Vice President, UBM Electronics
David Blaza is Vice President of UBM Electronics and is focused on revenue and product development of the businesses’ leading brands (EE Times, EDN, Design News, and Test & Meaurement World) as well as leading the sales organization. Blaza has more than 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 UBM.
Blaza 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, Blaza sold some of the earliest versions of internet ads on EETimes.com and led the CMP Electronics Group web sales initiatives. The internet boom of 1998 lured Blaza to the electronics industry content and commerce website, ChipCenter, and the company was acquired by CMP in 2001. David was named Publisher of Embedded Systems Design magazine in 2005, Vice President and Publisher of EE Times in 2008, and recently led the Embedded Systems portfolio with a specific focus on the ESC event franchise.
Blaza is a graduate of the University of Bradford, England (BS, Materials Science) and the University of Stirling, Scotland (MS in Economics & Technology).