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David Foote has long been an IT industry research pioneer and one of North America's leading analysts tracking, analyzing, and reporting on IT management trends and workforce compensation practices. A frequently cited authority on global IT labor and workforce issues and the 'execution' side of managing IT organizations and capabilities, he has been highly regarded by practitioners and IT insiders alike for two decades as a thought leader and keen predictive trends analyst advising companies on high impact IT/business partnership. A popular opinion columnist, conference speaker, and social media communicator, his contributions appear regularly in dozens of online and print publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek and Forbes, to CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Information Week, Network World, and World at Work(HR); in appearances on television and National Public Radio, and on podcasts and numerous blogsites. David's research-backed analyses and forecasts of IT market behavior and management trends reach a weekly global audience of business and technology professionals. CEO and Chief Research Officer of Foote Partners since 1997, David leads a senior team of experienced former McKinsey & Company, Gartner, META Group, and Towers Watson analysts and consultants and former HR, IT, and business executives. His firm publishes more than 140 quarterly-updated IT benchmark and market trends reports supported by continuous surveying involving 101,250 IT professionals at more than 2,000 research partner employers in 84 US and Canadian cities. Benefitting from Foote Partners deep proprietary research foundation, the firm publishes the IT Insider series which includes the industry's most innovative and comprehensive IT salary and skills, IT management and workforce trend research, and market forecasts, enjoyed by more than 1,600 organizations on six continents. The firm's IT Skills and Certifications Pay IndexTM is the oldest (1998) and most comprehensive survey of premium pay and market demand forecasting for nearly 500 IT skills and certifications. An IT compensation research innovator, David created and published the first survey-based IT compensation research in the U.S. that defined and benchmarked emerging new breed" information management positions in Unix and NT engineering and Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence (1994); Web, e-Commerce, and Business Technology (1995); and SAP (1998). David built his early reputation as an analyst at Gartner and META Group working primarily with CIOs, including co-founding META's executive service for Chief Information Officers and creating the firm's IT Human Capital Management and Compensation research practices. Before this he held executive and management positions with technology and consumer products companies in the San Francisco Bay Area before joining a Silicon Valley based consulting firm, where he worked for six years advising trailblazing exceptional growth high technology companies on innovative business and product strategies and solutions. David received his BA from Vassar College and MBA from Cornell University's Johnson School of Management, with additional coursework at Cornell's Graduate School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He completed post-graduate studies in business innovation and business creativity at Stanford University's Graduate School of Management.