Lars is the president of Waagstein Research and responsible for the company’s consulting services. Lars founded Waagstein Research together with Peter Waagstein in 2001. Lars has long experience of research within the IT domain, amongst others from the US based company Jupiter Research and from the Swedish company Intelligence which he co-founded in 1998. He has also worked with product development and product management of Internet services at Telia. Lars has a master’s degree from the School of Business, Göteborg University. He spends his spare with his family and he also enjoys playing golf or sailing when given the opportunity. Lars is married to Jasmina and together they have Fanny and Filip.

Peter is responsible for our analysis services and is together with Lars the founder of the company. He has several years of experience working with the analysis of IT issues from a financial and management perspective, but has also worked operatively with developing and marketing IT solutions. Peter has a master’s degree in business administration as well as a college degree in marketing. His spare time he enjoys spending with his family and travelling. Peter is married to Patricia and together they have Jonathan and Louise.

John is responsible for the sales and marketing of our reports. John came to Waagstein in the spring of 2003. He has 15 years experience of selling and marketing IT-related products and services to companies and the public sector. The last 10 years he has worked with sales of qualified analysis and consulting services to many of Scandinavia’s largest companies and organisations. John has a BSc, majoring in marketing. He also has college degrees in IT, pedagogy and law. His spare time he devotes to studies and travel. John is married to Rauni and together they have Joakim and Jonas.

Staffan is responsible for the marketing and project management of our benchmark studies, both those conducted among companies and those among government authorities. Staffan joined Waagstein Research in 2003. He has extensive experience of leading projects within IT, but has earlier also worked as project manager in the advertising industry. Staffan has a BSc majoring in sociology. He devotes his spare time to his summer house in Skåne and his special interest “creativity”. Staffan is married to Marita and together they have Carl and Erik.

Shipra Goel is a research analyst for Waagstein Research. She has research and analysis experience in IT projects of varying nature and technology with companies like Maruti Udyog ltd., Daksh.com and eSamsung Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd. Shipra has Master's Degree in Business Administration from Thames Valley University, UK. She likes to spend her leisure time cooking for her family and learning ancient vedic sciences like vastu and astrology. Shipra is married to Mohit who is a professional chartered accountant and they have a two year old son Vedant.

Silabhadra Dutta is a research analyst for Waagstein Research. He has experiences mainly in quantitative and economic research and analysis. Prior to joining Waagstein Research he was a Research Analyst with AgriWatch, New Delhi. He has been associated with projects from market and business research on various sectors like industry evaluation, brand tracking for automobiles, audience listenership, customer satisfaction, FMCG demand estimation and market mapping. Silabhadra has Master's Degree in Economics, specializing in Macroeconomics from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. His research papers have included restructuring of Indian Insurance sector in post liberalization era, analyzing effects of Water Policy in agriculture sector and studying recent surge of Commodity Trading in India. He is great football and F1 fan and likes to spend time reading biographies and non-fictions.

Jasmina is responsible for the marketing and project management of our client specific research, both those conducted among companies and those among government authorities. Jasmina joined Waagstein Research in 2003. She has extensive experience of leading projects within IT, but has earlier also worked as product manager in the consumer industry. Jasmina has a master in Marketing. Jasmina is married to Lars and together they have Fanny and Filip.