Meet the Enterprise Irregulars

Anshu Sharma

Vice President of Force.com platform product management at salesforce.com - leading Force.com server techonologies, Force.com Sites and VMforce (the Enterprise Java Cloud). Previously founded and led Oracle SaaS Platform, and held engineering and product management roles in SOA and Identity Management. Anshu has a B. Tech. (Honors) and M.S. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill respectively. Read his blog here.

Basab Pradhan

Basab Pradhan is the Head of Global Sales and Marketing at Infosys. He writes about the IT Services industry and other things on his mind on his blog 6 AM Pacific. His book on the offshore services industry is due to be published later in 2011.

Brian Sommer

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Charles Zedlewski

bio here

Charlie Wood

Charlie is the founder and CEO of Spanning Cloud Apps, a startup that aims to become the Norton Computing of the cloud computing era. He's a married father of two and a native Austinite. He blogs at Moonwatcher

Chris Selland

CMO at Terametric, a provider of social media measurement and optimization solutions, Expert Advisor at Focus Research, and a regular contributor to the StockTwits community. He has held senior Go-To-Market roles with a number of early & growth-stage companies including SoundBite Communications, Constant Contact and most recently Lumigent Technologies which was acquired by BeyondTrust. Earlier in his career Chris was VP of CRM and Internet Research at the Yankee Group, and later founded Reservoir Partners, a customer strategy research firm that merged with Aberdeen Group, where he became VP of Sell-Side Research.

Michael Coté

I’m Coté, a software Industry Analyst with RedMonk. Generally, I cover software: making it, using it, and living with it.

Typically, I cover a wide range of topics in the software and technology world: primarily enterprise software, open source, IT management & cloud, software development, collaborative, the web, emerging technologies, and social/collaborative software. I'm RedMonk’s IT Management Lead. My blog is available at www.PeopleOverProcess.com and I producs the RedMonk podcasts as well as the video podcast RedMonkTV.

Craig Cmehil

Vice President Social Media Solutions with ADTELLIGENCE GmbH in Germany who is a person driven to interact and communicate, always looking to innovate over the years he's been through all spectrums of the development process for all platforms. He's built communities and helped define strategies to communicate and engage.

David Terrar

David heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting and Cloud based solutions for content, collaboration, web publishing, online accounting and ERP. He is Chair of the UK's Intellect Software as a Service Group, a director of EuroCloud UK, on the governance board of the Cloud Industry Forum, and a regular speaker at social media and Cloud Computing events including chairing London's Cloud Computing World Forum in 2009, 2010 and 2011. David organizes London Wiki Wednesdays, was one of the founders of CreativeCoffee Club and was part of the team that started Amplified (the Network of Networks).

Denis Pombriant

Well-known CRM analyst and thought leader, Dennis has made contributions to our thinking about cloud computing, CRM, social media, analytics and mobility. He runs the Beagle Research Group, LLC and frequently contributes to this and other outlets.

Dennis Moore

Enterprise Software veteran, with over twenty years' experience on every side of of business, from user and buyer to VP, CEO and Board Member roles; from Procter & Gamble to Oracle, SAP and OQO. Founder of the OracAlumni Network.
Aactively tracks the trends and strategies of the enterprise software world, shares his news digest and analysis at Next Gen Enterprise.

Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion Hinchcliffe is a internationally recognized business strategist, enterprise architect, and keynote speaker. He is currently Executive Vice President of Strategy at Dachis Group. Dion focuses on the topics of Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Social Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), open business models, and next-generation enterprises. His thought leadership can be found on ZDNet, ebizQ, On Web Strategy, Dachis Group Collaboratory, and Musings and Ruminations on Building Great Systems. He co-authored Web 2.0 Architectures for O'Reilly and the forthcoming Social Business By Design (Spring, 2012) from Wiley. You can also reach Dion at dion.hinchcliffe@dachisgroup.com.

Josh Greenbaum

Industry Analyst, Consultant and author, former programmer, systems analyst with 25 years experience. Spent three years in Europe as an industry analyst and as Correspondent for Information Week and other industry publications. Regularly consults with leading public and private enterprise software, database, and infrastructure companies. An award-winning columnist for leading IT and business magazines, Josh is widely quoted in the trade and business press and he blogs at Enterprise Matters.

Evangelos Simoudis

Managing Director at Trident Capital focusing on investments in Internet and software businesses. Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.

Esteban Kolsky

Esteban Kolsky is the founder and principal of thinkJar, a Customer Strategy consulting and think tank organization helping vendors and user successfully become better, more open, and more collaborative organizations. More information about thinkJar

Eddie Herrmann

Solution Architect at Colgate-Palmolive designing and developing custom end-to-end SAP applications. Ed has been working with SAP technologies for over 8 years and is an SAP Mentor, winner of the 2007 demo jam in both US and EMEA SAP TechEd, and was invited to work at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA as part of the SAP Imagineering Fellowship Program.

James Governor

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Jason Corsello

Jason Corsello is Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy for Cornerstone OnDemand. In this role, Corsello is responsible for identifying key market opportunities, driving corporate initiatives and guiding M&A, as well as supporting product strategy and service innovation. Corsello is often quoted as an industry expert in human capital management, and his research has been featured in leading publications including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and CIO magazine. Corsello holds a BA in business administration management and marketing from the University of San Diego.

Jason Wood

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Jeff Nolan

Jeff is VP Product Marketing at Get Satisfaction; more than 50,000 companies use Get Satisfaction to power a better company-customer experience. Jeff is a former venture capitalist with wide ranging experience in enterprise software, consumer applications, Social CRM, and media markets.

Jevon MacDonald

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John Taschek

Technologist. Communication expert. VP Strategy at salesforce.com,  Editorial Director of CloudBlog. 

Jon Reed

Jon Reed is an independent analyst and SAP Mentor who blogs and podcasts on SAP market trends via JonERP.com. He is the Editor in Chief of ERP Executive and an SAP Research Fellow with Pierre Audoin Consultants. Jon is tracking ByDesign and on-demand trends closely in 2011. He is a fan of spirited enterprise conversation.

Maggie Fox

Maggie Fox is the founder and CEO of Social Media Group, one of the world’s largest independent agencies helping business navigate the new socially engaged Web. Pioneers in their field, Social Media Group has developed social media strategies for some of the best-known brands in Europe and North America, including; Ford Motor Company, SAP Global Marketing, Yamaha Motor, ING Bank and Harlequin Publishing.

Mark Crofton

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Merv Adrian

Vice President, Research at Gartner, focusing on Data Management and Integration. Three decades in the IT Industry, most recently running his own IT Market Strategy, prior to that with Forrester as Senior Vice President, earlier with the Giga Information Group.

Michael Fauscette

Enterprise software analyst, blogger, author, speaker and executive at IDC focused on emerging trends in the enterprise, which currently includes social, mobile, cloud and the networked business. Formerly a software executive at a wide range of software vendors including Autodesk, PeopleSoft and MRO, Inc and three silicon valley software startups, I moved to the analyst side in 2006. The group I lead at IDC covers CRM, EA, PPM, PLM, SCM, cloud and SaaS, pricing and licensing, and software partners, channels and alliances. Frequently quoted by the press on topics related to enterprise software, social business, enterprise mobility, cloud computing and other emerging enterprise trends. My IDC Profile.

Michael Krigsman

Well-known expert on why IT projects fail, CEO of Asuret, a Brookline, MA consultancy that uses specialized tools to measure and detect potential vulnerabilities in projects, programs, and initiatives. Also a popular and prolific blogger, writing the IT Project Failures blog for ZDNet. Frequently quoted by the press on topics related to IT management.

Naomi Bloom

Leading independent voice, analyst, end-user HRM business/delivery system strategyconsultant, vendor HR technology/HRO business strategy/platform architecture/object model consultant, and thought leader across the HRM/HR technology/HR outsourcing industry now is the 23rd year of her solo practice, Bloom & Wallace. You can learn more about Naomi's work and thinking at In Full Bloom.

Nenshad Bardoliwalla

Nenshad Bardoliwalla is Co-Author of Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management From Strategy Through Execution (Evolved Technologist Press, New York, NY, 2009), and an Enterprise Irregular. He has played critical leadership roles in the market success of many of the products that now comprise the Oracle and SAP EPM and BI suites. Nenshad holds a BA from Cornell University and an MA from New York University.

Niel Robertson

Niel Robertson is a technology entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Trada, a paid search marketplace, and currently serves on the board of VigLink, an affiliate technology company. Blog: www.trada.com/blog