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LIAM EAGLE
Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements.
ISABEL WANG
One of the Web hosting industry's longest-standing citizens, Isabel Wang is also a high-tech enthusiast. Through her WHIR blog, she examines the impact emerging Web technologies will have on the Web hosting business, and on the motivations of hosting consumers.
Isabel has been in the web hosting industry for almost 10 years. As the co-founder of ISPcheck, she sold banner ads to early web hosting pioneers. As editor and publisher of Web Hosting Magazine, she wrote about the dotcom boom - and bust. And as VP Communications at EV1Servers, she learned about the dedicated servers business first hand. You can reach her at isabel@isabelwang.com.
PAUL HIRSCH
Paul Hirsch is a moderator on WebHostingTalk.com, the largest Web hosting community on the Internet, and he is a founder and Core Team member of the International Web Developers Network (IWDN). He is co-owner of Equentity LLC, a Web design and development company located in Canton, Ohio, West Yorkshire and Teesside, U.K. Paul received his bachelors degree from Kent State University in Electronic Media Production, with minors in Computer Information Systems and Sociology. He earned a masters degree in Media Management from Kent as well.
Through his theWHIR blog, he will offer perspectives on developments in design technology for the people who create what Web hosts host.
TOM MILLITZER
Tom Millitzer provides merger & acquisition services to Internet service firms including Web Hosting, Data Centers and similar sectors. In 1994 he founded New Commerce Communications, Inc. (NCC), where he serves as President.
During his career he has been involved in almost 200 mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, appraisal and consulting projects. Prior to NCC he was co-founder and President of Charter Cable Systems, Inc. a cable television company based in Cincinnati. He also held executive positions at Group W Broadcasting and Cable.
Through his WHIR blog, Tom will not only review web hosting acquisitions, he will provide concepts and suggestions that he believes will make more money for both buyers and sellers of web host firms.
DAVID SNEAD
David Snead is a lawyer whose practice is focused on internet infrastructure providers. In his eleven years in this practice, he has represented clients including multinationals, middle tier hosting companies, and two guys, a server, a T-1 and a huge MasterCard balance.
A long-time WHIR contributor, David Snead is the Web hosting business's best-known legal expert. Through his WHIR blog, he offers a credible legal perspective on both specific actions in the Web hosting business and general developments in legislation.
LOU HONICK
In 1997, Lou Honick co-founded HostMySite.com with a strong customer service-focused culture to remedy his frustration with the state of the hosting industry. Today, HostMySite.com has grown into a successful multi-million dollar Web hosting company with more than 40,000 clients worldwide under Lou's direction. HostMySite.com's unwavering commitment to customer satisfaction is evident through the development of long-term customer relationships based on integrity, quality, and trust. As CEO, Lou's recent accomplishments include ranking HostMySite.com on the 24th annual Inc. 500 list and securing his own rank on Inc. 500's 30 Under 30 list of the coolest young entrepreneurs in America.
As CEO of HostMySite.com and experienced speaker on the conference circuit, Lou Honick has the distinct advantage of tackling the issue of customer service on a regular basis. Through his theWHIR blog, he will focus on the benefits of great customer service, blog about his experiences and offer insight into customer service as it relates to Web hosting.
RAVI AGARWAL
Ravi Agarwal is the founder of groupSPARK. Mr. Agarwal has spoken at numerous business and technology conferences as well as guest lectured at business schools at Boston University, Boston College, and Babson College. He worked with professors at Bentley College and Boston University to write three case studies on BizLand, which have since been taught internationally. In 2001, he was chosen by Entreprenur Magazine in their "3rd Annual 10 under 30" - top 10 business people under the age of 30 years old.
As CEO of groupSPARK and a hosting industry entrepreneur for almost 10 years, Ravi Agarwal brings a focus on SaaS (Software as a Service) and email services as it affects hosting companies and their customers . Through his theWHIR blog, he will discuss SaaS trends and address customer needs for e-mail hosting, overall industry trends and related issues such as mobile access, spam, compliance and the latest e-mail server and client software.
WILLIAM TOLL
William Toll has held product management positions in the Web hosting and financial industry since the late 1990s. Now at the leading hosting services provider, NaviSite, William is responsible for developing the company’s small business hosted product lines, including one of the industry’s biggest platforms – Alabanza.com. In past positions at companies such as Affinity Internet, Inc., Intermedia, and NTT/VERIO, William was the driving force in launching and enhancing successful Microsoft Exchange and ASP.NET Hosting services. William was responsible for Affinity’s Gate.com brand and its new clustered Windows Server 2003 shared hosting platform launch. William received a BA in Marketing from New England College in Arundel, England.
Through his theWHIR blog, he blogs about web and application hosting services from the perspective of the customer, a hosting company employee and a vendor. Subjects include marketing, hosting market analysis and service provider management and delivery optimization.
KAYLA FLEMMING
As Vice President of Surpass Hosting, Kayla has experience in all areas of web hosting from conducting market research to securing server environments. Kayla has worked with Internet companies for nine years and has been involved in the web hosting industry since 2002. Under Kayla's direction, Surpass has reached record growth each year. She is also responsible for the company's forum, one of the most active communities among web hosts.
Through her theWHIR blog Kayla will focus on the benefits of attaining and maintaining a secure hosting environment as well as offer insight into the current and future state of the web hosting industry.
ROBERT CICHON
Robert P. Cichon, President of CrystalTechTM Web Hosting Inc. joined Newtek as the VP of Technical Operations for Crystaltech in late 2005. He has been in the technology business since 1990 with a strong background in cutting edge internet / financial institution information delivery. Before joining Newtek Business Services, he spent over 8 years working with American Express teams based in several locations worldwide in the pursuit of advanced technology platforms. He has expertise in several key level 1 Internet business arenas, including merchant services, customer acquisition, affiliate marketing, intranet portal and search technologies. He holds both Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees in Information Systems.
Through his theWHIR blog Robert will touch upon customer acquisition, merchant services, affiliate marketing and more.
MATHEW BALDWIN
Mathew Baldwin has been working within the hosted services space for the last ten years. In the past he has held roles as architect, senior systems engineer and regular troubleshooter, consultant for Microsoft-based platforms with multiple hosted services companies. He was instrumental in bringing to market the first highly-available, clustered Windows 2003 shared hosting platform and has worked closely with Microsoft on a variety of initiatives.
His current focus is on the emerging SaaS market space and how hosting companies can evolve their architectures to address this new need. Through his theWHIR blog, he will discuss hosted architectures and the evolution of existing platforms to address the needs of ISVs bringing their applications into the Web-space.
Baldwin currently works as a senior architect for Hostway Corporation.
PETER DAMATO
As Vice President of Business Development at InternetMerchant, Peter Damato can offer Web hosts and others insight into e-commerce related applications and services in order to remain competitive. Through his theWHIR blog, he will discuss charge backs, Internet fraud, merchant services, PCI compliance, online security and much more.
Peter is a veteran and visionary of e-commerce and for nearly a decade he has worked with some of the most prominent names on the web. As Internet
Marketing Consultant for Microsoft on the CitySearch project (formerly Sidewalk.com), Peter pioneered the charge for traditional brick-and-mortar
businesses to cross the chasm to the web before it was mainstream. Upon his arrival at Cardservice International as an independent sales agent in the
late 90's, Peter secured partnerships with Staples.com, Register.com, Entrepreneur Magazine and more. Placing a focus on points of distribution
as Cardservice Online's business model, he later went on to forge referral marketing agreements with many premier hosting companies such as Hostway,
HostMySite, Endurance International and Aplus.net where he continues today. With a goal of being the premier provider of discounted payment processing
and world class service and support on the Internet, Peter has become a member of Cardservice International and First Data's prestigious President's
Club for 7 years running.
Leah Kubik works with Calacode, makers
of @Mail,
an
Australian
based Webmail and Email Server software solution provider. @Mail is
very popular
with web hosting providers for it's low entry price point for multiple
server and
domain installations, as well as for it's commitment to cutting edge,
user-friendly, email software.
Leah is a part time consultant working with Linux Server solutions in
the Toronto area, and with
Calacode focusing on Sales and Support. Leah has been involved with
Linux and
the Open Source community since 1997, working for various companies
such as: Earthlink, Novell (at the time SuSE Inc.) and IBM. In her
spare time, Leah assists with various Open Source projects and
maintains a large repository of Linux documentation with a focus on
system administration, at http://heinous.org.
Jason
Brown is the Product Support Manager for @Mail and focal point for
@Mail Appliance systems,
based out of Polson, Montana. Jason has a wide range of experience in
providing hosting
solutions for Email services for his own business. In his spare time,
Jason promoting
"Security Through Awareness" and researching on-line security tools
(see http://thumbprintsecurity.com).
JONATHAN ROBINSON
Jonathan Robinson is a co-founder of Group NBT plc and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in February 2006. He previously held the position of Business Development Director. Jonathan was responsible for successfully consolidating leading domain name services company, NetNames, with NetBenefit and driving the business into a leading position in its sector. With his wide and comprehensive knowledge of the international domain name industry, his role includes market analysis, identifying possible targets for acquisition and strategic planning across all brands.
Jonathan was previously deputy chairman of the Internet Council of Registrars (CORE) and on the board of the .uk registry Nominet. He is a current director of the info registry, Afilias.
Through his WHIR blog, Jonathan will bring his unique perspective on Web 2.0 and emerging technologies as it relates to Web hosting.
HARTLAND ROSS
Hartland ran a franchise business for five years while in university and has started two other previous businesses. He has also held the title of Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Dynamic Achievement Group which is a training, coaching and development business based in Vancouver BC. Hartland has 12 years of experience managing, instructing, training and mentoring teams of managers in various industries including two internet start ups.
Hartland holds a Bachelor's of Science degree and a Master's of Business Administration in Business Strategy. Through speaking with world recognized marketers, attending conferences and practical and academic business experience, he has spent the last number of years gaining knowledge in the principles of marketing,strategy and business development. Hartland was a board member of Young Entrepreneurs Association (www.yea.ca) for 2 years as the events coordinator facilitating and organizing speaker events in Vancouver. Hartland founded eBridge Marketing Solutions in 2001 and is responsible for helping clients to grow their businesses and for the client experience.
Through his WHIR blog, Hartland will bring his unique perspective on media buying and selling, as well as Marketing a Web Hosting business in this challenging and competitive landscape.
CARLOS CANEJA
Carlos Caneja has been involved with internet technology since the late 90’s and is Appliedi.net's CTO. Appliedi.net is a Web hosting provider specializing in Windows Web hosting since 1999 where Carlos foresees day to day operations, performs new service deployment and assists with business development.
Through his theWHIR blog, Carlos will talk about Web hosting industry trends and server side applications.
DEREK VAUGHAN
Derek Vaughan has been actively marketing on the Internet since 1995. His extensive online marketing experience includes the online direct marketing of books for $300 million per year NYSE traded book publisher Thomas Nelson. Mr. Vaughan also marketed products online at the Walt Disney Company as the online marketing manager of ecommerce for ESPN.com. He was also the marketing manager for the launch of the NASCAR Online Store in October of 1999.
More recently Mr. Vaughan turned his attention to online marketing for the Affinity Internet, Inc. family of companies – which owns a broad portfolio of web hosting brands. Additionally, Mr. Vaughan served as Vice President of Marketing for Aplus.Net and helped them establish a strong position in the web hosting field. Derek is currently the VP of Marketing at HostMySite.com.
Derek Vaughan holds undergraduate degrees from both Indiana University and Purdue University, and has earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the Owen School at Vanderbilt University.
Through his theWHIR blog, Derek will touch upon online marketing in the Web hosting space, web hosting events and industry trends.
MARK KLIEN
Mark Klein is a Domain Name Industry Professional with over twelve years of experience. Buying his first domain name back in 1995, Mark is currently the Director of Business Development for Sedo.com, one of world’s largest secondary market and domain monetization companies. Previous to Sedo, Mark worked 5 years at Wholesale Domain Registrar Tucows, 2 years at ISP PSINet and 3 years at a computer hardware and software VAR always in a sales or business development oriented role.
Mark attends many domain name and webhosting conferences such as HostingCon, ISPCON, ICANN, TRAFFIC, and Domain Roundtable. His experience working with ICANN, Registries, Registrars, Web Hosting companies, ISP’s, Telco’s, and Domain investors make him an excellent industry resource and has valuable insights into the domain name world.
Through the WHIR Blog, Mark will discuss everything about domains, from the primary market to the secondary market, ICANN regulations to registrant concerns, how to better profit from domains and/or how to more effectively use domain names to add value to a product offering or business model.
ANASTASIA TUBANOS
Anastasia Tubanos is a writer, producer and host for theWHIR TV. She is a
Graduate of The Ryerson University School of Journalism in Toronto. Through
her theWHIR blog she will cover web hosting events, industry insight and
extensive interviews of the Web hosting industry's greatest minds.
ZVI GRAUER
Zvi Grauer received his Ph.D. in chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1985 to 2000, he has held product development positions in the chemical industry, and consulting positions improving product performance and marketability. In 2000 he joined Dialtone Internet, where he stayed as VP of Product Development until Dialtone's acquisition by Interland. As Scientific Director for LIMS USA, Zvi was involved in software development, testing and documentation. Currently based in Costa Rica, Zvi divides his time following trends in personal technology, tending to his physical and virtual servers, technical and marketing consulting related to internet technologies and technical writing. His blog will follow the adventures, triumphs and frustrations of hosting a server at home (in Central America). Enjoy the home server projects blog.
WHIR Happenings
The Web Host Industry Review team would like to make sure all our readers are kept up to date on the latest happenings with theWHIR. This blog will be authored by several members of the team and will provide lots of valuable information about theWHIR.com
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