Gideon Gartner

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About Gideon Gartner

Gideon I. Gartner (born 1935) is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, best known as the founder of Gartner, an information technology (IT) research and advisory company.

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He has been described as the patriarch of the IT industry analyst business, due to widespread adoption of the innovations he incorporated into Gartner as a second-generation information business. He has continued to champion information industry innovations, first through two other companies he founded -- GiGa Information Group (now part of Forrester Research) and Soundview Technologies (now part of UBS AG) -- and today, as an advisor to young technology companies such as TheInfoPro.