MEET SIX FIVE’S HOSTS

David Nicholson

Global Technology Advisor

The Futurum Group

David Nicholson is Global Technology Advisor at The Futurum Group, a host and contributor for Six Five Media, and an Instructor and Success Coach at Wharton’s CTO and Digital Transformation academies, out of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business’s Arresty Institute for CTO, AI, and Digital Transformation Programs for Senior Executives.

Tiffani Bova

Chief Strategy and Research Officer

The Futurum Group

Ranked for the last six years in the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, Tiffani Bova is a thought leader who Forbes says “reshapes our perception of growth.” As both a practitioner and academic she offers a unique perspective and has helped lead the tech industry through several evolutions over her nearly 30-year career as Salesforce’s former Growth and Innovation Evangelist, and previously as a Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow at Gartner and a sales, marketing and customer service executive for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She is the author of two Wall Street Journal bestsellers: GrowthIQ and The Experience Mindset.

Diana Blass

Host

Six Five Media

Diana Blass is a journalist with a background in technology news and analysis. Her work has appeared on Fox Television Stations, The Discovery Channel, CBS News, CRN, Light Reading and across Informa-owned media brands. In addition to her work at The Six Five, she manages Diana Blass Productions, where she develops and produces digital documentaries, podcasts, and commercials for media and corporate brands.

Guy Currier

CTO

Visible Impact

Guy is an Analyst at The Futurum Group and CTO at Visible Impact, responsible for positioning, GTM, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired.

Keith Townsend

CTO Advisor

The Futurum Group

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.

Mitch Ashley

Chief Technology Advisor

The Futurum Group

Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development with The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, analyst, product developer, security, networking, and IT leader. Mitch's core skills encompass software engineering, cybersecurity, AI, DevOps, and cloud. M

Alex Smith

Vice President & Practice Lead, Channels & Go-to-Market

The Futurum Group

Alex Smith is Vice President & Practice Lead, Channels & Go-to-Market 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.

Anshel Sag

Principal Analyst

Moor Insights & Strategy

Anshel Sag is Moor Insights & Strategy’s in-house millennial, with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. Anshel has had extensive experience working with consumers and enterprises while interfacing with both B2B and B2C relationships, gaining empathy and understanding of what users really want.

Brad Shimmin

Vice President & Practice Lead

The Futurum Group

Bradley Shimmin is a 25+ year IT technology veteran and champion of enterprise and high-tech success. In his job as an industry analyst, he maintains a laser focus on AI platforms, data, and analytics to give customers an edge when it comes to business development, competitive intelligence, market evaluation, go-to-market messaging, technology selection, and industry research.

Dion Hinchcliffe

Vice President and Practice Lead, CIO

The Futurum Group

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.

Fernando Montenegro

Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity

The Futurum Group

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. His research focuses on addressing critical topics in modern cybersecurity.

Jason Andersen

Vice President and Principal Analyst

Moor Insights & Strategy

Jason Andersen is vice president and principal analyst covering application development platforms, technologies, and services. Jason brings more than 25 years of experience in product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, sales, and business development from Red Hat, IBM, and Stratus to MI&S and its advisory clients.

Matt Kimball

VP & Principal Analyst

Moor Insights & Strategy

Matt Kimball is a Moor Insights & Strategy principal datacenter analyst covering servers and storage. Matt’s 25 plus years of real-world experience in high tech spans from hardware to software as a product manager, product marketer, engineer and enterprise IT practitioner.

Melody Brue

Vice President and Principal Analyst

Moor Insights & Strategy

Mel Brue is Vice President and Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy covering modern work, HRM, HCM, and financial services. She has built a unique specialty working in technology and highly regulated spaces, such as mobile payments and finance, gaming, automotive, wine and spirits, and mobile content, ensuring initiatives address the needs of customers, employees, lobbyists, and legislators, as well as shareholders.

Nick Patience

Vice President & Practice Lead, Artificial Intelligence Software & Tools

The Futurum Group

Nick is Vice President & Practice Lead, Artificial Intelligence Software & Tools. He is a thought leader on the development, deployment and adoption of AI — an area he has been researching for 25 years.

Richard Gordon

Vice President & Practice Lead, Semiconductors

The Futurum Group

Richard Gordon is Vice President & Practice Lead, Semiconductors for The Futurum Group. He has been involved in the semiconductor industry for more than 30 years, first in engineering and then in technology and market research, industry analysis, and business advisory.

Robert Kramer

VP & Principal Analyst

Moor Insights & Strategy

Robert Kramer is vice president and principal analyst covering enterprise data and ERP, including data management, databases, data lakes, data observability, data analytics, and data protection.

Will Townsend

VP & Principal Analyst

Moor Insights & Strategy

Will Townsend manages the networking and security practices for Moor Insights & Strategy focused on carrier infrastructure providers, carrier services, enterprise networking and security. He brings over 30 years of technology industry experience in a variety of product, marketing, channel, business development and sales roles to his advisory position. Before joining the firm, Will served as a management consultant for an early 4G marketing services company as well as Dell EMC and BigCommerce, focusing on sales enablement activities supporting both direct and partner sales functions.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Research Director

The Futurum Group

Keith is a Research Director contributing to customer experience advisory service.

Krista Case Macomber

Research Director

The Futurum Group

Krista Case is a Research Director at The Futurum Group. She focuses on data security, protection, and management, with an emphasis on how these strategies play out in multi-cloud environments.

Mitch Lewis

Research Analyst

The Futurum Group

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.

Ron Westfall

Research Director

The Futurum Group

Ron is an experienced, customer-focused research expert and analyst, with over 20 years of experience in the digital and IT transformation markets, working with businesses to drive consistent revenue and sales growth.