Anne Thomas Manes

Anne Thomas Manes

VP & Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, Inc.

Anne Thomas is the VP & Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, Inc. As a respected expert on distributed computing technology, Manes has participated in standards development at W3C, OASIS, JCP, UDDI.org, and WS-I. She is a member of the editorial board of Web Services Journal, a leading industry publication. She is a frequent speaker at trade shows and author of numerous articles and the book, "Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing, Second Edition: The Savvy Manager's Guide," published by Morgan Kaufmann.

Manes earned a bachelors degree in Economics at Wellesley College.