The 451 Group Announces the Acquisition of Tech:Touchstone
The 451 Group has announced the acquisition of Tech:Touchstone, a UK-based events company cofounded in 2007 by ex-Gartner executive Simeon Turner. Tech:Touchstone events facilitate in-person sharing of insight between senior IT executives and create an environment where they have an opportunity to learn directly from their most trusted sources of information – peers and industry analysts. Event themes include critical IT topics such as virtualization, cloud computing, and information security and emerging issues such as big data and the mobile enterprise.
Post-acquisition, Tech:Touchstone will become part of The 451 Group Events division, and Turner will become managing director, 451 Group Events, reporting to Christopher M. Hill, chief marketing officer, The 451 Group's. The 451 Group Events is charged with producing all of the firm's events, including Uptime Institute Symposium, now in its eighth year, and the 451 Research Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit in Europe and North America, now in its ninth year — as well as current Tech:Touchstone events and new events developed for the company globally. Moving forward, The 451 Group will expand the locations of its events throughout Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe and in other geographical areas, reflecting the global nature of the firm's business and clientele.