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Harvey Cohen is the Founder and President of Strategy Analytics. He is a leading visionary and strategist in marketing and technology subjects who has worked as a trusted advisor and counselor to successful multi-national companies in the US, Europe and the Far East during the past 20 years.
Mr. Cohen's primary focus is the analysis of key strategic and tactical marketing and technology issues affecting the successful growth of businesses in highly competitive environments, He has extensive experience in assessing requirements and issues critical to the commercial development of advanced information technology services and products. Working with service providers, hardware manufacturers, and software developers, he provides business planning support, analysis and forecasts of emerging markets ranging from portable communicators to advanced semiconductors and software products for electronic commerce. His work has included studies of emerging technologies in the consumer electronics, financial services, healthcare, retail, utilities, and manufacturing sectors.
Prior to forming Strategy Analytics in 1996, Mr. Cohen was President of Technology Applications Group and President of BIS Mackintosh, firms specializing in marketing information and analysis for technology businesses. He also spent nine years at Data Resources, Inc., where he consulted with Fortune 500 firms in support of market and strategic planning activities.
Mr. Cohen holds an SM in Management from the Sloan School at MIT, an MS in Materials Science from Ohio State University and an SB in Materials Science from MIT.
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Chris Ambrosio, Executive Director
As an Executive Director in Global Wireless Practice, Chris manages the broad spectrum of custom project work across the wireless value chain. His 10 years of experience is most extensive in wireless handset planning and strategies of device manufacturers and mobile operators. Chris has well-rounded experience in a range of projects, including business case development, product planning, market assessments, and competitive analysis for device vendors, service providers, semiconductor vendors, and software suppliers.
Prior to joining Strategy Analytics in 2001, Chris worked for a private equity firm that made early stage investments in companies focusing on mobile internet and security technologies. With previous experience in marketing and sales at Nextel and ICG Communications, his experience and sound grasp of the important business fundamentals for mobile communications companies has made him a trusted strategy partner for many of the largest and most well known handset OEMs and mobile operators around the world.
He holds a BSBA degree from John Carroll University with post-Baccalaureate work at Kent State University.
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Andreas Koehler, Director
As Director (Europe), for Strategy Analytics Consulting services, Andreas Koehler manages client projects of global scope providing strategic and tactical support, to clients within the wider communications industry.
Andreas has wide-ranging experience, including business case development and evaluation, start-up support, market entry strategy, product and service portfolio analysis, customer segmentation and benchmarking studies.
Before joining Strategy Analytics, Andreas was an Associate with Cambridge Strategic Management Group, a strategy consulting firm where he managed client projects for a large variety of telecommunications and Internet players including PTOs, fixed new entrants, equipment vendors and venture capital funds.
Prior Andreas was a Senior Analyst with SAs predecessor firm, BIS Strategic Decisions. As a leading member of the consumer electronics and media team, he tracked existing and emerging markets for CE hardware vendors and software and media companies.
Andreas Koehler holds a Diplombetriebswirt degree from Fachhochschule Bremen, in Germany and a BA (Hons) in European Finance and Accounting from Leeds Business School in the UK.
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Cliff Raskind draws on over two decades in wireless, mobility and IT to help Strategy Analytics’ clients win and succeed. His primary responsibilities encompass analyzing, tracking and forecasting the transformation of the smart device and IoT markets. Cliff also guides clients across the ICT spectrum to better anticipate key strategic issues and separate hype from reality with respect to potentially disruptive technologies and business models. His insights and recommendations rely on deep analyst and industry-side experience working with device vendors, operators and a wide range of b2b and b2c solution providers. Cliff was an early member of SA’s Global Wireless Practice from 1999 to 2007, returning to the company in 2015 after working for Nokia where he ultimately led their Device Intelligence group on a global basis. He later joined Nokia’s HERE location unit leading KPIs and strategic target setting for the Map Platform Group. Prior to originally joining SA he was a Product Marketing Manager for EDS specializing in cellular billing systems. Cliff holds a B.S. in Business Management with a concentration in Finance from Northeastern University, where he graduated with honors.
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Lauren McDermott, Junior Research Analyst
Lauren manages, develops, and supports the forecasting, modeling, and database tools needed for custom client solutions. She also supports and conducts primary and secondary research processes, and helps develop the analytical tools and findings needed on custom projects across all of Strategy Analytics knowledge centers.
Lauren graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelors degree in Economics, and is continuing her education in accounting and statistical analysis at Cleveland State University.
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