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Geoffrey Moore Managing Director,
Geoffrey Moore Consulting
Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow and Wildcat Venture Partners portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Aruba, Cognizant, and Rackspace.
Moore’s life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, focuses on the challenges start-up companies face transitioning from early adopting to mainstream customers. It has sold more than a million copies, and its third edition has been revised such that the majority of its examples and case studies reference companies come to prominence from the past decade. Moore’s most recent work, Escape Velocity, addresses the challenge large enterprises face when they seek to add a new line of business to their established portfolio. It has been the basis of much of his recent consulting.
Irish by heritage, Moore has yet to meet a microphone he didn’t like and gives between 50 and 80 speeches a year. One theme that has received a lot of attention recently is the transition in enterprise IT investment focus from Systems of Record to Systems of Engagement. This is driving the deployment of a new cloud infrastructure to complement the legacy client-server stack, creating massive markets for a next generation of tech industry leaders.
Moore has a bachelors in
American literature from Stanford University and a PhD in English literature
from the University of Washington. After teaching English for four years at
Olivet College, he came back to the Bay Area with his wife and family and began
a career in high tech as a training specialist. Over time he transitioned first
into sales and then into marketing, finally finding his niche in marketing
consulting, working first at Regis McKenna Inc, then with the three firms he
helped found: The Chasm Group, Chasm Institute, and TCG Advisors. Today he is
chairman emeritus of all three. | |