Tag: Yankee Group

Gigi Wang Out at Yankee Group

Yankee Group – Gigi Wang is out as Chief Research Officer of Yankee Group, a role that she has held since February 2011. In this role, she lead Yankee Group’s team of analysts in defining the overall direction of research content for the firm. Gene Signorini, Vice President, Mobility Research has been promoted to SVP and […]

Ross Rubin Joins Yankee Group as an Affiliate

Yankee Group – Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research, has joined Yankee Group as an Affiliate covering Devices. Prior to founding Reticle Research, he was executive director and principal analyst at The NPD Group, where he provided analysis on a wide range of technology topics and launched several research products. Prior to NPD, he founded and […]

Media Update: The Reorganization of Yankee Group

As Calysto reported nearly one year ago, Yankee Group repositioned its’ mission to focus exclusively on the mobility revolution.   The firm’s value proposition for its clients is to help them make money, save money and mitigate risk with their critical strategy, product, technology and marketing decisions in the new mobile economy. With its focus on mobility, […]

Gene Signorini Leaving Yankee Group

Yankee Group – Gene Signorini, Senior Vice President and Head of Research plans to leave Yankee Group at the end of this month. Gene was promoted from Vice President, Mobility Research to Senior VP of Research following Gigi Wang’s departure in December 2011. Gene has been with Yankee for more than 12 years, where he was responsible […]

Yankee Group Sells 4G World

Yes, we did call this one last year. The 4G World trade show and exposition has been sold to UBM plc, a global media company. The sale of the stand-alone business unit allows Yankee Group to focus exclusively on research and advisory services, as well as concentrate more investment into new products. According to UBM’s […]

Bill Lesieur Signs on as an Affiliate at Yankee

Joining Yankee as a new Afffiliate is Bill Lesieur. He is an industry analyst, advisor and research consultant with more than 13 years experience.  Bill will be focused on mobile cloud, looking at the market from vendor, operator and end-user perspectives. Most recently, Bill established GITS Research, which is focused on cloud computing in the […]

Gene Signorini Promoted to SVP of Research at Yankee

Gene Signorini has been promoted to Senior VP of Research following Gigi Wang’s departure. He is coordinating the team’s focus on analyzing the impact of mobility across enabling technologies, business models and more. Gene is an industry analyst, with more than 17 years experience in the mobile and wireless industry, including 11 years at Yankee […]

Rich Karpinski Joins Yankee Group

Rich Karpinski has signed on as a new Senior Analyst following the closing of Connected Planet, where he was Editor-in-Chief for four years.  Rich will be focused heavily on mobile operator business models, service delivery strategies and the overall dynamics of the mobile ecosystem.

PR Vibes Q&A with Terry Waters, President & CEO, Yankee Group

Welcome to PR Vibes, created by Calysto Communications to provide you with key insights into the publications and events in the communications industry. Today, we’re featuring an interview with Terry Waters, who joined Yankee Group as president and CEO approximately one year ago. Terry shares his thoughts about Yankee Group’s focus on the mobility landscape. […]

Yankee Group Announces Affiliate Program

Monday I had the pleasure of speaking with Yankee Group’s CEO Terry Waters and Vice President, Marketing Shirley Macbeth. Terry shared with me the vision he has in Yankee’s evolution from connectivity to mobility. A very salient point, Terry said, “We are turning the telescope around from network out to view the industry now from […]

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