Speaker Details

As Research Director, Owen leads 451 Research's Digital Economics Unit, which serves to help customers understand the economics behind digital and cloud technologies so they can make informed choices when costing and pricing their own products and services, as well as those from their vendors, suppliers and competitors. Owen is the architect of the Cloud Price Index, 451 Research's benchmark indicator of the costs of public, private and managed clouds, and the Cloud Price Codex, our global survey of cloud pricing methods and mechanisms.

Owen has previously held product management positions at Cable & Wireless and Claranet, and has developed a number of hosting and cloud services. In 2013, he completed his PhD thesis on the economics of cloud computing at the University of Bristol. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the British Computer Society and a member of the Royal Economic Society.