Todd Thibodeaux
Senior Vice President, Industry Relations
Consumer Electronics Association

Todd Thibodeaux serves as Senior Vice President, Industry Relations for the Consumer Electronics Association. In this role Todd oversees market research, member relations, business analysis and strategic relations and the organizations technology and standards group. Mr. Thibodeaux has spent the last 16 years with CEA and is recognized as one of the foremost experts and leaders in the industry.

Todd has led CEA's market research to a position of preeminence in the CE industry. The groups many services include the Consumer Research Service and the highly respected Market Activity Report and Analysis (MARA) program. The MARA program has a long and illustrious history dating back to the early 1930's. What began as a way to track factory sales of radios has grown through the decades to cover sales of products from across the industry. The CEA consumer research program, founded in 1994, conducts more than 20 major consumer studies each year covering the entire spectrum of the CE industry including home computing, wireless communications, home audio and video, and other products. Both program have proven invaluable to the industry as a tool to track trends and identify opportunities.

CEA's technology and standards group (T&S) is an award winning ANSI accredited standards body serving the interests of the consumer technology industries. The group produces and manages a large library of performance, interface and design standards used in billions of products produced worldwide.

The member relations group is the face of CEA for a large number of members. Staff work with the product divisions and special interest groups to manage and initiate programs which serve the needs of the industry. Staff have developed or facilitated world class programs devoted to industry training and certification, policy issues and standards, government affairs and promotional communications efforts.

Mr. Thibodeaux is also President & CEO of eBrain, Inc. a custom market research provider wholly owned by CEA. eBrain provides clients with state of the art online research services and consumer electronics research publications. eBrain was founded in 2003.