Joe Skorupa is a former Gartner Research VP/Distinguished Analyst. He continues to advise senior leaders at technology and service providers on strategic matters such as product plans, go-to-market/positioning, partnerships and M&A. His area of focus is disruptive market forces, whether technology, business model or broader geopolitical, economic or social factors.

Joe, along with Neil MacDonald, lead Gartner’s research on the transformation of the Network Security and SD-WAN markets into a new, combined $28B market – the Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE.

Joe has more than 40 years of experience in enterprise, service provider and storage networking. He has experience working in global enterprises and in early-stage startups, holding a variety of engineering, marketing and analyst roles at companies such as FORE Systems, Motorola, Indiana University, RHK and Gartner.

He is a Life Member of IEEE Member and was a member of 802.3 Ethernet committee for more than eight years and chaired the 802.3 Network Management Task Force for four years.