Meet the Editor

Colin Shanley
Editor-in Chief and Founder

Colin has more than twenty years’ experience in working at the leading edge in technology, from rocket and weapons hardware design to software and electronic publishing. He helped shape the internet as we know it, developing e-commerce strategies for UK business from a time when only 1% of companies had an internet presence. Colin has also played a strategic role in servicing some of the world’s leading companies and institutions, including the United Nations, European Union, and the European Space Agency, as well as Unisys, British Telecom and Glaxo-SmithKline.

Over the years, Colin has served as CEO, COO or CTO of international companies and helped create some of the UK's top success stories in e-commerce, including Infobank International and TrustMarque International.

Colin is also a journalist of twenty years’ standing and became involved with e-zines in the early days, publishing Telecoms Newsline in partnership with Hewlett Packard. He founded ITnews orignally as Windows Showcase magazine in 1993. He is author of many IT-related works, from data encryption to satellite navigation systems. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and lives in central London.

“Yeah, yeah, enough of that. Its been an interesting and tough twenty years and, boy, does it show! I built this service for the community and am always keen to hear from you. So click here to email me directly.”