Philippe Winthrop

Philippe Winthrop has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe 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 Services companies 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, a fact-based research firm based out of Boston. Not only did Philippe launch the Wireless and Mobility practice at Aberdeen, he also 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, Cemaphore Systems and Celio Corporation, the maker of the REDFLY mobile companion.

When Philippe is not burning the midnight oil blogging about enterprise mobility, he spends his days at Strategy Analytics as part of their Global Wireless Practice. The views and opinions expressed here are not affiliated to Strategy Analytics and should not be considered from Strategy Analytics.