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Chris Meering

Sr Director Analyst

Chris Meering is a Senior Director Analyst at Gartner's Tech Product Manager team within the Technology and Service Providers research unit. Mr. Meering's research deals with product management across various technology domains, with a special focus on best practices in product life cycle management and product leadership, planning, development, and introduction. He is an experienced Telecommunications/Information Technology professional with over 30 years of Operational, Consulting and Business/Product Development experience.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Meering spent 7 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) where he worked within the Communication Media Solutions business unit as Product Solution Offering and Go-To-Market Lead for elements of the HPE IoT portfolio.

His role at HPE included working closely with the multiple Product Life Cycle Managers to ensure that the repeatable propositions developed and met customer and market requirements; defining product and solution strategy, focusing on market analysis including industry themes/trends and working with other HPE business units and partners; increasing market awareness of the HPE IoT portfolio with a particular focus on the platform market; supporting the development of an ecosystem of partners and channels, and shape and support IoT/M2M deals within Telco and other Industry verticals. While in this role he also held a senior role within oneM2M, an IoT industry standards global standards initiative.

Mr. Meering also spent 10 years at Capgemini helping clients to develop/launch new product offerings as well as implementing new applications and best practices, as well as 14 years with the Telecommunications industry.