Mai Barakat is a Research Analyst for the Datacenter Services & Infrastructure channel at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, covering datacenters in EMEA.
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Mai Barakat is an analyst on the 451 Research Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Her research focuses on datacenter market activity across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Her key research areas include emerging datacenter markets; retail, wholesale and cloud provider activity; industry growth projections; market share analysis; government incentives and regulations; and pricing dynamics.
Before joining the Datacenter Services & Infrastructure team in 2020, her focus was on mobile telecommunications and 5G in Europe. Prior to that she spent more than 10 years at Omdia covering mobile/fixed telecommunications and TV in the Middle East and Africa, with a special focus on mobile banking and fintech initiatives in emerging markets.
Mai holds a Bachelor of Science in international management and French from the University of Bath, UK and an MSc in marketing. She is fluent in Arabic and French.Minimize
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