About Us
Experts that are Independent, Authoritative, and Opinionated.
The Field CTO is an advisory services firm. We specialize in providing content production, customer advisory, assessment workshops, vendor tool assessment, and product advisory services.
Our analysts are specialists in the emerging tech areas and are well known for their research and analysis of emerging technologies, strategic advisory and customer advisory. Our experts have spoken at many conferences, analyst briefings, and vendor events. As part of the engagement, they may get paid for travel, expenses and time. This never influences our judgement, decision and recommendations. We try to be fair and neutral while making customer advisory/recommendations.
Reach us at info@thefieldcto.com or from the contact us page above. We would love to help you.
Advisor - Andy Thurai
The Field CTO is founded by Andy Thurai. Thurai is an accomplished IT executive, strategist, advisor and evangelist with 25+ years of experience in executive, technical and architectural leadership positions at companies such as IBM, Intel, BMC, Nortel and Oracle; he advises many start-ups; and he is a Steering Committee Member for AIOps Exchange. He has been a keynote speaker in many major conferences, as well as host of many webcasts, podcasts and video chats. He is a regular Harvard Business Review and Forbes contributor, and has written 100+ articles on emerging technology topics for publications such as Forbes, AI World, VentureBeat and Wired. Andy Thurai can be reached on Twitter at @AndyThurai, or on LinkedIn. He can also be reached on email at andy @thefieldcto.com
Managing Analyst - Joe McKendrick
Joe McKendrick is an author, researcher and speaker exploring innovation, information technology trends and markets. He is a contributor and analyst for Forbes. He is also a regular columnist for ZDNet, and also a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Database Trends & Applications, and Real-Time Insights. He is also recognized as a top 10 influencer by Onalytica for AI & Digital Experience.
Much of his research work covers topics including AI (artificial intelligence), ML (Machine Learning), cloud computing, digital transformation, and big data analytics. Joe’s profile can be found at @joemckendrick or on email at joe @thefieldcto.com
Forbes Articles – http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/
ZDNet Articles – https://www.zdnet.com/blog/service-oriented/
Contributing Analyst – Jennifer Stirrup
Jennifer Stirrup is an AI, BI, and data strategy expert. She is a Fortune 100 global speaker, and has been named as one of the Top 50 Global Data Visionaries, one of the Top Data Scientists to follow on Twitter and one of the most influential Top 50 Women in Technology worldwide. She is an award-winning and internationally recognized digital transformation influencer.
She holds postgraduate degrees in AI and Cognitive Science. Jen has authored 3 books in data and artificial intelligence.
Jenn can be reached at jenn @thefieldcto.com
Managing Director - Scott Volkers
Scott Volkers is an accomplished IT executive, strategist, and practitioner with 30+ years of experience working in a variety of business segments from finance, logistics, government, and manufacturing. An evangelist with a passion for cloud, AI, ML, and other bleeding-edge technologies. Digital transformation, Cloud, Observability, SRE, AIOps, and DevOps are his expertise and practice areas.
He can be found on LinkedIn Scott Volkers or can be reached at scott@thefieldcto.com
Contributing Analyst – Sam Adebayo
Samuel Adebayo is a Harvard-trained tech entrepreneur, tech enthusiast, tech writer/journalist, and an executive ghostwriter. He has 10+ years of experience covering various tech news stories, writing thought leadership blogs, reports, datasheets, and case studies. His areas of expertise include cybersecurity, AI, ML, DevOps, blockchain, metaverse, and big data for C-level executive audiences. He has written for several publications, including VentureBeat, RSI Security, NWTechs, Draft.dev, Codecov, Teleport, Doppler, HotCars, and many more.
He can be reached at sam @thefieldcto.com
