Gaspar Valdivia is a Senior Director Analyst in the High Tech & Invest group at Gartner. Mr. Valdivia's research coverage is focused on the enterprise networking services market, particularly on wide area networks, internet, and private cloud connectivity, as well as the adoption of private 5G for enterprise services. He supports clients in gaining understanding of trends and evolution of enterprise network services markets and assessing solutions and service providers in areas such as NaaS, SD-WAN, SASE, SDCI and cloud networking, FWA, DIA, broadband, Private Mobile Networks, AI for networking and networking for AI. Also, he helps product leaders at communication service providers evolve their enterprise service portfolios and offerings in these areas.
Mr Valdivia is lead analyst for Vodafone 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 and business 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
Communications Industry Technology Insights
Lead With Product Management Excellence
Technology Market Essentials
Communications Industry Strategy and Go-to-Market
I&O Platforms
Master of Business Administration, Executive MBA, Instituto de Empresa
Master of Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
WAN services and products (SD-WAN, NaaS, SASE, FWA, DIA ...)
Enterprise network architectures and strategies
Managed network services
Forecast and market opportunities
Private Mobile Networks