Director

Philippe Winthrop is a Director in the Global Wireless Practice at Strategy Analytics, with a focus on Enterprise Mobility, spanning all aspects of the enterprise mobility ecosystem, from mobile strategy adoption to mobile application integration, as well as managed services for mobility.

Philippe has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. He started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA.

After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Service providers in Western Europe. After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies.

Philippe most recently was the Research Director for Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, where he launched the Wireless and Mobility practice and conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs, and more.

Philippe is a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory boards of Mobile Enterprise Magazine and Celio Corporation. In his spare time, he blogs on www.enterprisemobilitymatters.com, selected as one of Network World’s “9 Web sites IT pros should master in 2009.”

Philippe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a concentration in Romance Languages from Boston College, as well as a Master of Arts degree from Brandeis University, incorporating studies at Université de Paris IX – Dauphine.