Based in San Jose, CA, Jarad Carleton has been an Industry Analyst with Frost & Sullivan's IT group since May 2000. His coverage areas include the U.S. Web Hosting market, Enterprise Peer-to-Peer Networking, the U.S. Web Content Management Market, the U.S. Digital Rights Management Market and the U.S. Internet Content Delivery Market. He has also authored several whitepapers on storage technologies and business Internet service providers.

Prior to joining the Frost & Sullivan team, Mr. Carleton spent 3 years in transportation operations management. He leveraged his experience in freight operations to help high tech clients of the U.S. Export Assistance Center in San Jose, CA solve logistics problems in addition to helping them find potential markets for their products and services abroad. Mr. Carleton has also spent time working with a startup in the Software Business Cluster in San Jose, an incubator for high tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Mr. Carleton has earned a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Davis in 1993 and a MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management in 1999. He has also attended language immersion school and earned an advanced certificate of fluency from Cuauhnahuac language school in Cuernavaca, Morelos, México in 1990.