Futurum Research
Vice President & Practice Lead DevOps & Application Development
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 networking. Mitch is Chief Technology Advisor with The Futurum Group and CTO of Techstrong Group’s tech media platforms.
Vice President & Practice Lead, CIO Insights
VP & Practice Lead, CIO Dion Hinchcliffe is a distinguished thought leader, IT expert, and enterprise architect, celebrated for his strategic advisory with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies.
Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity
Fernando Montenegro serves as the Vice President & Practice Lead for Cybersecurity at The Futurum Group. In this role, he leads the development and execution of the Cybersecurity research agenda, working closely with the team to drive the practice's growth.
Vice President & Practice Lead, Artificial Intelligence Software & Tools
Nick is VP and Practice Lead for AI. He is a thought leader on the development, deployment, and adoption of AI — an area he has been researching for 25 years.
Vice President & Practice Lead, Channels & Go-to-Market
Alex Smith is Vice President, Channels Research and Practice Operations at the Futurum Group. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining the Channels Research program as part of the overall Futurum GTM and Channels Practice.
Vice President & Practice Lead, Data & Analytics
Brad is Vice President Practice Lead Data and Analytics with with more than 30 years experience in IT and emerging technologies. In this role at Futurum, Brad serves as a thought leader, exploring the intersection of data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software development.
Research Director & Practice Lead, Artificial Intelligence Devices
Olivier's research coverage focuses on the market for PCs and devices, including component technology and supply chains, together with sustainability, regulation, and policy.
Research Director, Cybersecurity
Krista is a Senior Analyst focused on data security, protection, and management.
Research Director, Enterprise Applications
Keith Kirkpatrick is a Research Director with The Futurum Group. His coverage area encompasses enterprise applications, platforms, and tools, and the technologies that underpin them.
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 engagements, from designing financial models and conducting research to delivering client-ready BEV reports, white papers, and presentations. His work ensures organizations gain data-driven insights into their solutions' financial and operational benefits.
CTO, Visible Impact & Go-to-Market Specialist
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.
Technology & Executive Advisors
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.
Technology / Executive Advisor
Keith is the founder of CTO Advisor geared towards the technical c-suite audience, practitioners, and dev ops leaders. He advises on IT governance, infrastructure architecture and application development.
CTO Advisor
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 official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.
Signal65
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.
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.
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.
VP, AI and Datacenter Performance
An expert in security, AI, and datacenter performance, Brian is VP, AI and Datacenter Performance at Signal65.
