Stephen Auditore
SHo was founded in November of 1999 by Stephen Auditore, former founder and President of Zona Research, Inc. Zona Research was based in Silicon Valley and was the first analyst firm to identify the Internet as a true inflection point in history and business opportunity separate and distinct from the standard information technology industry. Zona counted among its clients, nearly all major Internet and technology companies around the globe, including Microsoft, MCI, Netscape, Sun, IBM, France-Telecom, Hitachi, Fujitsui, Deutsche-Telecom, Yahoo!, AOL, Sprint, Compaq, Dell, and SoftBank, among others.Auditore has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences and has been a guest on CNN, CNBC, CBS Radio, and other international media. In addition, he was a featured columnist in the trade publications Reseller News, LAN Times, and The X Journal.
Auditore has served as a member of the advisory board for the "X World" tradeshow as well as on the editorial advisory boards of Lan Times and The X Journal. He has also served on the program committee for Comdex. He has authored opinion pieces on the Internet that were published in the San Jose Mercury-News, The Economist, and ComputerWorld. Auditore has also been the subject of a number of interviews in such publications as Forbes-ASAP, New Entrepreneur, Network, CNET, ZDNET, and Advanced Systems.