Region
Europe/Middle East/Africa

Role/Responsibility
Lars Mieritz is a vice president in Gartner Research. As part of the Business of IT Research group, his focus area is program and portfolio management covering topics such as business case articulation and prioritization, review and measurement of projects, programs and business outcomes, as well as defining and communicating success metrics and KPIs. Mr. Mieritz’s published research covers models and frameworks, such as TCO or the Business Value Model for IT and business communications and alignment through scorecards, dashboards or other performance management initiatives, as well as demonstrating the business value of IT.

Bio
Before his current position, Mr. Mieritz was part of the IT asset management research team, which he joined after working on Gartner’s tools for TCO cost management and benchmarking, and business case development and justification. Previously, Mr. Mieritz was responsible for the Gartner Measurement EMEA Research Services Centre, leveraging the synergies of Gartner Measurement data and Gartner Research. Mr. Mieritz joined Gartner Research in 1994 as a senior analyst covering distributed computing procurement and acquisition, asset management, and TCO. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Mieritz was responsible for providing research and consulting services to vendor and user communities for IDC.

Region
North America

Role/Responsibility
Matt Light is a vice president in Gartner Research, where he advises on application development and project and process management. He leads Gartner's project portfolio management research community, is a popular speaker at Gartner events and in other forums around the world, and is widely quoted in the American and worldwide press. He has more than 27 years of experience in the industry.

Bio
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Light managed development and research projects for Select Information and American Videotex Systems — providers of desktop productivity tools in the first wave of PC software, and of a pre-Web consumer information dial-up service. He also managed Auerbach Publishers' line of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing and Quality Assurance Procedures publications. He served previously as a research project manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Daniel Stang is a principal analyst in Gartner Research, covering project and portfolio management (PPM) applications. His expertise is specifically centered on product knowledge, in which he provides in-depth research on the R&D efforts and resulting products of the software vendors in his coverage areas. As part of his duties, Mr. Stang helps Gartner client’s define their specific product needs and helps them build product shortlists based on these needs. His complimentary, detailed product research is designed to provide overviews of PM and PPM technologies and to help Gartner clients compare prospective vendor offerings while making software investment decisions. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Stang worked for a niche IT-based research company, tracking a variety of software technologies, including ERP applications, AD tools, project management systems, document management systems, and Web authoring and development. Mr. Stang also worked for a New Jersey-based distributor of scientific supplies, apparatus, chemicals and reagents, where he was an editor for the company’s 2000+ page product catalog.

There are two things Mr. Stang loves about his job: One: I get to work with the clients every day. Two: analyzing a software market requires constant education and presents new challenges every day. “My job is never boring and I love that aspect most of all”.

Donna Fitzgerald is a research director with Gartner Research. Her responsibilities include helping companies improve their program and portfolio management capabilities. Ms. Fitzgerald uses her personal experience in setting up and running PMO’s, as well as managing programs and portfolios to help clients work out the quickest and easiest path for them to take to succeed.

Audrey Apfel is a Vice President and Research Fellow Emeritus in Gartner Research. Her primary focus area is project, program and portfolio management. She was previously a lead research analyst for Gartner’s Business Value of IT area, and a developer of the Gartner business Performance Framework ™ and the Gartner Total Value of Opportunity methodology. Ms. Apfel has also held business management positions at Gartner in Business Operations/PMO and Applied Research Products.

Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Apfel held several positions at IBM including product and system development, business planning and systems integration services. She started her career at Bell Laboratories, developing and supporting data network architectures. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in enterprise business and IT environments.

Jim Duggan is a Gartner Research vice president, focusing on application development. He covers tools and methodologies for analysis, design, quality assurance, and software configuration and change management. He has focus areas in application portfolio management and software change and configuration management.

Bio
Mr. Duggan has more than 28 years of experience in the IT industry. He has played both the consumer and provider role in several generations of IT products. He developed products, developed marketing plans for products, and deployed technology in large corporations. This led to a series of jobs where he has applied this broad perspective to product and business development, and most recently to the analysis of the prospects of technology equities.

Joseph Feiman, Ph.D., is a research vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research. Mr. Feiman focuses on applications' security: technologies and methodologies enabling secure software life cycle, data privacy, security of large systems and packaged applications, legacies, SOA, Web 2.0, and security as a service.

Bio
Mr. Feiman's research earned him a Gartner Thought Leadership Award for two consecutive years — 2003 and 2004. In 2007 he became Gartner Fellow. His background includes system and application programming, research and development, and management and consulting. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Feiman was manager of advanced technologies at American Greetings.

Role/Responsibility
Michael von Uechtritz is a research director for Gartner. His primary area of coverage is consulting and system integration in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Bio
At Hewlett-Packard Services, Mr. von Uechtritz led local, regional and worldwide strategy, marketing, merger/integration and cross-functional projects. Beginning in 1996, he managed sales development and technical teams. Positions included executive marketing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, worldwide warranty manager, channel manager and business development manager.

Mr. von Uechtritz also has three years of experience as an independent consultant and trainer for networking technologies, security and IT controlling.

Teresa Jones is a senior research analyst in the enterprise software team within the Technology & Service Provider Research organization. She is responsible for studies on the application development and integration markets, with a focus on Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Bio
Before joining Gartner, Ms. Jones worked for a U.K.-based analyst company as the lead analyst for enterprise applications. She also wrote and spoke extensively on integration and service-oriented architecture.