Amy D. Wohl
Biography
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Amy
D. Wohl is President of Wohl Associates, a consulting firm located in
Narberth, Pennsylvania which consults on new and emerging technology and
new market formation. Wohl Associates' current interests include all types
of personal and group software, the Internet, and information appliances.
She is well known for her past and on-going interests in office software,
groupware, and speech processing. The firm provides services on strategic
planning, marketing strategy, marketing research, and training to
developers of information systems, hardware, and software. Clients
include major computer and personal computer vendors, software publishers,
and industry investors. Wohl has also consulted with user
organizations from all sectors of business and industry including banking,
manufacturing, law, government, and retail distribution. A
noted expert on the computer market, its products and dynamics, Mrs. Wohl
has served as an expert witness and legal consultant on many occasions. Mrs.
Wohl is Editor and Publisher of Amy D. Wohl's Opinions, a weekly
electronic newsletter. She previously edited The TrendsLetter and The Wohl
Report. She also maintains a weblog at http://amywohl.weblogger.com.
She is a columnist to VARBusiness magazine, a contributing editor to
Spectrum Middleware, and a frequent contributor to the trade and general
business press on the Internet, software, computing, computer trends, and
technology. Mrs. Wohl is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and
seminars in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and
Australia. She is especially well known for her keynotes on the future. She
has served as a board member and advisor to several corporations.
Currently, she is a principal and advisor to Interactive Intelligence, an
Internet Design firm, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Bachow
Investments. She also serves as an advisor to a number of new
technology start-ups. Mrs.
Wohl was series editor for SouthWestern Publishing's OSRA Office
Automation Curriculum textbook series and was co- author of two of its
volumes. She is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Mrs.
Wohl was named one of the top 100 Women in Computing in 1994. She was
program chairman of the first Office Automation Conference. She is past
president of the Office Systems Research Association and served on the
board of Women in Information Processing. She was the founding president
of the Philadelphia Chapter of IWP. She is a member of OSRA, ACM, SIGOA,
and SIGPC. Mrs. Wohl is the recipient of the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award
from the Association of Women in Computing. Mrs.
Wohl was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Effect
of Technology on Employment. Prior
to forming Wohl Associates, Mrs. Wohl was President of Advanced Office
Concepts Corporation. For five years, she served at Datapro Research
Corporation, a division of McGraw-Hill, as an Executive Editor and
Consultant. Mrs.
Wohl received a B.A. in Economics from LaSalle College and an M.A. in
Economics from Temple University, where she was an N.D.E.A. Doctoral
Fellow. Mrs. Wohl currently teaches in the Masters program in
Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a
guest lecturer at many colleges and universities, including the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Oklahoma
State University, Temple University, and the University of California at
Berkeley.
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