Gartner Expert

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Conner spent 6 years in the start-up company VHX and its subsequent acquirer Vimeo, focused on leveraging data to inform product teams, managing feature development, and growing the business. He directly advised both GM and CEO roles to identify market trends and evaluate opportunities for increased revenue by defining product and solution strategy. He also advised product marketing on go-to-market strategy, including resource allocation and attribution, market segmentation, and messaging.

Before that he was an independent film producer for 4 years while attending NYU Stern School of Business and Tisch School of the Arts as a dual degree student. In that program, he worked to develop films, shorts, and web series for Fortune 100 companies and major entertainment and media brands.

Prior to NYU, Forest worked as a developer at Cisco Systems, Inc in the Unified Communications business unit, focused on the development of the Contact Center Express product.

Cisco Systems, Inc., Software Developer, 4 years

Vimeo, Head of Enterprise Growth Strategy, 6 years