Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in software, services and eCommerce strategies, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business/IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and eBusiness management strategies. Previous to this, Mr. McNee headed up Gartner's Product Strategy organization, after successfully creating, launching and managing a number of profitable new research and consulting products, including the Industry Trends and Directions (ITD) and Software Asset Management (SAM) services. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world.

In 2000, Mr. West joined Saugatuck as an early co-founder after leaving Gartner, Inc., where he served as Vice President and Research Director.  At Gartner, Mr. West researched a wide range of information technologies, advising thousands of client companies and consulting to hundreds of leading vendors and IT groups in over two dozen countries worldwide.  In 2004-5, Mr. West spent a year in Washington , D.C. at the Corporate Executive Board as Practice Manager of the Information Risk Executive Council, before returning to work at Saugatuck and re-focusing his interests on Software-as-a-Service and SOA. 

Mr. West has over twenty years experience in Information Technology at John Hancock, Fidelity Investments, Apple Computer, and Gartner.  He is a frequent speaker at conferences and other industry events on a wide range of topics concerning technology and business strategy. He has written and presented research on information management, data administration, applications development, application integration, object technology, client/server architectures, graphical user interface and usability strategies, web site development and Internet applications, network computing, electronic commerce, portals, hubs and communities.

Mr. West has an A.B. from Williams College , M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and M.B.A. from the Boston College Graduate School of Management.  He has taught IT Strategies in M.B.A. programs at the Boston College Graduate School of Management and at the Haas School of the University of California at Berkeley.
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Prior to Saugatuck Technology, Andrew Jeffs was the Senior Vice-President of Business Development with 3SIX0 Advisors. Andrew’s expertise in sales and marketing effectively positioned him to work with clients across multiple industries. Earlier in his career, Andrew worked for over 10 years with Gartner, a leading research, advisory, and consulting firm. In his role, Andrew focused his efforts on maintaining and growing Gartner’s research and consulting revenue into small, medium, and large enterprises across multiple industries. Andrew specialized in working with technology firms, related to growth strategies. In his career at Gartner, Andrew’s role migrated from a regional role to a global account management role, with focus on key global accounts. He started his career at Lanier Corporation, with a responsibility to grow sales and revenues of document management solutions and services.

Andrew has extensive experience working with firms in the hardware, software, telecom, wireless, and technology services areas. As needed, he provides support for projects, related to business, product, and go-to-market strategy.

Ms. Beckham has more than 20 years of specialized research and consulting experience in the areas of Information Technology, telecommunications services, and business strategy development. Prior to Saugatuck, Ms. Beckham was Vice President and Counsel at USA Research, a custom research and consulting firm, where she advised clients based in the U.S., Europe, and Japan on a wide variety of issues related to Internet technologies, software trends, telecommunications services, and evolving business strategies. Earlier in her career, Ms. Beckham practiced environmental and public utilities/ telecommunications law and was awarded several research fellowships.

Ms. Beckham has a B.A. from Wellesley College, a J.D. from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, and an LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
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Frank Sempert is an Advisory Board Member for Saugatuck Technology, helping to guide the overall growth of Saugatuck’s services in Europe . In addition, Mr. Sempert will lead the firm’s business development efforts in Central Europe, with a focus on Germany , Austria and Switzerland .

Since 2002, Mr. Sempert has been an independent Management Consultant, advising a variety of both small and large European technology providers concerning sales & marketing strategies, setting up off-shore development, identification and selection of venture investors, and occasionally acting as an interim CEO.  He is a very active board member for the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) in Germany .

From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Sempert created and ran a Frankfurt-based company, SEC Consulting AG, initially specializing in Y2K and Euro projects, later in Post Merger Integration Management. Prior to this, he built up and headed Gartner Group’s Central European operation for more than five years, after a position as Managing Director of Central Europe for Informix. Still earlier in his career, Mr. Sempert held various executive leadership and sales and marketing positions with Olivetti, WANG Germany, Ericsson Information Systems and Teamco.

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