Dr. Moshe Handelsman

President and Founder

Dr. Handelsman, founder of Advanced Forecasting, is an expert in data analysis, econometrics, and forecast modeling. He has been conducting and teaching market research and forecasting for more than two decades.

Among market researchers and forecasters, he belongs to the quantitative school of forecasting, which relies on hard numbers rather than surveys and opinions as inputs. Dr. Handelsman’s writings have been published in top quantitative marketing research journals, including the JMR. During the past twenty years, he has focused on data analysis techniques that identify the pattern of sales data of industry product-lines and uses them to increase the accuracy of forecasting future demand for actual companies.   

Dr. Handelsman has conducted an annual Forecast Seminar at Semicon West for the past 18 years as well as in-house forecasting workshops for companies such as IBM, Philips, ESI, and Texas Instruments.

A quantitative forecasting model that he developed in 1986 has accurately predicted the peaks and troughs of the Silicon Cycle, including the 2001 recession, the strength and timing of the 2003 upturn, and most recently the slowdown in the second half of 2004.

Dr. Handelsman holds an Industrial Engineering (Technion, Haifa), an M.B.A. (Tel-Aviv University), and a Ph.D. (Market Research and Econometrics from Purdue University).