Paul Sherman co-founded Bay Area Tech Wire and is currently publisher of the Tech Wire newsletters and related publications. Paul and his colleagues also founded Potomac Tech Wire, New England Tech Wire, Southeast Tech Wire, Potomac Tech Wire, Tri-State Tech Wire, European Tech Wire, and most recently Thames Tech Wire. In addition to his editorial duties, Paul has moderated more than forty Tech Wire business panels on subjects ranging from venture capital to telecommunications to homeland security. Prior to starting Tech Wire, he worked for three years as the news assistant at The New York Times bureau in Mexico City, and wrote for the Economist Intelligence Unit, Latin Finance and Time magazine for two years. Paul received an MBA from The Wharton School in 1999 and a B.A. in political science from Brown University in 1992.

Rich Scherr is a seasoned technology and financial journalist who has been with the Tech Wire publications since 2001. The Baltimore native previously spent nearly four years covering the Baltimore and Washington technology scene for LocalBusiness.com, and has been a regular contributor to the sports pages of both The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post for several years. Also among his credits have been a stint editing morning news feeds for America Online and frequent contributions to the Associated Press.

Sam Solovey co-founded Bay Area Tech Wire and is currently Director of Business Operations and Customer Relations for the entire family of Tech Wire publications. Sam manages customer acquisition, advertising sales and market expansion. He and Paul oversee the business directory portion of the business, and Sam manages the logistics, sponsors and speaker bookings for all Tech Wire seminars. Prior to starting Tech Wire, he worked as a Change Management Analyst for Accenture in New York City and Washington D.C. While at Andersen, he worked on projects for Merrill Lynch, AT&T and the U.S. Postal Service. Sam has also hosted an innovative radio talk show titled, The Untrained Psychologist and occasionally serves as a professional auctioneer for several charitable organizations in New York and Washington, DC. He graduated with a B.A. in political science from Colgate University in 1998.

Ray Bolger is a 15-year veteran business journalist who has focused on new technology companies and the investors who back them. Prior to joining Tech Wire publications in 2000, Ray was a staff reporter and assistant managing editor for LocalBusiness.com, a national network of daily, online technology business news feeds. He was also a regular contributor to Digital South magazine, which covered venture capital in the Southeast U.S. Prior to that, Ray was a contributing writer to Warfield's magazine and The Daily Record newspaper, a decades-old daily business publication in Baltimore. As a copy writer, he has written special sections in Forbes magazine on regional economic development.

Jim joined Tech Wire in 2003 and currently serves as editor of the European-based publications. In addition to his responsibilities for European Tech Wire and Thames Tech Wire, Jim has also led the development and expansion of Tech Wire's news portal, EuropeanTechNews.com. From 1997 to 2000, he lived in Mexico City, where he worked as reporter, copy editor, assistant finance editor and lastly national editor for English-language daily The News. He has written several articles for financial monthly Business Mexico, for which he worked as assistant editor in 2000. In 2001, Jim worked in Puerto Rico and Valencia, Spain, on country supplements published in BusinessWeek. Jim graduated in 1997 from the University of Idaho with an MFA in English.

Ned Sherman is an attorney, entrepreneur and business executive with 10+ years of experience working with media, entertainment, technology and Internet clients in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Since 2000, he has been Chief Executive Officer of Digital Media Wire, Inc. Under his leadership today, DMW has three main revenue channels and communicates daily with 30,000+ executives and professionals at digital media companies throughout the world. Ned has produced and been a moderator or speaker at dozens of executive forums on digital media topics, including digital music, interactive television, interactive games, mobile entertainment and intellectual property rights. Ned previously practiced law in the Entertainment Department at Loeb & Loeb LLP. Ned graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1994 and received a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University in 1990.

Prior to joining Digital Media Wire as Marketing Director in 2002, Tinzar was Communications Manager at the Beverly Hills Hotel. During her term, she was in charge of installing and managing DSL lines and the management of the hotel’s Communications staff. She handled the hotel’s relationships with mobile service providers and implemented a new communications system by switching pagers to cell phones for the entire hotel management and staff. She managed the Department’s budget and payroll, and phone equipment and office supply inventories. Tinzar holds a B.S. degree from University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a major in Hotel & Restaurant Management and a minor in Japanese.