Contributors to SearchCIO
Current Contributors
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William Band is a retired independent consulant on business and CRM strategy. Prior, he was the vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, where he served application development and delivery professionals.
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Bryan Barringer is a technology and business operations expert who specializes in mobility, user adoption, UX/UI design, customer acquisition, product design/management, strategy and business development.
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Andrew Bartels is a vice president and principal analyst serving CIOs at Forrester Research. He analyzes the long-term business impact of IT.
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Kevin Beaver is an information security consultant, writer, professional, speaker and expert witness with Atlanta-based Principle Logic LLC.
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Jeremy Bergsman is an IT practice leader at CEB, overseeing research studies that seek to address common enterprise IT challenges.
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David Bianco is an active member of the threat-hunting community, speaking and writing about subjects such as incident detection and response, threat intelligence and threat hunting.
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Stephen J. Bigelow, senior technology editor in the Data Center and Virtualization media group, has more than 20 years of technical writing experience in the PC/technology industry.
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Jacqueline Biscobing is a Senior Site Editor in TechTarget's Enterprise Software and Services Media Group.
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Lori can answer your questions on call center technology and metrics, including multimedia options such as e-mail, chat, and Web-based.
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David Brain is co-founder and COO of Symphony Ventures. A process and automation expert, he has gained recent recognition as an authority on robotics process automation.
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John Burke is CIO and principal research analyst with Nemertes Research. With nearly two decades of technology experience, he has worked at all levels of IT, including end-user support specialist, programmer, system administrator, database specialist, network administrator, network architect and systems architect.
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Peter Burris is vice president and research director, CIO Practice, at Forrester Research Inc.
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Gary Case, an expert in continual service improvement and business relationship management, is principal consultant at Pink Elephant.
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As editorial director of TechTarget's Storage media group, Rich oversees content for Storage magazine, SearchStorage.com, SearchDataBackup.com, SearchDisasterRecovery.com, SearchVirtualStorage.com, SearchCloudStorage.com, SearchSMBStorage.com and the Storage Decisions conferences.
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Mike Chapple, Ph. D., CISA, CISSP, is a senior director of IT with the University of Notre Dame.
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David Clifford, a director at outsourcing advisory firm Pace Harmon, is an expert on service integration and management (SIAM).
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Michael Cobb , CISSP-ISSAP is a renowned security author with more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry.
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Jeff Cogswell is a software engineer, author and training consultant for Web developers and consultants. He writes about cloud computing technologies.
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Executive Editor Ben Cole covers cybersecurity issues for SearchSecurity, as well as regulatory concerns for SearchCompliance.
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James Damoulakis is an IT professional with more than 25 years of experience in systems, storage, backup/recovery and disaster recovery (DR).
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Alex DelVecchio is the content development strategist for the CIO group.
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Pierre Dorion was the data center practice director and a senior consultant with Long View Systems Inc. in Phoenix.
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Dennis Drogseth is vice president of research at Enterprise Management Associates.
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Troy DuMoulin, vice president of research and development at Pink Elephant, is a leading expert in ITSM, ITIL, IT governance and Lean practices.
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Colin Earl is the founder and CEO of Agiloft, a Silicon Valley pioneer in no-code development platforms for business applications.
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Alan R. Earls is a freelance writer focused on business and technology.
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Wayne Eckerson has been a thought leader in business intelligence and analytics since the early 1990s. He has conducted numerous studies and is a speaker, blogger and consultant.
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Nigel Fenwick is a vice president and principal analyst serving CIOs at Forrester Research Inc. His latest research focuses on digital business.
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Phil Fersht is CEO and chief analyst of HfS Research, a U.K. analyst firm focused on the impact of emerging technologies on business operations.
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Donna Fluss is the founder and President of DMG Consulting LLC, the leading provider of contact center and analytics research, market analysis and consulting.
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Gabriella Frick is associate site editor for TechTarget's Enterprise Software and Services Media Group.
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Colleen has been a regular contributor to SearchMicroservices.com and SearchSoftwareQuality.com as well as other TechTarget websites for some time now. Before this, she was an editor on Software Magazine and ESD Magazine before that. Frye has a breadth of experience writing about topics that range from SOA governance to infrastructure, from open source architecture tools to application integration.
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Tom Gambardella is a second-year college student interning at TechTarget who contributes to SearchCIO and SearchCompliance.
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Robin Gareiss is a unified communications analyst with extensive experience advising IT executives on their technology strategies.
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In her role as executive managing editor, Kara coordinates and oversees the creation, editing and production of editorial projects for TechTarget's websites.
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Dina Gerdeman is a Boston-area-based freelance writer and editor covering business news and features.
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Stan Gibson, an award-winning technology writer and former executive editor at eWEEK and PC Week, is principal at Stan Gibson Communications.
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Frank Gillett is the VP and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. He works on predicting the long-term business impact of IT for CIOs and their business partners.
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Karen Goulart covers CIO strategies for cloud computing and virtualization, the data center and business application trends for SearchCIO.com.
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Michael Gregg of The Solution Firm has extensive experience securing networks. You can confidentially ask him your corporate network security questions here.
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Jonathan Hassell is an author, consultant and speaker, and has a strong background in Windows Vista.
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Solveig Haugland has worked as a technical writer, course developer, instructor and author in the high-tech industry for 20 years.
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Simens Global Director Data Center Solutions and Services Carrie Goetz can answer your fundamental unified communications and collaboration (UCC) questions.
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Sue Hildreth is the former Executive Editor of eBizQ.com and a contributor to several TechTarget sites.
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Brian Holak is site editor for SearchBusinessAnalytics and SearchDataManagement. He reports on business intelligence, analytics and data management.
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Makenzie Holland is a news writer for SearchHealthIT.
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Andrew Horne is an IT practice leader at CEB, a best practice and technology company, and the author of many IT-focused studies.
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Lauren Horwitz is managing editor of Cisco.com.
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Laura E. Hunter (CISSP, MCSE: Security, MCDBA, Microsoft MVP) is a technology architect at Microsoft.
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Jeff Kaplan is the Managing Director of THINKstrategies, the only strategic consulting firm focused entirely on the business implications of the transition of the technology industry from product-centric to services-driven solutions, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing and Managed Services.
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Ron Karjian is a managing editor of e-publications in TechTarget's Business Initiatives Group.
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Khalid Kark is a research director at Forrester Research Inc., leading the team responsible for delivering research and advisory services to IT leaders.
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Kassidy Kelley is an associate site editor for searchEnterpriseAI.
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Steven Kirz is a managing director at Pace Harmon, a business transformation and outsourcing advisory services firm.
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Harvey R. Koeppel is executive director of the Center for CIO Leadership.
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Paul Korzeniowski is a freelance writer and leading industry voice with more than 10,000 articles published.
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Garry Kranz is a senior news writer in the IT Infrastructure and Strategy Group.
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Nicole Laskowski is a news director for TechTarget.
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George Lawton is a journalist based near San Francisco, Calif. Over the last 15 years he has written over 2,000 stories for publications about computers, communications, knowledge management, business, health and other areas which interest him.
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Irwin Lazar is the vice president and service director at Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, develops cost models, conducts strategic seminars and advises clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the enterprise in areas including VoIP, unified communications, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration and advanced network services.
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Craig Le Clair, principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., is an internationally recognized expert in business process management.
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Rachel Lebeaux is the senior managing editor for SearchCIO.com and SearchCompliance.com.
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Kristen Lee is a former news writer for SearchHealthIT.
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David Loshin is president of Knowledge Integrity Inc., a consulting company that works with clients on business intelligence, big data, data quality, data governance and master data management initiatives.
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Scott Lowe is a former CIO and frequent contributor to TechTarget, TechRepublic and other IT publications.
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Kurt Marko is an engineer and technologist who designs and builds digital systems at varied scales.
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Mike Matchett is principal IT industry analyst at Small World Big Data.
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Craig J. Mathias is a principal analyst with Farpoint Group and specializes in mobile, wireless and unified communication (UC) technologies.
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Chris McClean is a principal analyst and research director at Forrester Research.
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Kevin B. McDonald is chief operating officer and chief information security officer at Alvaka Networks, a network management and security firm in Irvine, California.
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Shamus is the senior analyst for the network management practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). He has more than nine years of experience in the IT industry, primarily as a journalist covering the network infrastructure market.
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Dan McMahon, a director at the management consulting firm Pace Harmon, specializes in technology sourcing and business transformation.
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Matt McWha is an IT practice leader at CEB, a best practice insight and technology company.
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Rachel focuses on all things IT products and tech, maintaining TechTarget's Buyer's Guides to ensure product information is accurate and up-to-date.
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Andy Metzger is a freelance reporter based just outside Boston.
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Jan-Willem Middelburg, a leading expert on service automation, is the regional director for the Asian Pacific Division of Pink Elephant, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Charlie Miles is a principal consultant at Pink Elephant, a global training, consulting and conference provider.
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John Moore edits and contributes features and news analysis for SearchITChannel.
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Dan Morris is founding principal of Wendan Consulting, which specializes in business improvement and operational transformation.
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Ashish Nadkarni is part of IDC's Storage Systems and Software market research practice.
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David Needle is a veteran technology reporter covering mobile, big data, CX and social media, among other topics.
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Niel Nickolaisen is the chief technology officer at O.C. Tanner Co. in Salt Lake City.
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Ellen O'Brien, a former senior editor at CIO Decisions, is now executive editor of SearchStorage.com.
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Beth Pariseau is a senior news writer for the Cloud/DevOps group at TechTarget.
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Christine Parizo is a freelance writer specializing in business and technology.
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David Petersson is a developer and freelance writer who covers various technology topics, from cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to hacking and blockchain.
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Denis Pombriant was one of the first analysts to dedicate a practice to Software as a Service (SaaS) CRM and CRM on demand. He is prepared to answer your questions about evaluating and managing on demand CRM.
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Brien Posey is a 15-time Microsoft MVP with two decades of IT experience. He has served as a lead network engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense and as a network administrator for some of the largest insurance companies in America.
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Mary K. Pratt, a freelance writer based in Massachusetts, writes frequently about business management and information technology.
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David Ratcliffe is co-founder and president of Pink Elephant Inc., a premier global training, consulting and conference service provider.
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Athena Reilly is a managing director in Accenture Strategy's practice.
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IT Revolution is a leader in publishing, event production and research on IT subjects.
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Jeffrey Ritter, Esq., is one of the nation's leading experts on information governance, security, the use of digital information as evidence and the emergence of cloud services.
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Jim Romeo is a freelance copywriter with a focus on business and technology topics, including IT security, supply chain management and emerging technologies.
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Mike Rothman, president of Securosis, is a SearchSecurity.com contributor on network security and security management issues.
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Margaret Rouse writes for and manages WhatIs.com, TechTarget’s IT encyclopedia and learning center.
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Isaac Sacolick, president of StarCIO, is a top social CIO and industry speaker.
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Francesca Sales is site editor for SearchCIO.com and SearchCompliance.com.
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Ed Scannell is a Senior Executive Editor of TechTarget's Data Center and Virtualization media group.
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Greg Schulz is founder and senior analyst with the IT infrastructure analyst and consulting firm StorageIO.
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Margie Semilof is the editorial director for TechTarget's Data Center and Virtualization media group.
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Esther Shein is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in several online and print publications.
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Rick Sherman is the founder and managing partner of Athena IT Solutions, a Maynard. Mass.-based firm that provides data warehouse, BI and data management consulting services. In addition to having more than 30 years of experience in the business, Sherman is an author, a frequent speaker at industry events and a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University's Graduate School of Engineering.
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Heidi Shey is a security and risk analyst at Forrester Research Inc. Her research focuses on intellectual property protection, biometrics and cybersecurity.
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Jessica Sirkin is the former associate site editor for SearchOracle and SearchSQLServer. She previously was a managing editor at SAPexperts, and she also has written for Data Informed and Knowledge@Wharton.
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Carol Sliwa is a Senior News Writer with SearchStorage.com.
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Sandra Smith is program director for the Brown University Executive Master in Science and Technology Leadership, where she works in partnership with the Academic Director to ensure the program design and curriculum are top quality and differentiated.
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Learn about Dr. Joel Snyder, an internationally recognized telecommunications and network security expert. Browse his archive of information security articles.
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George Spalding, executive vice president at Pink Elephant, is an insightful ITSM industry expert, executive management consultant and trainer.
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Christian Stafford joins the CIO, IT Strategy and Channel media group as a co-op from Northeastern University's journalism program.
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Jan has covered the computer industry for more than 20 years, writing about everything from personal computers to operating systems to server virtualization to application development.
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Patrick Thibodeau reports on HR and ERP technologies. He has covered IT for more than two decades and has won numerous ASBPE journalism awards.
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Ed Tittel has worked for over 30 years as a software developer and development manager, a networking consultant, a trainer and course developer, and a technical evangelist for several companies.
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Jon Toigo was a veteran planner who assisted more than 100 companies in the development and testing of their continuity plans.
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Bill Tolson is a principal consultant at Tolson Communications and has more than 15 years experience in the storage industry including storage solutions like e-mail archiving, enterprise content management and information lifecycle management.
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Mark Tonsetic is a former IT practice leader at CEB, a best practice insight and technology company for IT leaders.
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Christina Torode is editorial director of TechTarget's CIO/IT Strategy media group.
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As Editorial Director of TechTarget's CIO, IT Strategy and Channel Media Group, Sue Troy steers the editorial coverage of SearchCIO.com, SearchCompliance.com, SearchITChannel.com and SearchCloudProvider.com.
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Linda Tucci oversees coverage for TechTarget's award-winning SearchCIO news site.
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Senior news writer Jack Vaughan writes stories and helps oversee editorial coverage for SearchDataManagement, SearchOracle and SearchSQLServer.
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Steven Weil, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC is Information Security Director & Cybersecurity Principal Consultant for Point B.
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Jennifer Wels works for Pink Elephant as a management consultant. She has more than 20 years of professional experience.
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Craig Wright is managing director at Pace Harmon, a business transformation and outsourcing advisory.
