Gartner Expert
Sally Parker
Sr Director Analyst
Sally Parker is a Research Director in Gartner's Data & Analytics CDO Leadership team. Areas of coverage include best practices in Governance, fostering a Data-Driven culture, Data & Analytics Strategies, and MDM. Ms. Parker has a keen interest in Privacy & Trust. Before her current position, she worked as an Executive Partner in Gartner's Executive Programs working 1-1 with Gartner's CIO/CISO clients.
Previous experience
Ms. Parker has over 25 years of IT experience. She joined Gartner in 2016. Prior to this, she was Research Director Enterprise Data Centre and later Research Director Data-Driven Intelligence. A regular keynote speaker across Asia on digital transformation and emerging technologies she was the author of associated research including IoT, privacy and trust. Prior to IDC, Ms. Parker held a number of senior IT positions with Red Hat, DEC-HP across U.S., Asia Pacific and Europe.
Professional background
IDC
Snr Director Analyst
Red Hat U.S.
Global Market Analysis and Strategy Director
Digital Equipment Corporation/HP
Software Engineer/Solutions Architect/Product Marketing Manager
Areas of coverage
Data and Analytics Leaders
Analytics, BI and Data Science Solutions
Data and Analytics Strategies
Education
Post Graduate, Strategic Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business (U.S.)
B.Sc., with honors, Computer Science and French (U.K.)
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Data-Driven Culture
2Securing buy-in to Data & Analytics Strategy
3Foundation & Futures of Information Governance
4Master Data Management (MDM) - Strategy-Pitfalls-Approaches