Robert Wells, Managing Director, has spent a career gathering and manipulating information — as a high-technology industry analyst, business journalist and publisher. As a consultant with Solista (since acquired by Gartner), he assisted the global cable operator UPC and other clients. Before that, as a principal in Lennox Research, he researched media industry business opportunities for various clients, principally in consumer media markets. He assisted CableLabs for seven years, writing more than 120 magazine articles and white papers on leading-edge cable technology developments. His own published research studies include Channel Compression: A Strategic Analysis (Paul Kagan Associates), The Interactive Home (Warren Publishing) and Cable Modem Report (English edition by Cowles Business Media, Japanese edition by ASCII Books). Earlier, he was a Senior Analyst and Research Director with the Yankee Group, authoring studies on such topics as PCs, satellite TV, electronic commerce and cable television, speaking at industry conferences, and personally advising such firms as American Express, Time Inc., Toshiba, NEC and Citicorp. He earlier was a business journalist in Detroit and Denver and business editor of a Knight-Ridder newspaper. He holds a bachelors degree (cum laude) in economics from Princeton and a Masters Degree in International Studies from Harvard.

Rod Campbell, Chief Technology Strategist, since receiving an engineering degree from MIT, has accumulated over twenty years of experience in the software and information management industries in engineering, marketing, and business development. He has worked with such companies as IBM, Unisys, Walt Disney Imagineering, Texas Instruments, U S West, Sun Microsystems, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Philips, and others on a range of projects. Areas of expertise include communication technologies, the Internet and intranets, video and audio distribution, consumer electronics, multimedia development, product development processes, competitive research, trade show support, business plan development, and technology analysis. He has conducted feasibility studies and assisted in due diligence assessment projects conducted by Lennox for more than a decade.


Alain le Grignou, Director, European Operations, has over 20 years of experience as an executive consultant with companies of varying size, culture and specialization. He has assisted major and medium-sized companies in implementing strategic plans and large-scale change programs, has managed complex and cross-national projects in Europe and internationally, and has led management teams delivering significant impact on profitability and overall company operations. His past specific client relationships have included Cap Gemini, France Telecom and British Telecom. A Paris resident, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Law, Law School of Rennes, France, and Bachelor of Arts in Marketing, Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.

Diane Freeman, Senior Research Analyst, has been a business researcher and writer for 27 years. Currently, she produces regular research reports on individual companies and business trends for a unit of DresdnerRCM Global Investors. A former business reporter for The Houston Post, she has been a published author on business topics for 12 years, with her work appearing in Time, Business Week, Money, Reuters, Institutional Investor, Parade, HealthScout.com, Interactive Week, Telecom Business, Wireless Week, Denver Post, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Colorado Business, and other trade publications. For corporate clients, she has developed content for newsletters, brochures and websites. Past clients have included Conoco, Exxon, Foley's, Newmont Mining, Colorado Home Care and the Denver-based National Endowment for Financial Education. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Oklahoma and taught journalism at the University of Houston.