Primary Job Title Founder & MD Primary Organization 
Structure Research
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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Philbert Shih is the Founder and Managing Director at Structure Research, an independent research and consulting firm devoted to the hosting and cloud infrastructure services markets. Philbert has covered the hosting infrastructure space for over a decade.
Prior to founding Structure Research, Philbert was the first hosting Analyst hired after
Tier1 Research was sold to The 451 Group (2005) and spent six years as Senior Analyst for Hosting. In this role, Philbert helped launch Tier1’s coverage of hosting in international markets and was the lead and contributing author to all of the company’s quarterly and bi-annual hosting infrastructure sector reports.
Prior to joining Tier1 Research, Philbert spent more than four years covering the web hosting industry - three of them as Senior Staff Writer for The Web Host Industry Review's online and print publications. At the WHIR, Philbert covered companies in the consumer, SMB and enterprise hosting, cloud and colocation segments.
Philbert’s coverage of the sector is global in scope and extends across the broader Internet infrastructure value chain. Philbert is a regular speaker at industry events and has been quoted in various publications such as theWHIR.com, The Globe and Mail, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Bizjournals, Data Center Knowledge, LightReading, eWeek, The Houston Chronicle, The Deal and The E-commerce Times.
Philbert holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia with a specialization in political-economic development.
