Igor Stenmark is a co-founder the Board Chair of Verified.  Igor brings 30+ years of experience in entrepreneurial, strategic advisory, investment management, and executive roles in the technology industry.  

Igor is a co-founder and managing director of MGI Research and previously founded Stenmark Capital an investment firm focused on technology and merger arbitrage investments.   Igor also spent nine years at Gartner serving as the Group Vice President of the Enterprise Systems Research Group, growing the research and advisory business to over $70 million in revenues and over 65 senior analysts. He has authored numerous research articles and industry scenarios, including several in-depth reports on software vendors, seminal research on the theory and practice of mergers and acquisitions in the technology arena, rating and market forecasting methodologies, equity indices, and quantitative models.  Igor holds bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Cooper Union School of Engineering and New York University, respectively.