David Blaza
Managing Director, Embedded Systems and RFID
CMP Media

David has over 20 years of sales, marketing and publishing experience in the technology sector working for companies as diverse as IBM Europe, Motorola, Mars Electronics, ChipCenter and CMP Media.  David built his early career selling new technology into emerging applications; this includes selling one of the first voice mail systems installed in the UK and private wireless data systems in the US.  After moving into technology publishing in 1994, David sold some of the earliest versions of internet ads on the EETimes.com website and led the CMP Electronics Group web sales initiatives. The internet boom of 1998 lured David away from CMP to an electronics industry content and commerce websites called ChipCenter but returned to the company when it was acquired by CMP in 2001. David was named Publisher of Embedded Systems Design magazine in late 2005 and now manages the Embedded Systems and RFID focused portfolio print, online and events businesses at CMP.

David is married with 2 children and lives in Northern California.  He is a graduate of the University of Bradford, England (BS, Materials Science) and the University of Stirling, Scotland (MS in Economics & Technology).  David, was born in Canada, raised and educated in the UK and recently became a US citizen, he is a partner in an up and coming winery, 'Calistoga Cellars' in the Napa Valley and is a beginner beekeeper.