Greg Collins

Summary

Greg Collins is a technology analyst and strategist with extensive experience in creating innovative, highly analytical and enduring market segmentation and research practices in technical networking, telecommunications, and wireless markets. Greg founded Exact Ventures in 2011, in order to provide market intelligence with greater depth and context than traditional, static pillars of market data. Exact Ventures research combines both supply- and demand-side market intelligence and highlights the economics underlying emerging and transitioning markets and technologies. The firm also provides advisory services to those looking to understand these trends and how to create strategies and tactics to exploit market transitions given their specific strengths and market dynamics. Greg was an industry analyst with DellOro Group from 1998 to 2011 during which time he created and/or managed approximately half of the company’s research programs. Specifically, he created the company’s coverage of the Layer 3, Layer 4/7, and 10-Gigabit Ethernet markets, and created market research practices covering the Wireless LAN, Mobile Infrastructure, IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS), and Wireless Packet Core markets. Greg is a frequent speaker at industry events worldwide, contributes articles to various industry publications, and is often quoted in leading trade and business publications. Greg has a BS in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Washington University in St. Louis. Specialties: Wireless Packet Core, Evolved Packet Core, Diameter Signaling, IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) Wireless LAN, Voice-over-IP, Mobility Infrastructure, Consumer Networking, Data Networking, Strategic Marketing/Planning, Finance, Industry Analysis, Competitive Analysis, Market Research, Pricing and Elasticity Analysis