2006-09-13

Val Sribar, Group Vice President
Gartner

"Application Strategy & Governance.”

Valentin Sribar is a group vice president and leader of the Agenda Management Program Office. Val is responsible for the process of developing and managing research agendas across Gartner's Research organization.

Val was most recently responsible for META Group's Executive Directions and Industry Services. Previously, he was an Executive Directions analyst working one-on-one with CIOs and other IT leaders. During his 12 years at META, he served as general manager of infrastructure, operations, security and customer relationship transformational offerings, called Infusions. He also ran META's Global Networking Strategies service. Prior to META, Val spent time in consulting at Ernst & Young and also at Micro Devices Corporation, where he served as assistant to the President.

He has co-authored two books in the IT Best Practices Series: “The Adaptive Enterprise - IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth” and “Enriching the Value Chain - Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise.”  In addition, Val holds a B.S. (with distinction) in Materials Science & Engineering from Cornell University School of Engineering.