Craig Moffett has been elected to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-American Research Team in the U.S. telecom and/or cable and satellite sectors on 15 separate occasions, including nine separate appearance as the No. 1 analyst in America in either U.S. telecom and/or cable and satellite. He has also been rated the No. 1 analyst in the U.S. telecommunications sector by Bloomberg Markets, and he has consistently ranked No. 1 in research quality in Greenwich Research’s annual survey in both telecommunications and U.S. cable and satellite sectors.
Before founding MoffettNathanson, Craig spent more than 10 years at Sanford Bernstein & Co., LLC as a senior research analyst. In 2011, he became the first analyst in the firm’s history to be ranked No. 1 in two sectors simultaneously by Institutional Investor. He was previously the president and founder of the e-commerce business at Sotheby’s Holdings, the venerable auction house. In 1999, he led Sothebys.com to what was then the highest first year sales of any consumer website ever launched.
Craig spent more than 11 years at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he was a partner and vice president specializing in telecommunications. He was the leader of BCG’s global telecommunications practice from 1996 to 1999. While at BCG, he led client initiatives in the U.S. local, long distance and wireless sectors, in both consumer and commercial services, and advised companies outside in Europe, Latin America and Asia. His relationship with a U.S. RBOC spanned more than a decade, and he was the author of more than 20 articles about the telecommunications industry during the 1990s. He published analyses and forecasts of the overcapacity and pending collapse of the U.S. long distance business as early as 1998. Craig graduated from Harvard Business School with honors in 1989. He received a B.A. from Brown University phi beta kappa in 1984.