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Jim Holincheck is research vice president at Chicago-based Gartner Inc. He is also a managing vice president at Gartner Research, where he manages the team that covers finance, human capital management and procurement. He specializes in the HCM systems market. In this role, he helps provide a bridge between technology and human capital processes, practices and strategies.

Prior to joining Gartner, Holincheck spent 2.5 years as vice president of strategy at a B2B-marketplace-turned-software and services vendor called IQ4hire. IQ4hire provides solutions for IT services procurement and for technology solution selling.

Before IQ4hire, he spent two years as an industry analyst at Giga Information Group (now Forrester) covering human resource management systems and financial systems. Prior to Giga, he spent 10 years at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) participating in the full lifecycle of projects around human resources and financial management.

Holincheck has an M.B.A. in finance from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and a B.S. in electrical engineering.