Jack Brown

President and Chairman - A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Jack Brown has been in the IT advisory industry for a quarter of a century, and has been involved in the formation and growth of many of the major consulting and advisory firms in the industry.

After serving as the principal sales and marketing executive for the Yankee Group in the early 80’s, he subsequently founded Compete Technologies, a firm designed to offer competitive analysis and benchmarking in the Technology marketplace.

In 1988 Mr. Brown moved on to co-found the Meta Group, which became an industry-leading alternative to the Gartner Group in providing insightful trend analysis to the IT community. Following the Meta Group’s successful IPO in 1995, Mr. Brown left to found The Robert Frances Group in Westport, CT. In forming Experture, Inc., Mr. Brown has recognized the need in the market for a new model of advisory support for the business community.

Hal Kreitzman

COO at Experture responsible for Inquiry and Research Administration, Development and Company Operations.

He is a senior executive with a strong, diverse business & technology background in financial services having worked for several global financial institutions. He understands the importance of corporate culture and how to be a successful change agent to integrate process, people and technology. Hal audited, reengineered and managed several different types of organizational areas including finance / accounting analytical support, application development, data-center operations, and firm-wide technology.

He also managed the development / operation of the technological components of global branch and business integration; established strong partnerships with other operating groups and business units; and managed mission-critical processes/systems and firm-wide initiatives to realize growth/profitability targets.

He holds a Computer Science B.A. at SUNY Potsdam and a Finance M.B.A from SUNY at Albany.
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Calvin Braunstein

Calvin Braunstein is Chairman/CEO and Executive Director of Research for Robert Frances Group (RFG). RFG provides actionable, timely advice, consulting, and research about the IT marketplace to Global 2000 executives. Mr. Braunstein has held a variety of management and non-management positions in IBM. Prior to joining RFG, he was a Certified Senior Consultant in the IBM Consulting Group, where he specialized in business strategy management, process reengineering, and customer relationship issues. He has provided IT consulting and advisory services for enterprises in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and the US.

Mr. Braunstein is experienced in business strategy management, enterprise systems architecture, mission-critical transaction processing systems, process reengineering, and project management. He has been responsible for marketing, architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting mission-critical transaction-processing systems in the securities and transportation industries.

He had responsibility for major airline reservation systems worldwide, global distribution systems, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and CTS ticker tape systems used by the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quote system (NASDAQ), the NYSE, and other exchanges.

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