Lane is the founder and editorial director of BizTechReports.Com. He has over 20 years of experience as a researcher, reporter and editor analyzing the business and technology industry. News services and magazines that have carried his by-line include:
* Federal Computer Week * Optimize * Information Week * Telephony * NetworkWorld * Communications Week * Washington Technology * InternetWeek * Byte Magazine * Enterprise Systems Journal
Lane also broadcast The Washington News Bureau Technology Minute for WTOP radio, the top rated news and information station in the Washington Metropolitan area. He received a Bachelors Degree in International Relations from the American University in Washington DC.
Executive Content Strategist
Patricia Brown
Award-winning content strategist Patricia Brown has spent the last 20 years covering business and technology for CMP Media, McGraw-Hill and Phillips Business Information. She has served as senior manager of thought leadership for BearingPoint, a global technology and management consulting firm. Patricia is the co-author of How Innovators Connect, a book that features nearly 40 interviews with Silicon Valley innovators, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Patty holds a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Publisher
Carl J. Cooper
Carl brings over 15 years of business development sales and entrepreneurial experience. He has launched, developed and sold a number technology companies in the United States, Canada and Asia. He has held senior sales leadership positions with Gartner, the Washington News Bureau, LLC and CRA Reports. He brings a wealth of industry knowledge in the areas of message management, lead development and sales enablement. As publisher of BizTechReports.Com, Carl is tasked with developing new editorial projects that match key emerging markets and audiences with technology solutions from our growing community of sponsors. He is a graduate of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO.
Managing Editor
Steve Lee
Steve Lee is BizTechReports.Com’s managing editor, and he has previously worked with BizTechReports.Com as a contributing author and editor. Steve brings nearly 20 years of experience in national security, where he researched and analyzed technology-related intelligence and security issues. His career highlights include contributions to National Intelligence Estimates and management assignments with several Washington DC-based national security contractors. As both a manager and analyst, Steve succeeded by explaining complex technologies-- such as aviation and IT -- to lay audiences.
Senior Editor
Britton Manasco
Britton's content and communications work enables clients to more powerfully assess and articulate their business propositions.
He has been a consultant for Prime Resource Group (which specializes in sales performance consulting for companies engaged in a complex sale), Knowledge Capital Group (which focuses on analyst relations for enterprise technology companies), and Peppers and Rogers Group (which specializes in "one-to-one," relationship marketing for F500 companies).
Britton has written for Harvard Business Review; The New York Times; CIO Magazine; Intelligent Enterprise; CNET/ZDNET; Marketing Management; Sales and Marketing Management; 1to1 Magazine; Far Eastern Economic Review; Reason Magazine; and many other media outlets worldwide.
He is also a contributing author for the book Influencing the Influencers, which focuses on the payoff for analyst relations, and High Performance Marketing, which offers a disciplined approach to investing in and managing marketing results.
Senior Editor
David Almquist
David Almquist has more than 20 years of experience as a technical marketing writer and editor. He has produced web content, white papers, articles, newsletters, case studies, presentations, and variety of other materials for technology firms. He was a senior marketing writer for a consulting division of Computer Sciences Corporation and a full-time web content writer for Compaq before moving from Boston to California in 2001.
His work has appeared in a variety of business and trade publications, and he taught both a seminar series and a course in marketing communications for entrepreneurs and marketing professionals at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Director of Special Projects
Ellen Crupi
Ellen brings over 17 years of account management experience in marketing and business development. Ellen has focused her efforts most recently on helping technology companies get in front of key target markets through an integrated series of trade show initiatives, web site advertising and key sponsorship initiatives. From 1999 to 2006, Ellen played a major role in the launch of the Internet start-up Packexpo.com and helped grow the company from zero to $3.2 million in annual sales. As Director of Special Project with BizTechReports. Com, Ellen is responsible for working with technology companies to design and implement thought leadership projects.
Manager of Industry Relations
Christina Pilafas
Christina brings her background in marketing consulting, project management, financial analysis, and marketing management to bear as manager of industry relations for BizTechReports.Com. She is responsible for working with technology organizations around the world to identify and design thought leadership projects that contribute to the body of knowledge so that end-user organizations can make better technology-enabled business decisions. She received her B.A. in Business Administration from Elon University in North Carolina, and her MBA from American University in Washington, DC.