DV Workshop: Richard Brewer
Workshop details:
Tuesday, 3 October, 2006
Workshop speaker:
Richard Brewer is the Senior Manager for Market Research Intelligence at Intuit’s Small Business Division (SBD), which includes its QuickBooks and Quicken product lines, in the firm’s Mountain View, CA headquarters. In this role, Mr. Brewer helps the Intuit SBD senior leadership understand the key industry and competitive trends affecting the organization through on-going market research and analysis of studies from the industry analyst,
financial analyst, and trade press communities.
Before joining Intuit, Mr. Brewer served as the Director of Consulting at Federal Sources, Inc. in Tysons Corner, VA, where Mr. Brewer helped high-tech clients increase their government IT product and service sales through federal market intelligence consulting, government contract and legislative analysis, and competitive landscape research.
Prior to Federal Sources, Mr. Brewer served as Director of Software Industry Research in the Tokyo, Japan office of International Data Corporation (IDC). Preceding his assignment in Tokyo, Mr. Brewer served as the Director of IT and Network Services Research at IDC’s Framingham, MA headquarters where he conducted market assessment studies for firms including: AT&T, MCI, Sprint, BellSouth, SBC, Lucent, Cisco, and Symantec.
Before joining IDC, Mr. Brewer served as a Statistical and Policy Analyst for a subcontractor on NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) project in Landover, MD. Prior to this, Mr. Brewer worked as a PR and marketing Account Associate at Cunningham Communication in Santa Clara, CA for clients including 3Com Enterprise Networking and Kodak Software.
Mr. Brewer holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) in International Communications Policy from the Fletcher School of Tufts University, and Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Asian Studies from Cornell University.