Analyst Profile Detailed
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Robert Rosenthal
Research Manager, Verticals, IDC MEA
Team:
eBusiness Strategies
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Based in IDC's Dubai office, Robert Rosenthal researches IT spending levels by industry in Middle East and African countries. Drawing on more than 600 regular interviews from across the region, his research documents and forecasts spending trends in 10 IT categories in Bahrain, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. He also provides guidance on the IT needs of small and medium-sized businesses, and how these needs differ from those of large enterprises.
Prior to joining IDC, Rosenthal worked in the strategy and business development group of TECOM Investments, a major commercial real-estate firm in Dubai that is the parent company of Dubai Internet City. Before that, he worked in IDC's Hardware Channels team in the U.S., and covered business-to-business spending and ecommerce adoption. While covering these topics he was quoted by The New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, and National Public Radio, among many others.
Rosenthal has a bachelor's degree in English and American literature from Brown University and an MBA with honors from Babson College.
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