Craig Moffett, Sanford Bernstein, Senior Analyst > Internet Innovation Alliance

Craig Moffett, Sanford Bernstein, Senior Analyst
Thursday, April 03, 2008

Craig E. Moffett joined Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. as the Senior Analyst for U.S. Cable and Satellite Broadcasting in 2002. Mr. Moffett was voted the #1 cable and satellite analyst in America in each of the 2006 and 2007 Institutional Investors’ All-American-Research polls. He added coverage of the U.S. Telecommunications sector in 2007.

Mr. Moffett spent eleven years at The Boston Consulting Group, where as a Partner and Vice President he led the firm's global practice in Telecommunications. At BCG, he led client relationships spanning the local exchange, wireless, long distance, and equipment sectors in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. His consulting relationship with a U.S. RBOC spanned more than a decade. He was the author of more than twenty articles in telecommunications journals, and published forecasts of the over-capacity and subsequent price collapse of the U.S. inter-exchange, CLEC and equipment markets in early 1999.

Most recently, Mr. Moffett was the President of SOTHEBYS.COM, the e-commerce venture of the venerable auction house, where he led a team of 300 people through the company’s technology development phase and launch in early 2000, and he subsequently led SOTHEBYS.COM to the highest first-year sales of any consumer website ever launched. As a member of the Executive Committee of Sotheby’s Holdings, Mr. Moffett was an instrumental member of the crisis-response team that steered the company through the challenges arising from anti-trust proceedings related to its pricing activity during the mid-1990s.

Mr. Moffett earned a BA from Brown University in 1984, where he graduated phi beta kappa and Magna cum laude. He earned an MBA with Honors from the Harvard Business School in 1989.

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