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Katy Ring has joined us at Bathwick.

On a personal note, I can’t tell you how delighted and excited I am. Katy is an amazing person to work with - and I’m over the moon.

Here’s the press release:

Bathwick Group Press Release:

For Immediate Release

5.6.2008

Dr. Katy Ring joins The Bathwick Group

Dr. Katy Ring has joined the Bathwick Group as a Principal analyst in the IT Services field. Highly regarded internationally as an analyst with insightful and challenging views on the development of the IT services market, Dr Ring will be responsible primarily for developing Bathwick’s new Global IT Services research programme, due for launch in Q4 2008.
Jonathan Steel, CEO at The Bathwick Group, said “I am delighted to welcome someone of Katy’s calibre to Bathwick; her experience and ability adds a sharp edge to Bathwick’s IT Services research and consulting business.”
Latterly with NelsonHall, Dr. Ring spent 12 years at Ovum leading research into the opportunities for emerging software and services markets as well as developing the company’s Outsourcing Practice. Prior to her tenure as a Principal analyst and Practice Leader at Ovum, Katy was a journalist with publications such as Computer Weekly and Computergram, and was founding editor of Software Futures.
Commenting on her appointment at Bathwick, Dr Ring said, “It is refreshing to join a research organization committed to developing research that is both commercially relevant and intellectually engaging. The Bathwick Group has the operational agility, professionalism and cultural audacity to enable its researchers to think differently. I am very excited by the opportunity to build a Global IT Services programme here.”

Dr Ring holds two degrees: an Honours degree in politics, philosophy and history from the London School of Economics and a PhD in the popularisation of science from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

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