Category: PR Vibes®

Doug Allen is the new senior editor for the Virgo Publishing magazine. He will be covering the IT and telecom indirect sales channels. Doug has 12 years experience covering telecommunications as a journalist and analyst. Most recently, he was a senior editor at Telecommunications Magazine (now Telecom Engine), which covers the telecom carrier marketplace. Previously, […]

Bill Rubino has joined ACG as a senior analyst for the Service Provider Mobile Infrastructure service. Christina Counts has left Synergy Research Group to join ACG Research full time as a qualitative analyst.

David Lemelin has joined the enterprise communications research team at ABI Research as research director, enterprise communications. David will oversee the firm’s analysis of enterprise markets for VoIP, unified communications, telepresence, contact centers, fixed-mobile convergence, video conferencing, messaging and video surveillance. Prior to joining ABI Research, David was team leader of the Business Markets practice, […]

The market research firm has spun off as an independent company from former owner, Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier. The firm also has received backing from consumer and retail information provider, The NPD Group. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “As a nimble, independent and reputable market research firm, we […]

The analyst firm announced an investment plan of $10 million to support the strategic expansion of its research on the impact of global connectivity, what it terms “Anywhere.” The firm plans to grow the industry analyst staff and is recruiting a new CEO. Funded by Alta Communications, a private equity firm and the company’s majority […]

Neil Strother has joined ABI Research as practice director, heading the new Mobile Marketing Strategies research practice. Neil has held key positions at Forrester Research, JupiterResearch (now Forrester Research), and In-Stat. He also served as managing editor of ZDNet AnchorDesk. His areas of coverage include mobile devices, services, content and mobile advertising. Fritz Jordan has […]

Karen Field has left her position as vice president and editorial director for EDN, Mechatronics Zone and Test & Measurement World and editor-in-chief of Design News. Karen had been with publisher Reed Business Information since January 1998. A replacement has not yet been named.

Jim ONeill, editor of FierceOnlineVideo is expanding his duties to include FierceIPTV due to the departure of Dan OShea. Jim has been on staff at FierceMarkets since 2009, he previously served as a freelance editor in 2007.

Sarah Reedy has left her position as senior editor at Connected Planet. On April 12, she will begin her duties as senior reporter for Light Reading and Light Reading Mobile. Her areas of coverage will include mobile apps and next-gen services, such as the smart grids, meters, M2M, mobile video, home networking and IPTV. Sarah […]

Dan OShea has left his position as senior editor at FierceTelecom in order to rejoin the team at Connected Planet starting today. He had been with FierceTelecom since July 2007. Dan previously worked at Penton Media for more than 14 years holding a variety of positions, most recently editor-in-chief of Telephony Magazine, now known as […]