I am a technology industry journalist, analyst, and entrepreneur with a keen ability to identify disruptive innovation and market shifts before they happen. As the executive producer of the DEMO Conference for more than a decade, I supported the market launch of more than 1,500 companies which, were they an investment portfolio, would have a combined market cap of more than $60 billion. Today, I work with startups that innovate and large companies that would like to. I am spending the current academic year as a Reynolds Fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri investigating the impact of emerging technology on traditional news media and developing tools to empower digital media consumers.