Part V of our "Meet the SuperNova Award Judges" series. Let's meet the group of commerce and retail thought leaders that are judging this year's SuperNova Awards. For the latest news on the digital commerce revolution, follow these folks on Twitter!
The SuperNova Award Judges are are an elite group of thought leaders and journalists hand-selected for their futurist mindset and keen ability to separate substance from hype. Right now they're hard at work evaluating the SuperNova Award applications against a rigorous set of criteria to identify the applicants worthy of advancement to the finalist round.
MATRIX COMMERCE
R "Ray" Wang (@rwang0)
CEO & Principal Analyst
Constellation Research, Inc.
R "Ray" Wang is the Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research, Inc. In addition, he is the author of the popular enterprise software blog "A Software Insider’s Point of View". With viewership in the millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and new business models impact the enterprise. Ray is a prominent keynote speaker and research analyst working with clients on engagement strategies, social business, customer experience, and decision management. He advises Global 2000 companies on business strategy and technology selection. Ray also blogs at Forbes CIO Central and for Harvard Business Review. Prior to founding Constellation, he was a founding partner and research analyst for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group and one of the top analysts at Forrester Research for enterprise strategy.
Steve Wilson (@steve_lockstep)
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Constellation Research, Inc.
Steve Wilson is Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, Inc, focusing on digital identity and privacy. Wilson has over twenty-five years experience in ICT innovation, and research and development. Wilson is credited with numerous breakthroughs in difficult areas of identity infrastructure and governance, including national and industry level authentication frameworks, PKI systems, smartcards, digital credentials, fraud control, and privacy engineering.
Divina Paredes (@divinap)
Editor
CIO New Zealand & www.cio.co.nz
Divina Paredes is the editor of CIO New Zealand and www.cio.co.nz, the premium leadership and management resource for information and communications technology (ICT) executives and members of the CXO suite. She also organises and moderates CIO community events such as the CIO roundtable discussions and CIO leaders’ luncheons. Divina has been covering the information and communications technology sector for 15 years. She has postgraduate degrees from the University of Sydney (international studies) and New York University (journalism). You can reach her via email[email protected] and Twitter @divinap.
Debbie Hauss (@dhauss)
Editor-in-Chief
Retail TouchPoints
In her role as Editor-in-Chief, Debbie manages the multi-media components of Retail TouchPoints, including a weekly newsletter with an audience of more than 28,000 retail executives. She has covered retail for almost 10 years and worked as an editorial manager, writer and editor in various industries for more than 25 years. Debbie has served as the Managing Editor for Retail Information Systems News, the Chief Content Editor for Parentgiving.com, and a Project Manager and Copy Editor for a Lexis Nexis web site called lexisONE.com. In her spare time she runs marathons.
Agency Lead
Special thanks to our wonderful agency lead, Melanie Duzyj!
Melanie Duzyj - Agency Lead
Senior Account Executive
LEWIS PR
Melanie is a senior account executive for the global PR communications agency LEWIS PR, where she leads media and analyst strategies for integrated campaigns. She specializes in B2B technology and works with organizations focused on business intelligence, healthcare IT, HR technology and telecommunications. Prior to her role at LEWIS PR she worked in New York City on the PR teams for healthcare, management consulting and commercial real estate finance organizations. Her client base has included startup, pre-IPO and Fortune 500 companies.
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