As a Senior Consultant at Vital Wave Consulting, Amy Hanson manages research projects focusing primarily on emerging-market business strategies for Asia. In this capacity she supervises a data-research team and provides the analytical expertise for Vital Wave Consulting's clients. Most recently, she has served as Project Manager for several custom client projects covering a wide range of functional practices, including marketing and strategy, within the technology sector. In these projects, she led a team of consultants to perform segmentation analyses and go-to-market strategies on behalf of multinational technology corporations wishing to examine their market potential within the software and telecommunications industries.

With over 15 years of experience in global market research and strategic planning, Ms. Hanson has helped companies ranging in size from startups to Fortune 100 firms grow their businesses by providing them with critical market information and analysis. Consulting with companies such as Visa, Inc., International Insight, King, Brown & Partners, Inc., and Microsoft, she has led a wide range of consulting projects, developing market opportunity assessments, business and product plans, strategic plans, customer needs analyses, and due diligence reports for companies in a variety of industries, including technology, consumer products, financials services, and healthcare.

Ms. Hanson has a specialty in Greater China business development and speaks Mandarin Chinese. She has extensive experience conducting market research and business analysis to help technology clients seize market opportunities in China. She also has deep experience in conducting primary interviews with technology users and decision-makers (consumer, commercial and public sector interviewees). Ms. Hanson holds an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University.