Analyst Profile

Roles and Responsibilities

Chris Silva is a Vice President and Analyst and the Key Initiative leader for Gartner's Digital Workplace Infrastructure and Operations research team. He draws on his two decades' experience to analyse technology markets and translates that into business impacts to help IT leaders to build and create strategy for a digital workplace. Mr. Silva's research is focused on the role of modern (MDM) management for PCs and mobiles in one console; best practices for bring your own (BYO) device policies, tools and operations and the market for tools to manage SaaS applications. Mr. Silva regularly speaks at Gartner events, has been a featured speaker at multiple such as The Consumer Electronics Show (CES). He is frequently featured in print, radio and television media in outlets including CNN, National Public Radio (NPR) and in trade publications and major print media such as the Wall Street Journal. He lives and works outside Boston, MA. In his free time, if he's not fiddling with the device du jour, he's cooking and trying to spend as much time outside and on the water as possible.

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