Analysts
Ron Copeland, Senior Vice President
For the past seventeen years, he has covered the high-tech sector as a writer, editor and industry analyst. In the late 1990s, he served as a Senior Analyst at the Robert Frances Group, and in the 2000s as Editor-at-Large for CMP’s InformationWeek news magazine, where he wrote and edited articles on emerging technologies.
Prior to becoming an analyst, he had a distinguished career in journalism. This included a term as Editorial Director of EarthWeb, where he managed a dozen Web sites that published articles, code, and more for IT managers and application developers. He was also West Coast Bureau Chief of CommunicationsWeek/InternetWeek; Technical Editor at InfoWorld; and Senior Editor for Dr. Dobb’s Journal. He has covered software, hardware and networking topics including, but not limited to, distributed software development tools, database management systems and data warehousing, network applications architectures and middleware, and microprocessor product developments. He also authored a white paper for Zona Research on the topic of Application Service Providers (ASPs).
Ron has a masters degree in marketing from Webster University in St. Louis.