Stephen Saunders is a British-born entrepreneur, journalist, and marketing professional. He is the former CEO of

Light Reading Light Reading Inc. is a telecommunications industry information company based in New York City. Its activities include publishing, data analysis, market research, and events management. History The company was founded in 2000 by Stephen Saunders ...

, a media, communications, and events business, which he founded in 2000, sold to UBM in 2005, and repurchased in 2014. Formerly, he was managing director of UBM DeusM, an integrated marketing services division of UBM, launched in 2010. He has also written and edited guidebooks on data communications and networks.

Start-ups

Saunders has been responsible for a number of online publishing start-ups, including: *

(telecommunications news); * Heavy Reading (telecommunications research); *

Dark Reading Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination, an absence of visible light, or a surface that absorbs light, such as black or brown. Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low lum ...

(security news) *

Internet Evolution The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

(news on the development of the Internet).

was bought by UBM for $33 million in 2005. Saunders initially remained as CEO, launching

later in 2005. In April, 2013, it was announced that Saunders would return to an executive role with

. In March 2008, Saunders was inducted into Min's Digital Media Hall of Fame. In October 2014, he was named as a "disruptor" in the ''Folio 100'', Folio magazine's annual list of the "magazine and media industry’s innovators, entrepreneurial thinkers and disrupters." According to Folio, after reacquiring

, "Saunders immediately made a few significant changes, including doubling the full-time staff, establishing a blogger roster of more than 75 industry experts and launching the Big Telecom Event (BTE) with no traditional booths and exhibitors, allowing only hands-on demos."

UBM DeusM

DeusM was an integrated marketing services company which has launched 45 online communities. "...each of which is based on a specific theme such as Future Cities or Oncology...allow users to post their own content and are curated by a small team of editors and paid contributors.". In 2013, UBM announced a decision to move its online business to the UBM DeusM community platform.

EE Times ''EE Times'' (''Electronic Engineering Times'') is an electronics industry magazine published in the United States since 1972. EE Times is currently owned by AspenCore, a division of Arrow Electronics since August 2016. Since its acquisition ...

made the transition in July, and has reported increased page views and messages.

followed in August, and

Information Week ''InformationWeek'' is a digital magazine which conducts corresponding face-to-face events, virtual events, and research. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was first published in 1985 by CMP Media, later called Informa. The p ...

was due to follow in October. The DeusM webpage now redirects to

UBM Tech UBM Technology Group, formerly CMP Publications, was a business-to-business multimedia company that provided information and integrated marketing services to technology professionals worldwide. It offered marketers and advertisers services such as ...

Light Reading

Saunders founded

, a

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-based

telecommunications industry The telecommunications industries within the sector of information and communication technology is made up of all telecommunications/telephone companies and internet service providers and plays a crucial role in the evolution of mobile communication ...

information company, in 2000. It was purchased by UBM in 2005 for $33 million. In February 2014, Stephen Saunders reacquired the company from UBM, with UBM retaining a "significant minority stake" in the company.

Bibliography

* (Editor) ''The Data Communications Gigabit Ethernet Handbook'' (McGraw-Hill, 1998) * ''TheMcGraw-Hill High-Speed LANs Handbook'' (McGraw-Hill, 1995)

References

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