Lane Cooper has over 30 years of experience as a communications executive, messaging consultant, researcher, reporter and editor analyzing the business and technology industry. He is the executive director of Mindshare Capture Consulting and the editorial director of BizTechReports, an independent reporting agency that covers how new technology developments affect organizational behavior.

Every year, Lane meets with hundreds of CIOs and senior enterprise executives to understand the impact of evolving technology-enabled strategies across all industries. He has organized and moderated over 1,000 live and online events and works with a variety of high-tech organizations to ensure that complex information is delivered in a context that is understood and appreciated by audiences of sophisticated technology buyers and implementers.

He is a Contributing Content Partner to CIO Magazine and a Consulting Researcher to Current Analysis. Other news services and magazines that have carried his by-line include: Voice Report, Network World, Byte Magazine, TechWeb, Optimize, Information Week, Telephony, Communications Week, ComWeek International, and Enterprise Systems Journal. He lives in the Washington DC metropolitan area.