Resources For Media & Analysts: Serving The Media Best Serves The Client

MediaFirst serves the needs of the media, first. Resources include: breaking news, story ideas, spokespersons, bylined articles, market statistics, survey results, thought leadership, and clear explanations of the business and technological factors behind today's issues.

Get expert comment on:

• Telecom, computing, and new media
• Hardware, software, services
• Optimization, supply chain, and logistics
• Alliance execution, customer service levels, and quality
• IT: software, services, and info security
• Thought-provoking, successful business leaders
• Winning business models, technologies, and leadership skills 

Spokespersons for the media and analysts, listed below.

For the expert source you need, call 770/642-2080 or e-mail "becky [at] mediafirst [dot] net" to arrange an interview with the source you need by your deadline.

Ken Archer, CEO of TriNet Systems

Ken brings more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications and IT, working with leading business partners such as HP and Avaya. TriNet provides competitive advantage for business through IP telephony and Unified Communications solutions.

Jim Caruso, Chair/CEO of MediaFirst

MediaFirst is a boutique tech PR firm. The firm serves clients around Atlanta and worldwide. Jim is a confluence of engineering and international business and brings a clear view of trends in the business of technology.

Andy Fiebus, president of VersaReports, LLC

VersaReports is an Atlanta, GA software company creating software products, such as the falgship Universal Report Server (URS), that helps attain businesses reporting goals without breaking the budget.

Jeff Karrenbauer, President and co-founder INSIGHT, Inc

Jeff is an expert, technology executive in optimization, modeling, and analysis of supply chains for top, global firms. Insight powers 40% of the Fortune 50 to profitability and customer satisfaction.

Fred Lizza, CEO of Optiant, Inc.

Optiant helps Global 2000 companies optimize their bottom-line performance by creating responsive and resilient supply chains. As the leading provider of inventory planning and optimization solutions, Optiant's solutions optimally balance resources, total costs, and customer service across the supply chain to deliver greater profitability, increased customer satisfaction, more efficient use of capital, and a resilient supply chain that fully handles uncertainty in supply and demand.

Michael McGuigan, Chief Executive Officer of Elemica

Mike was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Elemica in June 2005. He has been a member of the Elemica Board of Directors since September 2002 and was Chairman of the Board from January 2004 through June 2005.

Prior to joining Elemica, Mr. McGuigan served as Vice President of Digital & Communications Technology for BP where he managed BP Chemicals' information technology function. Between 1999 and 2004, Mr. McGuigan was the Global Commercial Director for BP Chemicals. During this time, he managed the company's commercial function across the Americas, Asia and Europe, leading a restructuring and reorganization of these activities, and the implementation of SAP on a global basis. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. McGuigan ran a polymers business unit of BP Chemicals in Germany. Mr. McGuigan began his career and held a number of senior positions with BP, initially in operations within the Chemicals division, followed by management assignments within the Retail Oil and Credit Card businesses. He has lived and worked in the UK, the USA, Germany and Switzerland.

Karen Myers, COO, CFO, and a director Insight, Inc.

Insight powers strategic supply chain planning for the Fortune 50.

Robert T. Caruso, Director of commericals, film, and music video with imaginative animation.

Robert directed productions for: Clorox, Honeycomb, Nestle, Sprint, and Verizon. Collaboration with actors James Earl Jones, Will Smith, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Foxx; and sports figures, skateboarder Tony Hawk, basketball star Shaquille O'Neal, and hockey legend Wayne Gretzk.

Michael Centrella, Principal, Co-Founder, and Director Momentum Technology Partners

Previously, Mike was a co-founder, director, and former CEO, Merlot Communications. He orchestrated sale of Avidia to PairGain (now ADC)

Mike Scher, Co-founder and president Frontline Selling, Inc.

Mike founded FRONTLINE Selling to help companies and sales organizations become more effective in delivering their value proposition to a target audience.

Will Scott, Managing Director of Waer Systems

Will is one of the founders of Waer. He manages the Waer group from its US headquarters in Naperville, Illinois, bringing vision, integrity and a great deal of hands-on experience to both his team and his clients. Will was instrumental in helping CJ Fox, a company with over fifty year's experience in aerospace component distribution, develop the processes and programs that ultimately led to the creation of Waer. Since then he has been a tireless industry champion for building efficient processes to increase the visibility and control of components, especially within distributed networks. Will's previous experience includes managing global distribution for a manufacturing company, and the export business for an international pharmaceuticals company. Will has an MBA in International Business from the University of Southern California.

Samson Siasia, current Olympic (Under-23/U23)

Samson is also former Under-20 coach for Nigeria Football Association (NFA). Former National Team Assistant Coach and former Head Coach of finalists at the World Youth [Under-20 (U20)] Championships in the Netherlands, July 2005. During his 11 years playing for Nigeria’s SuperEagles he became the 3rd leading scorer.SiaOne

Peter Vanderzee, president of LifeSpan Technologies LifeSpan Technologies

LifeSpan Technologies strives to provide timely and actionable information so states, counties, and other owners can safely derive the lowest life-cycle cost from their bridges and other infrastructure assets.

Frank Wingate, CEO Partner HiTech Partners, LLC

Frank Wingate is founder, chairman, and CTO of LifeSpan Technologies LifeSpan Technologies strives to provide timely and actionable information so states, counties, and other owners can safely derive the lowest life-cycle cost from their bridges and other infrastructure assets. LifeSpan Technologies