Paul Arabasz
Consulting Director, Personal Systems
Team:
Hardware Consulting
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As Director of Consulting, Paul Arabasz has responsibility for custom research and consulting assignments for IDC's Personal, Document and Communications Technologies Consulting Group. He works with clients to define their objectives for custom research and manages IDC's worldwide resources to meet those objectives. His areas of expertise include data modeling and business value analysis.
Mr. Arabasz has over 30 years of experience in ITC market custom consulting, market research, market analysis, competitive analysis, and strategic and product planning. He has held management and analyst positions in these fields with major IT system vendors and leading market research and consulting firms.
Since rejoining IDC in 1992, Mr. Arabasz has led research teams in more than 150 tactical and strategic projects, primarily in the areas of PCs, thin clients, printers/hard copy devices, imaging, ROI/cost of ownership, forecast segmentation models, and distribution channels. He has managed, authored or co-authored the creation of over 30 IDC White Papers. Prior to that, Mr. Arabasz directed consulting programs at custom research firm TFS, Inc., managing assignments for leading IT vendors. He also worked for four years in market research and analysis for Wang Laboratories and Honeywell/Bull Information Systems. In his prior tenure with IDC, Mr. Arabasz managed IDC's IT market sizing and computer industry data collection efforts.
Mr. Arabasz holds a bachelor's degree in Business Quantitative Methods and Market Research from the School of Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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