As the managing director of Longhaus and the primary voice of The Naked Chief blog Peter authors over 50 reports each year focused on the application of technology in the Australian and near-shore region. He founded Longhaus in 2006 following over a decade in international market research and publishing with Forrester Research and META Group (now Gartner). 

Over the last decade, Peter has participated in several thousand business and sales meetings, public and private presentations and research projects, as well as written a few hundred articles. He has also worked for international publishing conglomerates Pearson LLC., and Time Warner Inc., as a staff-writer and book reviewer as well as a strategy advisor to various CIOs of organisations rated within MIS magazine’s Australian Top 50 IT operations.

In the decade before starting Longhaus he was only ever asked to explain the research process (how he knew what he knew) once to a journalist and twice to a client. They just never asked. Since starting the company he and his team have been asked twice more in four years. Things are definitely improving, ICT analyst research in Asia Pacific is on the up, and Longhaus is somewhere amongst it all.

Since 2008 Peter has held a judging position for the IBM Innovation Award for the Brisbane Lord Mayor's Business Awards. Peter is also the Deputy Chairman of the International Program Committee for the World Computer Congress being held in Australia in 2010. 

Kristine is the co-founder and Operations Director of Longhaus. She is an expert in exploratory questioning and inquiry. Her exceptional research and interpersonal skills have been utilised through countless hours of legal investigation, interviewing, judicial court, debate, inquiry, submissions, and cross-examination. And she remains affable, gracious, and friendly despite it all.

With a background in advanced legal prosecutions, common law, and financial and legal forensics, she has spent 15-years in the pursuit of succinct, precise communication; in the court-room, on the telephone, on paper, in person, in the field. Kristine worked at senior levels in the public sector for over 10-years for Defence, and the ATO, collaborating with the Australian Federal Police, the Department of Public Prosecutions, and the AG's Department on several projects. Whilst with the Federal Government she worked closely with Edward DeBono, and Alan Pease on communication and body language seminars for State and Federal employees in Tasmania; a project driven by the Australian Taxation Office.  She also worked for accounting and advisory firm PKF, where she further honed her auditing skills.

Kristine studied Law, Business Studies and Commerce through the University of Tasmania and Leo Cussen Law Institute of Victoria. She also holds a Certificate in Workplace Training and Assessment.

Sam’s research helps  to define both the adoption and  impact of emerging technologies for management  professionals  across  Australia.  His specific  areas  of  focus  at   Longhaus  are  enterprise architecture  (including  service-orientation and  information management),  the open  source market, enterprise applications and development, large  scale distributed systems, and  ICT procurement within state and federal governments. He  is co-author of the Longhaus Australian Tech IndexTM and Longhaus PulseTM research methods.

Sam comes  to Longhaus having previously been a Senior Analyst with Forrester Research’s Asia Pacific  team providing both a global and  local perspective  for Australia and New Zealand within the Enterprise Architecture, Application Development  &  infrastructure and Government  research groups. He has over 14-years experience  in both  the public and  private  sectors and has developed client-server, mainframe-centric, and distributed n-tier applications, both  in  traditional  IDE and model-driven environments. Sam was  also  a major  thought-leader  behind  an  Information  and Communications  Technology (ICT)  planning method, associated architecture  practices,  and  governance model  for  which  he and his  team subsequently  received an Australia Day award  in 2005. Key elements of  this were adopted  as  best  practice  by  the  Queensland  Government’s  Office  of  Government  ICT  and  are now mandated across Queensland Government to assess existing ICT investments.

Sam holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the Charles Darwin University, where he majored in information systems and minored in marketing. Additionally, his knowledge of service-oriented architecture  is widely  recognized, and he was recently  invited  to be a contributing author on  the Paul Allen book Service-orientation:  Winning Strategies and Best Practices, which was released in April 2006 by Cambridge University Press.

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David's research focus is in key software, services and management technology market segments including media, content management, and collaborative platforms. Since joining Longhaus in early 2007 he has provided support for the company's directional research agenda in the form of data collection and initial analysis, and is a key contributor to Longhaus' ongoing open source market analysis. David is also the Longhaus analyst and primary technical architect responsible for the development of both the Australian Tech Index and the Longhaus Consolidation and Outsourcing Readiness (CORE) Assessment research engines.

Prior to Longhaus, David was a researcher in the Microsoft eResearch Lab (MQUTer) at Queensland University of Technology. His research covered information retrieval, collaborative platforms and application development including the publication of five research papers in international journals and conferences. David is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). David holds a Masters Degree in Information Technology from QUT, and a Masters Degree in Information Systems from Griffith University. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from Communication University of China.