SmartBiz IT Research Library

Jasmine Noel
Founder and Partner of Ptak, Noel & Associates
Jasmine Noel is founder and partner of Ptak, Noel & Associates. With more than 10 years of helping clients understand how the adoption of new technologies affects IT management, she tries to bring pragmatism (and hopefully some humor) to the alignment of business and IT operations discussion.

Jasmine served previously as director of systems and applications management at Hurwitz Group, where she formulated and managed the company's research agenda. She was also a senior analyst at D.H. Brown Associates, where her responsibilities included technology trend analysis in the network and systems management space. Noel is regularly quoted in publications such as NetworkWorld and eWeek. She also contributes articles to several leading publications on various IT management topics. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science from the University of Southern California.