Gartner Expert

Mark Wesker is a Senior Director within Gartner's Technology and Service Provider (T&SP) organization. Mr. Wesker's research and advisory engagements serve company CEOs, and other members of the C-Suite, as well as product, marketing and sales executives. His advisory services assist companies in aligning products with markets, ecosystems with channels and business models with financing strategies. With a sharp focus on technology, he prioritizes mapping technical strengths to potential market opportunities.

He brings 25 years of experience as a high-tech executive in all aspects of the software business. From startups to IPOs to running a public company, his background includes a unique blend of software operations, financing, product/project management and marketing expertise, with particular strength in the gray space representing the intersection of business and technology.

Having worked in leadership positions in large and small tech product and services companies, he brings a well-rounded perspective to the challenges associated with succeeding in the technology business. He has written code, managed distributed, onshore and offshore development teams, transitioned a technology services firm into a software product company, raised tens of millions in venture capital, led an IPO road show and put together more desk and cube units than he can remember.

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