Rob Enderle

Rob is President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward looking emerging technology advisory firm. Recognized as one of the best general Inquiry Analysts in the world, Rob specializes in providing rapid perspectives and suggested tactics and strategies to a large number of clients dealing with rapidly changing global events. Rob lives emerging technology and has a passion for personal technology and social networking, but has experience in VOIP, Virtualization, operating systems, and vendor ecosystems.

Rob trained as a news anchor and co-hosted CNET radio during the 90s, has been widely used by both local and national news TV and radio programs, and has been identified as one of the worlds' most influential technology analysts. Currently Rob appears regularly for CNBC, Bloomberg, and FOX News and semi-weekly for a tech segment on WSJ radio. In addition Rob writes for ECT (TechNewsWorld, eCommerce Times, Linux World, MacNewsWorld), Dark Reading, Digital Trends, TGDaily, ITBusiness Edge and Datamation.

Before founding the Enderle Group in 2003 Rob was the Senior Research Fellow for Forrester Research and the Giga Information Group. While there he ran the eCommerce, Security, and Mobile research practices.

Before Giga, Rob was with Dataquest covering client/server software where he became one of the most widely publicized technology analysts in the world. Before Dataquest Rob worked for IBM and ROLM and was in IBM’s executive resource program. As part of that program he managed projects and people in Finance, Internal Audit, IT, Competitive Analysis, Marketing, Security, and Planning groups. Prior to IBM he was a Marketing Director and sat on the board of the Southern California Marketing Director’s Association.

Rob holds an AA in Merchandising, a BS in Business, and an MBA.

Rob sits on the advisory councils for Lenovo, Toshiba, AMD, Dell, and the Lifeboat Foundation.