Keynote Speaker Advisor Author Digital Strategist
He has written 5 books and over 100 articles on information and communications technology, digital strategy, and digital transformation, and co-edited or contributed chapters to additional books from CRC Press, Springer, MIT Press, and Wiley.
He has spoken at nearly 450 events, keynoting audiences of up to 10,000 people on 6 continents, for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, ABB, AT&T, Akamai, (Nokia) Alcatel-Lucent, Autodesk, Avasant, BEA, CenturyLink, Charter / Spectrum Enterprise, Cheetah Mobile, Cisco, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, COLT, Credit Suisse, Dassault Systèmes, (Dell) EMC, EdgeConneX, EDJX, Equinix, the European Union, Flexential, Gartner, Hainan Airlines, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, IDC/IDG, IEEE, Intel, Microsoft, Milken Institute, Mirantis, NASSCOM, (Time Warner Cable) Navisite, Netscout, NTT, (Parallels) Odin, OpenText, Oppenheimer & Co, Pegasystems, Riverbed, SAP, SIBOS, Sonus, Telstra, Telx (Digital Realty), Tencent, the United Nations and UN International Telecommunications Union, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Postal Service, and scores of other companies and organizations.
He has contributed to the print or online content of the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CIO, InformationWeek, Entrepreneur, the New York Times, Wired, and others; contributed to various academic journals as author and reviewer; and was the editor of the cloud economics column for IEEE Cloud Computing magazine for 5 years.
He currently serves on the strategic advisory boards of EDJX, Syntropy Networks, Bit Trap, and RampRate, companies at the leading edge of technology focused on areas such as Internet routing, edge computing, cybersecurity, crypto / DAO, and sustainability.
He is also on the advisory boards of Pace University Lubin School of Business, Seton Hall Stillman School of Business, and the Pacific Telecommunications Council, as well as being a member of the IEEE Fog/Edge Industry Advisory Board, and Vice Chair of the IEEE 5G Industry Advisory Board.
He has been awarded 27 U.S. and international patents in areas such cloud computing, wireless and wireline networking and cellular telephony, distributed storage, media and gaming, Internet Search algorithms, homomorphic encryption, and consumer products.
He has been cited well over 1,000 times in academic / research papers, print and online trade and popular newspapers and magazines, broadcast and online television, financial analyst and industry analyst reports, TED talks, patents, and U.S. Supreme Court amicus curiae briefs.
This includes Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, Gartner Research Board, Forrester, Oppenheimer and Co., GigaOm, Forbes, InformationWeek, Valor Econômico, and over a hundred other publications.
Digital Disciplines explores four generic business strategies that leverage digital technologies such as cloud, edge, big data/AI/ML, IoT, and 5G. They include:
Cloudonomics is widely viewed as the seminal book on cloud and edge economics. It delineates and quantifies the strategic and economic value of cloud computing, clearly explaining the trade-offs between private and public clouds and hyperscale centralized vs. distributed edge architectures. It details: