Kirk Campbell, President and CEO

Kirk Campbell joined IDC as Chief Operating Officer in 1990 and became President and CEO in 1991. Under his leadership, IDC has rapidly strengthened its position in the technology market intelligence business. Since 1990, IDC's revenues have increased ten times, to $297 million, the number of employees has more than quadruled to 1700, and the number of countries which IDC research covers has grown from 25 to over 90. As a result, IDC offers the most comprehensive market intelligence available on all key technology segments from the internet, PCs, systems, peripherals and semiconductors to software, services, telecommunications, vertical markets and distribution channels. IDC has invested heavily in developing an unrivaled research network at the worldwide, regional, and country levels.

Mr. Campbell joined International Data Group in 1988 as a Vice President responsible for corporate business planning and analysis for over 100 IDG business units. Prior to his position at IDG, Mr. Campbell was Vice President, Finance and Corporate Development for PennWell Publishing, a high-tech information and publishing company. He also held financial positions with Exxon Corporation. Mr. Campbell earned a Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a Master's degree from Princeton University. He also was a Fulbright Scholar at the Free University in Berlin, Germany.

Ms. Bernardi is responsible for the Human Resources and Education departments at IDC and also has dotted-line management for the International HR function. She is an active part of the IDC’s senior management team. Her mission is to take care of IDC’s most valuable resource the “People”.

She has led her dedicated HR and Education teams to hire and train each new employees, while maintaining the same retention rate. In addition, she has significantly enhanced IDC's benefit portfolio and created innovative HR solutions like the Global Fellowship program, Mentoring program and the Perks@Work program. She was instrumental both in creating IDC's Orientation and assimilation program, the reward and recognition programs, the New and Advanced Analyst training programs, and in developing a one of a kind People & Education site on the company's intranet, InsideIDC.

In 1998, Ms. Bernardi was promoted to Vice President of Human Resources and Education. Ms. Bernardi has been actively involved in helping IDC expand to over 600 U.S. employees. Prior to her position as VP of HR, Ms. Bernardi also managed IDC's administration departments which included Telecom, Library, and General Services.

Ms. Bernardi joined IDG in 1989 and was responsible for creating the first collaborative training program for all IDG business units. Shortly after, she began work in the Human Resources Service Division (HRSD), providing HR generalist services to a variety of smaller IDG business units. One of the business units Ms. Bernardi supported was IDC, and in September 1991, Ms. Bernardi was hired as an HR Manager at IDC. At that time, IDC employed a mere 85 people. IDC now boasts a U.S. workforce of 600+ employees.

Before joining IDC, Ms. Bernardi worked in recruiting and training at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as York Hospital in Maine. Ms. Bernardi earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Master's degree from Lesley College. She is also a graduate of the American Society of Training and Development's Train the Trainer program. She is certified in Myers Briggs Type Indicator as well as a graduate of the Center of Creative Leaderships 360 feedback tools.

Crawford Del Prete, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Research manages IDC's largest research organization.  This includes IDC’s  Consulting,  Enterprise Computing, Storage, Networking,  Integration, Development and Application  Software Strategies, Professional Services, Telecommunications, Personal Computing, Mobility, Consumer, Digital Marketplace and New Media, SMB, Vertical Markets and WW Tracker research practices.  Mr. Del Prete is also responsible for IDC’s Industry Insights Companies, which specifically target the needs of end users in six vertical segments.

Mr. Del Prete is a leading authority on the IT industry and has completed extensive research on the structure and evolution of the information technology industry.  In 2001, Mr. Del Prete forged IDC's partnership with Innosight, the consultancy founded by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen.  Together, the companies have created a body of work to understand and predict trends in disruptive innovation.  Mr. Del Prete also serves as IDC's lead analyst covering Hewlett Packard.

Mr. Del Prete joined IDC in 1989.  At that time he initiated coverage of the Winchester Disk Drive market, and was a founder of IDC's European and Asia Pacific storage research programs. In 1997, Mr. Del Prete founded IDC's coverage of the Semiconductor marketplace.  In 1995, Mr. Del Prete was honored with IDC’s James Peacock award for research excellence, IDC’s highest honor.  That same year he was voted “most valuable” storage analyst by an outside panel of his peers from the International Disk Equipment Manufacturers Association.  Mr. Del Prete is a member of the United States Computer History Museum Storage Committee.

Prior to IDC, Mr. Del Prete was a marketing manager at Installed Technology International.  Before this, he was with Paine Webber Jackson and Curtis in New York in the government securities and commercial lending sectors.  Mr. Del Prete holds a B.A. from Michigan State University.

As Senior Vice President and Chief Research Officer of IDC, John Gantz has responsibility for all IDC's worldwide demand-side research, global market models, and portal products. He is also responsible for IDC's worldwide services research. Prior to this role, he was in charge of worldwide research and consulting in personal systems, consumer deVices, workgroup and collaborative computing, and services. He is also a member of IDC's management committee, chief architect of IDC's Global Internet Commerce Market Model, and one of IDC's chief spokespersons on broad technology and market issues. He cofounded IDC's annual Internet Executive Forum, founded IDC's PC Market Outlook conferences, and is a regular speaker at IDC's annual Directions conferences in the United States and around the world.

Prior to joining IDC in September 1992, Mr. Gantz was Vice President and Chief Analyst for Dataquest and Director of its Software Research Group. Before joining Dataquest in 1991, Mr. Gantz was executive Vice President of TFS, Inc., a custom research and consulting company that he cofounded in 1983. Before TFS, Mr. Gantz was a Vice President at IDC, where he managed newsletter operations and research programs in software and office automation.

Mr. Gantz is well known in the industry through his frequent speaking and consulting engagements and his bylined biweekly column in Computerworld. In the past he has served as contributing editor for Networking Management, Computer Graphics World, InfoWorld, and Digital News. He has also published articles in Fortune, Forbes, Industry Week, Discover, High Technology, and Management Technology. Additional national and international exposure has come through quotes in all major business publications, interviews on CNN, and chairperson assignments at all major computer industry trade shows, including COMDEX, Internet Commerce Expo, ComNet, ITAA, NCGA, and PC Expo.

Mr. Gantz is a graduate of Dartmouth College, former Navy submarine officer, and coauthor of The Naked Computer (Morrow, 1983). He has run two Boston Marathons (1979 and 1980) and hiked the Appalachian Trail end to end (1973). He is married and has two sons.

As IDC's Senior Vice President - Research, Frank Gens guides IDC's research into broad IT industry trends, particularly the strategic adoption of technology by Global 2000 businesses and the industries in which they compete.

Mr. Gens is the author of IDC Executive Insights, IDC’s monthly executive brief on the state and future of the IT industry, and is a frequent speaker at executive forums around the world. He is the author of IDC Predictions, the company's annual forecast of major changes in the global development and use of technology. Mr. Gens is a member of IDC's worldwide management team, a lead developer of IDC's global research architecture, and a member of IDC's Research Quality Board.

Mr. Gens is a 23 year veteran of the IT research and advisory services business, including 15 years at IDC in a variety of senior roles, including leading IDC's end-user research business and developing IDC's global Internet research capabilities. He is well-known for his provocative and accurate forecasts of IT industry change, and the impact of those changes on business and industry.

In addition to research management roles, Mr. Gens' career includes senior positions in new product development and introduction, product management, marketing, business development, corporate development, and regional operations management. Prior to IDC, Mr. Gens held management positions at International Data Group (IDG), AMR Research and The Yankee Group.

Clare Gillan is IDC's Senior Vice President, Executive and Go-to-Market Programs. Her teams serve the unique information and advice needs of specific professional roles including IT industry sales, marketing, and market intelligence executives; analysts within buy-side and sell- side firms; and IT leaders and procurement professionals responsible for large IT purchases. She is also responsible for teams that help IT vendors leverage IDC thought leadership as part of their own go-to-market programs. Services include sales education and enablement as well as outbound programs spanning integrated marketing, public events, and custom events.

In addition, Ms. Gillan oversees IDC's customer experience research which explores "buy-cycle" relationship dynamics between buyers and vendors.

During the 1990's Ms. Gillan held the title of Group Vice President, Applications and Information Access. In this role, she directed IDC's software research spanning enterprise applications, data warehousing, collaborative and consumer applications. Ms. Gillan was widely recognized as a top analyst in her field. She was quoted heavily in the trade and business press and regularly delivered the keynote addresses at conferences around the world.

Before joining IDC in 1988, Ms. Gillan held positions in consulting, sales, and support for companies specializing in applications development and IT professional recruitment. She holds an MBA from Boston University and a BS in mathematics and computer science from Stonehill College.

In his role as Executive Vice President, International Business Units, Philippe de Marcillac is responsible for the management of IDC's International Group. This includes IDC's business and research operations in Canada, Latin America, Japan and Asia/Pacific, and research operations in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently based in Hong Kong, but maintains a base at IDC's head office in Framingham and frequently travels through Asia/Pacific and the Americas.

Mr. de Marcillac is well known in the IT industry for his expertise in International Markets, PCs, systems, and the ICT market research in general.

Prior to rejoining IDC in 1995, he was Vice President of Worldwide PC research at Dataquest.

Mr. de Marcillac initially joined IDC in 1982 and launched IDC's first pan-European research services. During the last two years of his tenure with IDC in Europe, he managed IDC's European Research Centre. He has worked in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, and Japan. He has experience in large market research projects covering the IT, Communications and Internet and eBusiness markets, both in the United States and in other markets.

Mr. de Marcillac graduated from Cambridge University in England with a Master's Degree in Natural Sciences. He is fluent in French and conversant in German.

Roberto Masiero is the President of IDC EMEA, and is in charge of all operations of IDC in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Furthermore he is responsible for driving the development of IDC Conference & Event Business Worldwide.

After achieving his Degree in Political Economy at the Bocconi University in Milan, Roberto attended the Advanced Financial Management Program at the Insead in Fontainebleau and at the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business School.

He started his professional career in the IT world in 1973 in Xerox, and then moved to cover a number of different positions in Marketing and Sales in Burroughs and Olivetti Computer.

From 1984 to 1986 he worked as Assistant to the Managing Director in charge of Strategies for the Olivetti Group, Elserino Piol, assisting him in the development of a number of acquisitions of International Software and Services Companies.

In 1986 Roberto joined the IDG Group and was asked to start-up IDC Italy. Subsequently he took over as Managing Director of some of the major subsidiaries of IDC in Europe (IDC UK, IDC France and IDC Germany). In June 1990, he was appointed President of IDC Europe, and in 1999 he took responsiblity for the whole IDC EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Since 1990, he has grown IDC Europe into the largest IT Market Research & Consulting company operating in the Region. Today IDC EMEA has 450 employees, with 27 Local Offices and 6 Regional Research Solution Centers.

The Company provides in depth analysis on IT Market trends to all major vendors, as well as IT Strategic Planning Consulting to Large Users, Governments and Public Authorities. IDC is a major contributor to the European Information Technology Observatory sponsored by European Community, and organises the annual European IT Forum, which was launched in 1991 and has established from then as the leading European Conference in the area of Information Technology.

Finally, on the basis of the success achieved in Europe in the area of Conferences and Events, in 1999 Roberto was asked to manage the development of the IDC WW Conference business.

As a result, IDC is now organizing more than 300 International and Local IT Conferences, reaching 45,000 Users every year and positioning itself as the leading high-value IT Event organizer Worldwide.

Henry Morris, Ph.D., is the Senior Vice President for IDC's software and services solutions research, examining alternative means of sourcing a business process via build, buy, or integrate strategies.

Dr. Morris joined IDC in 1995 and founded the business intelligence and analytics research practice, coining the widely-used term "analytic applications" in 1997. Currently, Dr. Morris is exploring the relationship between business intelligence and business process automation ("intelligent process automation") and the requirements for unified access to structured and unstructured data.

He has been quoted in and written papers for publications, such as DM Review, Computerworld, KMworld, Balanced Scorecard Report, and Software Magazine on trends in business intelligence, business performance management, data warehousing, knowledge management, and enterprise applications.

He has been quoted in and written papers for publications, such as DM Review, Computerworld, KMworld, Balanced Scorecard Report, and Software Magazine on trends in business intelligence, business performance management, data warehousing, knowledge management, and enterprise applications.

Prior to joining IDC in 1995, Dr. Morris served in a variety of technical and management positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he specialized in software for application development. Dr. Morris has been an instructor in technical writing at Northeastern University and Bentley College, and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. He earned a B.A. with distinction from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.

As Chief Financial Officer, Mark Sullivan is responsible for IDC’s worldwide financial reporting, analysis, and planning. He is a member of IDC’s senior management committee, and reports to President and CEO Kirk Campbell.

Mr. Sullivan joined IDC in 1992 as director of finance. He was named vice president, finance in 1998, and CFO in 1999.

Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Sullivan served as controller from 1988 –1992 for CW Publishing, publisher of Computerworld. He joined International Data Group in 1987 as a financial analyst.

Prior to his IDG tenure, he held various financial analyst positions at General Electric Company manufacturing operations in Michigan, Ohio, and Massachusetts. He completed, with honors, General Electric’s Financial Management Program.

Mr. Sullivan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in finance from Michigan State University.

As Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Brad Thorpe has responsibility for leading all IDC direct sales and customer service to the ICT Vendor, Financial, and End User communities, as well as indirect sales including partnerships. He is IDC’s chief customer advocate.

Prior to joining IDC in 1986 Mr. Thorpe was employed at NCR Corporation in both Commercial and Federal Accounts Sales, and before that he held sales positions with Western Microtechnology, a distributor of semiconductors, computer systems, and peripherals.

Mr. Thorpe’s first role in 1986 at IDC was as a Unix research analyst and product champion. He then moved into sales, first in California where he was responsible for Western regional and major accounts sales. He was promoted to Director of Major Accounts and relocated to the East Coast to develop IDC’s first major account focus, building and implementing its now renowned global account management program. In the NYC area, he led the selling effort for IDC’s entry into providing its technology research to equity analysts and investment bankers following technology companies through its successful Investment Research Services.

Most recently, Mr. Thorpe was Group Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Major, Financial, and Sector Sales, leading sales to IDC’s largest ICT vendor clients, the financial community, and emerging ICT vendors and supply chain.

In addition to earning a BA in English from Kenyon College, Mr. Thorpe has participated in numerous sales, sales management, and negotiation courses, including the Sales Management and Global Account Management programs at the Columbia University Business School.

Vernon Turner is responsible for world-wide research across the server, software, network and services programs for the IT Enterprise. Mr. Turner advises IDC clients on the competitive, managerial, technological, integration and implementation issues for complete systems environments.

Mr. Turner’s areas of expertise include enterprise computer and storage relationships, technology recovery and capacity planning, performance management and end-user perspectives. He has helped to drive research on the evolution of the next generation Internet Infrastructure including grid computing, service centric IT infrastructures, utility computing solutions, processors and modular server designs. In addition he has worked with several industry customer councils in an advisory role on server network and storage architectures to take advantages of initiatives such as IT Consolidation. Mr. Turner has a strong background in the technology requirements of the finance and banking communities and comments frequently on high availability and disaster recovery requirements for mission critical workloads. Finally, Mr. Turner is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today and Financial Times as well as commenting on technology showcases for CNBC, CNNfn, and international media outlets.

Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Turner was Vice President, Technology Services, with State Street Bank in Boston where he managed the deployment of hardware technology (tape, disk, server, print) across a multi-data center environment. He held similar responsibilities at Fidelity Investments.

Mr. Turner holds an M.B.A. from Babson College and a Computer Science undergraduate degree from Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, England.