Gaspar Valdivia is a Senior Director Analyst in the CIO Research Group at Gartner. Mr. Valdivia's research coverage is focused on enterprise networking services market, particularly on wide area networks, internet, and private cloud connectivity, as well as the adoption of 5G for enterprise services. He supports clients in aspects such as evaluation of WAN services and service providers, trend and evolution of network services, WAN architectures, hybrid WAN, internet connectivity, broadband services, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity services and use of wireless connectivity, including 5G, for enterprise networking use cases.
He has also helped product leaders at communication service providers evolve their enterprise service portfolios and offerings through the adoption of software-defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies.
Mr Valdivia is lead analyst for BT Group within Gartner.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Valdivia held several positions at Telefonica, last being the Director of Enterprise Networking Services. Among other things, he led the evolution of networking services portfolio toward the adoption of SDN/NFV technologies and the launch of first SD-WAN and cloud VPN services. His background is mostly in product strategy, business development and go-to-market.
Telefonica Business Solutions, Director Enterprise Networking Services, 2 years
Telefonica, Director Product Marketing Global Services, 3 years
Telefonica, Head of Strategy at Multinational Customers Solutions, 3 years
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Master of Business Administration, Executive MBA, Instituto de Empresa
Master of Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
SD-WAN services and products
Enterprise network architectures and strategies
Managed network services
Forecast and market opportunities
5G use cases