Mike Reid has a successful 20-year career in the information technology industry holding senior management positions in Product Management, Sales and Marketing, and Business Development. In 1987, he joined Dialog Information Services and built the Health, Sci-Tech, and General Reference CDROM businesses. As a member of Engineering Information's (Ei) senior management team, Mike helped transform a 110 year-old publishing company into an industry leading, award winning, web-based online community for engineers and scientists. He played an essential role in the successful sale of Ei to Reed-Elsevier. Mike has developed information businesses in Asia, Europe, and Latin America closing agreements with heads of state, academic, and major commercial enterprises. Recently he ran Sales and Business Development for Cognition Technologies, a semantic search technology company. Before Cognition he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Infotrieve, the largest commercial document delivery provider in the world. For over 2 years, Mike has been researching and publishing articles about Enterprise Social Software (ESS).

He has also been asked to speak on the topic. To see his first article: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul07/Reid_Grey.shtml. To see his most recent article: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jun08/Reid_Gray_Honick.pdf .

Mike holds a BS degree in Applied Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.