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Curt Monash

For almost three decades, Curt Monash has been a leading analyst of and strategic advisor to the software industry. Praised by Larry Ellison for his "unmatched insight into technology and marketplace trends," Curt was the software/services industry's #1 ranked stock analyst while at PaineWebber, Inc., where he served as a First Vice President until 1987. He subsequently co-founded Evernet, Inc., a $40 million networking systems integrator. Since 1990 he has owned and operated Monash Research (formerly called Monash Information Services), an analysis and advisory firm covering software-intensive sectors of the technology industry. In that period he also has been co-founder, president, or chairman of several other technology startups.

Curt writes and/or edits most Monash Research publications, including white papers and the blogs DBMS2, Text Technologies, and Strategic Messaging. In addition, he has written for numerous industry publications, often as a regular columnist, including Computerworld, Network World, Software Magazine, Application Development Trends, Upside Magazine, and Datamation. Currently, he writes A World of Bytes for Network World. Curt also has appeared on NBC, CNBC, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Curt has served as a strategic advisor to many well-known firms, including Oracle, Microsoft, AOL, Teradata, and SAP. His investment clients have included a who's-who of the money management industry, both public-equity and venture capital.

Curt earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Game Theory) from Harvard University. He has held faculty positions in mathematics, economics and public policy at Harvard, Yale, and Suffolk Universities.

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