Andy Golub

Otis Elevator Co. manufactures and maintains elevators, escalators, and moving walkways. The company also offers maintenance and monitoring services to its customers through network of branch offices and service centers. Its products include Gen2, HdroFit, SkyRise and SkyBuild. The company was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Founded in 2000, ChangeWave Research is a research firm located in Rockville, Maryland. The firm is a subsidiary of the 451 Group. ChangeWave tracks the rate of change in demand trends and provides the results through a weekly subscription service. The firm also conducts surveys at the corporate, consumer, industry and macroeconomic levels and publishes weekly reports on more than 500 companies. Within the corporate buying area, ChangeWave focuses on overall information technology spending, hardware purchasing, software purchasing, smart phones, cell service providers, energy efficiency, PCs and information technology security. The firm's consumer spending research focuses on overall spending, retail stores, consumer electronics, PC buying, smart phones, online shopping, restaurants, personal gadgets, home improvements, TV service providers, healthy lifestyles/diets and early adopter trends. ChangeWave's focus on macroeconomic trends includes corporate sales, capital budgets, sales pipelines, hiring trends, price pressures, cancelled orders and product inventories. The firm's research regarding industry trends focuses on semiconductors, alternative energy, healthcare, water, natural gas and oil, telecommunications, information software/services, aerospace/defense, computer hardware, wireless, energy utilities and consumer electronics.