James Governor

James is Principal Analyst and founder of RedMonk. He leads coverage in the enterprise applications space, assisting clients with application development, integration middleware and systems management issues, as they relate to operational and business process optimization.

Before RedMonk he spent three years at Illuminata, Inc., where he led both the Application Strategies and Enterprise Management practices at the firm. He worked with both vendor clients, to establish product development and marketing strategies, and as an advisor on IT strategy to user organizations and service providers. James managed other analysts at the firm to ensure timely delivery of reports and custom research projects.

He joined Illuminata from InformationWeek UK, where he was deputy managing editor.

Before InformationWeek he worked at Computing, the UK's leading enterprise title. As a reporter he specialized in systems management, application middleware, and legacy operating environments, working closely with IT managers and vendors to identify and break exclusive news stories.

James has been an IBM and Microsoft corporate watcher for 8 years. He's regularly quoted in US and European press, and has served as an industry expert for television and radio segments with media outlets like the BBC.

Stephen O'Grady

Stephen is a Senior Analyst and co-founder, and addresses the full spectrum of enterprise applications from development to deployment, including open source, operating systems, application languages and platforms, and database technologies.

Before setting up RedMonk, Stephen assisted in building out the Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Portal knowledge set at Illuminata by drawing on his real world expertise in designing, architecting and implementing ECM and Portal solutions for leading systems integrators. Prior to joining Illuminata, Stephen served in various senior capacities with large systems integration firms like Keane and boutique consultancies like Blue Hammock.

Regularly cited in publications such as the New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal, and a popular speaker and moderator on the conference circuit, Stephen's advice and opinion is well respected throughout the industry.

Michael Coté

Coté is an analyst at RedMonk covering enterprise software, specializing in systems management, application development, collaborative, and social software.

Before Redmonk, Coté worked at BMC developing the BMC Performance Manager family of enterprise systems management products. As a senior member of the team, Coté constantly balanced customer need and desire, innovative development, and shipping quality product on time.

Prior to BMC, Coté worked at a wide variety of tech companies and startups such as The Cobalt Group, Coral Technologies, and one of the first, and still thriving, online banking companies, FundsXpress.

In addition to focusing on shipping product, Coté spent much of his time at previous organizations specifying and improving development and collaborative processes. At each company, he quickly became a thought leader in not only the product's development, but also the use of technologies such as wikis, weblogs, RSS, search, and other collaborative and social ideas and software. Before starting his RedMonk weblog, PeopleOverProcess.com, he shared much of his experience on his weblog DrunkAndRetired.com and in his weekly podcasts.