Tony is the founder and CEO of Dataversity and Wilshire Conferences. He is responsible for the overall editorial and business strategy of both organizations, which conduct educational conferences, training and publishing activities focused on the area of enterprise data management. He co-founded the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech) which was recently sold to WebMediaBrands (Nasdaq: WEBM). Prior to founding Wilshire he also started a dotcom in the identity management space called BigID (which went the way of most dotcoms), and was the president of Technology Transfer Institute (TTI). He still facilitates TTI’s strategic technology forum for CTOs, called TTI/Vanguard.