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Jason Chapman

Managing Vice President

Jason Chapman is a Managing Vice President within Gartner's IT Sourcing, Procurement & Vendor Management research practise, where he leads a global team of analysts focused on infrastructure and communication services.

Prior to his current role, he was part of the Technology and Service Provider practise where he managed a team focused on personal technologies and data centre infrastructure markets.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Chapman worked for Alcatel Lucent as a Marketing Manager where he provided assistance to incumbent and new mobile network operators in developing market-entry and longer-term strategies for applications and services.

Before this, he was a product manager within their wireless infrastructure division. Previously, he spent time at Celoxica an FPGA start-up company and worked for Vodafone as a project manager and a network engineer.

He has more than 30 years of experience in the industry, gained from working for an infrastructure supplier, a start-up and communications service provider.

Professional background

Alcatel Lucent

Marketing Manager

Celloxica

Alliances Manager

Vodafone Group

Project Manager

Areas of coverage

Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management Leaders

IT Services and Solutions

IT Contracts Negotiations

Education

B.Sc., Electronic Engineering, University of Wales, Bangor, With Honors

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

1End Users and Vendors: High-level overview of our infrastructure and communication services.

2End Users and Vendors: Better understand and gain insight into research methodologies.

3End Users and Vendors: Best ways to work with our analysts.

4End Users and Vendors: Understanding the key industry trends around IT hardware.

5End Users and Vendors: Research methodology and processes.