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Jay Gumbiner
Director, Consumer and Commercial Devices, Latin America

Team: Latin America Consumer and Commercial Devices Team
For the past 10 years, Jay Gumbiner has been recognized as the leading expert on market trends, competitive positioning and channel dynamics for the consumer and commercial devices business in Latin America. His specific areas of expertise include PCs, Printers, Printer Supplies, Digital Cameras, and Mobile Phones, among other products. As Director of Consumer and Commercial Devices Research at IDC Latin America, Jay is responsible for managing IDC's analysis of device research across nearly eighteen countries in the region through quarterly, semiannual, and annual studies and together with his team of analysts provides IDC’s clients with detailed insight via market sizing, competitive analysis, forecasts, and advisory services.

The media values Mr. Gumbiner’s expertise and opinion of the consumer devices market in the Latin America region. He is regularly quoted in the media, including The Wall Street Journal Americas, CNN en Español, América Economía, Business News Americas, and often appears as a guest commentator on television networks such as Bloomberg Latin America.

Technology vendors look to Jay for his insights on the future of the market as well as his confidential opinion on planned strategic initiatives. He speaks frequently at vendor events providing the scenario from which corporate plans are built in Latin America, as well as a frequent presenter at industry conferences.

Prior to joining IDC in 1999, Mr. Gumbiner worked for Fibertel where he was responsible for developing promotional and pricing strategies in Argentina. Prior to Fibertel, he was a Territory Sales Manager for Philip Morris.

He received a Master’s Degree in International Business from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Washington. Mr. Gumbiner is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Portuguese.



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Latin America Predictions 2010
Romina Adduci, Federico Amprimo, Diego Anesini, Matias Berardi, Maricela De La Cruz, Alejandro Florean, Jay Gumbiner, Lidice Fernandez, Eric A. Prothero, Christopher Real, Cristina Rivas, Reinaldo Roveri, Reinaldo Sakis, Juan Seminara, Renato Troya, Alejandro Valdes, Natalia Vega, Ricardo Villate, Cesar Longa, Mariana Zamoszczyk, Patrick Melgarejo
Jan 2010 - Doc # LA10103      Top 10 Predictions
As global markets return to growth in 2010, Latin America IT adoption is at a crossroads: Will most buyers return to pre-crisis spending behaviors or will buying patterns be changed forever, scarred by the experience of living ...
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Predictions 2010: The SMB Return to IT Spending - How and Where?
Raymond Boggs, Justin Jaffe, Matt Davis, Giuliana Folco, Jay Gumbiner, Timothy Doherty, Liz Conner, Paul Edwards
Jan 2010 - Doc # 221836      IDC Presentation
This IDC Presentation was part of a Webcast that was held in January 2010. It provides a global assessment of the SMB market including regional share of SMB IT spending for 2009. The extraordinary impact of worldwide recession ...
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