Julio Gomez (businessman)

Julio Gomez is a finance technology expert and is co-founder of Innovation Councils and founder of Gomez Advisors and Gomez Markets. Ranked number 42 in Time Magazine's "Digital 50" and ranked one of the 50 most influential people on Wall Street by Institutional investor. Also known as "The Rank King" (Time).

Innovation Councils

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Mission Statement: "Innovation Councils develops and produces the world’s highest quality technology theme-based events. These unique, high-value meetings enable C-level executives to learn more about emerging industry trends and technology through peer interaction, technology innovator interaction, and a focused curriculum. Our Council events also offer technology providers the greatest opportunity for meaningful interactions with top-tier, industry-specific audiences in a controlled environment." Innovation Councils hosts councils focusing on critical technology issues within vertical industries.

Most recent and upcoming councils focus on Cloud Computing in capital markets.

Gomez Markets

A strategy consulting firm specializing in financial services technology.

Gomez Advisors

Website ranking the quality of internet services. Provides on-demand evaluation of a company's web applications in the context of current technological issues impacting business.

"Gomez, the Web performance division of Compuware, provides the industry’s leading platform of Web application experience management solutions used by organizations to optimize the performance, availability, and quality of their Web and mobile applications and proactively identify business-impacting issues. The on-demand Gomez platform integrates solutions for Web load testing, Web performance management, cross-browser testing, and Web performance business analysis that test and measure Web and mobile applications from the “outside-in” — across all users, browsers, devices, and geographies — using a global network of over 100,000 locations. Over 2,500 customers worldwide, ranging from small companies to large enterprises — including 12 of the top 20 most visited US Web sites — use Gomez solutions to increase revenue, build brand loyalty, and decrease costs." (Gomez.com)

Customers include: Audi Talbots Myspace Bank of Montreal

Digital 50

[2] 1999 Time article naming the 50 most influential people in technology today. Gomez was ranked #42 for his company Gomez Advisors.

"In the crowded young marketplace of the Web, which teems with six-month-old brokerage houses and no-name retailers, someone is making sense of it all. Julio Gomez and his advisers rank e-businesses for their value, customer service and cool features. Today Gomez's influence is written on the city buses and Wall Street Journal ads of businesses boasting a high rating from his company, which is fast becoming e-commerce's answer to Consumer Reports. The Cuban-born and Princeton University-educated son of a minister, Gomez spent 10 years in investment banking before moving to Forrester Research, where he worked as an analyst. He founded his company in 1997." (Time Digital 50)