Duncan Chapple and Aleksandra Bosnjak have been billed as speakers for for our Informa webinar on the possible sale of the firm. Since both were formerly analysts at Ovum, part of the Informa group, they bring both a personal and [...]
Informa is being bought, but by whom? United Business Media, the UK publishing giant, started the bidding and then dropped out. Now private equity groups are in play, such as Providence are bidding. The primary logic for a merger with [...]
Datamonitor CEO Mark Meek met us last week to explain to us his plans for Ovum. A touchstone in the conversation was the highly effective turn-around of Datamonitor’s once-struggling health-care business at the start of this decade. His direct involvement [...]
Is Ovum, one of the most successful European-headquartered analyst firms, at a tipping point? Its new owners, Datamonitor, have a few months in which to decide whether to renew Ovum’s reputation for broad and distinctive research, or whether to stay [...]
The next Institute of Industry Analyst Relations Forum will take place here at the Technopark, Lighthouse Analyst Relations‘ London office (a map is here). As an Ovum alumnus, I’m especially happy that Chris Lewis, Senior Vice President with Ovum, will [...]
