Ben Pring

Ben Pring co-leads Cognizant’s Future of Work Center joining Cognizant in September 2011 after spending the previous 15 years with Gartner as a senior industry analyst researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. Prior to Gartner Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers and Lybrand.

At Gartner Ben was one the of the lead analysts on all things “Cloud”; he wrote the industry’s first research notes on Cloud Computing (in 1997!), on Salesforce.com (in 2001) and became well known in the IT industry for providing predictions of the nature and velocity of the change that would impact everyone as the paradigm shifted again and Cloud Computing become the foundation for the next wave of competition in global IT. Ben was also heavily involved in tracking and analyzing the emergence of IT talent from outside western markets and the impact that globalization would have on business and IT strategies for organizations of all types.

Ben’s expertise in helping clients see around corners, think the unthinkable and calculate the compound annual growth rate of unintended consequences brought him to Cognizant where his charter is to research and analyze how clients can leverage the incredibly powerful new opportunities that are being created as new technologies make computing power more pervasive, more affordable and more important than ever before.

Now based near Boston, MA, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University in the UK where he grew up.