Rhonda focuses on datacenter innovation and energy management in datacenters and across the enterprise. She also covers technologies that enable the efficient use of all resources and help to minimize the environmental impact of business activity. Rhonda has been analyzing the crossroads of IT and business for more than 15 years.

Before joining 451 Research, Rhonda was a senior analyst in energy and sustainability IT at Ovum. Previously, she had a successful career as an IT reporter and editor, mostly in Silicon Valley, at a number of well-known publications.

Rory Duncan is the Research Director for Managed Services & Hosting. His research provides insights into the European multi-tenant datacenter and colocation services markets, European web, application, and managed hosting services, European cloud (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS) services, internet exchanges and content delivery networks.

Rory joined 451 Research following a successful 20+ year career in the technology industry, working in a variety of sales and marketing roles for key software and services vendors including SAP, IBM and Adobe. Since 2005, Rory has been instrumental in providing market and competitive insights for these companies, focusing on emerging trends and technologies.

A keen advocate of the IT services and distribution partner channel, Rory has presented at events across Europe, and is known for his skill in articulating complex technical topics in an easy-to-understand way. Clients value his ability to provide meaning in the context of their business.

Eric Hanselman is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research. He has an extensive, hands-on understanding of a broad range of IT subject areas, having direct experience in the areas of networks, virtualization, security and semiconductors. He coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of 451 Research disciplines. The convergence of forces across the technology landscape is creating tectonic shifts in the industry, including SDN/NFV, hyperconvergence and the Internet of Things (IoT). Eric helps 451 Research's clients navigate these turbulent waters and determine their impacts and how they can best capitalize on them.

For more than 20 years, Eric has worked with segment leaders in a spectrum of technologies, most recently as CTO of Leostream Corporation, a virtualization management provider. Prior to that, Eric delivered security solutions for IBM and Internet Security Systems. At Wellfleet/Bay Networks, Sitara Networks and NEC, he was involved in the introduction of many new technologies ranging from high-performance image analysis to rollouts for IPv6.

Eric holds a patent in image compression systems. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and he is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences.

Andy Lawrence is the Vice President of Research for Datacenters and Critical Infrastructure at 451 Research. He also leads the 451 Foresight project, which looks at the potential impact of emerging technologies across the IT industry over the next decade.

Andy specializes in datacenter efficiency, market evolution and automation, both from a technical and economic point of view. He has an interest in the convergence of IT and energy technologies, both in the datacenter and beyond. Andy works closely with the Uptime Institute, part of The 451 Group, reviewing innovations and trends for members. Andy has given keynote presentations at events in the US, Europe and Asia.

Andy is the author of reports covering datacenter management; power/energy management; 5G mobile networks; Disruptive Datacenter technologies; and datacenter and application resiliency. He has represented 451 Research at the Green Grid, and contributed to European Union projects on cloud services and renewable energy. He contributed to an international program to develop a carbon footprinting method for IT.

Before joining 451 Research, Andy was the co-founder of Infoconomy, a publishing and research company focusing on enterprise IT; and was a technology and business journalist writing for business and national media. He launched several IT business magazines and information services in the UK and US.

Kelly joined 451 Research in April 2011 as an analyst covering the economics and finances of the datacenter and hosting industries. In her current role, she leads the services analyst teams, which track hosting, managed services and multi-tenant datacenter providers worldwide. Coverage includes providers, market size, datacenter supply and demand, and the dynamics of the industry overall.

Before joining 451 Research, Kelly spent nearly 10 years in private equity, focusing on investments in telecommunications, IT and datacenters. Prior to that, she worked for several years at the OECD in Paris, managing the organization's budget process.

As Research Director of 451 Research's Internet of Things practice, Christian Renaud covers the ongoing virtualization and digitization of the physical world around us.

For 25 years prior to joining 451 Research, Christian built nationwide networks at large and small enterprises, worked with Fortune 50 companies in the systems integrator channel, built products at Cisco Systems and ran the company's New Markets and Technologies team. He has been the CEO of multiple startups, worked in venture and angel capital, and has served as an advisor to G20 and European Commission projects.

Andy is Elastifile’s chief evangelist and market strategist, leading global marketing across product & solutions marketing, demand generation, brand, and field marketing. He works to delight customers and build hyper-growth businesses – delivering #1 market share and more than 100% annual growth four times in a row, most recently at EMC XtremIO, the fastest growing business in enterprise IT history.

Andy brings rich leadership experience across enterprise IT, including all-flash arrays, SDS, servers, storage networking, and applications. Prior to Elastifile, Andy led marketing, product management, and business development in roles at XtremIO (acquired by EMC), Delphix, Veritas/Symantec, SGI, and Emulex (acquired by Avago). He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University.

As a Senior Analyst for 451 Research, Dan Thompson provides insight into the Multi-Tenant Datacenter (MTDC) market space. Dan is particularly focused on MTDCs that are trying to move up the stack to offer additional services beyond colocation and connectivity. These services may include disaster recovery, security, various forms of cloud and other managed services. He also assists the 451 Research Information Security group when their interests overlap.

Prior to joining 451 Research, Dan spent 15 years as a practitioner in the IT industry, the last 10 of which were spent at a top managed/cloud service provider. Dan has worn many hats in the IT world, from systems administration to management, and was most recently an enterprise architect. In that role, Dan not only assisted in the launch of the company's security practice, but also created security-specific products, and designed security into every solution launched to the customer base.

Dan has been quoted in a number of top publications including The Wall Street Journal, as well as industry-specific publications such as CyberTrend Magazine. He is a regular speaker at client and industry events and regularly appears on regional NBC affiliate stations across East Tennessee.

Joan Wrabetz is the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for the Data Center Systems business unit at Western Digital Corporation and leads the global marketing efforts for HGST-branded data center infrastructure products covering public and private clouds. Prior to joining Western Digital, Joan held senior executive positions at QualiSystems (CTO), EMC advanced technology division (VP and CTO), Aumni Data (founder and CEO), Tricord Systems (CEO), StorageTek (VP and GM), and Aggregate Computing (founder and CEO). She earned a Master’s of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. Joan also holds patents in load balancing, distributed systems, and machine learning classifications and analytics. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas, and the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

Senior Analyst Aaron Sherrill covers the Managed Services sector, which includes disaster recovery and security services.

Aaron joined 451 Research after serving as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for two of the largest Managed Service Providers in the market. He was instrumental in developing and growing the MSP business, driving the technical strategy for the companies, developing and leading information security programs, and bringing new managed cloud and service options to the marketplace.

Aaron has 20+ years of experience across several industries, including several private sector companies – Rubbermaid, Travelers, University Health Systems and AllMeds – and serving in IT management for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

He also holds multiple degrees in business, computer science and a MBA, along with multiple certifications that require accreditation such as the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.

Carl Lehmann is a Principal Analyst in the Development, DevOps & IT Ops Channel. He leads 451 Research's coverage of integration and process management technologies in hybrid cloud architecture, as well as how hybrid IT affects business strategy and operations. The markets covered in his research include enterprise architecture management (EAM) tools, hybrid cloud integration technology (including iPaaS and API management) and business process management (BPM) software.

Prior to joining 451 Research, Carl was Principal Analyst at BPMethods, where he advised clients on business strategy and process management. While there his book, Strategy and Business Process Management: Techniques for Improving Execution, Adaptability, and Consistency, was published by Taylor and Francis Group in 2012. Carl was also a Senior VP of Strategy and Product Management for a B2B integration firm where he developed e-commerce SaaS and IaaS offerings used by over 4,000 companies. Prior to that, he served 10 years as VP of Research for IT advisory firms Gartner and META Group, advising Fortune 500 clients. Carl's career began as a Project Manager for AT&T and a Product Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett-Packard).

Gerry Fassig is CoreSite’s Vice President of Sales for the North West Region and Strategic Cloud Vertical. He possesses more than 20 years of enterprise and start-up sales leadership experience and leads a national team responsible for customer acquisition and retention, as well as CoreSite’s go-to-market cloud strategy. Prior to joining CoreSite, he held senior sales and management positions with Savvis, helping drive strategic growth throughout the organization during the Exodus/Cable and Wireless acquisitions. Before Savvis, he held various leadership roles at Wheelhouse (a CRM strategy consultancy) and at Gartner.

Nicholas Thompson is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, where he served previously as senior editor from 2005–2010. There, he edited both National Magazine Award-nominated writing and “The Great Escape,” the story that became the feature film Argo. Thompson has also played a pivotal role with The New Yorker—first as senior editor, then as editor of the magazine’s digital platform, where he helped re-design the website, launch the New Yorker app, spark an eight-fold increase in monthly readers, and quadruple the number of new digital subscribers each month (based on his editorial focus on offering loyalty to writers, diversifying the magazine’s social media presence, and publishing “more, better stories”). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed biography The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War.

Earlier in his career, Thompson worked as a Senior Editor at Legal Affairs, as an editor at the Washington Monthly, and co-founded The Atavist, the National Magazine Award-winning publishing company. He has written on technology and politics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Observer, and other publications. He has appeared on Bloomberg TV, NBC, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NPR, and CNN, where he is a contributing editor, and CBS, where he is a news contributor. Thompson earned the 21st Century Leader Award from The National Committee on American Foreign Policy, is a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He graduated from Stanford University, where he was a United States Truman Scholar.

James Henry has been actively involved in the internet and telecom industry for more than a decade. His extensive and multi-disciplined knowledge of the industry is the product of his roles as an equity research analyst following the telecom and internet services sectors, as a portfolio manager responsible for investing in the telecom and media sectors, and as an investment banker executing capital markets and strategic transactions. Mr. Henry co-founded Bank Street Holdings LLC and has been a driving force in the growth and development of the firm's investment banking practice. Prior to Bank Street, Mr. Henry was a Senior Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. where he served as the senior research analyst responsible for following the telecommunications and internet service and infrastructure sectors. Mr. Henry led a team of 5 dedicated associates and he was named the youngest Senior Managing Director in the history of Bear Stearns in 1999. Mr. Henry's work and industry expertise has been broadly recognized. He was ranked 2nd by Institutional Investor Magazine's All American Research Team Survey in 1999 and 2000. Mr. Henry has spoken at major telecom industry conferences, testified before Congress on telecom industry matters, and been quoted in national publications such as Business Week and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Henry has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Connecticut College.

Peter is the Co-Founder and CEO of DH Capital, LLC and has led the firm since its’ founding in 2001. During the past 15 years Peter has been central to establishing the firm as the preeminent advisory practice in the data center, cloud and managed hosting sector where DH has advised on transactions totaling more than $10.4 billion. Peter has led many of the firms’ largest M&A transactions including advising Telx in its $1.89 billion sale to Digital Realty, advising Softlayer on its $450 million sale to GI Partners, advising Latisys on its’ $675 million sale to Zayo and advising Cervalis on its $400 million sale to CyrusOne. In addition, Peter has managed many of the firms’ capital placements including advising DataPipe on ABRY’s $150m equity investment and advising Ascenty on its $125 million senior equity raise. Peter is a frequent speaker at important industry events including the 451 Group’s HCTS event in Las Vegas, CapRate’s data center events in New York and Chicago and is a frequent panelist at various DataCenter Dynamics events.

Prior to Co-Founding DH Capital Peter served as CEO of Duro Communications, a consolidator of ISP and data center assets in the Southeastern US. Prior to Duro Communications, Peter served as VP of Business Development for Helicon Cable Communications, a privately held top 20 cable MSO, which was sold to Charter Communications in 1999 for $550m. Peter is a graduate of Lehigh University where he received a BS degree in Finance.

Jad Jebara is president and CEO of Tuangru, a next-generation data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software provider. He previously served as senior vice president of finance and administration at Peer 1 Hosting (now Cogeco Peer 1), where he was responsible for finance, supply chain and IT.

A Fulbright Scholar, he holds a Masters in Professional Accounting with a concentration in Information Management from The University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Bachelors of Commerce from Birzeit University. He is a registered CPA and CMA.

Joe Reele is Vice President, Datacenter Solution Architects at Schneider Electric, responsible for bringing together the full suite of Schneider Electric products and services to provide unparalleled right sized, innovative and complete solutions for our customers. Joe influences and inspires a large team of highly talented professionals to provide cutting edge designs, innovative solutions and operational models for Mission Critical Facilities/Operations. Joe has an impressive track record of more than 10 years of hands-on experience in strategic planning, business unit development and growth, project development, operations management, and system engineering strategies. Joe provides strong technical and leadership skills with proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical operational business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative and cost-effective solutions to meet the customer's business objectives.

Xavier Poisson advocates economic growth through community development and innovation. In his role as Vice President for Indirect Digital Services, he leads global expansion of an ecosystem and digital platform that federates all types of channel partners and creates new opportunities for partners and customers alike to accelerate their business results.

To increase partners and customers’ capacity to succeed in today’s digital world, Xavier initiated and continues to drive the growth of a unique digital business platform known as Cloud28+. An open community, Cloud28+ unites Service Providers, ISVs, VARs, distributors, public sector organizations, and technology vendors to offer a cloud services catalog for customers who require specific business and workload solutions.