About the Authors

Greg Fell is a general partner in The Investors Collaborative, a Boston-based venture capital group. He is the former chief strategy officer at Crisply, an enterprise SaaS company that pioneered the algorithmic quantification of work. Previously, he served as vice president and chief information officer of Terex Corp., a global manufacturer of industrial equipment.

Before joining Terex, Fell spent nearly 20 years with Ford Motor Company. He started as a developer, and worked his way through a variety of management roles supporting the global Engineering and Manufacturing functions of the company. He has domain expertise on CAD/CAM/CAE systems, lean manufacturing, and control systems.

Fell is a graduate of Michigan State University, and spent several years on staff in the College of Engineering as a senior research programmer and instructor.

Fell is active in the CIO community. He is the former chairman of the Fairfield Westchester Society of Information Managers, a former board member with Junior Achievement, and has mentored high school students through the First Tee Program.

His book, Decoding the IT Value Problem (Wiley, 2013), is used widely by CIOs to calculate the economic value of IT projects.

Mike Barlow is an award-winning journalist, author, and communications strategy consultant. Since launching his own firm, Cumulus Partners, he has worked with various organizations in numerous industries.

Barlow is the author of Learning to Love Data Science (O’Reilly Media, 2015). He is the coauthor of The Executive’s Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy (Wiley, 2011), and Partnering with the CIO: The Future of IT Sales Seen Through the Eyes of Key Decision Makers (Wiley, 2007). He is also the writer of many articles, reports, and white papers on numerous topics such as collaborative social networking, cloud computing, IT infrastructure, predictive maintenance, data analytics, and data visualization.

Over the course of a long career, Barlow was a reporter and editor at several respected suburban daily newspapers, including The Journal News and the Stamford Advocate. His feature stories and columns appeared regularly in The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Newsday, and other major US dailies. He has also written extensively for O’Reilly Media.

A graduate of Hamilton College, he is a licensed private pilot, avid reader, and enthusiastic ice hockey fan.