Chief Analyst, Media Research As Chief Analyst, Ben directs all the company's research and consultancy activities. He has overall responsibility for the 100-plus major research reports published by the company since 1997 and the ongoing continuous strategic Intelligence services that Screen Digest supplies to hundreds of major clients, including Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Time Warner... Senior Principal Analyst, US Media Tom Adams, founder of Adams Media Research, has been widely acknowledged as a leading authority on the U.S. home entertainment markets. He developed the analytical models and databases that are the basis for the company's estimates and projections of the U.S. media markets, and works closely with his team of analysts to generate original models of new content and distribution initiatives, strategic reports, newsletter articles... Research Director, Digital Media Arash Amel oversees the strategic development of the company's global output on the business and economics of broadband, the digital distribution of movies, music, TV and user-generated content, and the relationship between content, open internet distribution platforms and consumer technology.
Since joining the company in 2001, Amel has pioneered and managed the company's market forecasting models in all of these area... Research Director, Television Guy Bisson has more than 15 years research experience covering the global television markets. He was instrumental in building the IHS television research department and the on-line Television Intelligence data service. Bisson has a wide range of consulting experience having carried out work for many of the world's largest media companies and investment banks... Senior Principal Analyst, Broadband Media Dan Cryan has played a key role in the development of the company's digital media coverage. As head of broadband he specializes in online content and the technical issues surrounding the distribution of digital entertainment.
Cryan led the development of the forecasting models used in the online Broadband Intelligence service including online movies, TV, music and user generated content... Senior Principal Analyst, Video Helen Davis Jayalath leads the video team and has overall responsibility for the company's coverage of the packaged media business. She has been analyzing the international video business since 1991 and is widely acknowledged as a leading authority in the field. Jayalath has led the expansion of the company’s coverage of the sector since 1994, including the development of the online Video Intelligence service which set new standards... Senior Principal Analyst, Cinema David Hancock is a senior expert on the global film and cinema sectors and has overseen development in this area since 1997, including the set-up of the online data and analysis service Cinema Intelligence. He is also actively developing the company's digital cinema activities. Hancock has been involved in numerous consultancy projects for international organizations and companies... Senior Principal Analyst, Games Piers Harding-Rolls has been the lead games analyst since 2005. As head of the games team he leads projects in games related consulting, produces industry leading reports on games markets and manages the development and expansion of the games intelligence service into new areas of coverage including the various online games sectors such as the online console market... Senior Principal Analyst, Advertising Daniel Knapp is a senior analyst specializing in TV and digital media advertising. Incorporating both a macro-and micro perspective, he focuses on how economic, technological, regulatory and media consumption changes impinge on advertising markets and what implications are for the strategic development of media companies... Senior Principal Analyst, TV Technology Tom Morrod has developed the TV Technology Intelligence service and is responsible for all related projects focused on the technology value chain. In 2008, Tom authored a major report on the global broadcast and media technology industry for the IABM, after having co-authored the report's first edition in 2006. Senior Principal Analyst, Mobile Media Ian is a senior principal analyst and as head of the IHS mobile sector, he directs research, consulting, analysis, and forecasting of the mobile market. This includes: mobile media; app stores; mobile money; and smartphones. In mobile, IHS delivers must-have strategic insights for media firms, device makers, operators, equipment vendors and other companies that are refining their mobile strategy... Senior Analyst, Television Maria Aguete has been researching and analyzing TV operators in Europe for the last eight years. She specializes in developing different statistical models to forecast operational growth of media companies in Europe.
Aguete has participated in a number of reports including the annual European Cable Yearbook... Senior Analyst, Television Richard Broughton is a Senior Analyst specializing in examining global pay-TV markets. Within the sector, Broughton focuses on business practices and trends in the nascent IPTV industry, and is the author of the company’s IPTV Business Models report. Broughton is also responsible for TV Intelligence's video-on-demand model, which looks at pay-TV VoD and nVoD services worldwide... Senior Analyst, Video Richard Cooper is a Senior Analyst on the video team where he is responsible for the ongoing development of the online Video Intelligence service, including designing, constructing and maintaining the detailed computer models that underpin the company’s video forecasts. His other responsibilities include tracking the expanding Blu-ray Disc replication sector and monitoring trends in emerging markets... Senior Analyst, Cinema Charlotte Jones is a senior analyst, specializing in the global film and cinema sectors and has eight years experience as a media analyst. She authored the first major industry study on digital 3D cinema, “The Business Case for Digital 3D Cinema Exhibition.” She is also the co-author of the major report, “Digital Cinema: Rollout, business models and forecasts,”... Senior Analyst, Film Entertainment A veteran of some 14 years with AMR, Jan is vice president of AMR's publication division, overseeing the development and production of AMR's industry reports and monthly newsletter. As senior analyst she is responsible for the research and analysis for AMR's exclusive Titles Database... Senior Analyst, Asia-Pacific Markets David Scott is a Senior Analyst specializing in the media markets of the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Australia, his responsibilities include tracking market trends and developments in up to 10 territories in the Asia Pacific region for the company’s Video, Broadband Media and Television teams... Senior Analyst, TV Technology Daniel Simmons plays an integral role in developing the company’s TV Technology Intelligence service. His knowledge base is centered on customer premises equipment markets such as set-top boxes, television sets, conditional access and middleware. In complement to the intelligence service... Senior Analyst, Television Tim Westcott joined the company in September 2004 and has written reports on film and sports rights, animated movies and television on the internet. He previously worked for two years at the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg as an analyst specializing public film and audiovisual... Senior Analyst, US Video Michael Arrington has extensive experience in a wide range of media, entertainment and high-technology markets including cable, consumer devices, film entertainment, graphics hardware and software, interactive television, the Internet and online services, personal computers, satellite communications and software development.
Michael has previously served as an analyst at Penton Digital Media Research and Paul Kagan Associates... Senior Analyst, Games Christine Arrington is a Senior Analyst, Games at IHS. She has extensive experience in market analysis in the game industry, and game content creation technologies ranging from middleware to 3D content creation tools. Christine has also conducted research in entertainment technologies such as mobile devices, digital set-top boxes, digital television, interactive television, DVD hardware... Analyst, Games Steve Bailey joined IHS in 2008, specializing in the burgeoning online PC gaming market ever since. His work encompasses MMOGs, virtual worlds, online console, and casual, browser-based and social gaming. These have centered largely on subscription and microtransaction markets in the western world, with further ongoing interest in... Analyst, US Cable Networks With nearly five years of analytical experience in the cable television landscape, Erik Brannon brought his knowledge and experience to IHS in April 2008. He specializes in the economics of cable television networks, and is a contributor to the company’s U.S. Television Intelligence Service. Since joining IHS, he has participated in many consulting projects... Senior Analyst, Broadband Media James Garlick is a Senior Analyst on the broadband team who oversees the broadband access data models for 50 countries, monitors the impact of technical/regulatory developments and assesses provider strategies in broadband markets worldwide. He played a critical role in extending the company's data models and broadband coverage to his areas of expertise – internet service provider economics, next-generation networks and consumer networking hardware... Analyst, Video Tony Gunnarsson plays a key role in the on-going maintenance and expansion of territory-by-territory Blu-ray and DVD forecasts for the Video Intelligence Service. His specific responsibilities include the tracking and analysis of developments in the European video sector, with a particular focus on the markets of Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. He is also responsible for monitoring trends... Senior Analyst, Broadband Media Marija Jaroslavskaja is an analyst in the broadband media team specializing in music, connected devices and free online video consumption. She has worked on a number of consultancy projects on topics ranging from the future of the TV channel to internet service provider economics... Analyst, Television Andrew Katolo focuses on Central and Eastern European pay television markets. Since joining IHS in September 2007, he has contributed to a number of reports and consultancy projects.
Katolo graduated from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, with a Master of Arts in Philosophy... Senior Analyst, Mobile Media Jack Kent is responsible for coverage of mobile games and application stores and has played a key role in expanding the company’s mobile intelligence coverage of Latin America and other emerging markets.
Kent previously worked for Brad Insight, the marketing and media intelligence division of Emap where he led a team of researchers Analyst, TV Technology Merrick joined IHS in January 2009 as a research analyst for the Television Technology team.
Merrick completed his Master of Science from the London School of Economics in the fall of 2008, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Middlebury College. He speaks fluent French and Italian... Analyst, Games Nick Parker has held senior positions in the leisure software sector, most recently at Infogrames, for more than 12 years. Following his role as business analysis manager at Nintendo, Nick joined Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in 1995 where he held overall responsibility for the company's software catalogue management, sales forecasting and market research... Research Associate Broadband Media Laura Aguilera was promoted to research analyst in January 2010. She provides research and analytic support for packaged video, digital video and TV sectors, and provides targeted research for consulting projects. Laura is also a key researcher for the company’s Titles Database.
She is currently enrolled in college part time, working toward her MBA. She is fluent in Spanish... Analyst, Advertising Cyrine Amor joined the company in December 2008. She focuses on tracking advertising trends in a number of African, Middle-Eastern and Asian markets. Her research fields cover out-of-home advertising and ad agencies.
Prior to joining IHS, Amor worked in the film industry at the U.K. Film Council and freelanced as a script consultant. She holds a Master of Arts with distinction in Media & Communications... Research Associate, US Cable Networks Amer Barghouth joined the company in March 2010, providing research and analysis for the U.S. TV Intelligence and U.S. Cable Network Intelligence services.
Barghouth graduated from Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) with a Master of Arts in International Development Policy, with an emphasis on Research Design and Advanced Data Analysis... Research Associate, TV Technology Edward “Ed” Border joined IHS in May 2010 as a research analyst for the Television Technology team. Previously, he worked as a Math Teacher in China and as a trader in the Sports Betting industry. Border graduated in the autumn of 2009 with a 1st class Masters in Mathematics from the University of Oxford, and holds a degree in Mathematics from the same institution... Research Associate, Mobile Media Daniel Gleeson joined company in August 2010 as a research analyst for the mobile content team. He holds a research master’s in physics from University College Cork specializing in quantum optics. He also holds a joint honors degree in mathematics and physics from the same institution... Research Associate, Video Tania joined IHS 2009, first as a Research Associate for the Broadband Media Team, where she tracked the international online movies market and content relationships for connected devices, before transitioning to the Video Team in May 2011. Her responsibilities include...
Analyst, Television Aravind Venugopal is the latest member of the television team, having joined in early 2009 as a research analyst. Venugopal holds a Master's degree in Media Management from the University of Westminster, where he focused on the strategies of the U.K.'s pay TV operators, and a the strategies of the... Research Associate, Broadband Media Jon joined IHS in May 2010 as a Research Associate for the Broadband Media Team.
Jon has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Durham University and an MSc in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Bristol... Research Associate, Television Jonathan joined the television team at IHS in September 2010 as a research analyst focusing on the European market. Jonathan holds an MEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield... Research Associate, US Cable Networks Harold joined IHS in October 2010 as a research analyst for the U.S. TV Intelligence and U.S. Cable Network Intelligence services. Vargas is tasked with bolstering the company’s research efforts through his advanced programming skills by automating the data collection processes that feed into our core databases... Research Associate, Television Fateha Begum joined the company in October 2010 as a research analyst on the television team, focusing on the IPTV market. She graduated with a BSc (Honours) in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London, in July 2010... Research Associate, Advertising Hicham Zoultaoui joined IHS in February 2011 as a research analyst in the advertising department, focusing on the digital signage market. Prior to joining the company, Zoultaoui worked for the music industry tackling... Research Associate, Broadband Media Irina joined IHS in July 2011 as a Research Associate for the Broadband Media team. She holds an MSc in International Management from King's College London and graduate degree in Management from Russian State University of Trade and Economics... Research Associate, TV Technology Spyros joined IHS in August 2011 as a Research Associate in the TV Technology team. Spyros holds a BSc degree in Broadcast Technology from Liverpool John Moores University while he is currently studying for an MSc in Business Systems Analysis and Design from City University London... Research Associate, Television Martyn joined IHS in June 2011 as a Research Analyst in the Television team. Martyn holds an MSc in Economics from the University of East Anglia (with a specialisation in competition economics) and a BA in Economics and Finance from... Research Associate, TV Technology Wajahat joined IHS Screen Digest in July 2011 as a Research Associate in the TV Technology team. Wajahat has a background in Computer Science and holds an M.Sc. in Network Centred Computing from Reading University with more emphasis on... Research Associate, Advertising and Television Zhini joined IHS in July 2011 as a Research Associate in both the Advertising and Television teams. Her research spans across the Asia and Pacific markets with a particular emphasis on China. She covers both ad-funded and pay TV, as well as... Research Associate, Advertising Beata joined IHS in July 2011 as a Research Associate for the Advertising Intelligence service. Her research covers Central and Eastern European (CEE) markets with a core emphasis on national and multichannel TV, as well as on online advertising. Research Associate, Mobile Media Enrique joined IHS in August 2011 as a Research Associate in the Mobile Media team. He has research experience in the Cleantech and Healthcare industries, and has previously been a university lecturer teaching courses on globalisation and international relations... |