Dale Kutnick is Senior Vice President, Emeritus, and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. His primary responsibilities are working with CIOs and senior business leaders to help them better manage and exploit technology and information to drive business transformation and enablement. From 2007 to 2013, Mr. Kutnick was global leader of Gartner's Executive Programs, which more than doubled its contract value and dramatically enhanced customer engagement during that period. He is a regular speaker at Gartner events, and he works directly with numerous CIOs and senior executives on IT-enabled business initiatives and strategies. Mr. Kutnick joined Gartner in 2005 following the company’s acquisition of META Group where he was co-founder, chairman of the board and research director. During Mr. Kutnick’s tenure, the company quadrupled revenues and was profitable for 19 consecutive quarters. Before co-founding META Group, Mr. Kutnick was executive vice president of research with Gartner and an executive vice president at Gartner Securities. Prior to joining Gartner, he was executive director and research director at Yankee Group, a technology research and consulting firm, and a principal at Battery Ventures, a venture capital firm. He previously served on the board of directors of First Albany Corp. and its successor, Broadpoint Securities (BPSG), as well as on the IT Advisory Board of Danbury Hospital and the Clinical Advisory Board of Sanofi-Aventis. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Board of the World Food Program, and the Board of i.c. Stars (Chicago). Mr. Kutnick is a graduate of Yale University (U.S.). He is secretary of the Dale and Laura Kutnick Foundation, which contributes funds to nonprofit education, medical, and socially responsible causes.