Peter is the Managing Director of Longhaus which he founded in 2006 following over a decade in international market research. He previously held Vice President level positions with the ICT industry’s leading NASDAQ listed Advisory and Consulting firms Gartner and META Group. As a respected industry analyst and commentator Peter has now worked for 18 years within the IT and media sectors where immediately prior to Longhaus he headed Forrester Research as the Australian and New Zealand Vice President for 2-years.

Peter's research work is now primarily focused on the application of technology in the Australian and Asia Pacific region. During his role at Longhaus he has continually pushed the company to new levels and was shortlisted as a Young CEO of the Year in 2008. He has held judging positions for the IBM Innovation Award for the Brisbane Lord Mayor's Business Awards since the same year. In 2009 Longhaus broke new ground by becoming the first commercialisation partner of the Queensland State Government for the publicaiton of ICT related asset data, which had previously only been used for ministerial and parliamentary cabinet reporting.

In 2010 Peter served a tenure as the Deputy Chairman of the International Program Committee for the World Computer Congress held in Australia and in the same year expanded Longhaus into China, and launched the internet television platform Longhaus Television which now attracts over 300,000 unique viewers each year throughout Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region.

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