Bio

Founder and President of IHL Group and one of the Founders of the Retail Orphan Initiative (www.retailROI.org), a charitable foundation that seeks to help the 400 million orphaned and vulnerable children around the world. In 10 years, RetailROI has been involved in over 200 projects in 24 countries helping an estimated 226,000 children through clean water, education, computers, language training and care.

Noted by RIS News as one of the Top 10 Influentials in Retail and the National Retail Federation as one of "The List of People Shaping Retail's Future", he has a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from The Ohio State University, and 25 years of experience in retail market analysis, business planning, product development, and consulting with Fortune 500 companies.

In my first professional assignment, I was tasked with doing competitive intelligence on the IBM 4680 POS System for Supermarkets. When I figured out how to do that as an intern NCR gave me a full-time position in Competitive Analysis. For about 2 years I studied everyone else in the POS and Store Automation Field and that laid the groundwork and relationships for what we do today in being analysts for the retail industry.

After the competitive analysis I was a product manager with NCR on the wireless POS, the 7052 POS Platform and Nice/DynaKey. Worked with some great people on those programs.

In 1993 after NCR canceled the NICE software-only program, Sensormatic Electronics gave me an offer I couldn't refuse and I went there to work on the Deactivation projects for their EAS line Ultra*Max. I was fortunate to be the Product Development Manager for the Rapid Pad II which ended up being a $100 Million product for the company in about 2 years.

In the Spring of 1996 I started IHL Consulting Group, a company that is like the AC Nielson of Retail technology. We track who uses what technologies in retail and then advise retailers and technology companies on their next moves.

Specialties: Our company acts as content experts in market sizing and analysis of technologies in the retail vertical. Technologies such as Unified Commerce, POS, Analytics, Order Management Systems, Data Warehouse, Self-Checkout, RFID, Payment Systems, Inventory/Supply Chain, and Workforce Management.

Full bio here: https://www.ihlservices.com/about/analysts/greg-buzek/