About IT Business Edge

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 Dunn
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
Maximizing IT Investments/Aligning IT and Business Goals
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
Leveraging Open Source/Managing Compliance Standards
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.

Peter Buxbaum
Contributing Editor
Peter has been writing about business, technology, and law for 12 years. He has published over 1,000 articles in publications such as Fortune, Forbes, Chief Executive, Computerworld, InformationWeek, and dozens of others. He earned a law degree from Temple University, studied economics at Columbia University, and taught seminars in international business at Penn State University.

Arthur Cole
Optimizing Infrastructure
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.

Susan Hall
Contributing 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.

Susan Kuchinskas
Contributing Editor
Susan Kuchinskas has spent more than a decade observing and reporting on the technology industry. She was a founding editor of M-Business, a CMP magazine for the wireless industry, and senior writer at Business 2.0 and Adweek IQ. She is also co-author of "Going Mobile: Building the Real-Time Enterprise with Mobile Applications That Work."

Loraine Lawson
Integrating the Enterprise
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.

Tony Patton
Contributing Editor
Tony has been active within the IT industry for over a decade with duties including technical support, application development and technical writing. He has published two books focusing on application development and is a frequent contributor to industry journals.

Amy Jackson Sellers
Contributing Editor
Amy is a freelance editor based in New York. She previously worked as the managing editor for Louisville Magazine and as an editor for TechRepublic, a Web site for IT professionals.

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.

Terry Sweeney
Contributing Editor
As a writer and editor based in Los Angeles, Terry Sweeney has covered telecommunications, networking and the Internet for 20 years. Sweeney currently contributes to Information Week, Network World, Storage Pipeline and other business titles, in addition to working with corporate clients on annual reports, white papers and marketing collateral.

Carl Weinschenk
Fortifying Network Security/Voice & Data Convergence
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.

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.

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 ever 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.

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.