Advisory Board

"Fritz Nelson is Vice President, Editorial Director for InformationWeek, and Executive Producer of Techweb TV. He has been an employee of Techweb for 18 years, including as editor-in-chief of Network Computing, Publisher, Publishing Director and Vice President and Group Director. Prior to joining Techweb, Fritz worked with Martin Marietta's Computing Standards group, a team that tested and evaluated technology, and whose objective was to set corporate computing and networking standards. Fritz was a technical writer for USBI, a subsidiary of United Technologies that manages parts of the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle program. Fritz graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in journalism."

"Paul Dunay is an award-winning B2B marketing expert with more than 20 years. success in generating demand and creating buzz for leading technology, consumer products, financial services and professional services organizations. Paul is Global Managing Director of Services and Social Marketing for Avaya, a global leader in enterprise communications, and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley 2009). His unique approach to integrated marketing has produced significant revenue and cost-savings for Avaya, and has led to his recognition as a BtoB Magazine Top 25 B2B Marketer of the Year for 2009 and winner of the DemandGen Award for Utilizing Marketing Automation to Fuel Corporate Growth in 2008. He is also a five-time finalist in the Marketing Excellence Awards competition of the Information Technology Services Marketing Association (ITSMA) and a 2005 gold award winner. Paul holds an Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's degree in Marketing and Computer Science from Ithaca College."

"Throughout his career, Jeremy Bikman has been leading strategy and business development efforts for market research, consulting, and software firms. He is currently the CEO of start-up PeerIntel which is developing mobile applications to enable peer-to-peer executive exchanges of information. He is the acting Chairman of KATALUS Advisors, a leading high-end healthcare advisory firm that serves the largest healthcare provider organizations and the global healthcare technology vendors that serve them. He is also a Healthcare Advisory Board Member for Diebold, the dominant global provider of self-service kiosks and ATM machines. Previously he was the Executive Vice President of research, strategy, and business development for KLAS Enterprises, the leading healthcare technology market research firm."

"Tim O'Connor is known for increasing the EBITDA and market share of a company via product development, strategic pricing and marketing, especially in Hi-Tech, Wholesale Distribution and Education. He loves to use analytics, and quantitative and qualitative research to find the truth and uncover information that can be used to identify new products and improve processes, and then develop the opportunities into viable offerings and process improvements. In doing so the teams he has had the privilege to lead have been able to rapidly acquire and retain new customers (consumers and businesses), increase customer loyalty, drive double-digit growth, and deliver significant quantifiable bottom-line impact. Tim's experience includes a great reputation and depth in technology centric product management with top tier tech companies Siemens and Honeywell, he is passionate about analytical driven marketing, has worked in top tier consulting roles with Zyman & Siemens, lived and worked internationally, and worked in fast paced startups (three), PE turnarounds (two) and multi-billion international enterprises (three). He cut his teeth as a Product Manager, including being a former Six-Sigma instructor at Siemens for PLM (DMAIC and DMADV) and has been a VP Marketing for 4 companies (Siemens, Unisource, PCDI, and UniversityNow). He currently is co-founder of UCHARYA a marketing consulting firm which works with EdTech, Education, Wholesale Distribution and Tech Start-ups."