Who is Peter S. Kastner?

Peter Kastner has over thirty-five years experience in information-technology business and market development, management, and entrepreneurial success. He is a regular radio show host and blog contributor at the OnComputers web site.

He began his career in product development and marketing for applications software products at Wang Laboratories. For about a decade, he was a consultant and program manager with Arthur D. Little, Inc., where he was actively involved in the management and delivery of complex technology development and systems integration projects that spanned the manufacturing, banking and financial services, health care, and government markets in the U.S. and Latin America. He led Prime Computer’s market development into commercial markets, and managed marketing and sales programs at Stratus Computer from initial product launch to beyond the company’s IPO. He later was a marketing executive with Digital Equipment Corp., where he led the company’s entry into new commercial computing markets with standardized computer performance benchmarks.

In 1988, Kastner co-founded Aberdeen Group, a technology market research and consulting firm. His consulting experience includes more than 100 projects. He built the company’s practices in PCs and digital lifestyle, databases, application development, knowledge management, e-commerce, and enterprise business applications. In 1998, he became chief operating officer. The company tripled revenues in three years. He is a member of the board.

Peter S. Kastner is a director at Vericours, Inc. He can be reached at peter@oncomputers.info.