John Brand
Research Director
Hydrasight
John has 20 years' experience in IT and is widely regarded as one of Australia's top Internet and IT analysts. John spent five years as a senior vice president and industry analyst with global IT research firm, META Group.
John was a META Group lead analyst and subject matter expert in the areas of: enterprise content management, enterprise collaboration, digital asset management, and digital rights management. John also assumed the role of global lead analyst for the financial services and media and entertainment industries. While at the META Group, John advised and coached a range of Global 2000 organisations as diverse as the Australian and Singapore Departments of Defence, Centrelink, BHP Billiton, Shell, Bank Negara Malaysia, Johnson and Johnson, Coles Myer, Barclays Bank, McGraw Hill, McKinsey, OUB Bank, Proctor and Gamble, Cadbury Schweppes, Warner Music Group, and Singapore Health.
John has developed unique positions and published innovative research in the areas of: enterprise content management, document and records management, portals, business-to-business e-commerce, business-to-consumer e-commerce, online publishing, personalisation, workflow, business intelligence (focusing on information management maturity), content intelligence, and process integration. He is regularly invited to speak at industry events and is often quoted in the press around the globe.
Prior to joining META Group, John spent four years as Online Services Manager at leading Australian stockbroking firm, J B Were & Son, as well as four years with new media marketing firm, Empire Ridge, recognised by BRW as Australia's third fastest growing privately owned company in 1995 and fourth in 1996.
