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With over 20 years of experience at Forrester, John C. McCarthy leads Forrester's research efforts on the use of offshore providers for IT work, product development, and business process outsourcing, as well as the development of an IT services global delivery model. He primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Sourcing and Vendor Management professional, and as part of Forrester's industry leading offshore research team, he helps clients with their vendor management and sourcing strategies. In addition to writing the first report in the industry defining client/server computing, McCarthy has done groundbreaking research on the Internet, privacy, and the Net's impact on government.[CR-LF][CR-LF]McCarthy has worked with leading-edge firms and governments in many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and the UK. He has delivered keynote addresses on the Internet and distributed computing at such premier industry events as Strategic Sourcing Interest Group, NASSCOM, COMDEX, the Milken Institute Global Conference, BusinessWeek CIO Conference, Interop, Politics Online Conference, and Unix Expo. He has also appeared on "NBC Nightly News," MSNBC, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," NDTV, CNBC, CNN, CNNfn, and Bloomberg TV.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Before joining Forrester, McCarthy was an industry marketing consultant with Wang Laboratories. He also served as a consultant to John Hancock's Office Automation staff, designing and implementing personal computers and distributed midrange systems. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in European history and economics from Connecticut College.

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