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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.
Managing Partner and Senior Analyst Tony Prigmore joined ESG shortly after its founding in 2000. He is responsible for operations and oversees the firm’s analyst and research organizations, the validation team, and the client relations and programs team. During Tony’s tenure, ESG has grown to become a globally recognized analyst and strategy firm anchored in world-class research.
Executive Vice President, Client Relations Mike Beaudet is responsible for client development and business development activities at ESG. Mike brings more than 25 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, Validation Services Brian Garrett is committed to providing independent validation and analysis of the technical and economic benefits of emerging technologies throughout the IT industry. The values he strives to instill in his team are a customer-centric approach to ESG’s relationships and empathy with the end-users who rely on ESG’s guidance in purchase decisions.
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Walter Mason oversees all aspects of ESG’s internal and external financial business. Working closely with his team, Walter oversees accounting, budgeting, financial planning, financial community interactions, financial analyses, and financial performance monitoring. His professionalism and extensive experience, combined with his attention to detail, make him a tremendous asset to ESG.
Executive Vice President, Research and Analyst Services 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 & Group Director, Cybersecurity 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 cybersecurity 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.
