Technosailor Staff

Aaron Brazell, Lead Editor

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Aaron is the founder and lead editor of Technosailor.com. He is a business and social media consultant and loves to see people reach their potential through the use of social media. There is an overlap between useful social media and personal and corporate outreach and brand. His writing seeks to highlight those areas where the two overlap and eliminate the noise that is present in covering the news and buzz surrounding web startups and social media.

Aaron has been involved in the web since early 2000 and has most recently served as the Director of Technology for b5media, a blog network. His background is in technology – web development, scalability and WordPress development.

If you would like to engage Aaron for social media, WordPress or business consulting, you can reach him in one of the following ways:

  • Email: aaron@technosailor.com
  • Skype: technosailor
  • Google Talk: emmensetech
  • AIM: aaron@b5media.com
  • Phone: +1 410 608 6620 (USA)

Ray Capece, Venture Files Editor

Ray CapeceRay has founded and led a number of hardware and software companies since the early 80s, securing more than $30M in venture financing and building businesses in senior marketing and engineering management roles.

Currently CEO of CHALLENJ, a pre-launch social gaming utility, Ray began his entrepreneurial career as co-founder and VP/GM of Lattice Semiconductor on the West coast, growing the company to more than 120 employees and $40M in sales, preparing it for an IPO (LSCC).

Coming east as CEO of Powersim, a simulation-software firm, he then became COO of LivePrint.com, which was acquired by Kinko’s in 2000. Prior to founding CHALLENJ, Ray was VP/GM at Intrinsic Semiconductor, and held marketing and management positions in a number of other technology companies, including SVP Marketing at Etenna, CEO/VP Engineering at Ecoustix, and president of ExactOne, an Internet data-aggregation company. Author of numerous articles on technology, Ray has also been an editor and publisher for McGraw-Hill’s Electronics magazine and LAN TIMES, and served as managing editor of The Rosen Electronics Letter, predecessor to Release 1.0, the influential industry report covering technology, communications, and the Internet. Ray holds a BSEE from Cornell University.

Staff Emeritus

Steven Fisher

Steve was the founder of the Venture Files brand and brought it into Technosailor.com in June of 2008. He has since moved on to work with Network Solutions. He currently resides in Columbia, MD.

Carlos Granier-Phelps

Carlos, the Founder and CEO of RED66, wrote almost all of the Spanish language content found throughout the archives of this site. He currently resides in Miami, FL.

Andrew Feinberg

Andrew, a former Capitol Hill journalist and expert in telecommunication and technical policy, provided significant insight into the crossover of technology and government. He is currently attending Law School at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Mike Dougherty

A marketing whiz, Mike provided many insight into the world of web marketing before departing to focus on his “day job” supporting the efforts of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Mike lives outside of Baltimore, MD.

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