Saverio Romeo focuses on monitoring and analyzing emerging trends, technologies and market behavior in the mobile and wireless communications in Western and Eastern Europe. He also studies the impact of EU regulation and government technology policies on the mobile industry, and applications of mobile technologies in vertical markets.
Since joining Frost & Sullivan in March 2007, Saverio has completed several studies including European Mobile Communications Outlook 2008, Mobile Virtual Network Operators: Emerging Players in the European Mobile Market, Exploring The European Market of Mobile Smart Devices, Exploring the EU Research Policy in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, European Mobile Premium Content Market, Ad-based Content and Communications: A Lucrative Avenue for the Mobile Industry and Social Network Analysis: Looking Inside Mobile Communities.
Saverio has also been involved in consultancy projects with diverse clients such as IDA Ireland, SK Telecom, GN, Capricode, Goldman Sachs, Vodafone Group and Telkom South Africa. He also comments on mobile communications market in Europe for magazines, radios and television channels such as IT Europa, BBC, CNBC, ANSA, Computer World, Mobile Business, Herald Tribune International, Milano Finanza and Associated Press. He contributes to Convergence Conversation, the blog of Intellect, the UK ICT industry association.
Prior to this, Saverio was a Research Consultant at Technopolis Group and Scientific Officer Assistant at DG Information Society, European Commission. He brings with him a deep knowledge of Information Society policies at European level with particular emphasis on future emerging technologies.
At the end of 2007, he published a book review of Manuel Castells’ book “Mobile Communication and Society – A Global Perspective” in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. In 2008, he published “Biotech in Oxfordshire: An Evolving System” for the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society. In September 2006, he received the Honorary Research Assistant at the Centre for Enterprise and Management Innovation at University College of London. During this period, he was part of research projects on academic spin-off formation in biotech and ICT sectors in the UK.
