About our Authors

Editorial:

Alex Woodie, Managing Editor

Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than two decades. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.

Contributing Editors:

Oliver Peckman, Editor

Oliver Peckham has been writing about the intersections of science, technology, public policy, and corporate policy for over a decade. As a consultant, he has worked with clients ranging from renewable energy trade associations to Lenovo, helping them manage the environmental impacts of a technology-intensive world. He holds an MEM in Energy & Environment from Duke University and an MS in Climate Science & Policy from Bard College. He resides in the Research Triangle area in North Carolina.

Tiffany Trader, Editorial Director

With over a decade’s experience covering the HPC space, Tiffany is one of the preeminent voices reporting on advanced scale computing today. Since joining the HPCwire team in 2006, Tiffany has played an essential role in steering editorial strategy, engaging with key audiences, and delivering groundbreaking content when readers need it most. As Managing Editor for HPCwire, Tiffany brings an unmatched wealth of expertise, insights, and editorial prowess based on years of experience covering high performance, cloud, AI, and other advanced computing technologies. Tiffany earned her bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University, where she studied linguistics and computer science.

John Russell, Contributing Editor

A previous winner of the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award (which has been called “the Pulitzer Prize of the business media,”), John Russell has broad science and business journalism expertise with extensive knowledge of the biopharmaceutical and advanced IT industries. A seasoned veteran of technology journalism, Russell was formerly a founding executive editor for Bio-IT World, which focused on the intersection of advanced computing technology and life sciences, where he wrote and edited articles and ran the daily editorial operations.

Jaime Hampton, Staff Writer

Jaime is a writer and researcher with five years of copyediting experience. This is her first foray into the world of enterprise computing. She is particularly interested in the intersection between artificial intelligence and the humanities. Jaime holds a B.A. with a concentration in art history from New College of Florida. She is based in Sarasota.Jaime is a writer and researcher with five years of copyediting experience. This is her first foray into the world of enterprise computing. She is particularly interested in the intersection between artificial intelligence and the humanities.

Mariana Iriarte, Contributing Editor

Mariana Iriarte has covered the HPC, Big Data, and AI space with Tabor Communications for the last year, but brings over 15 years of professional experience ranging from serving in the military to covering emerging technologies. She served on a U.S. Navy destroyer for approximately five and a half years as an electrician, and prior to joining Tabor Communications, she covered embedded electronics for the defense and aerospace industries for four years. She is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and is a tech nerd at heart. She holds a B.A. in English with a creative writing specialization from Southern Methodist University.

Steve Conway, Senior Analyst, Intersect360 Research

Steve Conway has tracked the global HPC market for more than 30 years, with prior stops at Cray Research, SGI, Hyperion Research (senior vice president of research) and IDC. He has authored or co-authored major HPC studies and thought papers for government agencies, universities and enterprises throughout the world, including seminal reports for the European Commission, governments and vendors in the Asia-Pacific region, an NSF-sponsored global study on best practices in partnerships between HPC centers and industrial firms (including SMBs), an AI primer for senior U.S. military leaders and a report for the U.S. Congress on edge-to-exascale computing.

Publishing:

Tom Tabor, CEO

Tom Tabor has over 34 years experience in business-to-business publishing, including 24 years focused on High Performance Computing (HPC), cloud computing and more recently, advanced digital manufacturing technologies.

As an internationally recognized pioneer in the electronic publishing industry, Tom is credited with introducing the first online publication in the early nineties, HPCwire. Over the years, he has served as publisher for the award-winning Supercompting Review magazine, WEBster, HPCwire, On-Demand Enterprise, GRIDtoday, High Performance Computing – Contributions to Society, and The Emergence of Grid and Service-Oriented IT, as well as producing the GT04 tradeshow and conference, and a series of Grid VIP Summits worldwide.

Tom also serves as CEO and founder of Tabor Communications Inc., a leading international media, advertising, and communications company that provides news, information and solutions to the HPC, data-intensive, green, cloud, and digital manufacturing communities.

For more information visit www.tomtabor.com.

Sales & Client Services:

Jeff Hyman, Senior Vice President & Group Publisher

Jeff, with TCI since 2007, manages worldwide sales for HPCwire, Datanami and EnterpriseAI.  Prior to joining TCI, he was Vice President of Sales for IDG’s Bio-ITWorld magazine, whose focus is on HPC is used specifically within the life sciences to accelerate the pace of drug discovery. Jeff holds a BS from Babson College and an MBA from Suffolk University.