
Alex Smith is GM, Futurum Research, VP & Practice Lead, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces at the Futurum Group. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining the Channels Research program as

Brad Shimmin

Vice President & Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure
Brad is Vice President Practice Lead Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure with with more than 30 years experience in IT and emerging technologies. In this role at Futurum, Brad serves

Olivier Blanchard

Research Director & Practice Lead, Intelligent Devices
Olivier's research coverage focuses on the market for Intelligent Devices, including component technology and supply chains, together with sustainability, regulation, and policy.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows
Keith Kirkpatrick is VP & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows with The Futurum Group. His coverage area encompasses enterprise applications, platforms, and tools, and the technologies that underpin

Donald Jin

Research Director, Business Economic Value
Don leads Futurum's Business Economic Value (BEV) service, conducting economic impact assessments that help our clients quantify their technology investments' financial and operational value. In this role, he guides end-to-end

Guy Currier

Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces
Guy works with technical and product marketers, sales teams, and partners to reveal and articulate the value of technologies and products for the benefit of organizations and communities.

Brendan Burke

Research Director, Semiconductors, Supply Chain & Emerging Tech
Brendan is Research Director, Semiconductors, Supply Chain, and Emerging Tech. He advises clients on strategic initiatives and leads the Futurum Semiconductors Practice.

Tom Hollingsworth

Research Director, Networking
Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is The Networking Nerd. He has spent the last twenty-five years implementing and understanding IT infrastructure, specializing in data center and campus networking, wireless and mobility
Technology & Executive Advisors

David Nicholson

Technology / Executive Advisor
David supports all aspects of Futurum’s research, analysis, insights, advisory, and labs services. His deep industry expertise is coupled with his passion for connecting technology to business and societal value.

Alastair Cooke

Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure
Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching
Signal65

Ryan Shrout

President, Signal65
With a focus on in-depth testing and nearly two decades of hands-on experience, Ryan ensures Signal65 provides valuable insight on competitive analysis, performance marketing, product positioning, and real-world experience comparisons.

Mitch Lewis

Research Analyst
Mitch is a research analyst with a focus on emerging technology trends, primarily focused on data and information technologies and their use in multi cloud environments.

Russell Fellows

Head of Futurum Labs
Russ leads validation and benchmarking labs, focusing on Compute, Integrated Systems, Networking and Cloud technologies performance, and usability testing for vendors and IT end users.

Brian Martin

VP, AI and Datacenter Performance
An expert in security, AI, and datacenter performance, Brian is VP, AI and Datacenter Performance at Signal65.

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The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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