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	Gene Leganza Vice President, Research Director

Research Coverage

Technical Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Government, Governance, Risk, & Compliance, Security & Risk, IT Strategic Planning, Information Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Domains, Application Architecture, Financial Services, IT Strategy, Planning, & Governance, IT Management

Research Focus

Gene serves Enterprise Architecture professionals. He leads the team that provides research and advisory services that address the needs of EA professionals. Gene has been researching best practices in making enterprise architecture programs effective since 1999.

Previous Work Experience

Gene has more than 25 years of IT experience, including enterprise architecture planning, infrastructure architecture, IT management, performance management, capacity planning, product strategy, and application development. Gene came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, he was director of infrastructure architecture and capacity planning at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston. Previously, he held senior IT positions at First Data Corporation and Fidelity Investments, as well as development and marketing management positions at leading software firms.
He has published dozens of papers on various topics and has spoken at a variety of conferences in the US and abroad.

Education

Gene earned a B.A. in psychology and music from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.