Eric Prothero

Eric Prothero is IDC’s SV of Data & Analytics and a member of IDC’s senior management team. He is responsible for managing IDC's global Data & Analytics organization with a team that spans eight regions and 44 countries.

Mr. Prothero oversees the data product teams that define, design, build, and lead the go-to-market for the variety of data solutions that IDC develops within the market, vendor, buyer and partner intelligence areas. This includes IDC’s Tracker, Spending Guide, Black Book, Wallet, Contract Database, and Channel Partner Ecosystem products as well as IDC's Knowledge Platform that provides the only 360-degree view of the tech industry.

In addition to leading the product teams, Mr. Prothero oversees teams that assure data quality and consistency, taxonomy development, tools and data platform evolution, and client satisfaction. These include our data engineering, data analytics, data science, forecast, and web scraping teams, as well as our business development, production, and data delivery teams.

Prior to his current responsibilities, Eric led the Latin America business unit for IDC, overseeing business operations across seven countries in the region, managing functional areas including research, consulting, conferences, sales, marketing, and finance. He joined IDC in 1993 and under his leadership the Latin America region grew to over 120 employees with research coverage in 15 countries in the region.

Prior to IDC, Eric was a senior consultant at Windermere Associates, a San Francisco-based strategic planning consulting firm. Mr. Prothero received his M.B.A. in Finance from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish and some Japanese.