Valerie Rice Silverthorne has been a writer and editor for more than 30 years, most recently as a senior news and feature writer at TechTarget. She is a multiple AZBEE (ASBPE) Award winner. She's covered everything from Agile, DevOps and IoT to business, trade, technology, real estate and lifestyle trends. She was an award-winning business writer for The San Jose Mercury News and was a Forbes Magazine top "30 under 30" journalist. She was the editor of ZDNet.com and PC Week/Inside and a senior executive editor of PC Week and Electronic Business.