Internet of Things

As Research Vice President of 451 Research's Internet of Things practice, Christian Renaud covers the ongoing virtualization and digitization of the physical world around us. For 25 years prior to joining 451 Research, Christian built nationwide networks at large and small enterprises, worked with Fortune 50 companies in the systems integrator channel, built products at Cisco Systems and ran the company's New Markets and Technologies team.

Rich Karpinski is Research Director for 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things survey and advisory offering. In that capacity, Rich tracks, analyzes and anticipates the pace and direction of IoT adoption, overseeing 451’s quarterly survey of IoT adopters.

Ian Hughes is a Senior Analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He has more than 27 years of experience in emerging technology as a developer, architect and consultant through key technology trends. Ian has 20 years of experience at IBM in cross-industry application development. This included automotive, global sporting events, retail and telecoms.

Mark Fontecchio is an analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He covers horizontal IoT technology, as well as focusing on the commercial transportation vertical. Previously, he was the M&A Research Manager at 451 Research, where he helped direct the firm's coverage of technology mergers and acquisitions, and its M&A KnowledgeBase.

Eric Hanselman is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research. He has an extensive, hands-on understanding of a broad range of IT subject areas, having direct experience in the areas of networks, virtualization, security and semiconductors. He coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of 451 Research disciplines. The convergence of forces across the technology landscape is creating tectonic shifts in the industry, including SDN/NFV, hyperconvergence and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Vice President Brian Partridge leads 451 Research's mobility coverage, including the Internet of Things, Enterprise Mobility and Mobile Telecom Channels. In this role Partridge has overall responsibility for the mobility team's syndicated and custom research services. As a researcher he contributes to machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things (IoT) research along with a number of additional topics in the telecom and enterprise mobility domains.

As an Analyst in 451 Research’s Information Security Channel, Patrick Daly covers emerging technologies in Internet of Things (IoT) security. His research focuses on different industrial disciplines of IoT security, including the protection of critical infrastructure, transportation and medical devices. In addition, Patrick’s coverage spans technological domains, including security for IoT devices, applications, platforms and networks.

As Research Manager, Leika Kawasaki oversees the development and maintenance of the company's Global Internet of Things (IoT) Market Monitor service and contributes to other Market Monitor portfolio service lines. The Market Monitor provides market sizing, share and growth forecasts for emerging enterprise technology markets including IoT, cloud computing, cloud-enabling technologies, big data, OpenStack and hosting/service providers.