Jamie Snowdon

Chief Researcher

Jamie’s role at Market Prescience includes:

  • Survey design/analysis. Jamie has over twenty-five years experience with survey design and analysis, undertaking projects of all sizes to drive thought leadership and help understand customers and markets better.
  • Researching disruptive technology in the IT Services market. Specifically, examining how the IT and business services industry is leveraging disruptive technology within its client base.
  • Market sizing and forecasting / competitive intelligence. Jamie is an expert at sizing technology and technology services markets, sifting through relevant data and modelling to produce accurate sizing and precise forecasts.
  • Thought leadership and consulting.  Much of Jamie’s career has focused on bespoke research – helping customers market IT product and services through thought leadership and helping decision making through quantifying opportunities. 

Jamie Snowdon has over twenty-five years’ experience in the IT and Business Services industry. In that time, he has worked in a variety of roles including sales, marketing, consulting and as an industry analyst. Jamie’s analyst career has largely been spent conducting data analysis including market size/forecast models, quantitative/qualitative survey analysis and competitive analysis.

Jamie spent more than 5 years at HFS Research as Chief Data Officer where he was responsible for IT Services research and the firms data products. Before this, Jamie worked at IDC running their European Cloud Services research and at UK-based analyst firm Nelson-Hall as a Research Director, conducting vendor and market analysis within the IT and Business Services community. Jamie spent seven years at IDC, where he was the European consulting director for IDC’s services group, managing all the groups bespoke research. Jamie specialized in delivering custom market forecast models and forecasting tools tailored to his client’s individual needs. In addition, Jamie ran IDC’s European outsourcing research, covering both IT and business process outsourcing.

Jamie has wide industry knowledge covering disruptive technology like Cloud, quantum computing, and virtual reality. In addition to his experience across the IT services market including: IT consulting, enterprise applications, IT & business process outsourcing, desktop & network services, equipment maintenance, and business continuity.

Earlier in his analyst career, Jamie spent almost five years with the IT services research specialist INPUT in a mixture of marketing and analysis roles. He left as the UK operations manager having spent two years as a customer services industry analyst. Jamie completed his graduate training at one of the UK’s leading electronic and IT distribution companies.

Apart from data, Jamie’s passion is learning; he holds university degrees in general science (computing), law and has a post graduate diploma in legal practice. He lives in Twickenham, London, with his wife and two daughters. His other loves include cycling, reading trashy sci-fi, cool technology, and the perfect pint.

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