![[IMAGE] Alan Niebel](/en/images/bio/alan_niebel.jpg)
Founder & CEO
Web-Feet Research, Inc.
Alan Niebel is the founder and chief executive officer for Web-Feet Research, Inc., a non-volatile memory and storage semiconductor market research company located in Monterey, CA. Under his guidance Web-Feet Research was founded to qualify and quantify the Flash and non-volatile memory and storage markets along with the small form factor HDD markets. In early 2000, the Flash Memory Reporting Association (FMRA) was established to report quarterly Flash shipments from the top seventeen Flash manufacturers by all capacities and segmented by NOR and NAND architectures. Mr. Niebel is responsible for the Flash demand and shipments forecast by application for all components, and for market forecasts for Flash cards, EFDs, and emerging electronic devices.
Mr. Niebel has worked in non-volatile semiconductor market research for thirteen years and has considerable experience both as a consultant and as an analyst. At the IEEE Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Workshops, Mr. Niebel has been the keynote speaker for many sessions, and has also conducted panel discussions on 3-bit and 4-bit per cell NAND/NROM Memories, and Flash Memory Testing and Packaging. He has also written articles and has been quoted in The Economist, Forbes, Business Week, Investors Business News, the Wall Street Journal, Electronic Business Today, and other publications. Mr. Niebel's work has been referenced and used by Intel, Spansion, Samsung, SanDisk, Toshiba, Seagate, STMicroelectronics, HP, IBM, Microsoft, SST, Macronix, Winbond and many other semiconductor manufacturing companies.
Mr. Niebel received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his MBA in International Business from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He also holds a private pilot's license.