Steve Minter provides the editorial direction for
IndustryWeek’s award-winning array of print and e-media
products. He also serves as the group content director for
Penton Media’s Manufacturing & Supply Chain Group.
He has more than 30 years of business-to-business publishing
experience, including his most recent assignment at Penton Media, Inc.
as publisher and editorial director of EHS Today. During his career,
Minter was instrumental in the launch of magazines, Websites,
newsletters, e-newsletters, conferences and two recognition programs for
the safety and health industry – Champions of Safety and America’s
Safest Companies. He has won awards for his writing and editing from the
American Society of Business Publication Editors and served as a judge
for American Business Media’s Jesse H. Neal Awards.
Minter is a graduate of Oberlin College. He and his wife Nancy have
two children, Geoff and Sarah.
Senior Editor Jill Jusko coordinates
IndustryWeek's Best
Plants program, which annually salutes the leading
manufacturing facilities in North America. She has been a
member of the IW Best Plants judging team since joining the
IndustryWeek staff in 1998 and was named coordinator of the
program in late 2004. In her position as senior editor, Jusko
also writes for IndustryWeek and IndustryWeek.com. She is
specifically responsible for editorial coverage related to
product development topics, including research and
development, innovation, materials and product lifecycle
management. She also addresses general manufacturing topics.
Jusko has served as the editorial project director of the IW/MPI
Census of Manufacturers and as new media editor of
IndustryWeek.com.
Jonathan Katz returned to Penton Media in 2005 as an
associate editor with IndustryWeek. Katz covers IW's
facilities & operations pillar, which focuses on the energy, environmental,
economic development, safety, maintenance/MRO, workforce and
lean manufacturing issues that directly affect how and where
companies can best develop competitive goods and services,
produce them, market and sell them and get them to customers.
Katz began his journalism career as an intern for IW in
2000 before serving as a reporter for The Morning Journal in
Lorain, Ohio, where he covered education, public affairs and
general assignment topics for nearly two years. He then worked
as associate editor for Penton publication Supply Chain
Technology News and contributed to Transportation &
Distribution magazine before joining Lawn & Landscape magazine
as its associate editor in 2004. Katz received a bachelor of
science degree in journalism from Kent State University.
Senior editor Josh Cable covers IW’s Information
Technology (IT) pillar, which focuses on ERP, wireless
technology, supply chain solutions, RFID, business
intelligence, green computing, data warehousing, PLM software
and other IT applications that help both large and small
manufacturers gain the competitive advantage.
Before coming to IW, Cable was the editor-in-chief of
Penton Media’s Government Product News and Government
Procurement as well as managing editor of Penton’s
Occupational Hazards. Prior to starting at Penton in 2004,
Cable was an award-winning beat reporter and editor for
several small newspapers in Northeast Ohio, and has been a
stringer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Cable graduated from Bowling Green State University in
1997 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing. He also
has taken journalism classes at Bowling Green, Ohio University
and Cuyahoga Community College.
Associate Editor Peter Alpern
covers IndustryWeek's Factory Automation pillar, which focuses
on the newest plant-floor technologies and the different ways
manufacturers are strategically using them to maximize
profitability, while reining in costs.
In addition to working on IW, Alpern also serves as
associate editor with the metals group, where he writes for
American Machinist, Foundry and Forging.
Prior to starting at Penton in 2009, Alpern was an editor at
Tooling & Production, reporting on manufacturing and
technology issues. Prior to that, he was a sports reporter for
the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, covering the Cleveland
Indians and Cleveland Browns, along with local colleges and
high schools. Alpern graduated from Emerson College in 1997
with a bachelor's of fine arts in journalism.
Adrienne Selko manages the editorial
content of IndustryWeek's award-winning Web site. She oversees
IndustryWeek's eight eNewsletters, and
also works with
outside contributors to provide content for the Web site.
Before joining the staff in 2004, Selko was
managing editor of corporate publications at a large regional
financial institution. She was also an editor for the U.S.
based publication of a medical manufacturing company. Prior to
that she ran a public relations and marketing company that
published a best-selling healthcare book. Selko received a
bachelor's of business administration from the University of
Michigan.
Blanchard brings a wealth of knowledge in the supply chain,
enterprise software and logistics industries, and over 20
years of trade publishing experience to his role at
IndustryWeek. Previously in his lengthy
Penton career, Blanchard served as founding editor and
editor-in-chief of Logistics Today. He also led the
editorial team of Supply Chain Technology News.
In addition,
Blanchard has launched numerous print and
online newsletters, is a frequent speaker at industry events,
and has written several books, including Supply Chain Management Best Practices (John Wiley & Sons,
2006). He has won a number of awards for his writing and
editing, including being named one of the nation's top
columnists for two consecutive years by the American Society
of Business Publication Editors.
Dr. Thomas J. Duesterberg is President and Chief Executive Officer
of the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI. He also serves as president of The
Institute for Technological Advancement, an affiliate of The
Manufacturers Alliance; and is a member of the Board of Directors of
The Manufacturing Institute, an affiliate of the National Association
of Manufacturers.
Prior to joining the Alliance, Dr. Duesterberg was Senior Fellow
and Director of the Washington Office of the Hudson Institute. Former
positions include serving as Chief of Staff to Congressman Chris Cox
(1995-96); U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International
Economic Policy (1989-93), where he was responsible for international
trade and investment issues, trade promotion, and advocacy programs to
assist U.S. exporters and investors; Administrative Assistant to U.S.
Senator Dan Quayle (1981-89); Senior Research Analyst, International
Business Services (1979-81); and Associate Instructor, Stanford
University (1978-79).
Dr. Duesterberg is co-author of two books and numerous magazine,
journal, and op-ed articles on international trade, information
technology, and global economics. He graduated magna cum laude
from Princeton University in 1972 and received an master's and
a doctorate from Indiana University.
Ralph Keller is president of the
Association for Manufacturing Excellence, an organization
dedicated to cultivating understanding, analysis and exchange of
productivity methods and their successful application in the pursuit
of excellence. He has been an operations practitioner for the past 35
years.
