Stuart Lauchlan
Co-founder of Darksome Media with Chris Middleton, Stuart is one of the UK's pre-eminent freelance business and technology journalists, editors and new media consultants.
Stuart's expertise in all aspects of enterprise and public sector IT, cloud computing, CIO strategies, software as a service (SaaS), CRM, outsourcing and other areas is second to none, and has made him one of the country's most in-demand business journalists and industry commentators. He is also regularly asked to host, chair or speak at business and technology events in the UK, Europe and the US.
His full-time editorial work has included being both news editor and contributing editor of Computing; editorial manager for Computing Intelligence (editorial value-added services at VNU); launch editor for the VNU pan-European newswire in San Francisco; and editorial development manager for CMP, where he was responsible for editorial value-added products and services, including supplements, website development, newswires and offline events.
• In 2010, in recognition of his work on such success stories as the launch of Businesscloud9.com and its associated annual conference, Stuart accepted the post of head of editorial at longstanding Darksome client Sift Media.
Stuart's rigorous, incisive and hard-hitting journalism, and his extensive knowledge of both the industry today and its long history, make him the
business journalist that CEOs fear, but also feel they should speak to.
As a result, he has access to the boardrooms of most of the big hitters.
His freelance editorial work has included features and news for: Computer Business Review (CBR); the FT; Internet World; MIS; CIO; The Sunday Times; The Times; The Daily Telegraph; Sydney Morning Herald; San Francisco Chronicle; Connexion; Network News; IT Week; Software Futures; Business IT; Information Age; Information Week (US), and Computer Reseller News (US).
Stuart proposed and co-developed the new cloud computing website Businesscloud9.com for Sift Media. Stuart was also launch editor and managing editor for the quarterly Outsource magazine for EMP Media. He has also been senior research analyst at IDC (Technology Investment Strategies), and news editor of MyCustomer.com.
His messaging consultancy has included work for BT; Siebel; IBM; HP; Dell Computer; Infobank, and Paoga. His corporate consultancy and training portfolio includes: HP; ICL; IBM; Siebel; SAP; Oracle; Microsoft; American Express; Accenture; Barclays; BandQ; Wanadoo; IT Jobs Board; Oracle User Group; Northgate; Aspective; Ingres; Informix, and Sybase.
Copywriting includes white-paper and case-study work for ICL; the Institute of Directors; Infobank; Dell; Accenture; Siebel; Oracle; BT; HCL; Paoga; McData; Informix, and Ingres, among others, as well as advertising/marketing/website copy for various agencies and companies, including Capgemini (2009).
His offline event experience includes constructing and chairing numerous series of seminars, roundtables and/or debates for: Computing; Information Week; MIS; management/co-ordination work for the Computing Awards for Excellence; and conference and corporate presentations for various CRM conferences, plus work for Oracle; IBM; BT; the DTI; Salesforce.com; Forte, and Sun Microsystems.
He has also chaired webinars for MIS magazine and MyCustomer.com.
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