HENRY Corporation – a new ICT market research and marketing services firm was launched by former IDC analyst Carsten Schmidt on November 1, 2009. The aim of the organization is to provide clients with marketing support (presentations, consulting and market reports) on the ITC industry in EMEA. The company’s services include a speaker bureau for ICT vendors, event management services in cooperation with IDG in Denmark and strategic and tactical marketing services for ICT vendors in Scandinavia and the Netherlands. The firm is made up of senior executive ‘Henry Fellows’ – currently all ex-IDC analysts, including:
Anne-Lisa Wang – software industry, applications, enterprise portals
Claus Egge – storage systems, data leakage, cloud-based content, green IT, new media types, data security, disaster recovery/BC, server, storage virtualization
Marcel Warmerdam – IT markets, forecasting, market models
Martin Hingley – ITC markets, data center, cloud computing, CSR, digital explosion, forecasts, market shares
Pim Bilderbeek – telecoms, multimedia, social media, enterprise mobility, unified communications, cloud computing, managed services, data center, mission-critical infrastructure
Simone de Bruin – pan-European partnership strategies in the software/services industry