Frank GilbaneAffiliate Analyst
As Affiliate Analyst, Frank is responsible for leading a team of analysts and consultants who help organizations across all vertical industries create successful strategies and make informed decisions about the use of content, web, search, collaboration, and social technologies for customer-facing websites, internal collaborative intranets, and the integration of content technologies with other enterprise and publishing systems. Frank’s team tracks market trends, content and information technologies and companies, and educates and learns from all industry stakeholders.
Expertise
- Content software technologies
- Publishing technologies
- Markup languages
- Market analysis & strategies
- Information technology trends
Experience
- The Gilbane Group, Inc.
- InfoTrends
- Technoforum SARL
- Publishing Technology Management, Inc.
- Texet
- Quadex (Compugraphic, Agfa)
Education
Frank received his B.A. in Philosophy from Boston University, and his M.A. in Philosophy from Tufts University. He completed courses in computer science at Boston University and the Harvard University Extension School.
Contact Information
Telephone: 617-497-9443, ext. 111
LinkedIn profile
More About Frank
Power meal: 2-3 dozen oysters at L' ecaillier du Bistrot in Paris (11th) with appropriate wine
Favorite cities: Boston, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, London, San Francisco
Best vacation I've taken: Six weeks on a sailboat, cruising with the weather
Favorite reads: Alan Furst, Charles McCarry, Eric Ambler, John Le Carré, Neal Stephenson, Iain Banks (with and without the M), Charles Stross, William Gibson, Philip Kerr, Elmore Leonard, Thomas Pynchon, historical fiction, “real” history, cold war espionage, some science fiction and space opera
Favorite music/bands: Jazz, blues, classical and where they intersect, 50s & 60s rock
First car: 1965 red VW Beetle
First job: Cleaning out oil-fired boilers (I could fit inside the big ones at 12)
Where I grew up: Providence, RI, Cape Cod, Boston
Activities outside work: Reading, cruising up and down the New England coast
Most Recent Reports
- Five Technologies to Watch 2012-2013 - January 25, 2012
- Mobile Development Strategies: What Information Industry Executives Need to Know - November 29, 2011
- Big-Data: Big Deal or Just Big Buzz? - August 2, 2011
