Vice President, UBM Electronics
David Blaza holds the position of Vice President of UBM Electronics. David has over 20 years of sales, marketing and media 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 included selling one of the first voice mail systems installed in the UK and private wireless data systems in the US. After moving into technology media 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 website called ChipCenter but returned when this company was acquired by CMP in 2001. David was named Publisher of Embedded Systems Design magazine in late 2005, Vice President and Publisher of EE Times in 2008, and currently leads the Embedded Systems portfolio with a specific focus on the ESC event franchise.
David lives in Northern California and is a graduate of the University of Bradford, England (BS, Materials Science) and the University of Stirling, Scotland (MS in Economics & Technology).