Brett
brings two decades of experience in the technology industry, in roles as a marketing and business development executive, consultant and industry analyst. As the founder and project lead at Absolutely Inc., Brett empowers Fortune 500 and start-up technology organizations with new products, services and solutions to cross the sales chasm from early adopters to widespread sales.
Previously,
Brett served as Senior Analyst at Gartner, where he covered enterprise applications,
information security, middleware, and infrastructure; and Director of Strategic
Marketing for a US$5 billion and growing enterprise solutions business at
Nortel Networks.
Brett began his career early, having a sales engineer job at a technology start up and a U.S. government security clearance before he was 21 years old. As a teenager, Brett worked as a sales engineer at start up Maynard
Electronics, which grew from a garage operation to US$50 million in annual
revenues. In college, Brett supported the U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command in
Crystal City, Virginia as a contractor from CASDE Corporation.
Brett
combines a strong technical foundation with proven
capabilities in marketing, solutions development, program and project management, partner management, and
global sales support.
For recommendations of his work, visit Brett’s profile on LinkedIn.
Born
and raised in the United States, Brett lived internationally for six years, in
Belgium, Japan, and Singapore, and has worked in over 30 countries. He has been
based in San Francisco since 2000.
Brett earned a BA in Government and Foreign Affairs with Honors and Phi Beta Kappa
from University of Virginia, where he was one of only seven students admitted
per year to a prestigious honors program. Brett completed a MA in
International Business with a certificate in Asian Studies from the University
of Pittsburgh. Brett’s MA degree was funded by a fellowship from the U.S. federal
government Department of Education.
When he’s
not trail running in the San Francisco Bay Area mountains or volunteering for
local charities, you’ll often find Brett at technology industry events. Brett
has chaired conferences in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific for many of
the world's leading conference organizers, including Gartner, Networld+Interop,
IIR, IBC, Upperside (Paris), and CommunicAsia. During 2007 and 2008, Brett
taught a series of technical training courses for HP Software University. Brett
presents regularly at vendor-sponsored internal sales and customer-facing
events.
Brett is editor of Big Data News, an online community for data warehousing, cloud computing, business intelligence and analytics. Major publications in the business and trade press have quoted Brett's insights, including BusinessWeek, USAToday, Wired, CIO Magazine, RedHerring, InfoWorld, Computer World, and national business newspapers in Asia and Europe. His TV appearances include MSNBC, NHK (Japan), and Fuji Television (Japan).
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