JT ThykattilVP & Research Director at Forrester Research, Inc.Speaker
Profile
JT leads the research team that serves professionals in enterprise architecture, digital workplace and IT delivery operations as well as coverage for Financial Services, Banking and fintech. His team’s research agenda informs and enables business results that demand optimized technology architecture and delivery discipline — driving alignment, trust, frameworks, and blueprints from practical field delivery experiences and services.
JT drives technology adoption, architecture and sales focusing on Cloud Architecture, Hybrid Data Center Technologies, High Performance Computing (HPC), FinOps, Cloud Economics, IT Technology Services, Corporate Development and Strategic Alliances. Experience includes serving as Director of Solutions Architecture at a Bain Capital Investments Private Analytics Firm, leading a team of seasoned professionals driving global solutions, sales and delivery. Customer Engineering at Google Cloud working with GSIs, ISVs and global Financial Services, Banking, Retail, Insurance, Private Wealth Management, Telecom, Manufacturing and Energy companies. Director of Solutions Engineering at Cox Communications, leading and mentoring a new business venture in Edge Computing and Cloud Managed Services Provider (MSP) Services. In addition, JT has held various architecture & engineering roles in financial services and capital markets at as an IT Architect at Citadel Securities, IT Manager and Architect at DRW Trading leading a team in high-performance, low-latency computing for automated trading systems in futures and commodities and 7x24 Trade Desk support operations, IT Architect at Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group), Charter Communications and as an IT Manager and Principal Architect at Exelon, a large energy company.