Founder and Senior Analyst Steve Duplessie is an internationally recognized expert in IT infrastructure technologies and markets. An acclaimed speaker and author, Steve’s insights have been featured in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, USA Today, China Daily, The Moscow Times, and many other print and online publications. Steve is a valued strategic advisor to many of the largest technology providers in the world, including IBM, HPE, Dell EMC, NetApp, HDS, and other global IT organizations. A much sought-after speaker for conferences and industry events worldwide, Steve is known for his pull-no-punches, straight-shooting style. Steve’s presentations are renowned for being educational, opinionated, thought-provoking, and entertaining. They often draw standing-room-only capacity crowds.
Executive Vice President, Client Relations Mike Beaudet is responsible for client development and business development activities at ESG. Mike brings more than 35 years of sales and business development experience to his role, including time with IT market leaders such as EMC Corporation, Clearpoint Research Corporation, ITC, CLARiiON Advanced Storage Systems/Data General, StorageNetworks, and FilesX.
Executive Vice President, Research & Strategy John McKnight leads ESG’s analyst team and is responsible for all analyst services and market research operations. Under his leadership, ESG has become an established, respected, and trusted provider of research and advisory services, strategic consulting, and custom content solutions for the global IT community.
Vice President, Analyst Services and Senior Analyst Doug Cahill draws upon more than 25 years of industry experience across a broad range of cloud, host, and network-based products and markets to lead ESG's analyst team.
Prior to joining ESG, Doug held executive leadership positions at cloud and endpoint security firms where he launched market-leading products and established strategic partnerships. Over the course of his career, Doug has served in product management, marketing, and business development roles for storage management, networking, and database vendors, and started his career in IT as a business analyst.
Doug has written for Dark Reading and The Cipher Brief and has been quoted in CyberTrend, The Wall Street Journal, CRN, Network World, and other publications.
Vice President, Business Operations & Customer Success, Noelle Marzullo drives continuous improvement across numerous parts of our organization, focusing on efficient business operations, revenue management, and customer success.
Noelle strongly believes in a “get things done” mindset. She leads our program management team to deliver a white-glove, high-quality experience that our clients have grown to value and expect as the Enterprise Strategy Group way. Noelle also works hard to maintain our special culture for both our clients and employees in an ever-changing business climate.
Noelle holds a B.S. in Marketing & Finance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is a proud Steelers fan, living in Pittsburgh with her husband and their 3 kiddos.
