Internet Research Group

Internet Research Group provides marketing market and strategy research reports and consulting services, specializing in areas related to Internet infrastructure – the intersection and interaction of networks with systems and applications. Internet offerings combineIRG combines the formidable and unique experience and perspective of the two principals: John Katsaros and Peter Christy who each worked in the industry for an unconsciously long time before going over to the dark side. Both were educated as engineers (not that it matters much now). John worked as a sales and marketing professional and executive, Peter in technology and product development. Their current collaboration began in 1997 building on a consulting group that John founded in 1993. The IRG “secret sauce” is the use of domain expert opinion rather than focus groups or surveys of less knowledgeable individuals (actually the sauce isn’t so secret since it’s the substance of our 2005 book Getting It Right the First Time.) Having toiled in the fields of infrastructure for nearly a decade it’s a fair guess that we know as much or more about the topic as anyone else.

John Katsaros has more than thirty years’ experience in senior-level sales, marketing, product development, and business planning positions in a variety of environments ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups. He is also the author of Selling High Tech (1994), and was a contributing author to Tricks of the Internet Gurus (1993). He is a frequent speaker at conferences and has written many reports on electronic commerce and infrastructure.

Personal Stuff:

My wife’s Paris passion – www.ourparishome.com"

My son Christopher Katsaros’ blog about his semester in Senegal - www.chrisinsenegal.blogspot.com"

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Peter Christy is a principal at Internet Research Group. He has been involved with the computer and communications industries since the late ‘60’s. Educated as an undergraduate at Harvard, and graduate school at Berkeley.

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