Kris became captivated by microcomputers in 1979 and received a small educational grant from Intel to design and build the first 8088-based CPU card for the S-100 bus. He moved into artificial intelligence and expert systems working for John McDermott and Lanny Forgy at Carnegie Mellon University. Around that time he even won an argument with Marvin Minsky (thanks to his wife.)
Moving to IBM in 1984 Kris spent the next 9 years there commercializing advanced technologies and applying them to a wide variety of industries including transportation, telecommunications, banking and insurance. After picking up an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern Kris took his technology obsession into the world of business models and markets.
After a a few years at S.G. Warburg (now UBS) he became an equity analyst at SoundView Technology Group where he become well known for his work with the leading technology research boutique.
He received his BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984, and acquired his MBA from the NYU Stern School of business in 1992.
Steve Waite is a noted institutional investment manager, strategic advisor, and author. A Wall Street professional for over twenty two years, he was a co-founder of a multi-billion dollar investment management firm. Steve has extensive experience in global economic and financial market issues with tenures at Morgan Stanley & Co, The Capital Group, Merrill Lynch, and CSAM/BEA Associates. In addition, he served as the Chief Knowledge Officer of ThelnfoPro, Inc., an independent technology research firm where he currently serves on the Board of Directors.
A former Adjunct Professor of Finance at Quinnipiac University, Steve is the author of the book Quantum Investing and co-author of the book, Boomernomics. His economic and financial research has been published in several books and professional journals including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Fortune, Barrons, Business Week and Worth. Stephen has a Masters Degree in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University and is a participant at the Santa Fe Institute.
With nearly 30 years' experience researching and analyzing virtually every area of information technology and systems, Dennis Byron brings a broad knowledge-base to any research task. Dennis' deep research background includes a long history of ERP and middleware software market analysis for both IDC and McGraw-Hill's Datapro division. He has conducted more than 500 specific information technology studies and actively writes on open source software, web services architecture and service-oriented architecture on his own website and via a blog on IT.
Dennis authored a substantial amount of our enterprise software research on Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Oracle, SAP and Google was published in 2007 and early 2008 and is available in our research library.