TIMOTHY BOONE is the business editor of The Advocate. He has nearly 25 years of experience covering a variety of industries, including real estate, retail, casinos, economic development and shipbuilding. He has worked for daily newspapers, business magazines and online publications in Louisiana and Mississippi. Boone earned a bachelor's in mass communications-news editorial from LSU. He lives with his wife, four small dogs and four large cats.

TERESA RIVAS is a reporter who has covered financial markets for Barron's since 2007. Her work has also appeared in other publications including The Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

B.L. OCHMAN contributes to AdAge, MediaVillage, YPO Impact, Social Media Today, Verticals Collective and many others. A long-time social media influencer, she left her 11,000 Twitter followers and moved to Threads when Twitter was taken over. A multi-faceted marketing professional skilled in development of high-yield, innovative programs that drive visibility and sales, Ochman teaches non-geeks how to incorporate Generative AI into their workflow. She has spoken at more than 25 conferences, and will be speaking at the Rutgers AI Summit this November. Ochman is also a member of the Advisory Board of Teens for Food Justice, which teaches high school students how to grow vegetables and fruit hydroponically. From 2012 to 2022, she was producer and co-host of the award-winning Beyond Social Media Show Podcast. She has produced more than 500 podcasts, video interviews and live-streamed events.

ALISA GUMBS has two decades of experience as a multimedia business journalist. In her current position as vice president and deputy chief content officer of Black Enterprise, she sets the editorial direction for the company's women's franchises, Women of Power for women executives and SistersInc. for women entrepreneurs, across digital, live and virtual events, video, social, and email. She also serves as creator and host of the award-winning SistersInc. podcast and host of the On the Clock video series. She is a native of Brooklyn, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication.

FRED FISHKIN has been covering the tech revolution for decades, bringing the voices of change makers to millions of listeners. His career in broadcast journalism led from radio stations in New Brunswick, Toms River and Newark, New Jersey to WCBS NewsRadio and Bloomberg in New York City.

CHRIS MACDONALD is a professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto, where he teaches business ethics and critical thinking. He is director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre. A philosopher by training, his scholarly work ranges across corporate ethics, professional ethics, healthcare ethics, and philosophical moral theory. He is the author of two textbooks, and makes frequent media appearances.

CRAIG BETTENHAUSEN is a business reporter on staff at Chemical & Engineering News and the host of the podcast C&EN Uncovered. He has worked in scientific journalism for more than a decade covering industrial decarbonization, specialty chemicals, consumer product science, energy, and industrial gas. He also leads and writes for C&EN's Chemistry in Pictures, showcasing the beauty of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences. Craig is based in Baltimore and travels widely to report and speak on chemistry and it's translation into world-changing enterprises.

THORNTON MAY is a futurist, a cognitive scientist and an anthropologist studying the value-producing behaviors of the various “tribes” comprising the modern enterprise. His book, The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics analyzes what organizations know; how they come to know and how they act upon what they know and don’t know. Passionate about obliterating digital ignorance from the executive suite he currently serves as Co-Director of the Innovation Lab at the Olin College of Engineering; Executive Director of the CIO Solutions Gallery at the Ohio State University College of Engineering. The editors at eWeek honored Thornton, including him on their list of ‘Top 100 Most Influential People in IT.’ The editors at Fast Company labeled him ‘one of the top 50 brains in technology today.’ The Digital Value Institute

NOELLE KNELL is the executive editor for e.Republic, responsible for setting the overall direction for e.Republic’s editorial platforms, including Government Technology, Governing, Industry Insider, Emergency Management and the Center for Digital Education. She has been with e.Republic since 2011, and has decades of writing, editing and leadership experience. A California native, Noelle has worked in both state and local government, and is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, with majors in political science and American history. Follow her @GovTechNoelle.

ANDREW SEALE is a Toronto-based freelance journalist and storyteller who has spent 15 years reporting on people – from seahorse enthusiasts and tech CEOs to mining magnates and reality television casting directors – and the things they do. He’s devoted the better part of a decade to covering Toronto’s meteoric rise as a hub for tech innovation and the players there. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Yahoo Canada Finance, Profit Magazine, enRoute Magazine, StartupHERE Toronto, StarMetro, and The Toronto Star.

MARI EDLIN, a graduate of Stanford University, has more than 30 years of experience in journalism and has been a freelance writer since 1988. She has specialized in healthcare since 1993, writing regularly for Managed Healthcare Executive, Drug Topics and other national healthcare and pharmaceutical trade publications. She also worked closely with many companies and organizations, helping to develop issue briefs, white papers and reports. She serves on numerous media panels and has taught a variety of communications workshops at Stanford University. Retired in 2019, she currently volunteers for the Sonoma Valley Art museum, a local senior community center and Stanford University.

HUGO MARTIN is an assistant editor on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. He has been a journalist with the Los Angeles Times for more than 30 years, covering politics, transportation, travel, business and the outdoors. A native Californian, Martín was part of the Metro staff that won Pulitzer Prizes in 1993, 1995 and 1998. He is an avid outdoorsman, a proud father and die-hard Lakers fan.

RICK BARRETT has been a business news reporter with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for 24 years, covering agriculture, manufacturing, broadband and much more. Earlier he worked for newspapers in Michigan, Florida, Arkansas, and Texas. Originally from southeast Michigan, he has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Central Michigan University. In 2020-‘21, Barrett was an O’Brien Fellow in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University.

RAVI YANDE is an award-winning news journalist and founder of The Ravi Report.

DUSTIN KLEIN is an award-winning business journalist, bestselling author, and chief content officer of Smart Business. Over the past 30 years, he has interviewed thousands of business and civic leaders, and helped more than 60 CEOs and entrepreneurs transform their ideas into books. As chief content officer, Dustin oversees all aspects of Smart Business’ content strategies across print, digital, and live channels, and spearheads the national Dealmakers Conference series, which each year brings together thousands of CEOs, entrepreneurs, family office leaders, private equity firm partners, venture capitalists, and M&A advisors across more than 20 cities. A former investigative politics reporter and digital media entrepreneur, Dustin joined Smart Business in 1997 after serving as the business editor of several daily newspapers. When he’s not knee-deep in content, Dustin can be found either spending time with his wife and children or indulging in his greatest passion: baseball.

JOSEPH S. PETE covers steel mills, unions, ports, oil refineries, auto plants, start-ups, craft breweries, banks, supermarkets, restaurants, and other beats for The Times of Northwest Indiana just outside Chicago, where he works as a Business Reporter. He also writes for The Times Media Co.’s IN Business Magazine, prattles as a panelist on the That’s So Region Podcast, appears frequently on Lakeshore Public Radio and serves as a board member on the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Pete has won numerous journalism awards, including several Lisagors from the Chicago Headline Club and honors from the Hoosier State Press Association, the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists, the Inland Press Association, the Associated Press Media Editors and the National Federation of Press Women. He has appeared on Lakeshore Public Television and WGN Radio in Chicago. He’s also an infantry veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

ARNIE WEISSMANN is editor in chief of Travel Weekly, the industry’s award-winning source of news, research, analysis and opinion, and is editorial director of Northstar Travel Media’s Travel Group, which includes Travel Weekly China and Travel Weekly Asia. Weissmann, who also founded Weissmann Reports (now part of Travel 42), is also a popular speaker at industry conferences, is widely quoted in consumer media and is a regular contributor to the PBS television show “The Travel Detective.”

JOE PETTIT is the managing editor at Tripwire. Joe graduated with a degree in Business and Marketing in 2009 and then went on to create and develop the popular IT Security blog, Information Security Buzz. From that venture, Joe moved to Tripwire where he has continued to aid the development of their award-winning blog, The State of Security. Joe specializes in SEO, Social Media, Lead Generation and implementing new strategies to help develop Tripwire's online presence. You can follow Joe on Twitter here.

CHRISTOPHER NULL is an award-winning journalist who has been covering business and technology for 20 years. A veteran of PC Computing, Yahoo! Tech, and New Architect and the founding editor in chief of Mobile PC Magazine, there is no segment of the high-tech universe he hasn’t covered. Today he continues to cover business and technology topics for Wired and TechHive, among other publications, while running his own custom blogging company, Null Media, which provides turnkey editorial services to corporate clients.