About IT Business Edge
IT Business Edge provides a new, easier, and more effective
way for you to stay on top of the IT issues affecting your company
— and to help you stay on the leading edge of business IT. We
offer you the unparalleled power of a Personalized IT Intelligence
Agent — a service that combines the strength of advanced online
search techniques with the critical thinking of experienced
industry journalists. This unique approach means that we find
the information you want, review it first, and give you only
the best that is relevant to your professional niche — as concise
e-mail reports — along with the key element of contextual analysis.
As a result of this ground-breaking process (read
some of our milestones), IT Business Edge delivers information
to you that is focused, personalized, thorough, practical, concise,
and current. Armed with this kind of intelligence, top-level
IT decision makers are able to keep track of technical advances
and new solutions, and to pursue IT strategies that are right
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The IT Business Edge Research Team
The IT Business Edge editorial staff is dedicated to simplifying
the technology decision maker's workday by providing in-depth
reports that cover the most important trends in a variety of
business technology topics. In short, they know what our audience
is looking for.
Our team of researchers and editors has a proven track record
of reporting on and evaluating the latest business technology
trends. These seasoned industry experts have covered every angle
of IT for leading publishers like CNET, CMP, Ziff-Davis, TechRepublic,
and Business 2.0.
Kachina Shaw
Editor in Chief
Kachina honed her research skills as a professional librarian
in non-profits and is a former editor for TechRepublic.com,
a site for IT professionals. She is Editor in Chief for IT Business
Edge.
Ann All
Associate Editor
Ann All covered a variety of business topics as a newspaper
reporter before switching to automated teller machines — which,
unbelievably, are just beginning to migrate to a Windows-based
platform and more modern networking technologies like TCP/IP
— as the editor of online trade publication ATMmarketplace.com.
Lora Bentley
Associate Editor
Lora Bentley came to IT Business Edge after nearly six years
as legal editor for LexisNexis. She holds a Kentucky law license
and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky.
Patrick Avery
Associate Editor
Patrick has served as a legislative reporter for the Kentucky Press Association and education reporter at The (Elizabethtown, Ky.) News-Enterprise. He also worked in public relations and at the technology online portals Self-Service World.com and Kiosk Marketplace.com. He oversees IT Business Edge's Knowledge Network.
Susan Hall
Associate Editor
Susan has been a journalist for over 20 years. She previously worked at news outlets including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dallas Times Herald and MSNBC.com.
Ainsley Jones
Assistant Editor
Ainsley has spent nearly a decade in the online publishing industry and covers technology news for IT Business Edge.
Kara Reeder
Assistant Editor
Kara joined the IT Business Edge editorial team in February 2007 after working for ProQuest Information and Technology for three years. Kara covers all areas of technology news.
Rob Enderle
Contributing Editor
Rob is President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward looking emerging technology advisory firm, and one of the most recognized commentators on tech.
Dennis Byron
Contributing Editor
Dennis has analyzed information technology from the buyer's and the investor's viewpoint for IDC, Datapro, Application Development Trends, Datamation, ebizQ and Research 2.0, among many others.
Paul Mah
Contributing Editor
Paul is an instructor at Republic Polytechnic in Singapore, and is a contributor to a number of tech sites, including Ars Technica and TechRepublic.
Ralph DeFrangesco
Contributing Editor
Ralph has worked with Fortune 500 companies developing security programs, assessments, strategic and enterprise architectures, and disaster recovery programs. He also teaches for Drexel University as an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Security program.
Loraine Lawson
Contributing Editor
Loraine is a freelance technology journalist based in Louisville, Ky. She was the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's webmaster and later joined TechRepublic, a technology Web site for IT professionals, as a writer and editor developing content for CIOs and high-level IT managers.
Arthur Cole
Contributing Editor
Arthur Cole has more than 15 years’ experience exploring high-tech
communications issues. He has served as editor of numerous publications
covering everything from audio/video production and distribution,
multimedia and the Internet to video gaming.
Mike Stevens
Contributing Editor
Mike began his career as technical writer in semiconductor manufacturing,
and then switched to marketing. At his own Silicon Valley-based
agency, he worked with an impressive list of clients, including
HP, EMC, Fujitsu, and Microsoft. His primary focus for the last
seven years has been enterprise software.
Carl Weinschenk
Contributing Editor
Since late 2001 Carl Weinschenk has been a freelance information
technology and telecommunications writer. His work has appeared
online and in print at mobilepipeline, America's Network
and a variety of other publications and sites. He is a contributing
editor to Communications Technology magazine. Previously, Weinschenk
held staff editing and writing positions at InternetWeek, tele.com,
Cable World and Cable Marketing magazines.
Mike Vizard
Contributing Editor
Mike Vizard has been covering IT issues in the enterprise for 25 years as an editor and columnist for publications such as InfoWorld, eWEEK, Baseline, CRN, Computerworld and Digital Review.
Our Executive Team
The executive team at IT Business Edge is a respected group
of technology publishing veterans who possess unparalleled experience
with virtually every major IT information publisher, including
Gartner Group, TechRepublic, CNET Networks, Ziff-Davis, IDG,
and Reed Elsevier.
Phil Branon
President
Phil is a sales and marketing executive with more than 25 years
of experience in the media and publishing industries. He was
an executive member of the founding team at TechRepublic and
a senior vice president at CNET. Prior to TechRepublic, Phil
was publisher of IDG's InfoWorld and spent 10 years at Reed
Elsevier.
Kim Spalding
Chief Financial Officer
Kim has more than 13 years experience in the publishing industry.
She was co-founder of TechRepublic and served as its CFO. Kim
also was vice president of finance at The Cobb Group.
Jon Pyles
Executive Vice President, Subscriber Products
Jon has participated in the startup and growth of four successful
information-publishing businesses. Most recently, he was an
executive member of the founding team at TechRepublic. Jon also
was vice president of circulation at The Cobb Group.
Troy Atwood
Vice President, Technology
Troy has over 20 years of strategic information technology management
in diverse industries. He was vice president of IT at CNET and
TechRepublic. He's also held IT management roles at Vencor,
Novellus Systems, and GTE.
Ken Stout
Vice President, Sales
Ken's career as a senior sales executive in the publishing industry
spans more than two decades. He was vice president of advertising
sales and operations at GameSpy Industries. Ken also held sales
management positions at CNET Networks, TechRepublic, CMP Media,
Expoconsul International, and Colgate Palmolive.
Jeff Yocom
Vice President, Marketing
Jeff worked in media relations at the University of Louisville before embarking on a 19-year career in technology publishing. Experienced in virtually
every aspect of the industry, he was editorial director and group publisher
at The Cobb Group before serving as business development director and senior vice president of content development
at TechRepublic. He is also chair of Novels In Progress Workshop, an annual writing conference.
Ken Hardin
Vice President, Subscriber Products
After starting his career as a newspaper reporter, Ken moved
into technical journalism as a writer for The Cobb Group, a
leading publisher of technology-centric print newsletters. He
went on to join the start-up team for TechRepublic, where he
was director of editorial development.
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