Co-founded CXO Nexus in 2017 after working with Global 5000 IT organizations for 30 years and seeing first hand the challenges leadership spanning IT, Finance, Procurement and the Lines of business have with understanding their Vendor & Category TruSpend® and how the maturation of AI & Machine Learning are purpose built to solve it.

Male has held leadership roles at Gartner, Apptio, Jupiter and Giga where he helped Gideon Gartner launch a next generation research model for the IT industry.

Founded peer based research company TheInfoPro (TIP) in 2002 which was acquired by S&P Market Intelligence in 2011. Created factual “Voice of the Enterprise (VOTE)” research for the IT industry that became the cornerstone of peer based data and benchmarking. Industry standard IP created includes the Technology Heat Index™ and Vendor Performance Index™.