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Anna is a principal analyst and manager in the connected car & vehicle experience team at S&P Global Mobility.

Since joining the company in November 2006, Anna has developed and headed the Infotainment focus area. Now her research focuses on connectivity and vehicle experience topics mainly for the North American market.

In addition, Anna manages a team of analysts that focus on the hardware aspects of the connected car and user interfaces. Anna has led and contributed to numerous projects that include detailed analysis of in-vehicle head unit systems, acoustic systems as well as telematics solutions for a number of international OEM and supplier companies to support critical decisions that shape the automotive and transportation business landscape.

Kyle is a Senior Analyst for Connected Car and Vehicle Experience at S&P Global Mobility focusing on the North American market. His main areas of focus are, Center Stack Displays, Instrument Clusters, Head-Up Displays, Headunit, and Telematics.

Additionally, he researches other methods that impacts the user’s experience, such as Over-The-Air updates, Virtual Personal Assistants, gesture recognition, and proximity sensing. Kyle obtained his Bachelors of Science degree from Madonna University in 2017 and is currently working on his M.B.A at Wayne State University.

Prior to his role at S&P Global Mobility, Kyle worked for Bosch in their Car Multimedia division.

Richard Dixon is a Senior Principal Analyst and leads the research on automotive EE architecture at S&P Global Mobility. He is also responsible for sensors coverage and has authored more than 25 consulting and market research studies on aspects of the automotive semiconductor and electronics industry.

His research includes monitoring the vehicle architecture roadmaps of OEMs and tracking the electronics hardware evolution towards centralization in the vehicle. Products falling under his responsibility comprise a quarterly world forecast of EE Architecture—with associated coverage of domain controllers, zone ECUs, central computers, and vehicle networks—and a supply chain and technology database for zone ECUs.

Prior to S&P Global Mobility, Richard served as an analyst at IHS Markit and iSuppli covering both the automotive and industrial sectors. He previously worked as a trade journalist in the semiconductor industry and has five years of technology transfer experience.

Richard graduated from Greenwich University with a degree in materials science and earned a doctorate in semiconductor research from Surrey University. He speaks English and German.

Short version: Richard Dixon is Senior Principal Analyst for Automotive EE Architecture topics and sensors at S&P Global. His research covers the electronic hardware (domain controllers, zone ECUs, central computers…) that is evolving to support new EE architecture for software-defined vehicles. He is also the author for automotive sensors within SP Global and tracks over 100 automotive applications.