As Vice President of AI and Datacenter Performance at Signal65, Brian boasts extensive expertise in security, AI, and datacenter optimization.
Before joining The Futurum Group, Brian held the title VP of Product Architecture at Gradient Technologies, where he played a pivotal role in securing the connected world by helping to define and deliver the next generation of authentication and authorization security.
His journey in the tech industry includes significant contributions to cloudless architecture at HPE and leadership of network management automation and integration teams at Plexxi (later acquired by HPE). Brian’s career also features notable roles such as Senior Director of Performance Engineering at VMware and Vice President of Advanced Development at Virsto Software (subsequently acquired by VMware).
With nearly 35 years of experience in IT product development and delivery, Brian holds 14 patents in distributed and scalable system design and actively contributes to CNCF SPIFFE, and SPIRE identity authentication projects.
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.
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VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group
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