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Jason Bremner is the Director, Outsourcing Services for IDC Canada Ltd. Mr. Bremner helps clients understand the changing Canadian outsourcing industry enabling them to compete more effectively. In addition to tracking large vendors like IBM Global Services, EDS and CGI, Mr. Bremner also follows specific outsourcing areas including business process outsourcing, application outsourcing and IT utility services.

Prior to joining IDC Canada, Mr. Bremner held various sales and marketing roles at Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd. and Netron Inc. Mr. Bremner holds a MBA in Science and Technology from Queen’s University, a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, and a Diploma of Computer Systems Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Marianne Kolding is a director in IDC's European Services Research group, based in London. She leads the practices responsible for IDC's European research on application solution services, competitive insights, and infrastructure services. Her research responsibilities cover a wide variety of topics, but current hot research areas are focused on strategic changes in the services market, services ecosystems and offshore outsourcing. Kolding is part of IDC's Global Offshore Outsourcing group. She is often engaged in custom projects on a variety of subjects and frequently takes on speaking engagements, both for IDC conferences and seminars and on behalf of clients. Kolding is often quoted in the press and are on occasion provides comments for radio and TV.

Kolding has been in the IT research industry for eleven years. Prior to this, she held various positions with IBM. She holds a master's degree in international marketing and international trade from Aarhus Business School in Denmark. Her background and experience ensure a broad understanding of issues affecting the IT services marketplace, its players, and its customers.

As Associate Director, Asia/Pacific Services, Philip Hassey, is responsible for leading IDC’s research in the Services marketplace across the region. Based in Sydney, he provides highly valued advice and insight into industry trends, opportunities and competitive environments.

Mr. Hassey’s leads a large team of analysts who cover the broad range of IT related services, from Support, to consulting and integration and the rapidly growing outsourcing market. In addition, he has a particular research focus on Offshore service delivery, Utility/On Demand services and BPO.

Prior to being appointed to this role, Mr. Hassey spent three years as the lead analyst for IDC's Asia/Pacific outsourcing research, providing clients with significant insight across the full spectrum of outsourcing related services.

Mr. Hassey is a regular contributor in leading IT and business related publications and broadcast media in Asia/Pacific, including the Sydney Morning Herald, South China Morning Post, CNBC and CIO. He regularly provides his insights and expertise at a wide variety of workshops, presentations and conferences across the Asia/Pacific region for the end-user and vendor community alike.

Prior to IDC, Mr. Hassey had a significant amount of experience in corporate strategy, marketing and research at Accenture, where he led their Worldwide Government Market Intelligence team and Lend Lease where he was ultimately responsible for their global research in shopping center development.

Mr. Hassey graduated from the University of New South Wales with an Honors Degree in Applied Science with a major in Applied Economic Geography. He is currently completing an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management

Mr. Tapper manages IDC’s IT Outsourcing and Utility Services (ITOUS) research program. In this position, he provides market analysis, commentary, and client support on companies that provide IT outsourcing services to customers. His coverage areas include traditional datacenter outsourcing; network and desktop management and outsourcing; and various flavors of “managed” services including, what is commonly referred to as, "managed" Web hosting. In addition, ITOUS follows the current shift in the market toward the delivery of utility computing or “on-demand” services.
In addition to following the IT outsourcing and utility services market, Mr. Tapper manages IDC's Global Offshore Services (GOS) program. As part of this research, he provides market analysis and commentary on issues and trends involving the move of IT and business services to offshore locations at a global level as well as how both established global players and offshore competitors are leveraging offshore strategies.
Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Tapper served as a Product Manager and Database Manager at Yankee Publishing, Inc. Mr. Tapper earned a Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Rochester.

Pradeep is an Engineer from IIT Delhi (1975) and an MBA from IIM Calcutta (1977).

He is the CMD of Cyber Media India Ltd., India's leading niche media company which publishes 9 publications in India including Dataquest, PCQuest, Voice & Data Living Digital and BioSpectrum with a combined reader base of 1.4 million. CyberMedia is an integrated media company with presence in Market Research, Multimedia, Events, Online Portals, Education, TV and Media BPO services.

Pradeep is also the founder Director of SQL Star International and General Partner of Infinity Ventures. He is also the past Chairman of e-Gurucool. He is on the Board of Kaleidoscope Entertainment and is a Charter Member of TiE, Delhi.

He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Delhi.

H.R. Shiever is the Managing Director of Citrix Online for the Pacific Region. He has over 10 years of extensive experience in the software industry working and living throughout the region. He is now focusing his energies on defining a new remote access market niche in Asia Pacific. By bringing Citrix Online’s revolutionary remote access solutions and ASP business model to regional enterprises, Citrix Online is enabling them to improve customer satisfaction, raise productivity, lower costs and compete more effectively in the global marketplace.