Editorial Director & Founder

Lane F. Cooper
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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.
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