About

Senior Analyst Jon Brown has 20+ years of experience in IT product management as well as a passion for marketing and product positioning.  

Jon was formerly Vice President, Market Insights at TechTarget, Enterprise Strategy Group’s parent company, and Publisher of TechTarget CIO, TechTarget IT Operations, and TechTarget Sustainability & ESG.

Prior to joining TechTarget and Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon held product, sales, and business management leadership roles at a variety of enterprise software firms. He holds a BA from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts and an MBA from The Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  

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Doug Cahill leads Enterprise Strategy Group’s team of industry analysts across all coverage areas. He is also the Practice Director for the company’s Cybersecurity & Networking practice.

Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Doug held executive leadership positions at cloud security and endpoint security firms where he launched market-leading products and established strategic partnerships. Over the course of his career, he has also served in product management, marketing, and business development roles for storage management, networking, and database vendors. Doug started his career in IT as a business analyst.

Doug has written for Dark Reading and The Cipher Brief and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, CRN, Network World, and CyberTrend, among others. He holds a BA in Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Practice Director Stephanie Corby has 20+ years of experience in IT product management, product marketing, publishing, and market research.

She is passionate about leveraging market-specific research and purchase intent data to provide technology vendors with personalized guidance on market penetration and B2B marketing best practices.

Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Stephanie was VP of Market Insights at TechTarget, Enterprise Strategy Group’s parent company, and Publisher of several online IT buyer communities, including TechTarget Customer Experience, TechTarget Unified Communications, and TechTarget Virtual Desktop.

Stephanie holds a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Principal Analyst John Grady uses his nearly 20 years of IT vendor and analyst experience to help clients identify and understand key market trends, refine their messaging, and be more successful in the marketplace.

Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, John spent four years at Symantec, where he was responsible for market insights and analytics supporting product, go-to-market, and executive stakeholders.

Previously, John worked as an analyst at IDC covering network, web, and email protection and leading initial research initiatives on then-emerging areas such as advanced threat prevention and DDoS protection. As an analyst, he has also focused on infrastructure channels, advising clients on indirect go-to-market strategies.

John has written for Dark Reading and has been quoted in Network World, CSO, eWeek, CRN, Silicon Angle, ITPro, SDX, HelpNet Security, and TechTarget, among others. He holds a BA in History from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Principal Analyst Dave Gruber helps product marketing and management leaders develop winning strategies in highly competitive markets.

Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Dave held executive leadership roles at successful endpoint and application security companies. Most recently, he was the VP of Product Marketing at Carbon Black through its IPO, and previously he was VP of Products at Black Duck Software (acquired by Synopsys) where he led product marketing and product management.

In his current analyst role, Dave researches CISOs’ and security teams’ most pressing needs, working together with endpoint, application, and email security vendors to develop successful product and go-to-market strategies, positioning, and messaging. Building on a strong technical background with early roles in enterprise application development, Dave became interested in figuring out why some products were more successful than others, which eventually led him to senior roles in software product management and product marketing.

Dave has appeared in Cybersecurity News, SC, InfoSecurity, TechRepublic, Dark Reading, RSAC, and ITPro Today, among others. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maine in Orono.

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Senior Analyst Gabe Knuth uses his experience as a practitioner, analyst, product marketer, and end-user computing (EUC) community leader to help organizations build successful go-to-market strategies.

The role of EUC and UCC has taken center stage for most organizations, and the influx of technology coupled with disruption among traditional EUC vendors has created a hyper-competitive market with lots of opportunities.

Over a career spanning 25+ years, Gabe has been an IT practitioner working with complex organizational structures on large-scale projects, and he has been involved with the EUC community as a respected blogger and speaker at industry events, user groups, and advisory board meetings. This background serves as the foundation for his analyst role at Enterprise Strategy Group, where he focuses on helping vendors take their products to market through multi-faceted campaigns that effectively communicate solutions to the increasingly complex challenges their customers face.

Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Gabe held marketing roles at prominent vendors such as FSLogix, Microsoft, and most recently VMware, where he led the GTM for VMware’s flagship desktop-as-a-service platform, Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. He has spoken at industry events such as Citrix Synergy, VMworld, VMware Explore, Microsoft Ignite, Igel Disrupt, XenAppBlog VirtualExpo, and EUC Masters Retreat. His writing has appeared on the VMware blog and the TechTarget network of sites (including BrianMadden.com).

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Principal Analyst Bob Laliberte focuses on existing and emerging network technologies and network performance management solutions utilized by enterprises and service providers.

He is particularly interested in software-defined architectures that are driving the next wave of network investments. Bob’s research spans from network trends for AI and network automation across data center, campus, wireless, and wide area networks to the adoption of multi-cloud networks and private 4G/5G networks.

In a career spanning 30+ years, Bob has held several senior management roles in marketing and product management for software and technology companies conducting business in the US and internationally. He shares straightforward and thought-provoking insights that have made him a popular resource for IT vendors and the media alike.

Bob has appeared in NetworkWorld, CIO, SDXcentral, Computerworld, SiliconAngle, HelpNet Security, ITPro Today, and TechRepublic, among others. He holds a degree in Physics from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Principal Analyst Mike Leone draws upon his enthusiasm for bleeding-edge technology and his engineering and marketing background to provide a unique perspective to enterprise technology vendors.

At Enterprise Strategy Group, Mike focuses on all things data, analytics, and AI. His passion shines through in helping organizations improve everything from go-to-market strategies and messaging to product development and content creation.

Mike has a strong technical background, with early roles in software and hardware engineering focused on future product feasibility, modeling, and performance. He gradually moved into roles that interfaced with marketing by helping translate deep technical concepts into understandable business benefits.

Mike has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, AIthority, Fox News, eWeek, BizTech, SDXcentral, Computerworld, DevOps, Datanami, Data Center Knowledge, CBR, and T_HQ, among others. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

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Practice Director Melinda Marks covers technologies that help organizations scale safely while adopting faster cloud-native development cycles.

With more than 20 years of experience in technology marketing and strategy, Melinda is passionate about conveying product value and differentiation and driving revenue.

Prior to joining Enterprise Strategy Group, Melinda was chief marketing and strategy officer for Soluble, a startup focused on automating application security testing for developers (acquired by Lacework). She was also VP of Marketing at Armorblox, VP of Marketing at Styra, and head of marketing for StackRox (acquired by Red Hat). Her experience includes running competitive/market intelligence and product marketing teams at Tenable and running global communications for four years at Qualys. She also spent many years at VMware, where she built its original customer reference program, led product PR, and was on the core planning team for VMworld since its inception.

Melinda is a Synopsys Outreach Foundation board member. She has appeared in CSO, TechCrunch, Dark Reading, The New Stack, VentureBeat, SC, and HelpNet Security, among others. Melinda holds a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California.

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As Enterprise Strategy Group’s regional director for analyst services in EMEA, Brian McKenna covers business applications, information management, and cybersecurity markets.

He is also the business applications editor at Computer Weekly, a publication of ESG’s parent company, TechTarget.

Prior to joining Computer Weekly, Brian was an editor at Infosecurity magazine. He has also edited academic journals in information science and computer security.

Brian holds a degree in History and English from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, England. He was a British Academy post-doctoral fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Oxford. He is also a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).