Stela Bokun Senior Consultant / Practice Leader, Mobile Apps and Devices

Stela Bokun leads Pyramid’s Mobile Apps and Devices practice. In this capacity, she is in charge of practice development, client relations and business development, custom project management/implementation as well as content production related to mobile apps and devices. More specifically, Stela’s two key areas of focus for 2013 will be mobile operators’ OTT strategy and mobile operators’ devices strategy.

Over the last six years in Pyramid, the projects Stela worked on as a consultant or managed varied from those focusing on demand analysis, market sizing, competitive and market analysis, benchmarking analysis, product analysis and strategy, to those focusing on asset/company operational performance, and asset valuation/product NPV analysis.

She also authored a number of telecom research reports including:

• Smartphone Operating Systems: Ecosystem analysis and trends shaping the future of the global smartphone market
• NFC-Enabled Smartphones to Account for 28% of Global Market by 2015
• As Android Surges, Low-cost Handsets Shake, Rattle and Roll the Device Market
• UK Country Intelligence Report: BT Faces More Market Share Losses as Mobile Services Take Hold
• Mobile TV and the 2010 FIFA World Cup: Scoring Big in Western Europe
• Europe: Mobile Operators See Strong Revenue Potential from Social Networking
• Room for Improvement: Young Europeans Pursue the Killer Mobile Apps
• Europe’s Smartphone Market: Sustained Growth is at Risk
• Mobile Social Networking
• Caribbean Mobile Markets

Stela has presented at numerous industry conferences (the most recent engagements include: NFC Payments Europe, Capacity Balkans, IPTV Forum – Eastern Europe and EuroAsia, and Capacity Central and Eastern Europe) and is often quoted in telecom industry publications (NFC Times, Light Reading, Network World, The Guardian, BBC, Wireless Federation, Total Telecom, BGR etc.).

Stela Bokun joined Pyramid Research in 2007 after obtaining a Master in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard, her policy area of expertise was International Trade and Finance, and she minored in Macroeconomics. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Charleston, in 2001, majoring in Political Science/Pre-Law. Prior to her graduate studies, Stela had several years of professional experience in private sector and government consulting in Serbia, Montenegro and Spain. Stela’s native language is Serbian and she is fluent in Spanish and English.

Stela is based out of Pyramid’s London, UK office.