Chris Koch

Associate Vice President, Research and Thought Leadership, ITSMA
ckoch@itsma.com

Chris Koch works closely with ITSMA’s leadership team, executive councils, business partners, clients, and subject matter experts to carry out surveys and develop compelling research and thought leadership on marketing and sales trends, solutions, and technology industry issues. An award-winning writer and editor, Koch brings over 25 years of experience in journalism, and more than 10 years covering information technology and business. Koch most recently served as executive editor for CIO, a trade magazine for chief information officers and other IT leaders. He was responsible for conceiving, assigning, and editing feature stories and columns on IT strategy, and directed and developed content for special sections and surveys. In addition, Koch authored a popular blog (“Koch’s IT Strategy”) on CIO’s website and was frequently a speaker at technology conferences.

Before CIO, Koch was a communications manager in marketing for Computer Sciences Corporation, where he developed and wrote thought leadership content on business and IT strategy for internally-generated publications and the general press. He also helped edit and market The Discipline of Market Leaders, a best-selling book on business strategy.

Koch began his career as a reporter for a variety of newspapers and as a founding editor of Bicycle Guide magazine, a consumer magazine about cycling, a sport about which he remains way too passionate.