Pete Adamo is an Analyst at Gartner in the IT Leaders Sourcing, Procurement and Vendor Management team. He leverages 27 years of global management consulting and industry leadership experience to help clients address significant and seemingly intractable challenges of all kinds.
Currently, Pete delivers innovative and prudent thinking to Gartner clients in the vendor management space. He provides thought leadership in the establishment, maintenance and value driven by disciplined vendor management practices. His clients benefit from his acuity with vendor partnership development, relationship management, interest-based negotiation, vendor performance remediation and risk management processes.
Pete has a unique back-story. He spent 20 years with one of the world's largest service providers as an executive responsible for outsourcing IT services programs for cross-industry clients. He worked extensively in India and lived in the Philippines as an Expatriate member of the Asia Pacific leadership team. Subsequently, Pete was a senior leader in the operations procurement and strategy teams at a North American financial institution.
Global IT Services Outsourcing, Senior Leadership, Strategy, Vendor Management, Negotiations.
Accenture
Application Outsourcing
Manulife / John Hancock
Strategic Initiatives and Procurement
Independent Management Consultant
Senior Operations Analyst
IT Vendor Ecosystems Management
University of Toronto.
1Vendor management best practices and portfolio optimization
2Building vendor partnerships and maintenance of ongoing relationships
3Addressing vendor performance issues
4Applying business strategy to vendor ecosystems management
5Vendor risk management