Mike McGuire

Gartner Dataquest Research
Vice President, Research, Mobile Devices and Consumer Services

Mike McGuire is Vice President, Research, Mobile Devices and Consumer Services at Gartner Dataquest Research. McGuire covers mobile media trends, consumer services and content-protection DRM issues, and more. Topics include the consumer adoption of online music services and emerging business models. Prior to his current assignment, McGuire oversaw Gartner's research in the online music segment, as well as legal and regulatory issues that media companies face. Topics include the consumer adoption of online music services, the effects of peer-to-peer technologies on the media industry and emerging business models. Mr. McGuire and Allen Weiner are responsible for Gartner's "Media Titans" research series of reports. Prior to re-joining Gartner in 2000, Mr. McGuire worked with mobile computing start-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. He was at Dataquest from 1994 through 1997 as senior and principal analyst for the mobile computing program. He worked for four years in hi-tech marketing and PR with companies ranging from Acer to GRiD Systems and Geoworks.