Charles Smulders Managing VP San Jose, CA USA Years of Experience 18 years at Gartner 21 years IT industry Areas of Coverage PCs, Laptops & Handheld Devices View Latest Research Resources Create Analyst Alert Contact Gartner Roles and Responsibilities Charles Smulders is a managing vice president running Gartner's End User Client Computing Group. Mr. Smulders is responsible for managing Gartner's worldwide research on client architectures, OS and Office productivity software He is an active contributor to the research agenda and deliverables. Mr. Smulders relocated to the U.S. from the UK 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 LATEST RESEARCH More by this author Title Publish Date Author(s) 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 Sun Microsystems' Storage Business Has Limited Strategic Value for Oracle 12-May-2009 Roger W. Cox, Charles Smulders Vendor Rating: Apple in the Enterprise 07-Apr-2009 Charles Smulders, Mike McGuire Dataquest Telebriefing: Preliminary PC Forecast and Market Scenarios, Worldwide, 1Q09 06-Mar-2009 George Shiffler III, Charles Smulders, Angela McIntyre