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Bradley Shimmin
Chief Analyst, AI & Data Analytics
Brad has more than 25 years of experience in IT technology, analyzing data and information architectures. He is skilled in competitive market intelligence, technology selection, business development, and quantitative research. He also has experience as an IT professional, business analyst, book author/editor, and high-tech journalist/editor.
Brad helps enterprises and high-tech companies work effectively across several market areas, including enterprise data and analytics, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and DevOps. His expertise also covers market evaluation and go-to-market messaging, and he has a background in software development and database administration.

Naga Sukumar Gattu
Analyst
Naga Sukumar Gattu is an Analyst, supporting the IT market models team and primarily deals with data modeling and forecasting, market sizing of IT spending, and tracking industry trends. His research helps to understand the adoption of digital transformation technologies and provides insights for IT budgets, investment priorities, and market growth.
Sukumar specializes in IT spending, budget prediction, and market forecasting. His research includes market sizing, trend analysis, forecasting, vendor analysis, and rankings for the technology spending market. Sukumar also supports database management of premium tools and the primary research and consulting projects of Omdia. Before joining Omdia, formerly Ovum, in 2013, he worked as an associate analyst at GlobalData, where he worked in market research and business intelligence. Sukumar holds a master’s degree in business administration, specializing in marketing and finance, from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Kakatiya University in Telangana, India.

Deepak Gulve
Associate Analyst
Deepak Gulve is an associate analyst and works with the IT market models team, focusing on data modelling and forecasting, market size of IT spending, and tracking trends. He provides insights for IT budgets and market growth, and he performs financial analysis of companies through advanced secondary research.
Deepak joined Omdia in 2021 and has a particular interest in market forecasting, analyzing industry trends, and performing vendor analysis. He holds a postgraduate diploma in business management and operations from Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from RGPV University in Bhopal.
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