Eric is a multimedia journalist. As a long-time editor at InformationWeek, Eric wrote and edited stories for the magazine as well as produced online blogs and audio and video podcasts. A prolific contributor to The News Show, an off-beat daily videocast, he served as its backup anchor. Eric was an editor on the team that developed Time Inc.’s teletext venture, a precursor to today’s Internet news and information services. Earlier in his 35-year career, Eric taught journalistic writing at Bowling Green State University and worked for a number of daily newspapers, including an eight-year stint as business editor of the Daily Record, situated in the heart of New Jersey’s Fortune 500 country. 

Eileen Feretic has more than 25 years of editorial experience in high-tech publishing in companies including Ziff Davis, Hearst, IBM and Cox Broadcasting. At Ziff Davis Enterprise, she is currently the Editor of Baseline and the Managing Editor CIO Insight. Prior to this position, Eileen was an Executive Editor at Ziff Davis Enterprise’s Custom Solutions Group.

Previously, Eileen was Editor in Chief of both the print and Web versions of IBM’s Beyond Computing magazine. She also managed the content for IBM customer websites. Prior to IBM, Eileen was Editor in Chief of magazines such as Office Technology Management, Today’s Office and Corporate Systems at Hearst. She also co-produced and hosted Office Automation, a cable series, and was a member of the Office Automation Task Force for President Reagan’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control. For several years, she consulted for the U.S. Department of Commerce at computer conferences in Europe.

Brian P. Watson is the Chicago-based online editor for CIO Insight. He also writes for and edits sections of the print edition. Brian previously served as a senior writer for both CIO Insight and Baseline, in addition to writing for various newspapers and magazines. He has a B.A. from Bucknell University and a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism

Edward has worked as a contributing editor at Wired, a staff writer at Forbes, and a freelancer for a wide range publications, including the International Herald Tribune and Playboy. He contributes an opinion column to his hometown newspaper, The News & Record of Greensboro, NC, and writes the popular weblog EdCone.com. A frequent speaker on blogging and related media, his Baseline magazine case study on the Howard Dean presidential campaign's use of the Internet won an ASPBE national award for excellence.

Andrew has been art directing magazines targeted to C-suite level executives for 12 years. He began at Financial Executive magazine, then moved on to Chief Executive magazine where the publication won an Ozzie for best magazine cover in its class from Folio magazine in 2005. He recently left a start-up company called News Markets, with whom he helped launch a magazine for boards of directors called Directorship.

Mr. Downes is a consultant, educator and speaker on developing business strategies in an age of constant change caused by information technology. He works with Fortune 500 businesses in a variety of industries, and serves on the advisory boards of several startups. He has held faculty appointments at both The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Northwestern University School of Law. He is the author of The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One Idea at a Time and the co-author of Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance. Downes was Founding Director of Accenture's Center for Strategic Technology Research and a Principal in the Silicon Valley office of McKinsey & Co. He holds a B.A. from Northwestern University, and received his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from the University of Chicago, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics and a member of the Law Review. He has written for a variety of publications, including The Industry Standard, The American Banker, Business 2.0 and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.

Mr. Parkinson is the former chief technologist for the Americas at Capgemini. As a member of the Strategy & Technology leadership team, he set the direction for the company’s portfolio of technology consulting offerings. He has written and/or edited four books on information systems development, contributed more than 40 papers to conferences and journals, and spoken frequently at international meetings on such topics as innovation,e-commerce, knowledge management, emerging technologies and related topics. Parkinson is also a member of CIO Insight's advisory board.