Analyst Profile
Charles Smulders
Charles Smulders
Managing VP
San Jose, CA USA
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Years of Experience
19 years at Gartner
22 years IT industry
Areas of Coverage
PCs, Laptops & Handheld Devices

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Roles and Responsibilities
Charles Smulders is a managing vice president running Gartner's End-User Client Computing and Enterprise Storage groups. Mr. Smulders is responsible for managing Gartner's worldwide research on client architectures, OS and office productivity software, and primary, backup and archiving storage. He is an active contributor to the research agenda and deliverables. Mr. Smulders relocated to the U.S. from the U.K. in 1997.
Previous Experience
In his previous positions with Gartner, Mr. Smulders led Gartner's distribution channel and PC analysis and was Gartner's forecast lead. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Smulders worked as an analyst for Romtec plc., a U.K.-based information technology (IT) market research company. There, he was responsible for running a market monitoring reseller panel with the purpose of ascertaining market size, share information and trends in hardware, software and peripherals. Before this, Mr. Smulders worked in the retail sector.
Professional Background
Romtec, Senior Analyst , 3 years
Dataquest (acquired by Gartner), Principal Analyst , 3 years
Education
B.S., with honors, University of Birmingham, England




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Apple's iPad Is More iPhone Than Tablet PC 01-Feb-2010 Carolina Milanesi, Van L. Baker, Mike McGuire, Charles Smulders
Gartner's Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and Beyond: A New Balance 29-Dec-2009 Brian Gammage, Daryl C. Plummer, Ed Thompson, Leslie Fiering, Hung LeHong, Frances Karamouzis, Claudio Da Rold, Kimberly Collins, William Clark, Nick Jones, Charles Smulders, Meike Escherich, Martin Reynolds, Monica Basso
Predicts 2010: PC Markets Offer New Opportunities 07-Dec-2009 Mikako Kitagawa, Charles Smulders, Leslie Fiering, Annette Jump, Angela McIntyre, Tracy Tsai, Amy Leong, C.G. Lee
Strategic Questions IT Should Ask the Storage Team 29-Oct-2009 Valdis Filks, Stewart Buchanan, Charles Smulders
Dataquest Insight: Emerging Markets Are Becoming Dumping Grounds for Secondary PCs 22-May-2009 Meike Escherich, Charles Smulders