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Bryan Ma
Associate Vice President, Client Devices, IDC Asia/Pacific

Team: Asia/Pacific Personal Computing Team

Bryan Ma is the Associate Vice President of IDC’s Asia/Pacific Client Devices research group. Based in Singapore, his coverage includes PC, mobile phone, media tablet, thin client, and client virtualization research across 16 countries in the region. Bryan provides insights and advisory services for vendors and users, and also leads his team of analysts in building IDC's core market data, analysis, and forecasts in these sectors.

Bryan has been quoted in a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, BusinessWeek, The South China Morning Post, and The New York Times. He has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences and appears frequently as a guest commentator on television networks such as CNBC and the BBC. Bryan has been with IDC since 1999, when he joined IDC’s Consumer Devices team in California.  He has been the recipient of several recognitions at IDC, including three Research Quality awards as well as IDC's Global Fellowship. Prior to joining IDC, Bryan was a Business Analyst at Arthur Andersen in Los Angeles, where he was part of the firm's Business Consulting practice specializing in the financial services industry.

Bryan holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. His university internships included experiences at IBM, Rockwell Semiconductor (now Conexant), Acuson (now part of Siemens), and PaineWebber (now part of UBS). Bryan is fluent in English and conversant in Mandarin Chinese.


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RIM Says That "Waiting Is the Hardest Part"
Bryan Ma, Kiranjeet Kaur, Wong Teck Zhung, Tim Dillon
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcSG23596512      IDC Link
Following the preview of its BlackBerry 10 operating system in May, RIM has embarked on its BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour, aimed at attracting developers to the platform. IDC had the opportunity to attend a number of these events in Asia in ...

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HP 2013 Industry Analyst Summit
Chris Morris, Kitty Fok, Avneesh Saxena, Rajnish Arora, Daphne Chung, Bryan Ma, Linus Lai, Craig Stires
Apr 2013 - Doc # AP6684420V      Insight
This IDC Insight examines HP's Industry Analyst Summit held in Boston, United States on March 6th and 7th. HP CEO Meg Whitman and all her senior business managers briefed IDC analysts with sessions covering all aspects of curr ...
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BlackBerry 10 for Asia/Pacific: New Name, New Game
Ian Song, Charles Anderson, Melissa Chau, Wong Teck Zhung, Kiranjeet Kaur, Adrian Dominic Ho, Bryan Ma
Feb 2013 - Doc # AP3054018V      Insight
This IDC Insight will focus on the recent launch of Research In Motion's (now BlackBerry) long-awaited BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system and smartphone. IDC will discuss the implications of the new BlackBerry mobile platform in Asia/ ...
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