Dan Berthiaume is a writer, editor, and analyst with almost 20 years of experience covering business, IT, arts and entertainment, sports, politics, and general interest topics. During his career he spent eight years as corporate content manager of RSAG, a publisher of trade journals for the retail technology industry, and has worked as a weekly newspaper reporter. Dan holds a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts.

Booker has spent 20-plus years as a writer and editor at A-list publications, including Computerworld and InternetWeek. For the past decade, he was Editor in Chief of BtoB, Crain Communications' monthly magazine covering the intersection of marketing and business strategy.

Based in New York, journalist Peter Buxbaum has been writing about business technology, security, defense, and international relations for two decades. Several thousand of his articles have appeared in publications and on Websites such as Fortune, Forbes, Chief Executive, Information Week, Jane's Defense Weekly, Military Information Technology, Homeland Security, Computerworld, and ISN. Peter's Website is http://www.buxbaum1.com.

Deni Connor is founder of and senior analyst at Storage Strategies NOW, an industry analysis firm specializing in storage, virtualization, and cloud computing. She is a former senior editor for Network World and editor-in-chief of Networking Solutions. She has contributed to Storage Magazine, SearchStorage, and several long-gone magazines such as Data Communications, Network Magazine, Datamation, and Computer Shopper. Deni has written several books on networking, including the original NetWare for Dummies.

David Coursey has been writing about “technology and people, trying to get along” for more than 25 years. He is the former host of the DEMO product conference and executive editor of ZDNet AnchorDesk. He has also been an industry commentator for CNET Radio and Television. His work has appeared in dozens of publications and online services, including PC World, InfoWorld, Computerworld, eWEEK, and others. David has been a software developer and project manager. He also blogs for Forbes.com and, about emergency communications, on his own N5FDL.com. In addition to writing about technology,he works as an emergency management and communications consultant and is the founder of California Emergency Volunteers Inc. (www.cevol.org). Follow David @techinciter on Twitter and Facebook/techinciter.

Pierre DeBois is the founder of Zimana, a small business analytics consultancy that reviews data from Web analytics and social media dashboard solutions, then provides recommendations and Web development action that improves marketing strategy and business profitability. He has worked with companies ranging from small firms to Ford. He writes analytics articles and reviews business books for a variety of publications.

Maryam Donnelly spent more than 15 years leading marketing strategy, communications, product marketing, market research, and business development at Fortune 500 companies including Prudential Insurance, Automatic Data Processing, and Travelport (formerly Cendant). She has been a principal at Impact Marketing, a boutique marketing services company based in the New York metro area, for the past five years. She holds a BBA and MBA in Marketing from Hofstra University.

Michael Dortch is Principal Analyst and Managing Editor at DortchOnIT.com, "an independent voice for technology-dependent people" and consultant to users and providers of disruptive business technologies. Michael has been empowering information technology (IT) buyers, sellers and users since 1979, by translating what technologists say and do into language that non-technologists can understand and use. He helps people and companies to maximize revenues, ROI, business value and positive perceptions through more credible and engaging outreach and improved customer, influencer and partner relations.

One of the "Top 500 Analysts Using Twitter" according to independent metrics, Michael opines frequently and is quoted widely on subjects ranging from cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) to technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). He has also been a senior analyst at Aberdeen Group, Constellation Research, Robert Frances Group (RFG), and Yankee Group. In 1990, Michael wrote "The ABCs of Local-Area Networks," a book published internationally in three languages by Sybex, Inc. More information is available at www.DortchOnIT.com.

Tom Dunlap is a Santa Cruz, Calif.-based technology writer and editor whose work has appeared in dozens of publications including CNET News, ZDNet, PC World, InformationWeek, Datamation, DevX, the Oakland Tribune, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Previously managing editor for QuinStreet's DevX,  SharePointBriefing, and SemanticWeb sites, he has covered all aspects of business intelligence and social media.

Mike Edelhart is a technology executive, investor, analyst, and editor. He's currently the president of the Pivot Conference and Social Week. Previously, he was founder and CEO of First30 Services, and CEO of Inman News, Zinio, and Olive Software. As a journalist, he's served as executive editor of PC Magazine, editor in chief of PC Week, editor-publisher of PC Computing, and executive vice president of Ziff-Davis Publishing. He's the author of 25 books, ranging in topics from Intel's Official Guide to the 386 Microprocessor to A Social History of Virginia.

John Edwards is a veteran business technology journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous business and technology publications, including Computerworld, CFO Magazine, IBM Data Management Magazine, RFID Journal, and Electronic Design. He has also written columns for The Economist's Business Intelligence Unit and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Communications Direct. John has authored several books on business technology topics. His work began appearing online as early as 1983. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, he wrote daily news and feature articles for both the CompuServe and Prodigy online services. His "Behind the Screens" commentaries made him the world's first known professional blogger.

Sandra Gittlen is a Boston-based technology writer who contributes to many high-tech print and online publications. Previously events editor and a managing editor at IDG's Network World, Sandra has covered all aspects of business intelligence and analytics over the years, writing articles and in-depth issues papers. An industry educator, she moderates Webcasts and conference sessions on an array of technology topics.

In the 1950s, Karl's mother would send newspaper and magazine clippings, books, and other items of interest to friends, family, and chance strangers. She nicknamed this practice Hakkarainen Clipping Service, LTD with the tag line "No need to read, acknowledge, or return." The service was driven by a spirit of entanglement, knowing that an idea was important to someone else and it was her job to get news of that idea to that person.
This is how Karl learned think and write and work. In a career as a newspaper reporter, technical writer, and I.T. guy with large companies and small, he's applied these principles to local and distributed teams.
Karl now works with organizations and professionals in healthcare, law, and education for whom marketing is a novel and somewhat suspect venture. He helps them use social media to tell their stories in ways that fit within their traditions and the laws of their professions. Recently, during a conversation with his son, Karl mentioned that Radio Helsinki broadcasts a daily news program in Latin.
His son asked, "And you know that because...?"

Mark Helfen is a journalist, writer, and marketing consultant specializing in enterprise technology products. Based in Silicon Valley, Mark's background includes staff writer for the Palo Alto Daily News, and director of product marketing for Pyramid Technologies. He's currently co-chair of the SVForum Marketing Special Interest Group, where he writes the group's blog. He holds a BS. in Engineering and MS in Computer Science, both from UCLA.

Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized business strategist and enterprise architect. He has worked for more than 20 years bringing innovative solutions to clients in the Global 2000, federal government, and Internet startup communities. He is a frequent keynote speaker on emerging technology and business topics. As president and CTO of Hinchcliffe & Co., he is a well-known author, blogger, and consultant on Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, SOA, and next-generation business. He is co-author of Web 2.0 Architectures (O'Reilly, 2009), and he founded and operates the Web 2.0 University.

Gene J. Koprowski is an Emmy-award nominated science, technology, and health journalist. He's written extensively for the last 25 years for FoxNews.com, Forbes, United Press International (UPI), The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other leading global media. He is a contributing editor to the Encyclopedia of Health Services Research (2009). He holds a Master's degree from The University of Chicago and completed his undergraduate work at Northwestern University. He earned a law degree with an emphasis on patent law from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Gene was appointed by Gov. Robert F. McDonnell to the Special Advisory Commission on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits in 2009, and his nomination was approved unanimously by the Virginia General Assembly for the four-year term in 2010.

Paul Korzeniowski is a freelance writer who has been dissecting technology and business issues for two decades. He served on the staffs of ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, and Internet Week before branching out on his own. Since then, his work has appeared in numerous business and technology publications, including Business 2.0, Entrepreneur, Investors Business Daily, Newsweek, and InformationWeek. One day, when he had too much time on his hands, he determined that he has had more than 1 million words published in his career. Yet for some reason, he still feels compelled to write more. He is based in Sudbury, Mass., and can be reached at paulkorzen@aol.com.

A busy freelance writer for 30 years, Robert McGarvey has written more than 1,500 articles for many of the nation's leading publications, from Reader's Digest to Playboy and from The New York Times to Harvard Business Review. He also has written 10 books. A member of the advisory board of Learning Streams, a startup social network for educators, McGarvey also is a recognized authority on social media. He may be reached via email at rjmcgarvey@gmail.com and on Twitter at #rjmcgarvey.

Cassimir Medford covers the technology industry and has followed the development of the personal computer network to its current place hidden in the clouds. Most recently, he has written and spoken about the financing of tech startups as senior editor of Red Herring. He's been executive editor of VARBusiness, writing about sales channels in the tech industry, and a senior editor of InformationWeek, covering the industry from the view of the CIO.

Robert Mullins has covered the technology industry in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. He covered technology at the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal beginning in 2000 after transferring from the Milwaukee Business Journal where he covered, among other beats, financial services. In 2006, Robert joined IDG News Service, the "wire service" for IDG publications. He transferred to Network World in 2007. He has worked with UBM since 2010, writing for Network Computing and Information Week.

Tom Murphy, Editor-in-Chief of Business Agility, has helped define interactive journalism for more than two decades as writer, editor, and entrepreneur. He has led coverage of technology and business on a global basis as editor-in-chief for RedHerring.com and Montgomery Research. Tom was founding managing editor of MarketWatch.com, the first Bloomberg News correspondent in Northern California, and a Northern California news desk supervisor for the Associated Press. He's the founder of the award-winning news service Newswire21.org and the over-40 site RedwoodAge.com. He is author of the book Web Rules: How the Internet is Changing the Way Consumers Make Choices.

Brad Power, a consultant and researcher on process innovation, helps organizations improve the way they do their work to better serve customers. He's been exploring why few companies sustain their attention on process management -- how they can make improvement and adaptation a habit (even fun)? Brad worked with Michael Hammer in the early 1990s as executive director of Index Quantum, a joint venture between CSC Index and Hammer and Company that provided research into best-practices for reengineering czars. From 2003 to 2009, Brad was executive director of the Process Management Research Center at Babson College, where he worked with Tom Davenport. Following Hammer's passing, Brad was an advisor to Phoenix, Hammer and Company's research service in 2009. For the last two years, he's been collaborating with the Lean Enterprise Institute on his research. You can see some of his blog posts at The Harvard Business Review. A complete list and brief summaries of his posts are at BradfordPower.tumblr.com.

Brian Proffitt is a veteran journalist/analyst with experience in a variety of technologies, including open-source, cloud, virtualization, and consumer devices. An adjunct instructor at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, he can be followed on Twitter at @TheTechScribe.

Thomas Redman (the "Data Doc") is an innovator, advisor, and teacher. He was first to extend quality principles to data and information, in the late 80s. Since then, he has crystallized a body of tools, techniques, roadmaps, and organizational insights that help organizations make order-of-magnitude improvements. He is a sought-after lecturer and the author of dozens of papers and four books. The most recent, Data Driven: Profiting From Your Most Important Business Asset, was a Library Journal best buy. Thomas conceived the Data Quality Lab at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1987 and led it until 1995.  He has a PhD in statistics and holds two patents.

Stephen Saunders, founder and managing director of DeusM, is a successful Internet entrepreneur, award-winning technology writer, and videographer who founded Internet Evolution in 2005. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Light Reading, Heavy Reading, and Dark Reading, a triptych of online startups covering telecommunications news, telecommunications research, and security news, which were sold to United Business Media in 2005. In March 2008, Stephen was inducted into Min's Digital Media Hall of Fame. In April 2009, he was awarded the No. 2 spot in Folio Magazine's Folio 40 ranking of magazine industry influencers and innovators. He is the author of three books, The Data Communications Gigabit Ethernet Handbook, The McGraw-Hill High-Speed LANs Handbook, and The True Story of King Arthur.

John Soat is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology, and security. He writes frequently for InformationWeek and InfoSecurity Professional magazines. Before becoming a freelancer, he was executive editor of InformationWeek. John is an experienced online multimedia journalist, having spent almost two years as executive producer of The News Show, a daily online video program for the business-technology industry. He lives in Cleveland and has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.

Terry Sweeney, editorial director for DeusM, has covered technology for more than 20 years, with expertise in storage, networking, security, wireless, and celebrity stalking. He was editor-in-chief of Byte & Switch and a founding editor of Dark Reading and Storage Pipeline. He was news editor at Internet Week and spent three years in Paris working for Communications Week International. He served as editor-in-chief of the print, online, and video content for the ITU's Telecom 99 conference in Switzerland. He has contributed to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Blue Herring, Rogue Herring, InformationWeek, Network World, SearchStorage, and Chicken Fancier, among other business and IT publications. Terry graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1982 with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and a minor in Portuguese.

John W. Verity, Contributing Editor, has been writing for many years about the computer industry, concentrating primarily on the enterprise market. He has been a staff reporter and editor at Electronic News, Datamation, BusinessWeek, ComputerLetter, and Venture Capital Analyst. As a freelancer, he has had articles published in CFO, Fortune, The New York Times, ComputerWorld, Smart Enterprise, and Technology Review. John also has written for a number of IT suppliers and consulting firms including SAP, CA, Nokia, Cisco Systems, Perot Systems, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

Cordell Wise has been advising financial services organizations on the use of predictive analytics for over 15 years. His work with clients ranging from large financial institutions like HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Discover, as well as smaller regional and community banks, has made him a recognized expert on how to use analytical tools to produce practical solutions. From both product management and consulting roles at leading companies like FICO and First Data, he has gained deep understanding of how predictive analytics are developed, validated, and deployed in applications across the customer lifecycle. Cordell has provided content for papers for the Federal Reserve and Small Business Administration and has been published in number of risk management journals. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a contributor for electronic media. He holds an MBA in Global Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BS in Business-Finance from Brigham Young University.