RÉSUMÉ OF BENJAMIN M. COMPAINE

I have divided my career between industry-specific assignments and more traditional academic positions. Some of my work has straddled both worlds. Thus I have created two "tracks" for my résumé.

Relevant Industry Experience

1986- Current -- Principal, Samara Associates -- Cambridge, Mass.

Supervise and conduct strategic and policy research for information industry organizations. Clients include Innovation Media Consulting, Olma Media (Russia), AT&T, Citibank, Editora Abril (Brazil), Freedom Forum for Media Studies, Grupo Zeta (Spain), Knight-Ridder, Inc., O Estado De Sao Paulo (Brazil), Department of Communications, Queensland (Australia), Southwestern Bell, Time-Warner, Harvard University, as well as other proprietary clients

1986-94 -- Nova Systems Inc. -- Cambridge, Mass.

Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of computer software firm specializing in computer/ telecommunications MIS for incoming calls center using ACD. Operating responsibilities included sales and marketing, business development, strategic planning. Eighty customers included Citicorp, American Express, Chubb, Fresno Bee, Paragon Cable, Sun Microsystems, Matthew Bender Co., MasterCard International, BankAmerica, Oxford Health Plan, Delta Dental, DST Financial, Fidelity Investments.

1979-86 -- Executive Director, Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University.

Directed research at independent self-funded media, computer and telecommunications research center, specializing in changing information technologies and associated political, economic and social forces and trends for players and stakeholders. Reviewed strategic plans and advised corporate and government policymakers from 100 plus affiliates that included Times Mirror Co., Knight-Ridder, Dow Jones, Gannett Co., New York Times Co., AT&T, MCI, Bell Atlantic, Ameritech, IBM, US West, Pacific Telesis, Sprint.

1978-79 -- Director, Books, Studies & Monographs, Knowledge Industry Publications -- White Plains, NY.

Supervised the research, drafting and production of market research studies of mass communications industries. Served in this capacity part-time from 1975-77.

1970-88 -- Related Activities

Consultant for IBM, Richard D. Irwin Co., Wm. C. Brown Co., Publishers, W.B. Saunders Co-Founder and Publisher, Philadelphia Review. General Manager, The Drummer.   Freelance writer for Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Science Digest, Success!.

Relevant Academic Experience

2005-present  Northeastern University, College of Business Administration, Boston, Mass. 

Lecturer in the School of Technological Entrepreneurship. Courses include Business Basics, Opportunity Assessment in a Technology-Based Firm.

2007    Boston University, College of Communications, Boston, MA

Lecturer in Mass Communications. Taught  graduate Financial and Strategic Management for Communications Professionals.

2004-2006  University of Phoenix, College of Graduate Business and Management,  (Boston Campus)

Faculty. Taught in technology management track of MBA program. Courses included Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Applications of Technology Management, eBusiness.

2000-02  Program on Internet & Telecoms Convergence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

Research and Development Consultant. Projects included TV, broadband access and Internet issues. Industry funded.

1997 - 1998 -- Pennsylvania State University -- State College, PA

Visiting Professor in Communications.  Teaching areas included strategic, social, cultural, economic and political implications of information technology, U.S. and global communications policy, telecommunications regulation, media institutions.

1994-1997 -- Temple University -- Philadelphia, PA

Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications and Chairman, Center for Information Industry Research (CIIR). Created first course of in the School of Communications on the Internet, Introduction to Cybermedia. Taught this as one of first seven online courses at the university. Initiated Faculty Seminar program. Served on faculty Technology and Learning Task Force. CIIR provides research and consulting for telecommunications and media companies, and government organizations worldwide.

1979-86 -- Executive Director, Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University.

Directed research at independent self-funded media, computer and telecommunications research center, specializing in changing information technologies and associated political, economic and social forces and trends for players and stakeholders. Reviewed strategic plans and advised corporate and government policymakers from 100 plus affiliates that included Times Mirror Co., Knight-Ridder, Dow Jones, Gannett Co., New York Times Co., AT&T, MCI, Bell Atlantic, Ameritech, IBM, US West, Pacific Telesis, Sprint.

1969-77 -- Marketing and Management Dept, Community College of Philadelphia.

Department chairman, 1977. Taught courses on small business management, general management, advertising, MIS.

1970-88 -- Related Activities

Adj. Assoc. Prof. of Communications, Hunter College. Adj. Assoc. Prof. of Communications, Boston University.

Temple University, Ph.D., 1978. Dissertation: “The Daily Newspaper Industry in the United States (1977): an Analysis of Trends in Production Technology, Competition and Ownership, Economic Structure, Circulation, Advertising, Newsprint and Labor.”

Harvard University, M.B.A., 1969

Dickinson College, A.B. (Political Science, cum laude), 1967

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