Edward J. Finegold
Role: Content Specialist
- 15 years experience in publishing, strategic marketing, event production, and business development
- Nationally recognized as an expert on communications industry business and technology issues
- Served as Chief Analytics Officer and corporate spokesperson to national media for Validas, a provider of cloud-based solutions in the mobile industry and Editor in Chief of Billing World and OSS Today magazine.
- Has provided strategic marketing, thought leadership consulting, and ghost writing services for executives with AT&T, Sprint-Nextel, Oracle, EMC, IBM, and a range of best-of-breed communications software suppliers
- Coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, BusinessWeek, InformationWeek, Consumer Reports, Forbes, Mac Observer, European Communications, B/OSS World, X-Change, and other leading communications industry publications
- Personal relationships include Richard LeFave, retired CIO for Sprint-Nextel; Kimber Lewis, CEO for Paradigm Venture Partners; Shailendra Jain, former Managing Partner for BusinessEdge Solutions/EMC Consulting; Debra Osswald, Global Communications Industry Strategy Leader for IBM; Keith Willetts, Chairman of TM Forum and producer of the TeleManagment World series of events; and Dr. Jerry Lucas, CEO of TeleStrategies and producer of the ISS World series of events
- Instrumental in the acquisition of Billing World Magazine and the Billing and OSS World trade exhibition by Virgo Publishing.
Edward has authored two books regarding IT in the communications industry - Recently appeared on ABC World News Tonight as a wireless industry subject matter expert
regarding mobile data services and applications
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