Bojan Simic, President and Principal Analyst

Bojan Simic is President and Principal Analyst at TRAC Research, a market research and analyst firm that specializes in IT performance management. As an industry analyst, Bojan has interviewed more than 2,000 IT and business professionals from end-user organizations and has published more than 50 research reports. His domain knowledge includes insights into end user experiences, best-practices in deploying solutions for IT performance management, and strategies of related solution providers.

Prior to joining TRAC Research, Bojan was a lead analyst for Network and Application Performance Management research at Aberdeen Group. Bojan is frequently quoted in leading industry publications and he has presented his research findings at more than 30 market facing events.

Bojan's coverage area at TRAC Research includes application and network monitoring, WAN management and acceleration, cloud and virtualization management, business service management and managed services.

Bojan holds a B.A. in Economics from Belgrade University in Belgrade, Serbia and an M.B.A. from McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University.

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   Michael Cucchi, Vice President of Research

Michael Cucchi is the Vice President of Infrastructure and Cloud Research for TRAC Research.  There he leads strategy, research, and analysis for the Web Performance and Security, WAN Optimization and IT Infrastructure Services channels.  Michael has nearly 20 years of engineering, product, and marketing experience in the technology industry.    

Prior to TRAC Research, Michael was the Director of Product Marketing for Akamai Technology’s Enterprise Cloud, Cloud Security, and Emerging Technologies divisions.  In this role, he set the go-to-market product strategy, product positioning, and competitive intelligence for Akamai’s solutions toward strategic IT initiatives in the enterprise including: cloud computing, web application optimization, and cloud security requirements.

Before joining Akamai, he was Sr. Director of Product Marketing at WAN Optimization pioneer, Expand Networks.  Michael earlier managed a large Federal US Data Center focused on Research and Special Programs.

Michael holds a B.A. in Business and Computer Science from Skidmore College.

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