I am working on a number of projects. I consult with a few companies on business development and marketing strategies. I am a founder of edgeio. And TechCrunch, my hobby, tends to take up a lot of time as well. I spent a few years as a corporate attorney at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini, working exclusively with technology companies.... I left [the] law firm life to join a hot startup and run sales and business development. The startup, RealNames, filed to go public but didn’t make it out before the bubble burst.... I left that startup as it was going through the IPO process and co-founded a company called Achex. We raised nearly $20 million after the bubble burst, and sold the company to First Data Corp about a year later for $32 million. After Achex, I’ve worked in an operational role at a Carlyle backed startup in London, founded and ran two companies in Canada (Zip.ca and Pool.com), was COO to a Kleiner backed company called Razorgator, and consulted to other companies, including SnapNames and Verisign.

Leo Laporte, a pioneer of tech radio and TV broadcasts, technical book author as well as host and producer some of the most popular podcasts in the world including This Week in Tech, Security Now!, net@nite, The Daily Giz Wiz, Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, and Jumping Monkeys.

Don K. Crowther, is a well known marketer, consultant, speaker, entrepreneur, and author. Don comes from a background of packaged-goods marketing at Kimberly-Clark Corp., ConAgra, and SC Johnson. He successfully manages a number of businesses, websites, and blogs. Don is available for consulting, coaching, and speaking projects for your company, organization or association.

Tom Gerace is the Founder and CEO of Gather.com, the leader in social media for adults. In his most recent role, Tom Gerace served for two years as Senior Vice President, Marketing, for National Leisure Group (NLG), a $1 billion annual seller of travel. He had primary responsibility for developing brands owned by the company and for managing brands licensed by the company. Tom oversaw an annual marketing budget of $32M.

Tris is the Chief Technology Partner at One By One Media, and also blogs for b5 media. He started View from the Isle in April 2004. I started blogging as an outlet for my passion for all manner of Internet technologies and gadgets and now it has become an outlet for my passion to communicate with others. I was the first professional blogger for Inside Blogging and a founding member of the Professional Bloggers Association and was elected Secretary in January 2000.