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David Kerr, Senior Vice President
Mr. Kerr has 35 years of experience in the mobility space and has worked with leading operators, device vendors, and solutions providers to translate technology capabilities into effective customer value propositions.
He is responsible for the Global Wireless, Intelligent Home and Teligen Tariff practices at Strategy Analytics. Mr. Kerr is responsible for setting the research agenda across networks, applications and devices in the wireless space and for developing new syndicated research programs which extend our leadership in the connected consumer and connected business segments.
David holds an Executive MBA degree from Suffolk University, Boston, and a BA Marketing from Thames University London.
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Barry Gilbert, Vice President, New Ventures
Barry Gilbert is one of the original founding members of Strategy Analytics. Barrys involvement in high technology research and consulting spans more than 25 years. He is presently tasked with helping identify, design, and develop new programs that meet the evolving demands of the global technology marketplace. He is currently working with his colleagues on the Global Forces program that identifies disruptive potential of companies in the mobile ecosystem and is leading the firms development of AppOptix, an innovative mobile measurement service.
Prior to Strategy Analytics Barry served as the COO of Current Analysis, a venture-backed competitive intelligence firm and as managing vice president of consulting for Bowne (NYSE:BNE). Barry has held executive level positions with Giga Information Group (acquired by Forrester Research) where he served on the executive management team and as VP of quantitative research and oversaw the Market Strategies Division (formerly BIS Strategic Decisions. Barry served in leadership roles at IDC, Computer Intelligence/InfoCorp, and as co-founder and EVP of the Market Information Center up through that firms acquisition by Technology Financial Services. Barry began his career working in sales for Burroughs Corporation.
Barry holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Clark Universitys Graduate School of Business.
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Phil Kendall, Executive Director
As Executive Director of the Service Provider Group, Phil is responsible for providing strategic and tactical support to leading telecoms operators, equipment vendors, and software companies around the world. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and has authored major reports on 5G go to market strategies, 5G use cases and business model development, Wi-Fi market evolution, TMT convergence and service bundling, customer segmentation, tariff initiatives, and the evolution of broadband networks.
Prior to joining Strategy Analytics, Phil was a research analyst at CIT Research, where he was the principal analyst covering a diverse range of telecoms markets, including mobile communications, fixed network services, satellite and cable TV communications.
Phil holds an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College, London, and a BA in Economics and German from the University of East Anglia. Phil's background in economics and econometrics informs his highly respected analysis of both micro-economic trends in end-user behavior and macro-economic industry dynamics.
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Sue Rudd, Director, Networks and Service Platforms
Sue Rudd brings to Strategy Analytics a unique range of marketing strategy and business experience across Mobile, Telecoms, IT and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Sue currently focuses on opportunities for pre-5G and 5G SA Core and Hyperscaler Services including Edge Cloud, Intelligent RAN, Network Slicing, SDN Controlled bandwidth and Wi-Fi interoperability, as well as Service Orchestration, ML/AI for Self-Optimizing Networks (SON), Control Plane Signaling, and distributed Cloud database and processing requirements. Her recent reports cover Cloud Native S/W, competitive analyses of 5G SA service platforms and OSS transformation.
Prior to joining Strategy Analytics, Sue worked for Comverse Technologies (now Mavenir) developing business cases for converged fixed and mobile IP services and VoIP over 3G. Previously at Motorola Cellular (now Nokia Networks) she coordinated wireless data services and directed projects for mobile network management and Intelligent Networking. Earlier she worked for Codex (Motorola’s modem and Enterprise T1 subsidiary), Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) one of the creators of ARPANet (now Raytheon) and Burroughs Corp. (now Unisys).
Sue has over 30 years’ experience in both IT Systems and Telecoms working with Internet, Telecommunications and Mobile service providers for multiple RF and ‘dot.com’ startups.
She has a BA and MA in Economics from University of Cambridge and an MBA in Operations Management from the Wharton School.
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Dan Grossman, Senior Analyst
Dan Grossman brings a wealth of expertise in fixed networks, both as an industry analyst and as a technologist. His engineering background and mindset gives him unique insight into the interplay between use cases, technology, and business strategy.
At Strategy Analytics, his focus is on research and client services in the Fiber-to-the-x, 5G fixed wireless, optical networks, non-public mobile networks and edge computing markets, from both the service provider and vendor perspectives.
Prior to Strategy Analytics, Dan was Principal at his consulting firm, NetAccess Futures, where he researched and wrote extensively for private clients and the trade press on Fiber-to-the-x deployment and operator strategy. He also was a Contributing Analyst at Heavy Reading, covering fixed broadband and optical transport networking, and he was an Associate at Interisle Consulting Group, where he did business case studies for emerging rural broadband operators. Previously, Dan was a Fellow of the Technical Staff at Motorola Labs, leading interdisciplinary teams through cutting edge exploratory projects and influencing the development of key industry standards. He started his career as a networking software engineer.
Dan has a BSc in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds 10 patents and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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Guang Yang is Director, Service Provider Group based in Beijing, China providing deep insights into the communications service providers, regulatory and device dynamics for China and other key markets in Asia. He tracks LTE-Pro and 5G RAN, Massive MIMO and 5G Network evolution including, timing for 5G deployments, Network Sharing, RF coverage optimization, Spectrum allocation, MVNO opportunities, Regulatory Policy, 3GPP standards and economics of CSP Investment in 5G.
Mr. Yang brings over 15 years of experience in the mobile communications industry to Strategy Analytics. Prior to joining Strategy Analytics, he worked for several leading telecom players.
His expertise and reports cover research and development, standardization and strategic analysis for 3G/4G/5G, emerging wireless technologies and the development of the industry ecosystem. Mr. Yang has developed business relationships with Chinese operators, regulators and media players and leads and participates in consulting projects for multiple Strategy Analytics clients including service providers, infrastructure, device and RF components vendors around the world.
Mr. Yang received his BE and ME degree on telecom and information systems from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
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Josie Sephton, Director of Teligen Services
Josie joined Teligen in January 2011 as a senior pricing consultant, with particular focus on bespoke benchmarking projects. Her experience in the telecoms and IT services industry spans some 24 years, and she has in-depth knowledge across a number of areas, including fixed voice and data services, mobile services, unified communications, and hosted services, with particular specialism is pricing and price benchmark consulting.
She has worked on numerous price-related projects with telecoms service providers, regulators and large enterprises over the years, including a bandwidth pricing and performance review for a major European service provider, a competitive assessment of fixed communications service price for a European regulator, and an analysis of retail pricing, including historic assessment and price forecasts, for a new entrant.
Prior to joining Teligen, Josie worked with a number of consulting and analyst houses, including Ovum, where she worked for 12 years as a pricing and benchmarking consultant and, most recently, with Freeform Dynamics, as a principal analyst focusing on mobility and Unified Communications. She holds a degree in Economics from Warwick University.
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Bernadette Finn, Associate Director
Bernadette joined Teligen in March 1993 and now heads up our tariff research operation. In her career here she has developed an in-depth knowledge of national and international telecom tariffs for a wide range of fixed and mobile services. She has worked closely with many of Teligen's high-level clients, providing in-depth analysis, managing projects and offering client support. She is highly familiar with a number of detailed analysis techniques and comparison methodologies. She has conducted tariff and pricing workshops on fixed and mobile services at seminars in Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Teligen Bernadette worked at Frost & Sullivan in London, specialising in IT and data communications.
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Angela Toal, Service Manager, OECD Mobile Voice & Data Price Benchmarking & OECD Mobile Broadband Price Benchmarking
Angela is the Service manager of two Teligen products: the flagship “OECD Mobile Voice and Data Price Benchmarking” and also “OECD Mobile Broadband Price Benchmarking”.
She joined Teligen in 2007 as a Tariff Analyst. Since then, she has gone on to develop her expertise in the mobile services. Her recent notable achievements include enhancing the technology filter to identify 5G plans in both products and creating cost per GB analysis for the Teligen Dashboards.
Angela is also involved in the current project to establish webscraping and other automation of the data collection processes for Teligen’s services.
In addition, she assists with the updating of the “OECD Bundled Communications Price Benchmarking” Service.
Angela has worked extensively on a range of proprietary studies, including Teligen’s multiplay price benchmarking. Angela produces regular analysis pieces for publication on the company website.
Before joining Teligen Angela worked in various research and analytical roles across a variety of sectors, demonstrating her ability to transfer her skills to almost any subject matter.
Angela holds a degree in Politics from the University of Warwick.
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Catherine Arteaga, Service Manager, OECD Bundled Communication Price Benchmarking
Catherine is an experienced service manager with strong analytical, data mining skills and over 15 years of demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry.
Currently, Catherine manages and is involved in the maintenance, update, and analysis of the OECD Bundled Communication Price Benchmarking service, which compare offers from each of the main services providers in OECD member countries across all permutations of services bundles including fixed broadband, fixed voice, mobile broadband, mobile voice & data, and TV. Catherine is also involved in the maintenance and update of the other OECD price benchmarking services and contributes to ad hoc bespoke projects.
Catherine is the content creator for the Teligen division social media LinkedIn page "Teligen Tariff and Benchmarking", writing regular features on telcoms pricing trends.
Catherine holds a degree in Finance and International Business from the Santiago de Cali University, in Colombia.
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Leah Cohen, Research Analyst
Leah Cohen is a research analyst with operational responsibility for panel management and data quality control for the AppOptix service. Her responsibilities include maintaining a representative sample, resolution of panel member issues, and analysis of trends and disruptions in user behavior.
Prior to joining AppOptix, Ms. Cohen worked as a research associate for the Strategic Competitor Intelligence – Mobile program (SCIm) with responsibilities for financial data collection and analysis.
Leah has a BS in Interdisciplinary Science from Florida Institute of Technology with studies in Astrophysics and Sustainability.
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Nacera Touileb, Service Manager, OECD Fixed Voice Price Benchmarking & OECD Fixed Broadband Price Benchmarking
Nacera manages two of Teligen’s fixed price benchmarking services, “OECD Fixed Voice and Leased Lines Price Benchmarking” and also “OECD Fixed Broadband Price Benchmarking”.
Since joining the Teligen tariff team in May 2004; Nacera has become a key member of the research team that monitors the markets for the OECD price benchmarking baskets.
In addition to managing these essential services, she is regularly working on many of Teligen’s custom projects, including the annual price benchmarking of the AREGNET (Arab Regulators Network of Telecommunications) markets, as well as several international Multiplay studies.
Nacera holds a law degree from the University of Algiers, qualifying as a solicitor in 1997. She speaks fluent English, French & Arabic.
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