ebizQ TEAM

Executive Bios

  Les Yeamans - Founder and Associate Publisher


Editorial

  Jan Stafford - Editorial Director
  Anne Stuart - Site Editor
  Kaitlin Brunsden - Associate Editor
  Peter Schooff - Editorial and Social Media Consultant
  Brein N. Matturro - Managing Editor

Les Yeamans - Founder and Publisher

Les Yeamans has more than 20 years of experience in the information processing industry. For the past ten years, Yeamans has been an industry leader in the messaging and application integration market. He is currently president of ebizQ.net, the only Web portal dedicated to e-business integration, the set of strategies, systems and solutions without which e-business cannot succeed. ebizQ.net is a network of sites that has evolved from messageq.com, which Yeamans successfully launched in 1998.

Previously, Yeamans served as general manager at Apertus Technologies/Systems Strategies, where he partnered with IBM in the initial development and marketing of MQSeries. He was also co-founder of MOMA, the Message Oriented Middleware Association. Yeamans has worked extensively as an analyst and consultant for end users and vendors in this growing market.

Prior to Apertus, Yeamans developed and marketed PowerBase, the industry-leading database software package for the IBM PC. He started his career consulting at Arthur Andersen & Co., providing end-user IT solutions.

Yeamans has published articles and white papers in print and on the Web. He has contributed to Computerworld, MIDDLEWARESpectra, Application Development Trends, Datamation and MQ Magazine, among others. Yeamans received a masters of business administration in 1977 from the University of Michigan, specializing in information systems design, and a bachelors degree in computer science and mathematics from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1975.

Yeamans lives in Scarsdale, New York, with his wife Dorothy and three boys—William, Benjamin and Aaron. You can contact him at lyeamans@techtarget.com.
Jan Stafford - Editorial Director

As editorial director, Jan Stafford plans and oversees strategy and operations for TechTarget's Application Development Media Group. She works closely with the editorial team to keep the group's sites focused on the information needs of software developers, testers, project and QA managers and others in the software development community. Jan has covered the computer industry for the last 20-plus years, writing about everything from personal computers to operating systems to server virtualization to application development. She has served in top editorial positions with several national trade publications, as a contributor to such publications as "PC Week Inside" and "Investor's Business Daily," and as a speaker at industry conferences. She came to Techtarget.com from VARBusiness. At TechTarget Inc., Jan has launched and served as site editor for various sites and blogs, including SearchServerVirtualization.com, SearchVMware.com, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, SearchWindowsManageability.com, Virtualization Pro, EnterpriseLinuxLog and others. She has also been the editorial director for the Data Center Media Group.
She can be reached at jstafford@techtarget.com.

Anne Stuart - Site Editor

Anne Stuart is a veteran journalist who has written for national magazines, daily newspapers, an international news service and many Web sites. She’s specialized in covering business and technology issues since 1993, holding senior editorial positions at CIO, Inc., WebMaster and Redmond Channel Partner magazines, and freelancing for many other print and online publications. Previously, she was an editor and reporter for The Associated Press and several daily newspapers. Based near Boston, she can be reached at astuart@techtarget.com.

Contact Anne to discuss editorial content and blogging possibilities.

Kaitlin Brunsden - Associate Editor

Kaitlin Brunsden is an associate editor at ebizQ. She attended SUNY Purchase and graduated with a degree in Creative Writing and a minor in Photography. Prior to joining ebizQ, Kaitlin worked as a copy editor for The Submission and Italics Mine! magazines. She can be reached at kbrunsden@techtarget.com.

Contact Kaitlin to submit a bylined article, pitch a podcast, submit a press release with industry news or ask questions about our newsletters.

Peter Schooff, Editorial and Social Media Consultant
Peter Schooff is editor and moderator of the ebizQ forum and writes ebizQ's Business Agility Watch blog. Previously, he was ebizQ's managing editor and, before that, director of marketing for Message Partners, an e-mail security company. Contact him at pschooff@techtarget.com for forum-related questions and to participate in the forum.

Brein N. Matturro, Managing Editor
As group managing editor, Bree works with the Application development team to make sure the sites are up to date with news, tips and expert advice while maintaining a high editorial standard. She also assembles all of the site e-newsletters. Before starting at TechTarget in October 2005, Bree worked at MIT. She graduated with a BA in English from the University of Maine, Orono in 2001. E-mail Bree at bmatturro@techtarget.com with any comments or suggestions for the sites.