Greg Sheppard

, Senior Director, Emerging Platforms

Greg Sheppard, Senior Director of Emerging Platforms, manages several areas of research for IHS including solar energy, water, and healthcare and pharma. Prior to this Greg was one of the founders of iSuppli  (acquired by IHS in 2010) where he managed all of the analysts and market intelligence products for the first several years of iSuppli development. Most recently Greg has focused on developing new products in photovoltaic and financial services.

Greg has spent the last 25 years of his career in electronics technology market research helping hundreds of companies and investors make intelligent decisions about future courses of action. As an analyst or direct manager of research he has developed market expertise in applied macroeconomics, semiconductors, computing and peripheral systems, wired and wireless communications, consumer electronics, and mil/aero electronics. Mr. Sheppard was also one of the industry’s first teardown analysts having done work in the early 1990s to help IBM understand its PC manufacturing costs relative to its competitors. Most recently, Greg led development of the iSuppli buyer preference and retail performance research and linking it to other value chain activity. Other areas of personal involvement surrounded creating inventory research in the year 2000 which helped the company successfully call the dot com boom and bust cycle. He also led development of several other iSuppli offerings including the Semiconductor Spend Analysis, the Design Activity Tool (DAT) and the Design Forecast Tool (DFT).

Prior to joining iSuppli, Mr. Sheppard managed the global semiconductor practice for Gartner/Dataquest. He was with that organization for more than a decade in various analytical and management roles. He was also in strategic marketing with Fairchild Semiconductor where he honed his vision for market research in helping prioritize resourcing for Fairchild products and technologies. Greg began his career as a communications system engineer at GTE (now part of Verizon).

Greg holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Masters degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California.

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