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Robert Buderi
Founder, CEO, Editor in Chief
Before launching Xconomy, Bob was a research fellow in MIT’s Center for International Studies. He previously served as Editor in Chief of MIT’s Technology Review, leading the magazine to numerous editorial and design awards and overseeing its expansion into three foreign markets, its introduction of electronic newsletters, and its organization of highly successful conferences. Earlier, as BusinessWeek’s technology editor, he shared in the 1992 National Magazine Award for “The Quality Imperative,” a special issue of the magazine. Bob is also the author of three books about technology and innovation. Guanxi (2006) looks at Microsoft’s Beijing research lab as a metaphor for global competitiveness. Engines of Tomorrow (2000) describes the evolution of corporate research. The Invention That Changed the World (1996) examines the work of a secret lab at MIT during WWII. Bob served on the Council on Competitiveness-sponsored National Innovation Initiative and as an advisor to the Draper Prize Nominating Committee. He has been a regular guest of CNBC’s Strategy Session and has spoken about innovation to many organizations, including the Business Council, Amazon, eBay, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.

Rebecca Zacks
Cofounder, COO, Executive Editor
Rebecca was previously the managing editor of Physician’s First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine’s TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Brown University and a master’s in science journalism from Boston University. Before becoming a journalist, she worked in the MIT lab of Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Susumu Tonegawa.

Wade Roush
Chief Correspondent
Wade is a veteran journalist with a focus on information technology. As a staffer with MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, he served as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before joining TR, Wade was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. He has a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard University and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. His work has appeared in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, and Encyclopaedia Brittanica, and he has been a guest of CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH, and NPR.

Bruce V. Bigelow
Editor, Xconomy San Diego
Bruce joins Xconomy from the The San Diego Union-Tribune, where he was a longtime business reporter covering technology, aerospace, and other subjects. He was a member of the newsroom team awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting, and received other awards for disclosing the extraordinary casualty rate among San Diego-based Titan Corp.’s employees in Iraq, and for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego startup company. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in English Literature and has a M.S.J. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.

Gregory T. Huang
Editor, Xconomy Seattle
Greg has covered science, technology, and business as a journalist. He was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he covered advances in computing, robotics, and devices. His writing has appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, and published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Luke Timmerman
National Biotechnology Editor
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. Before joining Xconomy, he was the national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News, where he led coverage of major biotech companies like Amgen, Genentech, and Biogen Idec. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

Ryan McBride
Correspondent
Ryan is an award-winning business journalist. He was previously a staff writer for Mass High Tech, a Boston business and technology newspaper, where he and his colleagues won a national business journalism award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2008. In recent years, he has made regular TV appearances on New England Cable News.Prior to MHT, Ryan covered the life sciences, technology, and energy sectors for Providence Business News.

Steve Woit
Founding Publisher
Steve is the founder of Riga Ventures, a venture firm that invests in media, software, and Internet businesses. He helped fund 02138, a magazine and website focused on the Harvard University alumni community, which was purchased by the Atlantic Media Group (publishers of the Atlantic Monthly) in 2006. He was a leading investor in Bitpipe, where he served as EVP of Sales and Marketing; the company was acquired by TechTarget for $40 million in 2004.

Steve also worked for 17 years for Patrick J. McGovern, Chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG), the largest global publisher of technology publications and websites and a leading global technology venture investor. While at IDG, he was responsible for overseeing the launch of new publication and Web-based businesses. He was a General Partner at IDG Ventures and served as Publisher and President of Federal Computer Week, President of Web Shopper, EVP of Computerworld, and Director of Business Development and Vice President/New Products for IDG worldwide. Since 1999, Steve has been an active member of the angel investment group CommonAngels and formerly sat on the group’s Board of Directors.

William A. Ghormley
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Bill has worked in marketing and new business creation in a number of industries, including media. His past employers include Polaroid’s OEM organization, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Kendall Healthcare. Bill also served as president of the Marketing Science Institute, a Cambridge-based research center created by the Harvard Business School and the Wharton School to measure media impact on customer attitudes and behaviors. Bill studied economics at Stanford, history at Boston College, and business at Dartmouth.

Gregory Calkins
Business Development Manager
Greg is a seasoned sales and marketing executive who brings over 17 years of experience in the area of business development and start-up management. Prior to Xconomy, Greg founded Calkins Advisors, a business content company focused on connecting thought leaders with business leaders. Greg also spent eight years as a business developer, strategic marketer, and alliance builder for Interactive Sports—a NYC-based media company. His efforts resulted in relationships with nationally recognized media, financial, sports, technology, and entertainment companies. Greg attended Hartwick College studying political science and history.

Andrew Koyfman
Chief Technology Officer Emeritus
Andrew has eight-plus years of experience in the software industry. He recently completed his MBA at MIT Sloan, where he was involved with the MIT Venture Capital and Private Equity Club and the MIT Sales Club. Prior to Sloan, he was a cofounder and the Chief Architect of Swapthing.com, an online bartering site. Andrew earned a B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science and an M.Sc. in Computer Science at Brown University.

Alun Anderson
Alun was variously the Editor, Editor-in-Chief and Publishing Director of New Scientist magazine from 1992 up until 2005, and was a member of the Board of IPC Media, Europe’s largest magazine house and now a part of Time Warner. During his time as Publishing Director at New Scientist, he successfully launched the magazine in the United States, first as an internet-based business and then as a print publication. New Scientist’s internet business has been particularly successful and its strategic development is used as a business case study for the London Business School MBA course. Earlier he held senior roles at the journals Nature and Science. He has published two books on science and technology in Japan and several scientific papers in the field of behavior and neurobiology.

Alun Anderson has been a Member of the Royal Society Committee on the Public Understanding of Science and a Member of the Council of the University of Sussex and is currently a Member of the Council of the Royal Institution, Britain’s most prestigious science communication organization. He has three times been voted ‘Editor of the Year’ by the British Society of Magazine Editors (1993, 1995 and 1997). In 1997 he was also voted the ‘Editors’ Editor of the Year’. In 2000, the London Evening Standard listed him as one of London’s most influential people and The Australian newspaper named him as one of the world’s top 100 thinkers.

Robert Buderi
(See Bob’s bio above.)

Chris Sheehan
Chris is a managing director of CommonAngels, and is currently either a board member or observer at Carbonite, Outside the Classroom, Most Effective Media, and GateRocket. Within CommonAngels, Chris manages deal flow, due diligence, and the investment process. He also guides the group’s strategic direction and works closely with portfolio companies—and is a managing director of the group’s two $10M venture funds.

Previously, Chris founded Newburyport Partners, a consulting firm that works with investors and their portfolio companies. Chris also served as a venture partner at Industry Ventures, where he was actively involved in the acquisition and management of secondary venture investment portfolios. Chris was also a Director of Corporate Development for BEA Systems, a leading enterprise software company with over $1B in sales. Prior to BEA, Chris led the private equity practice for the Cambridge-based research firm, Stax Inc. He also spent six years with the top ranked investment bank in Australia; he started his career as an equity analyst focusing on the oil and gas sector.

William C. Taylor
William C. Taylor is an agenda-setting thinker, writer, and entrepreneur. His new book, Mavericks at Work, has been a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and was named a “Best Business Book of 2006″ by The Economist, the Financial Times, and Amazon.com. As cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company, he launched a magazine that earned a passionate following among executives and entrepreneurs around the world and won two coveted National Magazine Awards. His management blog, “Game Changer,” appears weekly on HarvardBusiness Online, and his column, “Bill Taylor on Big Ideas,” runs in London’s Guardian newspaper. He is a member of the Xconomy board of directors.

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BOSTON

John Abele*
Noubar Afeyan
Howard Anderson
Bill Aulet*
Abigail Barrow
Joost Bonsen
Alexis Borisy
Rodney Brooks*
Joe Chung*
George Church
Jim Collins*
Nick d’Arbeloff
Chris Gabrieli
James Geshwiler
Anita Goel
Michael A. Greeley
Helen Greiner
Linda Griffith*

William “Trip” Hawkins*
Rebecca Henderson*
Marc Hodosh
Charles J. Johnson*
Dean Kamen
Raju Kucherlapati
Christina Lampe-Onnerud
John B. Landry
Robert Langer*
Willy Lensch
Mark Lowenstein
Pattie Maes*
Victor McElheny
Ken Morse*
Frank Moss*
Richard Mulligan*
Nathan Myhrvold*
Vinit Nijhawan*

David Resnick
Carmichael Roberts
Tim Rowe
Kenan Sahin*
John Santini
Michael Schrage
Phillip Sharp*
Linda Stone*
Anne Swift
William C. Taylor
Bill Warner
Charles M. Vest
George Whitesides*
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Daphne Zohar*
Ken Zolot

SEATTLE

Clif Alferness*
David Auth*
Bill Baxter
Jesse Berst*
Tony Blau*
Michael Butler
Lawrence Corey*
Meenu Chhabra
Steve Davis
Nora Disis*
Susan Eggers*
Christopher Elias
Geoff Entress
Alan Frazier
Brent Frei
Stephen Graham*

Jeremy Jaech
Leroy Hood*
Matt Hulett
Yongmin Kim*
Ed Lazowska*
Susannah Malarkey
Yoky Matsuoka
Randall Moon*
Ken Myer
Robert Nelsen*
Matt O’Donnell
Nikesh Parekh
H. Stewart Parker*
Eddie Pasatiempo*
Buddy Ratner*
Steve Reed*

Linden Rhoads*
Jim Roberts*
Andy Sack*
Eric Schadt
Dan Shapiro
Clay Siegall*
Martin Simonetti*
Craig A. Smith*
Johnny Stine
Ken Stuart*
Peter Thompson*
Chad Waite
Carl Weissman*
Doug Williams*

SAN DIEGO

Fran Berman
J. Robert Beyster
Larry Bock*
Stanley Crooke*
Ronald M. Evans
Stephen Ferruolo
Fred H. Gage
Henrik Wann Jensen

David Kabakoff
Jack Lief
Robert Noble
Tina Nova
Jason Pyle
Ramesh Rao*
William Rastetter
John C. Reed

Duane J. Roth*
Ivor Royston*
Drew Senyei*
Larry Smarr*
Evan Snyder
Harry Stylli
Kleanthis Xanthopoulos*
Scott N. Wolfe