Wikibon Blog

A list of the analyst team which services Wikibon’s clients.

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David Vellante is a leading advocate for IT professionals and in late 2006, founded The Wikibon Project with other serial analysts who had worked at firms such as IDC, Gartner, Meta and Giga. Wikibon is the industry’s first true open source research and advisory community dedicated to the peer-based sharing of business technology knowledge. Vellante who serves as Wikibon’s CEO, spent fifteen years at International Data Corporation (IDC) where he led and helped build the company’s largest division from less than $5M to more than $50M in annual revenue.  He served as a member of Computerworld’s Board of Directors and is an active member of the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s Social Media Advisory Board.

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David Floyer is Wikibon’s resident CTO. He heads up the Wikibon Energy Lab, an innovative service to help suppliers of efficient IT equipment obtain cash rebates for their customers from utility companies such as the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.  Floyer spent more than twenty years at IBM holding positions in research, sales, marketing, systems analysis and running IT operations for IBM France. He directly worked with IBM’s largest European customers including BMW, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Lloyd’s Bank. Floyer was a Research Vice President at International Data Corporation (IDC) and is a recognized expert in IT strategy, economic value justification, systems architecture, performance, clustering, and systems software.

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Stuart Miniman is a proponent of linking information and people in IT by leveraging the latest tools and processes from the innovation and social media communities.  In past positions including sales, product management and strategic planning, Stuart has focused on the needs of customers by working with partners to deliver the solutions or information that the customers require. Stuart worked at EMC for 10 years; with a primary focus on storage networking and virtualization technologies. He also worked with voice/video/data solutions at Lucent Technologies (now Avaya) and power solutions at American Power Conversion. He has spoken at many industry conferences and writes for his own blog.  Stuart holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Bryant University.

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Dennis Martin champions Wikibon’s Performance Lab Portal. He is the founder and President of Demartek, which focuses on industry analysis and lab validation testing of server, network, storage and security technologies, for the small and medium business (SMB) environment and the large enterprise. Dennis has been a fixture in the IT industry for more than twenty-five years in engineering and marketing roles at numerous firms including StorageTek. He is the founder of the Rocky Mountain Windows NT User Group in Denver, and served as its President for its first six years, and was re-elected President of the Group in May 2008. Dennis has made numerous presentations at conferences and has authored many industry articles. Dennis is a Microsoft Storage MVP for calendar year 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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Ralph Finos, Ph.D. is an innovative IT industry market research consultant and practice leader who helps companies create better products, understand their customers and prospects, and improve their planning. With 20+ years designing and executing strategic projects for IT companies, Finos is experienced in applying the right methodology and approach to solve challenging market research problems. His style is to complement industry knowledge and research know-how with hands-on management and continuous communication and collaboration with clients throughout an engagement.  Dr. Finos has worked with leading IT industry companies including IBM, HP, Sun, Intel, and Microsoft.

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