Thornton May is a futurist, educator and author. He is to IT value creation what Joan Rivers is to celebrity fashion - a brutally frank commentator. Thornton combines a scholar’s patience for empirical research, a stand-up comic’s capacity for pattern recognition and a second-to-none gift for storytelling to address the most important issues facing IT executives. The editors at eWeek honored Thornton, including him on their list of ‘Top 100 Most Influential People in IT.’ The editors at Fast Company labeled him ‘one of the top 50 brains in business.’ Thornton has written a new book, The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics.
He serves as Executive Director and Dean at the IT Leadership Academy in Jacksonville, Florida; Futurist — External Technology Advisory Board at the Olin College of Engineering; and Co-founder of the CIO Solutions Gallery at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University and the University of Kentucky.