2014 judging panel

2014 judging panel

Best in Biz Awards is unique in that only writers and journalists for business, financial, trade and technology publications, as well as broadcast outlets and analyst firms, serve as judges. As always, this year’s panel is composed of writers and reviewers from highly recognized newspapers, business, consumer and technology publications, radio outlets, and analyst firms. In addition to the numerous judges returning from previous panels from years 2011 – 2013, this year’s 53-person judging panel includes several worthy additions to this high-profile group.

For the official press release announcing the returning judges, distributed August 6, 2014, see here and for the official press release announcing the complete judging panel, distributed August 26, 2014, see here.

Beyond Social Media

David Griner

Adweek

DAVID GRINER is the social editor of Adweek magazine, where he oversees a variety of social media channels with a combined audience in excess of 2 million fans. He also co-edits the magazine’s highly popular blog, AdFreak, which features the best, worst and weirdest aspects of today’s marketing world. Prior to joining Adweek full-time, he was a longtime freelance contributor to the magazine and, by day, the VP/Director of Digital Content for marketing agency Luckie & Company. You can find him on Twitter at @Griner.

Mary Wisniewski

American Banker

MARY WISNIEWSKI covers fintech for American Banker. Prior to becoming a financial services writer in 2008, she worked as a fashion editor for National Jeweler and interned one summer for Cracked.com. Mary grew up in the Michigan suburbs and now works out of LA and NY with two record players, and soon, a dog. Current interests include financial health, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, travel, Gidget, and #SockWars with bankers and entrepreneurs.

Phil Nickinson

Android Central

PHIL NICKINSON has served as editor-in-chief of AndroidCentral.com since 2009. In a previous life he spent more than a decade in the newsroom of a two-time Pulitzer finalist newspaper in his hometown of Pensacola, Fla. In his current life, he’s got the greatest job in the world, a gorgeous wife and two beautiful daughters. You can find him on Google+, Twitter and Instagram.

Kamille D. Whittaker

Atlanta Tribune

KAMILLE D. WHITTAKER is the associate editor for Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine, Atlanta’s authority on business, economics and politics. Jamaica-nurtured, California-reared and now Atlanta-grounded, she has spent over a decade primarily researching, reporting on and curating editorial coverage on the community and economic development of her multiple sites of “home” and the communities that comprise them. Kamille began editing manuscripts for The Journal of Education for Business and The Journal of Economic Education at the D.C.-based Heldref Publications, an academic publisher. Since, she has worked with The Washington Post in conjunction with Newsweek magazine (formerly WPNI), and as a national correspondent for the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and its more than 200 member publications. Kamille is also co-editor of The Liberator Magazine, an international print and online journal for stories and expressions of art, culture, education, economics and politics.

Pamela Hulse Andrews

Cascade Business News

PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS, based in Bend, Oregon, is the CEO, founder and owner of Cascade Publications Inc., which publishes both the print and online versions of Cascade Business News (Central Oregon’s bi-weekly business newspaper), Cascade Arts & Entertainment (Oregon’s only arts and culture magazine) and several annual publications including Pacific Crest Directory, Redmond Visitors Guide and Sunriver Magazine. Pamela’s diverse business background gives her a broad perspective on the arts and business community and the economy of Oregon. She has championed the cause of growing the arts in the high desert region and played a leadership role in connecting the dots between arts and economic vitality, as well as furthering cultural tourism. She writes an assortment of monthly and weekly columns on local arts, politics, business and the economy, taxes, creativity and developing entrepreneurship.

Christine Dunn

Boston.com

Samantha Christmann

Buffalo News

SAMANTHA CHRISTMANN began her career as a business reporter in 2008, assuring a baptism by fire covering the fallout from the financial crisis for The Buffalo News. Since then, she has covered the retail and consumer beats for the Pulitzer Prize-winning paper. Her weekly column, Discount Diva, is popular among readers for its down-to-earth advice and trademark humor. The first person in her family to attend college, Christmann is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and studied working-class literature in the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Youngstown State University’s renowned Center for Working-Class Studies. The daughter of a steelworker, Christmann’s blue collar roots give her a unique perspective reporting on an emerging Rust Belt region.

Nicole Fallon

Business News Daily

NICOLE FALLON is the assistant editor of Business News Daily, a resource for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. She has been covering business and career trends since 2010, when she started out as a freelancer for BND. Prior to joining the staff full-time, she served as the managing editor of a cooking and nutrition website for a year. Nicole holds a Bachelor’s degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University.

Dave Bursky

Chip Design Magazine

Currently a contributing editor for Chip Design Magazine, DAVE BURSKY has over 40 years experience working as an engineer and editor. Dave is president and founder of PRN Engineering Services, a technical writing and market consulting company and from 2006 through early 2011 was the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products. Prior to Maxim, Dave had over 33 years of experience as an editor, writing for publications such as Electronic Design and EE Times. In 2005 he was inducted into the Communications Society Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement at the City College of New York. Additionally, in 1988 he was described by an article in the San Jose Mercury News as one of the 100 most influential people in Silicon Valley. Dave has served on the program committees of numerous IEEE and commercial conferences, and has authored six books on topics ranging from personal computers to semiconductor memories. Dave holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the City College of the City University of New York.

Tracy Mayor

Computerworld

TRACY MAYOR has covered technology as a reporter, writer and editor since the Apple Lisa was in beta. She is currently online and print features editor at Computerworld, where her work has won multiple ASBPE awards. She specializes in long-form journalism that explores the relationship between people and technology. Previously, she was a long-time contributor to CIO Magazine, and was on staff at Lotus Magazine, PC Week, Tele and Microcomputing. Her writing has been published in The Boston Globe, Writer’s Digest, Boston Magazine, Brain, Child Magazine and online on Salon, The Rumpus and the New York Times’ Motherlode blog, and she is the author of the parenting humor book “Mommy Prayers.” She tweets tech topics @CW_Tracy and lifestyle and culture observations @mommyprayers.

Thornton May

Computerworld

THORNTON MAY is a futurist, a cognitive scientist and an anthropologist studying the value-producing behaviors of the various “tribes” comprising the modern enterprise. His book, The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics analyzes what organizations know; how they come to know and how they act upon what they know and don’t know. Passionate about obliterating digital ignorance from the executive suite, he currently serves as Co-Director of the Innovation Lab at the Olin College of Engineering; Executive Director of the CIO Solutions Gallery at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University and Executive Director of the CIO Practicum program at the University of Kentucky. The editors at eWeek honored Thornton, including him on their list of ‘Top 100 Most Influential People in IT.’ The editors at Fast Company labeled him ‘one of the top 50 brains in technology today.’

Faten Abdallah

Connecting Women Radio

Photo and bio coming soon.

Mark Huffman

Consumer Affairs

MARK HUFFMAN is a reporter for ConsumerAffairs.com. Since 2004 he has covered issues ranging from consumer product defects to developments in consumer technology. In 2007 he served on a Federal Trade Commission workshop panel examining negative option marketing practices. He has been a correspondent for Marketwatch.com, Westwood One Radio Networks and Associated Press Radio. He has also been a science and technology writer for United Press International and written about technology for Reuters New Media. He has been interviewed as a source on stories for NBC News, Forbes, Smart Money, and The Wall Street Journal. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Kentucky.

Elaine Pofeldt

Crain’s New York Business

Photo and bio coming soon.

Rick Whiting

CRN

RICK WHITING has been with CRN and CRN.com since November 2006, originally as a senior editor and more recently as feature/special projects editor. Before that he worked at UBM’s InformationWeek magazine from 1998 to 2006 as a senior editor and, later, news editor. Other publications he has held writer/editor positions with include Software Magazine, Electronic Business Magazine and Computer System News. Before moving into trade publishing, Whiting was a newspaper reporter at the Daily Transcript in Dedham, Mass. from 1980 to 1986. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in English and political science from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and an MBA from Babson College.

Frank Witsil

Detroit Free Press

photo and bio coming soon.

Jack Germain

ECT News Network

JACK M. GERMAIN has been writing about computer technology since the early days of the Apple II and the IBM PC. Over the past four decades, Jack has worked on both sides of the editorial desk for numerous organizations as writer and editor. His feature articles, technology blogs, and specialty columns are published by ECT News Network. Jack writes for TechNewsWorld, The E-Commerce Times, LinuxInsider, and CRMBuyer.

Carolyn Horwitz

Entrepreneur

CAROLYN HORWITZ is executive editor of Entrepreneur magazine, based in Los Angeles. She previously covered the international music business as managing editor at Billboard and served as managing editor of luxury lifestyle magazines for the Boston and Washington, D.C., markets. Additionally, she has edited and co-written several books on international architecture and interior design, including Dealer’s Choice: At Home with Purveyors of Antique and Vintage Furnishings.

Frank Ohlhorst

eWeek Channel Insider

FRANK J. OHLHORST is an award winning technology journalist and professional speaker with over 25 years of experience in the technology arena. Frank has written for several leading technology publications, including ComputerWorld, TechTarget, PCWorld, ExtremeTech and Toms Hardware. Frank has also contributed to business publications, including Entrepreneur and BNET, and to multiple technology books, and has written several white papers, case studies, reviewers’ guides and channel guides for leading technology vendors.

Samantha Bookman

FierceOnlineVideo

SAMANTHA BOOKMAN is the editor of FierceOnlineVideo and managing editor, Wireline, with FierceMarkets’ Telecom group. Prior to joining FierceMarkets, she served as web editor for Horizon House’s publications, Telecommunications and Microwave Journal. Based in Boston, Mass., she can be found in her off-time digging through the comics stacks at Outer Limits, hiking, or practicing martial arts. Follow @FierceSamantha on Twitter and find her on LinkedIn.

Kate Knibbs

Gizmodo

KATE KNIBBS is a staff writer for Gizmodo. She grew up on the south side of Chicago and graduated from McGill University, in Montreal. She thought she was done with Canada until she moved to Seoul and fell in love with a Canadian; now she lives in Toronto. She is a television critic for the A.V. Club and previously wrote for Time, the Daily Dot, and Popular Mechanics.

Patrick Kenealy

IDG Ventures

PAT KENEALY has been evaluating and explaining computer and media technology companies for 37 years as an editor, publisher, media exec and venture capitalist. For 28 of those years, Pat has worked at IDG, the global I.T. media conglomerate, where he was variously president of DIGITAL NEWS, CEO of PC WORLD, CEO of IDG itself, and a general partner of IDG Ventures. Now a managing director at IDG Ventures USA in San Francisco, Pat is an active investor in early-stage I.T. and consumer-facing Internet content, service and commerce companies. Pat currently sits on the boards of IDG, Olive Media and Parkme.com, and is a board observer at Yesware.com.

Ivan Berger

IEEE Institute

IVAN BERGER has just completed his fiftieth year of writing about technology. He’s been inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame for his work with Lancelot Braithwaite at Video magazine. At Popular Mechanics, he was one of the first general-magazine editors to cover home computers; he’s also been an editor at Popular Electronics and, for nearly 20 years, Audio. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Popular Photography, Playboy, Reader’s Digest, Road & Track, and hundreds more. Currently, he contributes to the Productopia blog, Digital Photography Buyers Guide, IEEE Institute, and others.

Douglas Cantor

Inc.

DOUG CANTOR is a senior editor at Inc.com. Over his career, he has served as an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, Popular Science, and Esquire, and written for publications including Men’s Journal, ESPN The Magazine, Departures, BlackBook, Time Out New York, Mental Floss, and many others. Doug holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a master¹s degree from Northwestern University¹s Medill School of Journalism.

Mathew Schwartz

InfoRisk Today

MATHEW SCHWARTZ is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and online media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career, as well as working as a photojournalist and travel writer. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the Managing Editor for its European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, amongst other publications. He lives in Scotland. Find him on Twitter at @euroinfosec.

Kristin Burnham

Information Week

KRISTIN BURNHAM is InformationWeek’s Senior Editor, covering social media, social business, IT leadership and IT careers. Prior to joining InformationWeek in July 2013, she served in a number of roles at CIO magazine and CIO.com, most recently as senior writer. Kristin’s writing has earned two ASBPE Gold Awards, one in 2014 for her scoop on Yahoo’s recycled email address program and in 2010 for her Facebook coverage. She also won a Min Editorial and Design Award in 2011 for “Single Online Article.” Kristin is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. You can find her on Twitter: @kmburnham.

Kevin Casey

Information Week

KEVIN CASEY covers a variety of technology topics for InformationWeek.com, where he’s recently been focused on big data, IT careers and hiring trends, and Microsoft. His technology, marketing, and small business writing also appears regularly at Tech Page One and other venues. Kevin won a 2014 Azbee Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for his feature story “Are You Too Old For IT?” and was a 2013 Community Choice honoree in the Small Business Influencer Awards. He teaches academic writing at Duke University. You can find him on Twitter @kevinrcasey.

Mick Burke

Journal Times

MICHAEL BURKE is an award-winning journalist who has been covering all facets of business for The Journal Times of Racine, Wis., for 16 ½ years. Racine, a metropolitan area of about 120,000 people between Milwaukee and Chicago, is a hotbed for manufacturing and home to such companies as SC Johnson and Modine Manufacturing and the Case IH agriculture and construction machinery brand. Most recently, Burke won first place for Business Reporting in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s 2013 Better Newspaper Contest for his series “The Job Skills Gap.” Burke also hosts a weekly online business interview show called “Money Talks.” Before covering business, Burke covered both government and education.

Dale Dauten

King Features Syndicate

DALE DAUTEN has been researching achievers and innovation since his days at Arizona State and at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. His early work prompted a government publication to call him a “guru” to White House staffers, and during the past four decades, his six books have been published in a dozen languages and have developed a large following worldwide. Dale writes newspaper columns nationally syndicated by King Features. Until recently, he wrote “The Corporate Curmudgeon,” and he continues to write “JT and Dale Talk Jobs” with employment expert, Jeannine “JT” O’Donnell. Their work appears weekly in seventy newspapers, including The Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Arizona Republic and Houston Chronicle.

Annlee Ellingson

L.A. Biz

ANNLEE ELLINGSON is a staff writer at L.A. Biz, Los Angeles’ digital bureau at American City Business Journals, where she covers entertainment and technology. Other chapters of her life include a decade all-told in various editorial positions at BoxOffice Magazine, a trade publication for the motion-picture exhibition industry. She’s also written about film for the Los Angeles Times, PasteMagazine.com, Moving Pictures magazine, and Los Angeles Weekly. A Midwest transplant to Los Angeles, she holds a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California.

Jonathan Roubini

Lab Reviews

JONATHAN ROUBINI is editor in chief and technical director of LabReviews.com, bringing to the site more than three decades of hands-on experience. Previously, Jonathan was lead analyst of the mobile category at PC Magazine, quickly gaining recognition in the wireless industry thanks to his extensive knowledge of PDAs, cell phones and their accessories. Prior to that, Jonathan was software project leader at PC Magazine Labs, where he pioneered several new testing techniques for always-evolving software packages. Jonathan graduated with a B.S. in Information and Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

Craig Ball

Law Technology News

CRAIG BALL penned the award-winning Ball in Your Court column on electronic discovery for Law Technology News for nine years. Based in Austin, Craig is a a Board Certified trial lawyer, certified computer forensic examiner, law professor and electronic evidence expert, who limits his practice to serving as a court-appointed special master and consultant in computer forensics and electronic discovery. He has served as the special master or testifying expert in computer forensics and electronic discovery in some of the most challenging and celebrated cases in the U.S. For his articles on e-discovery and computer forensics, please visit www.craigball.com or his blog, www.ballinyourcourt.com.

Angela Natividad

Marketing Profs

ANGELA NATIVIDAD co-founded AdverveBlog.com and leads the weekly #SocialSkim at MarketingProfs.com. She also freelances as a strategist and writer for numerous companies and agencies, including Reed MIDEM and social TV agency Darewin. Prior to that, she was the editor of MarketingVox and Adrants. Angela currently lives in Paris and is bilingual in both English and French, although her jokes in either language remain iffy at best. Follow her on Twitter at @luckthelady.

Laurie Sullivan

MediaPost

LAURIE SULLIVAN is the search editor of Search Marketing Daily, a MediaPost publication, and serves as the chairperson for the Search Insider Summit, a twice yearly think-tank search conference . A technology and marketing geek since 1985, Sullivan also writes about the electronics supply chain for EBNOnline.com, a UBM publication. She has contributed to Advertising Age, BNet, and wrote full-time for Red Herring, InformationWeek, and EBN, among other media publishers and university publications. Prior to becoming a journalist in 2000, Sullivan wrote copy, produced content, and published marketing material for clients like Microsoft and Computer Associates while working for 10 years in the in-house advertising and marketing agency at computer distributor Ingram Micro. She holds a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Chapman University. You can follow her on Twitter at @LaurieSullivan.

Evan Benn

Miami Herald

EVAN BENN is the food editor of the Miami Herald and its entertainment website, Miami.com. A 2004 graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Benn began his career as a news reporter for the Herald, covering crime, courts and hurricanes. He joined the features department of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2009 as a writer and editor, where he served as the paper’s food critic and beer columnist. Benn is the author of the 2011 book “Brew in the Lou: St. Louis’ Beer Culture — Past, Present and Future” and serves as Esquire’s online beer columnist and a contributor to BeerAdvocate, Businessweek and other national publications. He tweets @EvanBenn.

Dayana Yochim

Motley Fool

DAYANA YOCHIM is a senior editor for The Motley Fool (Fool.com), the leading online destination for individual investors. Prior to joining The Motley Fool in 1997 (where she has held numerous editorial positions), she was a writer and editor for various consumer and trade business publications. She has had bylines in magazines such as Woman’s Day, Newsweek and Jane, and her money advice has been featured in Real Simple, Glamour, Details, Bridal Guide and Men’s Health, among others. As a consumer finance expert she has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN and NPR. Dayana is the author of The Motley Fool’s Guide to Couples & Cash: How to handle money with your honey and The Motley Fool Personal Finance Workbook. Dayana has a journalism degree from the University of Kansas.

Jack Smith

New York Observer

JACK SMITH IV is a young staff writer and columnist at the New York Observer and Betabeat. He covers tech business in New York City, as well as a weekly tech finance column. Jack writes insider features and embedded tech lifestyle pieces for a mostly millennial audience, examining the intersection between technology, culture and the changing economy. His previous bylines include CBSnews.com, WNYC and Medium, and he’s an experienced documentarian and on-camera news talent.

Julie Fadda Powers

NorthBay Biz

JULIE FADDA POWERS is editor of NorthBay biz magazine, a monthly, regional, business-to-business publication based in Santa Rosa, Calif., which covers anything and everything to do with business in Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties. She personally covers the wine and food industries, with a monthly restaurant review column called “Dine Wise.” She joined NorthBay biz in 2005 and, prior to that, spent her entire career as a magazine editor and writer covering various subjects from lifestyle, to business, to software, to medicine. She is also a member of the Academy of Media Tastemakers, a judging panel for the annual Taste Awards, and a Certified Tourism Ambassador for Sonoma County. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Francisco State University in 1991, with a minor in fine art.

Samara Lynn

PC Magazine

SAMARA LYNN has nearly twenty years experience in information technology. She has several technology certifications, a Bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College and was a technology editor for the CRN Test Center. She is currently the lead analyst of networking and business at PCMag.com where she reviews technology including wireless routers, servers, business applications and also writes opinion and analysis pieces on the tech industry. Her “Windows Server 2012 Up and Running” book is due to be published from O’Reilly in December 2012.

Samara Lynn

PC Magazine

SAMARA LYNN has nearly twenty years experience in information technology. She has several technology certifications, a Bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College and was a technology editor for the CRN Test Center. She is currently the lead analyst of networking and business at PCMag.com where she reviews technology including wireless routers, servers, business applications and also writes opinion and analysis pieces on the tech industry. Her “Windows Server 2012 Up and Running” book is due to be published from O’Reilly in December 2012.

Kathy Yakal

PC Magazine

KATHY YAKAL wrote her first article about the computer industry – “The New, Low-Cost Printers” — in 1983, as a staff writer at the late COMPUTE! Magazine. Since then, she’s written many hundreds of feature stories, columns, how-to articles, reviews and blogs for print publications as small as her first accounting newsletter in 1988 (Accountants Microcomputer News) to more mainstream magazines and websites like Barron’s and PC Mag. Today, she spends much of her time ghostwriting blogs, columns and articles for accountants and other small businesspeople who need assistance communicating their expertise. If she wasn’t writing for a living, she’d probably be doing something that involved dogs.

Iris Dorbian

peHUB

IRIS DORBIAN is a prolific and versatile business and arts journalist. Currently, she writes news briefs for Thomson Reuters’ peHUB, which covers private equity and venture capital as well as contributes articles to sister publication Thomson Reuters’ Venture Capital Journal. Iris is also a regular contributor to CFO.com and writes web stories for Bank of America’s Small Business Online Community Site. Previously, Iris served as group editor of the PR/media group at Access Intelligence where she worked on PR News, Media Industry Newsletter and Min’s b2b. And before that, she was editor­in­chief of Stage Directions, a technical theater trade publication. As a freelance journalist, her articles have appeared in a wide number of publications, including Wall Street Journal, Playbill, Mediapost’s OMMA, Live Design, DMNews, Backstage, Theatermania, Jerusalem Report, the Forward, Pilates Style and Dance Teacher. She is the author of “Great Producers: Visionaries of the American Theater,” which was published by Allworth Press/Skyhorse Publishing in August 2008. A New Jersey native, Iris has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Kat Bryant

Phoenix Business Journal

KAT BRYANT is associate editor of the Phoenix Business Journal. She has held numerous editorial positions there and at the Silicon Valley Business Journal since 1989, earning several industry awards over the years for editing, headline writing and design. She also does freelance proofreading for various forms of media. She attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she worked full time for four years on the student daily newspaper and discovered her true calling.

Deb Brasier

Quad-City Times

DEB BRASIER is business editor of the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa, a Lee Enterprises newspaper, and editor of the weekly Quad-City Business Journal e-newsletter. She joined the Quad-City Times as a news copy editor. Among her past assignments have been regional and weekly newspaper editor, managing editor-features, news editor, opinion page editor and online editor. She has received writing and presentation awards from the Iowa Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Iowa Newspaper Association and Illinois Press Association. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Heather Somerville

San Jose Mercury News

BRIAN BANDELL is a senior reporter at the South Florida Business Journal. Over the past 11 years, he has won 12 awards each from the Florida Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists, including a First Place Green Eyeshade for his coverage of Medicare Fraud in Miami. He is also a novelist with Silver Leaf Books, having recently released science fiction thriller Mute.

Cromwell Schubarth

Silicon Valley Business Journal

Photo and bio coming soon

Donald P. Mazzella

Small Business Digest

DONALD P. MAZZELLA oversees a print and Internet publication network centered around Small Business Digest with more than 3.2 million opt-in small business readers and is moderator of Small Business Digest Radio on www.blkogtalkradio.com. Don is also COO of Information Strategies, Inc., a company that helps small business managers improve profits, and has held senior-level positions at McGraw-Hill, Thomson and Essence Communications. Don holds BA, MA and MBA degrees from NYU and has taught at that university and others, as well as spoken at leading small business industry conferences on the evolving trends in these sectors. He is particularly adept at identifying and adapting technology to be used these sectors. A nationally known speaker, he has appeared on television (MSNBC, Bloomberg) and radio programs, as well as being quoted in such publications as The Wall Street Journal.

Ronald Barba

Tech Cocktail

RONALD BARBA is a tech and strartup reporter for Tech Cocktail, where he is in charge of covering major cities on the East Coast, including New York City, Boston, Washington D.C., as well as Chicago. Prior to journalism, Ronald worked in the nonprofit sector in D.C., with a particular background in development and digital strategy. He has also previously served as a humor writer for a major tech company; his other work can be seen in publications like The Onion and BuzzFeed. Ronald attended the University of Virginia, where he studied philosophy and politics.

Robert Allen

Tech-Gaming

A ceaseless appreciation for interactive entertainment is what drives ROBERT ‘DesertEagle’ ALLEN, Tech-Gaming.com’s editor and podcasting personality. Having written over six hundred reviews, and interviewed a wide swath of the industries’ luminaries, Robert aspires to share his appreciation for the medium with an ever-growing audience of gamers. When a controller isn’t in his hand, he can usually be found clutching a dry-erase marker- instructing classes in writing, communication, and technology at two southern California colleges.

Jonathan Marino

TheDeal.com

JONATHAN MARINO is senior editor at The Deal focusing on private equity. Prior to joining The Deal, Jon spent two and a half years leading peHUB.com, Thomson Reuters’ private equity and venture capital daily online publication. Before joining peHUB, he spent three years with M&A Journal, a SourceMedia publication covering investing and banking. Jon has spent 10 years in journalism, covering government and politics in Washington D.C. for GovExec.com, The Washington Examiner, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

Teresa Novellino

Upstart Business Journal

TERESA NOVELLINO’s brimming closet reveals the occupational hazards of years spent covering the retail and luxury industries maybe a little too closely. Before joining the Upstart Business Journal, she swam with sharks at a Tahitian pearl farm and tramped through Colombian emerald mines on business trips as executive editor of National Jeweler. Previously, she helped connect the dots between digital and TV as a web producer for Good Morning America. After getting an MA in journalism from Syracuse University, Teresa worked as a general assignment newspaper reporter.

Alastair Goldfisher

Venture Capital Journal

Photo and bio coming soon

Christopher Null

Wired

CHRISTOPHER NULL is an award-winning journalist who has been covering business and technology for 20 years. A veteran of PC Computing, Yahoo! Tech, and New Architect and the founding editor in chief of Mobile PC Magazine, there is no segment of the high-tech universe he hasn’t covered. Today he continues to cover business and technology topics for Wired and PC World, among other publications, while running his own custom blogging company, Null Media, which provides turnkey editorial services to corporate clients, including Intuit.

Gregory T. Huang

Xconomy

GREGORY T. HUANG is deputy editor of Xconomy, a national publication covering the front lines of innovation in 10 metro areas. His beat includes software, hardware, education, and venture capital. Previously, Greg was a features editor at New Scientist magazine and senior writer at Technology Review. He is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), a book about Microsoft in China. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. He tweets @gthuang.

Natalie Gagliordi

ZDNet

NATALIE GAGLIORDI is a staff writer for CBS Interactive based in Louisville, Kentucky, covering business technology for ZDNet. She previously worked as a writer and editor for B2B publications focused on interactive self-service technology, retail trends, e-commerce and mobile payments.

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