Joseph Braue Group Director/Senior Vice President
For Braue, a 23-year B2B publishing veteran, coming to Light Reading has been like returning home, as he has one degree of separation from many of the prime movers at the service provider publishing giant and has been involved with the telecom industry at numerous points in his career.
As Chief Editor of Data Communications magazine at McGraw-Hill in the 90s, he hired Light Reading founders Peter Heywood and Steve Saunders. With Dennis Mendyk, now the Managing Director of Heavy Reading, Braue founded tele.com magazine in 1996, which predicted the "IP-ization" of the public network. Braue was group publisher of both publications, putting together a $15 million Media Services program for the ITU Telecom show in Geneva in 1999, the last big party in the industry before the lights went out in the dotcom crash.
When CMP closed Data Comm and later tele.com, Saunders and Heywood founded Light Reading (see more details in Heywood and Saunders' bios below) while Braue stayed with CMP where he was able to put together a fabulous, cross-CMP team of marketing engineers (marketeers?) who created innovative custom marketing programs (online, print, events) for large and small companies spanning all of CMP Technology's businesses. CMP Integrated Marketing Solutions, or CIMS as it was called, was CMP's fastest growing business unit for the last three years.
Now, Braue is focused on growing Light Reading. He especially would like to hear from readers, customers, and prospects, as well as successful editors and sales people at competitors who want to be part of Light Reading history. Braue@LightReading.com
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"As with the ape who becomes more ridiculous the more he dresses like a person, so do fools become more ridiculous the more they seek to pass as sensible." – Heinrich Heine
Stephen Saunders Founder, ex-President; current Senior Conternal Insultant, CMP Technology
Saunders began his publishing career in 1984 as a van boy (n., Chiefly Brit.: a boy who rides on a van) for BBC Publications, delivering its Radio Times magazine in the East End of London. For the next nine years he held a succession of low-paid and menial positions, before being plucked from obscurity by Light Reading cofounder Peter "Fagin" Heywood, who hired him as his editorial assistant/gopher at Data Communications magazine. As the other editors left, fell sick, were imprisoned, or died, Saunders ascended to the tippy top of Data Communications' editorial masthead – whence he promptly crashed when, in 1999, CMP bought the magazine and shut it down. Saunders and his mentor then created Light Reading, chaperoning it to great heights of trade publishing success until, in a massive dose of irony, it was acquired by CMP in September of 2005. Formerly the President of Light Reading, Saunders continues to serve as a Senior Internal Consultant for CMP, which basically means early retirement. He holds an utterly worthless joint honors degree in English Literature and Drama from Hull University. Saunders@TheInsultant.com
Peter Heywood Founding Editor; Old Fogey Light Reading's "Prime Mover," Peter created the company out of thin air and, in collaboration with his protégé Stephen Saunders, shepherded it to fame, glory, and the enevitable buyout by the "old media" powerhouse CMP. Prior to founding Light Reading, Peter worked as a journalist for 20 years. During the 1990s, he was an executive editor at Data Communications, a magazine which won numerous awards for its high-quality coverage of enterprise networking. Before switching to journalism, Peter worked as a civil engineer for ten years. Peter has now retired from daily duties at Light Reading, though we can't seem to get rid of him completely. He currently lives outside of London, in a house with its own name, where his twilight years will be devoted to breeding racing snails and giant, man-eating Venus flytraps – with which he hopes, one day, to conquer the world. Heywood@LightReading.com
R. Scott Raynovich Founder & Publisher, Contentinople (New York)
R. Scott has been with Light Reading almost from the beginning. He was formerly the Editor in Chief of Light Reading, then Editorial Director of the Light Reading Communications Group, then Galactic Overlord of the Light Reading Empire. R. Scott is now the publisher of Contentinople, our new venture focused on the next-generation technology, business models, and infrastructure that are driving digital entertainment media. In addition to his duties at Contentinople, R. Scott is resident manager of the world-renowned Light Reading Cosmos soccer team. Prior to joining Light Reading, R. Scott was investment editor for Red Herring magazine, where he menaced cowardly mutual fund managers with his crazy grin, wild eyes, and remorseless gunslinging. He has clawed, drunk, and poked his way around the technology markets for a decade. The "R" is short for "rope-a-dope." Raynovich@LightReading.com
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