Imerge Consulting Group

Imerge Group Offices
2616 Carlmont Dr.
Belmont, CA 94002
Tel: 650.631.5737

Imerge Group's worldwide clients have included top-tier digital camera vendors, numerous providers within the DSC value chain ecosystem, imaging software vendors, mulitmedia mobile phone providers, CMOS and CCD sensor providers (fab and fabless), mobile device component providers, flash memory manufacturers/providers, wireless carriers, printer vendors, digital kiosk vendors, smarthandheld vendors, online print fulfillment sites and social networking sites, institutional investors, financial consulting firms, VC's and fund managers.

Imerge's expertise is in the emerging, converging wireless voice, video, data, music and imaging sectors, thus our name Imerge. IG analysts provide submersive intelligence covering the entire technical ecosystem surrounding multimedia mobile phones and MM / entertainment / Infotainment mobile devices. Areas of expertise include imaging sensors, NAND flash (NFMP), micro and large display technologies, OLED, P-OLED, TMOS, TDEL, TFT, DLP, Plasma, carriers, 3 & 4G networks, consumer and pro digital cameras, digital video camcorders, digital video and music players, digital minilabs, medical imaging, digital kiosks, digital offset printing, and digital photo print fulfillment.

Ron Tussy is the President and Principal Analyst of Imerge Group and has been a widely respected imaging industry analyst since 1996. Prior to founding ICG, Ron was an executive analyst at International Data Corporation (IDC), where Ron founded and grew IDC’s Digital Cameras and Scanners Research Programs. Considered by many to be a "pioneer" in the industry, Ron's team at Apple launched the world's first consumer digital cameras in 1994. Ron has over 23 years of exec-level experience within the imaging and consumer device industry on multi-continents and has been a guest speaker on future trends in digital imaging and imaging at PMA/DIMA for five years, Lyra's Digital Photography Conference, CES, MacWorld, Seybold SF, KioskCom, Gerson Lehrman Group Summer Symposiums (NY & SF), Mobile Imaging Summit & 6Sight and many other industry events. Ron is quoted frequently in the media and has made radio and television appearances.

Imaging, Music, Voice and Data Convergence (First) Expertise

First Four-color Desktop Digital Photobook Publisher in 1989 - 15 Seconds, The Great California Earthquake of 1989. A New York Times best selling book. Established a speed publishing record for photo books, going from concept (Ron Tussy conceived the book as a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine) to market in 36 days. Proceeds >$1M went directly to grassroots earthquake relief.

Four color desktop digital pre-press, on-press subtractive color theory, desktop four color management pioneer 1989 - 1992. Worked on EFI's Cache application and with Adobe on some of the first desktop - prepress color calibration programs from 1987 to 1989.

National Sales Manager for PHASE ONE - U.S. - world's first professional all-digital camera system - 1992. Ron established the first North American channel for professional digital camera systems and helped launch the first wave of adoption of professional digtal camera systems.

WW Product Line and Business Unit Manager - Apple Computer - on the team that introduced first consumer digital cameras 1992 - 1994. Conceived the world's first direct scan-to-web application and wrote the MRD for Apple's first flat panel display product.

Executive Analyst - Programs Manager IDC (International Data Corp.) - founded IDC's Consumer Digital Cameras and Scanners Programs 1996 - 1998, the first published worldwide consumer digital camera forecast.

Founder, President and Principal Analyst - Imerge Group - 1998 to current providing the first online photo category revenue and print fulfillment forecasts, the first WW digital kiosk forecasts, the first WW camera phone forecasts and the first WW imaging sensor (CIS and CCD) forecasts.

A Gerson Lehrman Group "Leader" Advisor (top 5% advisor within 25,000 worldwide industry experts) to over 550 institutional investors, VC's and fund managers.