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New York, New York, Us

New York , New York , Us

Sell-side analyst responsible for coverage of the cloud communications and networking sectors. Specific segments include UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS, collaboration, data center networking, data center interconnect, routing and switching, mobile core, NFV, RAN, optical networking metro/regional/longhaul/subsea, DSP silicon, wireline broadband, cable broadband, SDx, enterprise campus, CDNs.

Palo Alto, California, Us

I co-founded our research business in 2004 and merged our franchise with Woodside Capital Partners in 2011. We have built a successful, highly respected sell-side research platform under the WCP broker-dealer license. Our “techView” branded research coverage spans many key sectors including cloud infrastructure and software, enterprise software, advertising technology, and communications and network infrastructure.Our disruptive business model in sell-side research eliminates costly overhead of trading and sales, enabling our analyst team to develop a deep understand of our buy-side client needs. As a strategic advisory service, techView is exclusively forward looking and operates at a much lower altitude than competing sell-side offerings. Our clients include many of the biggest fund managers in public and late-stage private tech investing in the US and Europe. As an MD and Woodside, I am personally responsible for sector coverage spanning telecom infrastructure and data center and enterprise networking.I have invested most of my research cycles engaging with product and business leaders, channel staff, customers, ecosystem partners, and competitors of the products under my coverage. I am one of the most respected analysts in the communications and networking community and have carried over 30 companies under my research coverage, including Cisco, Juniper, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Infinera, Arista, F5, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Akamai, and many others. Besides staying abreast of real-time industry developments, my key research insights are centered on strong participation in industry-specific technology conferences and briefings with company product staff. I have participated in over 20 industry conferences per year, including many speaker roles and sponsored trips.

Incline Village, Nevada, Us

I co-founded IPR to exploit emerging opportunities for independent market research created by the 2003 SEC settlement. Our team brought extensive industry experience to Wall Street technology research where we disrupted a long-established hierarchy of suppliers. We saw tremendous success and built a large team of leading research analysts.I led, mentored and trained a team of analysts focused on the communications equipment and technology sector. We grew coverage from wireline and wireless communications equipment for service providers to include cable equipment, video infrastructure, service providers, enterprise networking, data center networking, and key semiconductor suppliers.

Us

I held a variety of senior positions at AFC in marketing and engineering management as the company grew in my first few years from a $30M revenue run-rate start-up to a publicly traded company with over $300M in revenues. My responsibilities increased rapidly over time, initially establishing the first program management/NPI functions at the company. I was later promoted to Director of Business Development, followed by Director of Marketing for the company. I worked closely with our executive staff and sales and engineering teams in leading product and market strategy and heading all company partnerships and M&A activity.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

My responsibilities included leading several cross-functional NPI teams from product concept to general availability. My teams managed product requirements fulfillment, budget compliance, engineering deliverables, and product launch to market. Raynet developed the first telco FTTC system which was widely deployed at Nynex/Verizon as well as Deutche Telecom prior to the company's acquisition by Ericsson.

Dallas, Tx, Us

My responsibilities included RFP development and response evaluation for new fiber to the curb access technology. I authored a graduate research paper on the business and technology challenges posed by powering of FTTC networks.

Mba, Engineering Management

Ms, Engineering Management/Science

Bs, Electrical Engineering