John Matthews (CEO at Comscient dot com)

Current

Council Member and GLG Educator at Gerson Lehrman Group
CEO and Founder at Comscient Group

Past

CRM Specialist/CTO/Co-founder/Owner at Fulcio Inc/FulcioCRM
Co-founder/Owner/Principal at INFACT Research - UK
Senior Industry Analyst (AI Systems and Intelligent Document Mgmt) at New Science Associates - UK/US (acquired by Gartner Group)

Senior Consultant at INFACT Ltd - UK
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Intelligent Decision Support Systems) at Inforem Ltd - UK (acquired by CSC)
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules/Expert Systems) at Data Logic Ltd - UK
Knowledge Engineer/Consultant/Trainer (Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules/Expert Systems) at Artificial Intelligence Ltd - UK (affiliated with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
Analyst/Programmer at British Steel (now Corus Group)
Pensions Clerk at Axa Sun Life - UK

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John Matthews (CEO at Comscient dot com)’s Summary

A highly experienced, results oriented consultant, IT practitioner and IT analyst/industry specialist, and entrepreneur with strong business acumen. The founder of Comscient Group, a technology and strategic research company that informs and advises business and IT top management decision makers, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

Experienced in leading small and large scale consulting, business planning, IT due diligence and strategic business research projects for clients across the globe, often with challenging deadlines and budgets.

• 25 years experience working in IT including as a business analyst, project manager, and developer/implementer of customer relationship management systems, financial industry applications, and developing applications using business rules management systems and emerging information technologies.

• 20 years experience as a IT analyst/industry specialist and IT due diligence consultant.

• 18 years experience as a business owner and business manager.

My clients have included:

• IT vendors and IT entrepreneurs needing a sounding board or seeking research for and advice on business strategy, technology strategy, sales and marketing, acquisitions and strategic alliances (locating and evaluating), and sales channels and go-to-market execution.

• technology venture capital firms seeking to locate and evaluate new investment and technology buy-out opportunities.

• strategy and IT management consulting firms requiring research and advice to support client engagement teams in advising their clients.

• senior executives and business owners seeking research for and advice on matters related to business-technology planning, high stakes IT decision making, business requirements analysis, vendor and IT due diligence, and IT acquisition (locating and evaluating solutions, RFI/RFP preparation and evaluation).

• IT marketing services firms seeking market research to incorporate into their clients' marketing campaigns.

John Matthews (CEO at Comscient dot com)’s Specialties:

Financial Sector, Media and Entertainment Sector, Technology Sector, Mobile, Entrepreneurial Sector, Strategic Research and Analysis, Business Planning, Software Selection and Acquisition, Business-To-Business Market Research, Futures Research, Technology Forecasting, Scenario Planning, Data Driven Decision Making, Technology Due Diligence, Commercial Due Diligence, Business Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, Management Education, Decision Making Facilitation, and User Research.

John Matthews (CEO at Comscient dot com)’s Experience

Council Member and GLG Educator

Gerson Lehrman Group

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

August 2008 — Present (3 months)

Financial & Business Services Council
CEO and Founder

Comscient Group

(Management Consulting industry)

2004 — Present (4 years)

I am the founder/owner of Comscient Group and a technology and strategic research consultant. I lead Comscient Group providing consulting services to clients. My clients are top tier global and niche strategy and management consulting firms, top tier and niche venture capital/private equity firms, technology end-users, and top tier global and start-up technology providers.

I help my clients research, analyze, and interpret the technology industry and marketplace relevant to their role enabling them to make informed and pragmatic best decision choices. This assists them in high stakes decision making, technology or vendor due diligence, or in business, technology, or sales and marketing planning...

The service I provide to clients helps them locate and make informed choices about or based on resources ranging from talent, vendors, business intelligence, investment opportunities, sales opportunities, strategic alliances, software solutions, market research, and business partners.
CRM Specialist/CTO/Co-founder/Owner

Fulcio Inc/FulcioCRM

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2006 — March 2007 (4 months)

Co-founder/Co-owner of Fulcio Inc., a startup provider of business-technology advisory, business analysis, and project management services to small and medium size businesses. FulcioCRM, a division of Fulcio Inc., is a customer relationship management (CRM) software consulting services and provider of On-Demand CRM application software as a service.
Co-founder/Owner/Principal

INFACT Research - UK

(Management Consulting industry)

1991 — 2004 (13 years)

I successfully led, managed and promoted INFACT Research to become a recognized European brand name in providing IT focused strategic research and advice to business and technology decision makers to do with CRM and financial services technologies. In addition, as the co-owner (and then latterly sole owner) and principle consultant I provided technology due diligence, strategic research and advised business and technology decision makers assisting them with IT selection and procurement, formulating long range IT plans and spending, IT-based business innovation, and other critical technology related business decisions. My clients included a number of the leading strategy and management consultancy firms, venture capital and private equity firms, and technology vendors and corporate technology users. I was also an editor and contributor to the INFORMA published Customer Relationship Technology in Finance monthly newsletter and a regular speaker on CRM in the Financial sector.
Senior Industry Analyst (AI Systems and Intelligent Document Mgmt)

New Science Associates - UK/US (acquired by Gartner Group)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1989 — 1991 (2 years)

Software industry analyst/writer I wrote European research for NSA newsletters and reports, and provided research and analysis consulting to NSA's European clients. New Science Associates was a U.S.-based IT analyst group providing subscription market research and consulting services on emerging information technologies. NSA was later acquired by the Gartner Group.
Senior Consultant

INFACT Ltd - UK

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1991 (less than a year)
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Intelligent Decision Support Systems)

Inforem Ltd - UK (acquired by CSC)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1987 — 1989 (2 years)

Consultant, interaction designer, data strategist, database designer, database modeler, and business analyst working on client engagements for a number of retail and capital markets financial services clients consulting on the application of artificial intelligence, business rules systems, database strategy and design, and interaction design. Including for trading decision support (Foreign Exchange and Options trading), AI- and rules- based automated electronic trading systems, rules-based personal financial planning systems and CRM/database marketing database development. While at Inforem, I consulted to a top tier global investment bank on developing decision support systems for a new type of fund being created called a Structured Investment Vehicle (SIV) kick starting a new multi billion dollar financial market. I also consulted to a large startup financial services organization on the selection, development and deployment of CRM and business intelligence systems.
Senior Consultant (Financial Sector: Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules/Expert Systems)

Data Logic Ltd - UK

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1986 — 1987 (1 year)

Consultant, interaction designer, and business analyst working on client engagements consulting on applications of artificial intelligence systems, software usability and user interface design, and software primarily for use in the military, and for use in financial services and capital markets (securities trading decision support and decision automation systems).
Knowledge Engineer/Consultant/Trainer (Artificial Intelligence and Business Rules/Expert Systems)

Artificial Intelligence Ltd - UK (affiliated with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1984 — 1986 (2 years)

I worked on client projects and new product development. I collaborated with teams at at AI Ltd's affiliate partner Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) on AI-based decision support systems including collaborating on the development of an interaction design software application called Trillium to assist the design and prototyping of user interfaces for industrial products such as photocopiers, VCRs etc. In addition, I worked as a consultant business analyst/knowledge engineer/cognitive task analyst including LISP programming and AI and object oriented programming working with clients in the office products and in the defense sectors. I was also a trainer for courses provided by AI Ltd to its clients and in addition was involved in developing new training courses and the development of new course material.
Analyst/Programmer

British Steel (now Corus Group)

(Mining & Metals industry)

1983 — 1984 (1 year)

Business Systems Analyst and COBOL programmer working on head-office mainframe-based payroll systems.
Pensions Clerk

Axa Sun Life - UK

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXA; Insurance industry)

1976 — 1979 (3 years)

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NY FinTech Meetup http://newtech.meetup.com/112/
Business Networking 2.0 Meetup http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/1330/
New York Social Computing Meetup http://socialsoftware.meetup.com/35/
Marketing 2.0 New York Meetup http://marketing.meetup.com/310/
Mobile 2.0 New York Meetup http://wifi.meetup.com/249/
NY Business Rules Technology Meetup http://newtech.meetup.com/98/
NY Technology Sales and Marketing Meetup http://newtech.meetup.com/99/
NY Business of Technology Meetup http://newtech.meetup.com/128/
New York Software Industry Association www.nysia.org,
NY Tech Meetup newtech.meetup.com/1/,
MobileMonday New York www.mobilemonday-ny.com,
New York City Usability Professionals Association www.nycupa.org/,
NYC Association of Business Process Management Professionals www.abpmp.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=56,
NextNY www.nextny.org,
swiftcommunity www.swiftcommunity.net,
BRCommunity www.brcommunity.com,
Finextra Community www.finextra.com/community