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.