Andrew Karpie

Andrew has over 30 years experience working as an analyst,executive, and adviser at the business intersection of technology and services.His first brush with procurement came early in his career when he was a networkplanner for a Ford Aerospace telecom services subsidiary, responsible forleasing high speed digital bandwidth facilities from emerging suppliers. In hislong career, he followed the thread of information and communicationstechnology (ICT) across a number of different service industry verticals andsmall to large companies in a variety of analytical planning and managementroles (both buy and sell side). In more recent years, beginning as a researchanalyst at Staffing Industry Analysts, he has become focused as an analyst, writer,and adviser researching the rapidly changing services and labor supply chains(especially the impact of technology). Andrew holds an MS in Policy Analysisfrom Carnegie Mellon University, where he first learned to code in FORTRAN anddeveloped a deep appreciation for the value of data and statistics He lives inthe San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys time with his family andvolunteering as a Pet Assisted Therapy dog handler.