A leading industry analyst with the Gartner Group for eight years, Mr. West has researched a wide range of information technologies, advising thousands of client companies and consulting to hundreds of leading vendors and IT groups in over two dozen countries worldwide.

Mr. West is a frequent speaker at conferences and other industry events on a wide range of topics concerning technology and business strategy. He has written and presented research on information management, data administration, applications development, object technology, client/server architectures, user interface and usability strategies, web site development and Internet applications, network computing, B2C and B2B electronic commerce, portals, hubs, communities and marketplaces, Internet technologies (including intranets and extranets) and competitive eBusiness strategies.

Mr. West holds the AB from Williams College, the MA from Johns Hopkins University and the MBA from the Boston College Graduate School of Management. He has taught Strategic Technology Management in the MBA program at Boston College and Managing Information Technology in the MBA Program at the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. West can be reached via e-mail at mwest@mwest.com.

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