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As a consumer insights analyst at Forrester Research, Gina focuses on consumer technology usage and adoption, retail habits, and online behaviors. She works extensively with Forrester's Consumer Technographics® data to understand the role that technology plays in consumers' lives and advises companies on marketing strategies that cater to consumers' rapidly changing preferences and behaviors. Gina’s research agenda focuses on consumer trends, quantitative market research techniques, behavioral economics for market insights, and the merging of market insights and behavioral data. As she has a quantitative background, Gina uses innovative consumer analytics techniques that provide her clients with actionable insights. She helps Forrester clients map their customer journey, segment their customers, and understand the drivers of purchase and loyalty.
Before working as a consumer insights analyst, Gina was a senior strategic analyst at Mullen advertising. At Mullen, Gina provided the strategic and analytical support to solve business challenges, identify market-sizing opportunities, and frame positioning and communication strategy. She served several clients across many industries, including JetBlue, Qwest, and the Department of Defense. Her focus at Mullen included customer relationship management (CRM) strategy and implementation, media mix optimization, quantitative modeling, and conjoint analysis.
Prior to Mullen, Gina worked as a consultant at IHS Global Insight, an economic research and consulting firm. At IHS Global Insight, Gina worked in the consulting division to provide market insights and economic analysis to clients in numerous industries including construction, chemicals, durable goods, and finance. During her time at IHS Global Insight, Gina focused on demand modeling, forecasting, and scenario planning.
Gina graduated with high honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, earning a B.A. in business economics and global studies. She also holds an M.A. in economics from Boston University.
Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store
Today, many employees use their personally owned smartphones and tablets for work to access a variety of mobile applications. Some companies are also proactively deploying mobile applications to...

Enterprises are deploying a wide range of horizontal and vertical mobile applications. Results from Forrester’s 2010 Network and Telecom survey of IT decision makers at North America and...
Yesterday, Amdocs, a leading provider of customer experience systems, agreed to acquire Bridgewater Systems, a provider of policy, subscriber management, and network control solutions for mobile and...

Five Key Dynamics That Will Help You Capture The Opportunity For Your Organization
Ericsson made a $1.15 billion offer to acquire Telcordia, a provider of operations support systems/business support systems (OSS/BSS) for telecom service providers. The Telcordia acquisition enables...
Enterprises of all sizes must support a multitude of mobile devices and applications that run over a wide range of mobile operating systems, as well as update devices and applications every few...
Last week Verizon held its Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference in Las Vegas, where the company unveiled an updated and newly branded Verizon Apps store, which replaces the VCast app...
Firms are expanding beyond basic applications, deploying line-of-business mobile applications to address the needs of specific workers including the sales force, help desk, supply chain, logistics,...
During the past few months, telecom service providers including AT&T, Sprint and Verizon have highlighted their roadmaps and deployment plans for 4G network technologies. These 4G technologies...
Each year, Forrester analysts field over 20,000 inquiries on a variety of topics, which provide insight into the key issues and challenges facing our clients in a variety of roles, including CIOs,...
Focus Quickly Shifts From Managing Mobile Devices To Managing Apps And Data
The managed mobile environment services market is about to go through a fundamental change. Currently, traditional providers focus on managing the device and its security. Moving forward, Forrester...
Executive Overview: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
BYOD. BYOPC. Consumerization. These are the words that send shivers down the spines of infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals responsible for "end user computing" in their companies....
On Monday, June 7th, AT&T will introduce two new smartphone data plans, which will replace the current $30/month unlimited data plan offer and will make smartphone data packages affordable to more...
Results from Forrester's Q2 2012 Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey show that more than two-thirds of North American and European information workers who use a computer for work an hour...
Landscape: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
2012 brought a tectonic shift in worker technology requirements. Many more employees now purchase their own devices, bring them to work, and use them to conduct personal and professional activities...