BNET Insights Author Bios
Dave Allan
Email Dave AllanDave Allan is a co-founder of What If, largest independent innovation company. He also co-authored ‘How to Start a Creative Revolution’ and ‘Sticky Wisdom’ (Capstone Books).
Alain Sherter
Bryan Corliss
Stanley Bing
Email Stanley BingStanley Bing is the bestselling author of Executricks, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, 100 Bullshit
Jobs...And How to Get Them, Crazy Bosses, and The
Big Bing. By day, he is a haute executive at a gigantic multinational corporation whose identity is probably known to you.
Stacy Blackman
Email Stacy BlackmanStacy Sukov Blackman is president of Stacy Blackman Consulting, where she consults on MBA admissions. She earned her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and her Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Stacy serves on the Board of Directors of AIGAC, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants, and has published a guide to MBA Admissions, The MBA Application Roadmap.
Rick Broida
Email Rick BroidaA technology writer for more than 15 years, Rick Broida is a regular contributor to CNET, Popular Science, Wired and other publications. He's also
the author of numerous books, including How to Do Everything with Your Zune.
When he's not chained to his keyboard, he's usually shooting hoops or watching quality television.
Catherine Hearn
Email Catherine HearnCatherine Hearn forged her career in executive search at Heidrick & Struggles and GKR, specialising in the technology, media, and telecoms sectors. In 2008, she co-founded Neo:Search, a new search and selection firm that reflects the changing business environment.
Chris Morrison
Based in Berkeley, California, Chris Morrison is a freelance business reporter who focuses on renewable energy and cutting-edge tech. Until recently, he was a staff member at VentureBeat, a news site about innovation and venture capital, where he headed up coverage of clean technology. Chris continues to contribute to VentureBeat and has also appeared in print publications including Business 2.0 and Fortune Small Business.
Stuart Cross
Email Stuart CrossStuart Cross is a founder of Morgan Cross Consulting, which helps companies find new ways to drive substantial, profitable growth. His clients include Alliance Boots, Avon and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Catharine P. Taylor
Catharine P. Taylor writes frequently about advertising, media and marketing. In addition to posting daily to BNET Media, she is currently the Social Media Insider for Mediapost, writing a weekly online column about what social media means for the media and marketing industries, and has her own blog devoted to the advertising business, Adverganza.com. A founding editor of AdFreak, she was also a long-time writer and editor for Adweek, Brandweek and Mediaweek. Her work has also been featured in Advertising Age, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, strategy+business and Wired.
Jonathan Cummings
Email Jonathan CummingsJonathan is managing director of the Asia arm of international brand and digital consultancy Start Creative. He has contributed to many advisory boards and councils, including Business Superbrands in the UK, and also finds time to challenge himself with half-crazed feats of endurance, such as climbing three mountains in 24 hours.
Jeremy Dann
Email Jeremy DannJeremy Dann is a Lecturer in Marketing at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and an innovation consultant and writer. He has been a contributor to several business and technology publications and is the founding editor of "Strategy & Innovation."
David P. Hamilton
David P. Hamilton, a 14-year veteran of the Wall Street Journal, is also the senior editor of BNET Industries. Prior to BNET, he founded the LifeScience section of VentureBeat, a news site for innovation and venture business. Previously, David covered biotechnology, the Internet, and computing and served as a Tokyo foreign correspondent for the Journal. He is a two-time winner of the Overseas Press Club award and spent several years as a reporter at Science magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington, D.C.
Daniel M. Harrison
Daniel M. Harrison is a business journalist who has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, and Forbes.com.
In 2007, Harrison initiated Asian market coverage for TheStreet.com, reporting from New York and Hong Kong. He also served for a while as Opening Bell Editor at the financial blog Dealbreaker.com. Harrison is the publisher, editor and writer of The Global Perspective, and you can follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/bizjourno.
Dave Johnson
Email Dave JohnsonOver the past 20 years, Dave Johnson has written three dozen books (including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera), co-hosted a
weekly call-in radio show, and covered technology for a long list of magazines that include PC World and Wired. As his neighbors can attest, he also plays drums.
Diane Mermigas
Diane Mermigas has been a contributing editor and columnist at Mediapost, The Hollywood Reporter and Crain Communications as well as writing for such sites as Seeking Alpha, TrueSlant and BNET. In addition to speaking and television appearances, Diane consults with companies in digital transition, and is completing a book on the future of media.
Phil Dobbie
Email Phil DobbiePhil Dobbie has a wealth of radio and business experience. He started his career in commercial radio in the UK and, since coming to Australia in 1991, has held senior marketing and management roles with Telstra, OzEmail, the British Tourist Authority and other telecommunications, media, travel and advertising businesses. In BTalk Australia he provides a lively and insightful view on business issues, adding his blend of irony and humour to the discussions.
Mike Duff
Mike Duff has written about retail and related fields over 20 years. His work has appeared in publications as diverse as Retailing Today, Drug Store News, Supermarket Business, Consumer Digest, MarketingWeek, American Food and Ag Exporter magazines.
David Weir
David Weir is a veteran journalist who has worked at Rolling Stone, California, Mother Jones, Business 2.0, SunDance, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, MyWire, 7x7, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, which he cofounded in 1977. He’s also been a content executive at KQED, Wired Digital, Salon.com, and Excite@Home. David has published hundreds of articles and three books,including "Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets Its Story," and has been teaching journalism for more than 20 years at U.C. Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and Stanford.
Jim Edwards
Jim Edwards, a former managing editor of Adweek, has covered drug marketing at Brandweek for four years. He is a former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University's business and journalism schools. He has also won the Neal award for business journalism, an S.P.J. award for investigative journalism, and the N.J. Press Association's Public Service award.
Erik Sherman
Erik Sherman is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. His work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, Inc, Newsweek Japan, the Financial Times, Chief Executive, Advertising Age, and CIO Insight. Before going into journalism, he was head of product marketing at a publicly-held technology company and later was an independent business consultant.
Edward Russell-Walling
Email Edward Russell-WallingEdward Russell-Walling is a London-based business and finance writer and editor. He has contributed to a wide range of publications, including The Times, the New Statesman and the Financial Times and has a regular column in The Banker. His latest book, Management Ideas You Really Need to Know is a primer for professionals who want to get the gist of some of the key management ideas businesses use today.
Michael Fitzgerald
Email Michael FitzgeraldMichael Fitzgerald writes about innovation and other big ideas in business for publications like the New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, Inc. and CIO. He’s worked as a writer or editor at Red Herring, ZDNet, TechTV and Computerworld, and has received numerous awards as a writer and editor. Most recently, his piece on the hacker collective the l0pht won the 2008 award for best trade piece from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He was also a 2007 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion.
Colin Gautrey
Email Colin Gautrey
Colin Gautrey has written several books on politicking at work and is co-author of “21 Dirty Tricks at Work”. He is also co-founder of Politics at Work, www.politicsatwork.com which works with corporates and academia to help individuals learn more about the practical use of power and influence in the workplace.
Robert Gerrish
Email Robert GerrishRobert Gerrish is a coach, author and professional speaker and the founder of Flying Solo (www.flyingsolo.com.au), the Australian online community for solo business owners.
Katherine Glover
Jennifer Goddard
Email Jennifer GoddardJennifer Goddard is the director of the Buzan Centre in Australia and New Zealand and co-founder of Mindwerx International. In "Head First Innovation", Jennifer Goddard looks at ways managers, innovation champions and entrepreneurs can open their minds to new ideas and ways of doing things that will give them the competitive advantage. You can find out more about her at fuzz2buzz.
David Goldenberg
Email David GoldenbergDavid lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Gelf Magazine. He also freelances for several magazines including Wired and Business 2.0. He's always on the lookout for new ideas about how to make life at work more efficient, more productive, and more fun. Please feel free to send him your ideas for tips, tricks and other useful stuff.
Chris Golis
Email Chris GolisChris Golis is the author of three books: The Humm Handbook --- Lifting Your Level of Emotional Intelligence, Enterprise & Venture Capital --- A Business Builders' and Investors' Handbook, and Empathy Selling -- The New Sales Technique for the 21st Century. After successful careers in IT and venture capital, Chris is pursuing a third career as professional speaker and workshop leader. He runs seminars and workshops on Getting You and Your Organisation Humming. His blog is entitled Improving Your EQ.
Yann Gourvennec
Email Yann GourvennecYann Gourvennec is head of internet and digital media at Orange Business Services. He is in charge of the international operator's websites and blogs. and has been in marketing and innovation for over 20 years.
Brian Haverty
Email Brian HavertyBrian Haverty is Editorial Director for CNET Networks Australia and is responsible for the company's BNET, CNET.com.au, ZDNet Australia, GameSpot AU and Builder AU online titles. Brian has been editing and writing on an extensive range of technology and business subjects for 12 years in Australia but the areas he specialises in are digital publishing and production systems. You can e-mail him at brian.haverty@cnet.com.au.
Jim Henry
Based in the New York metro region, Jim Henry is a veteran reporter with more than 20 years experience covering the auto industry for publications such as Automotive News. He was also department manager, corporate strategy and market research, for Mercedes-Benz USA, the German automaker's U.S. sales and marketing subsidiary. Jim is a board member and past president of the International Motor Press Association.
Barbara E. Hernandez
Bay Area resident and award-winning business journalist Barbara E. Hernandez has covered tourism, real estate and personal finance. Her clients include the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and East Bay Business Times.
Michael Hickins
Michael Hickins has written about technology and business for BNET, InformationWeek, InternetNews.com, eWEEK -- where he was executive editor from 2007-2008 -- The Curator, Pseudo.com, Multex Investor, Reuters, and Conde Nast's WWD.com. Hickins is the author of The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing, a collection of short stories published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1991. He also published Blomqvist, a picaresque novel set in 11th century Europe, in 2006. Hickins remains passionately interested in the intersections of business, technology, politics and culture, and endures a life-long obsession with baseball. He is married with two children and lives in Manhattan.
CC Holland
Email CC HollandCC Holland is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a number of national magazines. Online, she was a columnist for AnchorDesk.com and writes regularly for Law.com and BNET. On the other side of the journalism desk, she's been a managing editor for ZDNet, CNet, and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where she earned an APTRA Best News Web Site award.
Ian Ritter
Geoffrey James
Email Geoffrey JamesGeoffrey James has sold and written hundreds of features, articles and columns for national publications including Wired, Men's Health, Business 2.0, SellingPower, Brand World, Computer Gaming World, CIO, The New York Times and (of course) BNET. He is the author of seven books, including Business Wisdom of the Electronic Elite (translated into seven languages and selected by four book clubs), and The Tao of Programming (widely quoted on the Web as a "canonical book of computer humor".) He was also co-host of Funny Business, a program on New England's largest all-talk radio station and has given seminars and keynotes at numerous corporations, including Rackspace, Gartner, Lucent and Houston Industries. Geoffrey attributes his success to the uncommon realization that freelancing is "50 percent sales and 50 percent delivery." When writing about Sales, he draws on his prior experience marketing and selling multi-million dollar computer systems, his daily experience selling his own services, and the fact that every month he's personally being coached, one-on-one, by the world's top sales trainers.
Jim Edwards
Jim Edwards, a former managing editor of Adweek, has covered drug marketing at Brandweek for four years, and is a former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University's business and journalism schools.
Jo Owen
Email Jo OwenJo Owen practises what he preaches as a leader. He has worked with over 100 of the best, and a couple of the worst, organisations in the world, has built a business in Japan; started a bank (now HBOS business banking); was a partner at Accenture and brand manager at P&G. He is a serial entrepreneur whose start-ups include top 10 graduate recruiter Teach First and Start Up, which has helped over 250 ex-offenders start their own businesses. He has and has spent seven years researching leadership, strategy and organisation in tribal societies. His books include "Tribal Business School", "How to Lead and How to Manage." He is in demand as a speaker and coach on leadership and change. His websites include Tribal Business School
and Leadership Partnership
Kirsten Korosec
Email Kirsten KorosecKirsten Korosec has been a print and online journalist for more than 10 years covering education, politics and business.
Robin Stuart-Kotze
Email Robin Stuart-KotzeRobin Stuart-Kotze is a founder of the consultancy Behavioural Science Systems, whose clients include P&O, BP, Oracle, and Johnson & Johnson. He’s also made his way in management, largely in the financial services sector in the UK and Canada. A distinguished academic with a PhD in organisational psychology, Robin co-wrote “Who Are Your Best People?” about effective talent management.
Ed Leefeldt
Email Ed LeefeldtEd Leefeldt is an award-winning investigative and business journalist who has worked for Reuters, Bloomberg and Dow Jones, and been contributed to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. He is also the author of The Woman Who Rode the Wind, a novel about early flight.
Melissa Lourenco
Email Melissa LourencoMelissa is the HR manager for CBS Interactive (CBSi) in Australia. She graduated from the University of Sydney, majoring in Human Resource Management and prior to joining CBSi worked in a variety of generalist HR roles. When not wearing the HR/UN hat, she likes to curl up on the couch with her e-book, add/rearrange songs on her iPod, go to the movies and play the odd RPG on her PC. If you have questions or comments for Mel, send them to hr@cnet.com.au.
Marine Cole
Maya Meinert
Email Maya MeinertLos Angeles resident Maya Meinert has written for various publications, including the Los Angeles Daily Journal and Los Angeles magazine. She most recently covered the retail, dining and hospitality industries for the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Jim Motavalli
Jim Motavalli is the author of Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future, among other books. He has been covering the environmental side of the auto industry for more than a decade, and writes regularly on those topics for the New York Times.
Neil Versel
Matthew Potter
Matthew Potter is a resident of Huntsville, Ala., where he works supporting U.S. Army aviation programs. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he began work as a defense contractor in Washington D.C. specializing in program management and budget development and execution. In the last 15 years Matthew has worked for several companies, large and small, involved in all aspects of government contracting and procurement. He holds two degrees in history as well as studying at the Defense Acquisition University. He has written for Seeking Alpha and at his own website, DefenseProcurementNews.com.
Salma Shah
Email Salma ShahSalma Shah is the founder of Beyond, which employs consulting, training, coaching and mentoring to help individuals to improve their own performance at work. A psychology graduate, Salma worked in IT for more than 17 years and now advises clients such as Cap Gemini, Microsoft, Oracle and New Star Asset Management.
Erik Sherman
Erik Sherman is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. His work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, Inc, Newsweek Japan, the Financial Times, Chief Executive, Advertising Age, and CIO Insight. Before going into journalism, he was head of product marketing at a publicly-held technology company and later was an independent business consultant.
Sean Silverthorne
Email Sean SilverthorneSean Silverthorne is the editor of HBS Working Knowledge, which provides a first look at the research and ideas of Harvard Business School faculty. Working Knowledge, which won a Webby award in 2007, currently records 4 million unique visitors a year. He has been with HBS since 2001.
Silverthorne has 28 years experience in print and online journalism. Before arriving at HBS, he was a senior editor at CNet and Executive Editor of ZDNet News. While at At Ziff-Davis, Silverthorne also worked on the daily technology TV show The Site, and was a senior editor at PC Week Inside, which chronicled the business of the technology industry. He has held several reporting and editing roles on a variety of newspapers, and was Investor Business Daily's first journalist based in Silicon Valley.
Steve Miller
Brett Snyder
Brett has worked in various pricing, sales, and marketing functions for airlines including America West and United. In addition to writing for BNET's Travel industry blog, he also writes the award-winning consumer travel blog, The Cranky Flier, and holds an MBA from Stanford.
BNET Staff
Email BNET StaffBNET Intercom is written by a collection of BNET editors, writers, and other occasional contributors.
Jessica Stillman
Email Jessica StillmanJessica is an alumnus of the BNET editorial intern program, which taught her everything she knows about blogging. She now lives in London where she works as a freelance writer with interests in green business and tech, management and marketing.
Ken Terry
Ken Terry, a former senior editor at Medical Economics Magazine, is the author of the book Rx For Health Care Reform.
Trista Morrison
Trista Morrison is a staff writer at BioWorld Today, a daily newspaper that
Steve Tobak
Email Steve TobakSteve Tobak is a marketing and strategy consultant based in Silicon Valley. He's a 20-plus year high-tech industry veteran and former senior executive of a number of public and private companies. He also wrote the popular blog Train Wreck for CNET. When he's not airing corporate America's dirty laundry and helping companies solve their problems, Steve likes to play with gadgets and animals and drive his wife crazy. Find out more at Invisor.net.
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