Frost & Sullivan
San Antonio, Texas
Frost & Sullivan is a privately held growth-strategy and market-research firm founded in 1961, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with industry coverage spanning aerospace, automotive, healthcare, energy, and information and communications technology. The firm's streaming-media, mobile, and broadband coverage was anchored for 15 years by principal analyst Dan Rayburn, whose tenure there preceded his current chairmanship of the NAB Show Streaming Summit.
Frost & Sullivan is the privately held growth-strategy and market-research firm founded in 1961, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with industry coverage spanning aerospace and defense, automotive, chemicals and materials, energy and environment, healthcare, and information and communications technology. The firm operates internationally with offices in more than 40 countries and publishes a long-running stream of industry research, growth-pipeline analysis, and the annual Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards.
The firm sits in our coverage primarily because of its alumni footprint on the streaming-media analyst side. Dan Rayburn — now chairman of the NAB Show Streaming Summit and host of The Dan Rayburn Podcast — spent 15 years at Frost & Sullivan as a principal analyst publishing on streaming-media technology, mobile, broadband, and last-mile networks, a tenure that anchors his current standing as a named-voice analyst on streaming infrastructure. The firm’s broader streaming-media research practice predates the trade-pub-aggregator era of streaming coverage and produced much of the foundational market-sizing work the industry built on.
Frost & Sullivan remains privately held; the firm does not publish revenue or headcount figures in the public domain. Industry-vertical research subscriptions and consulting engagements are sold directly through the firm’s regional offices.