Analyst Profile

Neil Rickard

VP Analyst

24 years at Gartner , 35 years industry experience
United Kingdom

Roles and Responsibilities

Neil Rickard is a Vice President in Gartner Research. Mr. Rickard provides coverage of networking issues to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He focuses on WAN technologies, equipment and vendors, as well as data-oriented carrier services. His coverage includes hybrid WANs, SD-WAN, enterprise vCPE, SDN and NFV services, IP VPNs, MPLS, Ethernet WAN services and application-fluent networking, as well as voice-data convergence and network sourcing.

Neil Rickard's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

Vendor Rating: Vodafone
17-Jun-2021
How to Choose the Correct Network Operations Model for Your Enterprise
24-Mar-2021
Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global
02-Mar-2021

Background

Previous Experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Rickard was responsible for business development with service provider customers at Cisco Systems. His previous experience in the networking industry has included technical and marketing roles with StrataCom, Nortel, Timeplex and Marconi. Overall he has more than 20 years of networking industry experience.

Professional Background

Cisco Systems, Marketing Manager, 1 year
Nortel, Product Marketing Manager, 2 years
StrataCom, Marketing Manager, 4 years

Education

B.S., Physics, Nottingham University, Honors

Languages

English

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11 November 2020
The Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for 2020 Gartner’s 12th annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 has additional resonance in a year that revealed the strengths and shortcomings of healthcare supply chains. CSCOs can use the lessons from this research to build stronger supply chains, improve patient outcomes and control costs.
2 May 2019
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5 August 2021
Cloud Native & Multicloud – Buzzwords or Key Principles for Your Cloud Strategy? EDT: 10:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00
New concepts such as cloud-native and multicloud increasingly show up as principles in organizations’ cloud strategies. They can be instrumental in unlocking the power of cloud, but they also can further confuse IT leaders. This complimentary webinar aims to clear up that confusion by looking at the role of cloud-native and multicloud in formulating pragmatic cloud strategies.

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Finance Executives' Key Role in Integrated Business Planning EDT: 10:00 a.m. | BST: 15:00

There has been a frequent lack of cross-functional collaboration in the planning cycle. This has resulted in multiple financial plans that focus on maximizing departmental goals instead of aligning with the enterprise-wide business strategy. Finance executives can play a key role in enabling the needed collaboration. This complimentary webinar provides CFOs and financial planning & analysis (FP&A) executives with a framework to define the role finance can play in product, commercial and supply chain planning to enable an integrated business plan for the entire organization.

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Analyst Profile

Neil Rickard

VP Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

Neil Rickard's Recent Gartner Activity

Latest Research

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Professional Background

Education

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