Executive Management Team

Ted Bahr
President & Publisher
Blog: http://tedbahr.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedbahr

Ted Bahr co-founded BZ Media LLC in 1999, and serves as president and managing partner. He has more than two decades’ experience in executive management, technology publishing and event management, and advertising sales. Mr. Bahr manages all sales and marketing activities for BZ Media.

Before founding BZ Media, Ted Bahr was a group president and member of the board of directors of Miller Freeman Inc., now merged with CMP Media LLC as a division of United Business Media Plc. In his 12 years at Miller Freeman, Mr. Bahr managed several different computer, electronics and entertainment groups of magazines, conferences, trade shows and online properties, as well as launching seven magazines and countless other media properties.

Prior to joining Miller Freeman, Mr. Bahr worked for five years in advertising sales at Ziff-Davis Publishing on PC Magazine and PC Tech Journal. At the time, Ziff-Davis was the largest U.S. publisher of computer magazines.

In October 2005, Mr. Bahr was named to Folio: Magazine’s inaugural “Dream Team” as B-to-B Publisher.

Alan Zeichick
Executive Vice President & Editorial Director
Blog: http://ztrek.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/zeichick

Alan Zeichick co-founded BZ Media LLC in 1999, bringing 20+ years as a software developer, technology analyst and industry journalist to the company. He serves as editorial director for the company's magazines and newsletters, chairman of several of its conferences, and manages its BZ Research arm. He is also a member of the Editorial Committee of American Business Media.

After starting his career as a mainframe programmer and systems analyst in the 1970s, Mr. Zeichick shifted over to the world of technology journalism in 1984, beginning at a small publishing company in rural New England. From 1987-1990 he worked for IDG Communications and was recruited to Miller Freeman Inc. in 1990.

As an editor-in-chief and editorial director at Miller Freeman, Mr. Zeichick led the content-oriented aspects of the start-up, acquisition and repositioning of several publications, as well as several trade shows and conferences. His final project at the company was the award-winning repositioning and redesign of LAN Magazine into Network Magazine.