Peter is the Managing Director of Longhaus which he founded in 2006 following over a decade in international market research. He previously held Vice President level positions with the ICT industry’s leading NASDAQ listed Advisory and Consulting firms Gartner and META Group. As a respected industry analyst and commentator Peter has now worked for 18 years within the IT and media sectors where immediately prior to Longhaus he headed Forrester Research as the Australian and New Zealand Vice President for 2-years.

Peter's research work is now primarily focused on the application of technology in the Australian and Asia Pacific region. During his role at Longhaus he has continually pushed the company to new levels and was shortlisted as a Young CEO of the Year in 2008. He has held judging positions for the IBM Innovation Award for the Brisbane Lord Mayor's Business Awards since the same year. In 2009 Longhaus broke new ground by becoming the first commercialisation partner of the Queensland State Government for the publicaiton of ICT related asset data, which had previously only been used for ministerial and parliamentary cabinet reporting.

In 2010 Peter served a tenure as the Deputy Chairman of the International Program Committee for the World Computer Congress held in Australia and in the same year expanded Longhaus into China, and launched the internet television platform Longhaus Television which now attracts over 300,000 unique viewers each year throughout Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region.

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Prior to joining Longhaus Scott’s career spans 20 years within the Financial Services sector as programmer, consultant and long-serving CIO. He has held senior management and executive positions in both business (financial) and IT roles including most recently as CIO of one of Australia’s leading stock-broking firms, Wilson HTM Investment Group. His rich career experience provides him with a proven and pragmatic approach to enterprise technology strategy development, risk mitigation, and analytical market research.

Scott has recently emerged as a global thought leader in enterprise cloud computing adoption and brings with him an unparalleled practical and hands-on implementation experience. He maintains a prolific social computing profile in addition to making regular contributions to traditional industry publications and industry events as an in-demand and engaging public speaker.

Scott’s research covers a broad number of disciplines including cloud computing, emerging technologies, ICT strategy, the CIO role, and information management as well as the increasing impact of social media and mobile computing on the enterprise. Through Longhaus, Scott leverages a career of insight together with well researched methods, tools, techniques and a wealth of data to equip clients with the guidance and decisions to ensure maximum business value from their technology investments.

Scott has undertaken extensive industry and tertiary studies, including through the Harvard Business School in Boston, and a Doctoral Candidacy at the Queensland University of Technology. He was awarded the QUT 2009 Executive Dean’s award for outstanding academic excellence for achieving the highest grade point average and in the same year was accepted into the prestigious Golden Key International Honour Society.

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Juan is a senior analyst with Longhaus and specialises in systems and technical architectures, development platforms, and enterprise application business strategies. Prior to joining Longhaus in 2008 Juan worked in several international markets. He spent 10-years working in Colombia as a Business Analyst and Java Enterprise consultant where he was responsible for deploying enterprise-level solution architectures for both government, and private sector industries including telecommunications, power generation and healthcare.

A passionate technical architect, Juan provides Longhaus’ advisory clients with ongoing assistance in conducting routine project health checks, validating technical IT strategies in alignment with business requirements, and architectural analysis of enterprise solutions in complex IT environments. As well as being an industry analyst Juan is entrusted with the development of Longhaus’ own eBusiness and customer channel strategy. In this role he oversees ongoing innovation, collaboration and service excellence through the definition and implementation of Longhaus’ technology frame-work.

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Kristine is the co-founder and Operations Director of Longhaus. She is an expert in exploratory questioning and inquiry. Her exceptional research and interpersonal skills have been utilised through countless hours of legal investigation, interviewing, judicial court, debate, inquiry, submissions, and cross-examination. And she remains affable, gracious, and friendly despite it all.

With a background in advanced legal prosecutions, common law, and financial and legal forensics, she has spent 15-years in the pursuit of succinct, precise communication; in the court-room, on the telephone, on paper, in person, in the field. Kristine worked at senior levels in the public sector for over 10-years for Defence, and the ATO, collaborating with the Australian Federal Police, the Department of Public Prosecutions, and the AG's Department on several projects. Whilst with the Federal Government she worked closely with Edward DeBono, and Alan Pease on communication and body language seminars for State and Federal employees in Tasmania; a project driven by the Australian Taxation Office.  She also worked for accounting and advisory firm PKF, where she further honed her auditing skills.

Kristine studied Law, Business Studies and Commerce through the University of Tasmania and Leo Cussen Law Institute of Victoria. She also holds a Certificate in Workplace Training and Assessment.

David's research focus is in key software, services and management technology market segments including media, content management, and collaborative platforms. Since joining Longhaus in early 2007 he has provided support for the company's directional research agenda in the form of data collection and initial analysis, and is a key contributor to Longhaus' ongoing open source market analysis. David is also the Longhaus analyst and primary technical architect responsible for the development of both the Australian Tech Index and the Longhaus Consolidation and Outsourcing Readiness (CORE) Assessment research engines.

Prior to Longhaus, David was a researcher in the Microsoft eResearch Lab (MQUTer) at Queensland University of Technology. His research covered information retrieval, collaborative platforms and application development including the publication of five research papers in international journals and conferences. David is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He holds a Masters Degree in Information Technology from QUT, and a Masters Degree in Information Systems from Griffith University. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from Communication University of China.

After four years with Longhaus in Australia, David (Lei) is now based in Xi'An, China and leads Longhaus' north Asia research.

Tim May joined Longhaus with two bachelor degrees; one each in government and psychology. Previously he spent four years as a Business Systems Analyst in one of the Queensland Government’s largest software development organisations at the Department of Transport and Main Roads.

Tim’s three main areas of interest include: macro-economic theory; social and psychological analysis of technology use and government systems. With his social and psychological background Tim’s research focus includes how different generations use technology, new social interaction customs that are arising in social media, online identities and personas and the effects of social media on privacy.

When it comes to the public sector, Tim tracks the emerging trends in Government 2.0 and the ever increasing interaction between the government and the modern news media in Australia.

With a deep passion in applied technology innovation and entrepreneurship Shajyy brings a unique set of skills as business development and sales manager for Longhaus. In his role, Shajyy is responsible for overseeing the company’s business development operations spanning client relations, sales, marketing and project management for both government and technology organisations.

Shajyy holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Class 1A Honours in Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship and has achieved multiple Dean of Merit Awards including lifetime induction to the Golden Key International Honour Society reserved for the top 10% of university students. Shajyy leverages his diverse blend of experience which includes extensive volunteering through to providing consultancy advice to a number of technology starts-ups to work directly with Longhaus’ clients in order to produce successful business outcomes.

Sam was Research Director at Longhaus between 2007-2011. During that time he led the company's research agenda with a personal focus on enterprise architecture  (including  service-orientation and  information management),  the open  source market, enterprise applications and development, large-scale distributed systems, and ICT procurement within state and federal governments. He  co-author the development of the Longhaus Australian Tech Index^TM and Longhaus Pulse^TM research methods.

Sam was previously a Senior Analyst with Forrester Research’s Asia Pacific  team providing both a global and  local perspective  for Australia and New Zealand within the Enterprise Architecture, Application Development  and Infrastructure and Government  research groups. He has over 14-years experience  in both  the public and  private  sectors and has developed client-server, mainframe-centric, and distributed n-tier applications, both  in  traditional  IDE and model-driven environments.

Sam was  also  a major  thought-leader  behind  an  Information  and Communications  Technology (ICT)  planning method, associated architecture  practices,  and  governance model  for  which  he and his  team subsequently  received an Australia Day award  in 2005. Key elements of  this were adopted  as  best  practice  by  the  Queensland  Government’s  Office  of  Government  ICT  and  are now mandated across Queensland Government to assess existing ICT investments.

Sam holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the Charles Darwin University, where he majored in information systems and minored in marketing. Additionally, his knowledge of service-oriented architecture  is widely  recognized, and he was recently  invited  to be a contributing author on  the Paul Allen book Service-orientation:  Winning Strategies and Best Practices, which was released in April 2006 by Cambridge University Press.