David Foote, Chief Analyst & Research Officer at Foote Partners LLC, is a tech workforce trends researcher and one of the most quoted industry experts on human factors in technology evolution. He has spent more than two decades introducing innovative data-driven benchmark research and analysis models of the IT workforce, pioneering new industry practices for hyper-accurate IT compensation and  IT skills benchmarking, tracking, and supply/demand forecasting. He built his reputation at Gartner and at several Silicon Valley companies prior to co-founding Foote Partners, where he leads a senior team of former Gartner and McKinsey analysts/researchers supported by deep research partnerships with 4,500 employers.