Research Associate
Leading Edge Forum

Donal O’Shea is a Research Associate – Executive Programme for the Leading Edge Forum.  He has participated in several research topics including Customer Relationship Management, Deploying Systems at the Customer Interface and Web Services.  He has also been involved in the management of LEF Study Tours for over 10 years. 

Donal is also an independent consultant based in Silicon Valley.  His early career was with IBM in the UK, Ireland, the US and France, settling in California about 25 years ago.  Donal has held executive positions at Amdahl, the Open Software Foundation and the Liberty Alliance as well as Unix and database start-ups.  As a consultant, Donal has worked with enterprise CIOs, IT users and vendors from around the world to help them to understand new technologies, and to determine how to effectively deploy them.