Barbara French
President & Co-Founder
Tekrati Inc.

Barbara French is president and co-founder of Tekrati Inc. the leading news source covering high tech industry analysts and firms. With stints as an analyst relations executive at several major IT corporations and a former independent consultant, French has more than 15 years of industry analyst relations program and project expertise. She has combined this expertise with powerful database and news search capabilities to present a unique analyst relations resource.

In addition to Tekrati and its affiliated analyst relations sites, French is able to guide public relations and analyst relations professionals in helping to shape their executive relations programs, best practices, benchmarks, program jump-starts as well as mapping analyst expertise, services and publications to client priorities. She has a proven track record in delivering analyst relations leverage for corporate, sales and product marketing objectives.

French writes the popular "Tracking Tux: Research Round-Up" column for NewsForge.com/Linux.com. Her advice, research highlights and free-lance articles appear on other well read high tech marketing and news sites. She is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, such as GigaWorld.

Prior to founding Tekrati, French was vice president of strategic alliances for Secure Computing Corporation. She has held a variety of high tech marketing management positions at a number of IT vendors, including Novell, Honeywell, UB Networks and Groupe Bull. She holds a bachelor's degree with honors from the University of Arizona.

March 2004