Neil Barton
Neil Barton is an industry practitioner who specialises in benchmarking performance at corporate IT departments.  As Benchmarking & Competitive Pricing Manager at Hewlett-Packard Services, he manages the processes through which benchmarks are used to govern the price of multi-year IT outsourcing contracts.  He has previously worked for the three major benchmarking consultancies, Gartner Group, Compass, and META Group.  His early career was spent in development of IT systems from theatre ticketing to railway signalling.  He was also Technical Marketing Director for an IT vendor in Silicon Valley before moving into consultancy.  He spoke at ECITE in 2002 and is the author of Fair Market Price, the definitive paper on contractual benchmarking. 

Neil Barton

Dr Dan Remenyi:
Dr Dan Remenyi is a Visiting Professor in Information Systems Management at the School of Systems and Data Studies at Trinity College Dublin and an associated member of Faculty at Henley Management College in the United Kingdom. His original academic interests are in the field of information systems management and he has researched and been published widely in that area.

Dan Remenyi

In recent years he has taken a strong interest in research methodology and the sociology of research. He now works extensively with research candidates and their supervisors at both doctoral and masters level. He conducts a number of seminars to topics related to improving effective academic research and obtaining better results. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books and some 50 academically refereed papers. He is published in all 4 of the A rated Journals in the United Kingdom in Information Systems Management. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Acta Commercii ( a general management journal) and the Journal of Information Technology. He is the editor of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation and advisor to a number of other electronic journals.