Dr. Katy Ring
Principal analyst
Dr. Katy Ring is a Principal analyst with the Bathwick Group, developing Bathwick’s new Global IT Services research programme. Highly regarded internationally as an analyst with insightful and challenging views on the development of the IT services market, Dr Ring has been in the IT industry for 21 years. During this time she has been engaged to review European business strategies in the outsourcing and managed services markets working with small executive teams in both vendor and end-user organizations. Dr Ring has also written dozens of reports on the IT software and services markets on topics including: Remote Infrastructure Management, SOA, On Demand service delivery, Software as a Service and Hosted Services.

Latterly with NelsonHall, heading their IT Outsourcing program, Dr. Ring spent 12 years at Ovum leading research into the opportunities for emerging software and services markets as well as developing the company’s Outsourcing Practice. Prior to her tenure as a Principal analyst and Practice Leader at Ovum, Katy was a journalist with publications such as Computer Weekly and Computergram, and was founding editor of Software Futures.

Dr Ring holds two degrees: an Honours degree in politics, philosophy and history from the London School of Economics and a PhD in the popularisation of science from the University of Kent at Canterbury.