Jarad Carleton is a Senior Consultant with the Frost & Sullivan ICT Practice. He focuses on monitoring and analyzing emerging trends, technologies and market dynamics in several markets including Storage, DRM, ECM, Outsourcing, as well as regulatory implications and technology solutions targeted to address regulatory business problems. He works with several clients on targeted strategic marketing communications projects.

Since joining Frost & Sullivan in May, 2000 Mr. Carleton has completed several research studies and consulting projects on Email Archiving, Digital Video Transport, Financial Services Data Archiving, Enterprise Digital Rights Management, Ruggedized Laptops, Information Lifecycle Management, Playback & Annotation software, Hosting Services, Biometric Network Authentication, and Enterprise P2P Architectures.

Prior to joining Frost & Sullivan, Mr. Carleton was an Internal Auditor at Viking Freight, re-branded FedEx Freight and a graduate student at the leading International Business School in North America. He brings with him from Viking Freight & the Thunderbird School of Global Management, analytical skills and the ability to effectively work in multicultural environments.

Mr. Carleton has received acclaim for his research through articles and quotes published in The Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine, CFO Magazine, The Washington Business Journal, InfoWorld and more. He has also been a speaker at conferences on Enterprise DRM, Storage, Internet Content Delivery, and as a featured guest speaker at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.