The 451 Group continues building its high profile staff, adding two new players to its team in Europe. Janice McGinn, former editor of CIO Magazine UK, joins as research director of The 451 Group's CIO Practice. Csilla Zsigri, formerly a business consultant with Atos, joins as EU Business Development Manager. Zsigri is based in Barcelona.

"Our clients rely on us to provide them with independent and objective assessment of the competitive dynamics of innovation," said Martin V. McCarthy, CEO of The 451 Group. "We want to be responsive to key growth areas within enterprise IT and to ensure our research agenda reflects a focus on assessing viability in emerging market segments. These additions will be a key component for delivering groundbreaking insight to a more widespread audience."

Janice McGinn brings close to 20 years’ of experience working in the IT industry. Before joining The 451 Group, McGinn was editor of CIO Magazine UK. Prior to that, she was editor of MIS UK and The C Magazine, and worked at City brokerage Killik & Co as editor and equity analyst. She also has worked for other well-known IT publications including ComputerWire's Computergram International (now part of Datamonitor / Informa Telecoms and Media).

Csilla Zsigri is an economist who joins The 451 Group from Atos Origin SAE's Research and Innovation unit. Zsigri was a senior business consultant with Atos, coordinating business activities in numerous EU-funded ICT Research and Technology Development projects.

McGinn and Zsigri join The 451 Group's EMEA team -- which includes analysts John Abbott, William Fellows, Andy Lawrence, John Barr, Matt Aslett, Chris Noble, Krishna Roy, and Simon Robinson.

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