Purchasing Magazine Editorial Staff Biographies

Paul Teague, Editor-in-Chief 
A veteran journalist with more than 30 years of experience on magazines and newspapers, Paul has covered a broad range of technology and manufacturing trends and has won numerous editorial awards including a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award, which has been called the Pulitzer Prize of the business press. He writes about software, supply chain finance and general business trends.

Dave Hannon, Managing Editor 
With Purchasing for nine years, Dave writes features and manages the logistics, chemicals and news coverage for Purchasing. 

Tom Stundza, Executive Editor 
Tom has been the magazine's chief industrial commodities analyst for 25 years. He coordinates coverage of supply, demand, delivery leadtimes, and prices of such industrial commodity materials as metals, chemicals and plastics, energy, packaging, wood and paper products.

Jim Carbone, Executive Editor, Electronics 
Jim has covered all aspects of the electronics industry—distributors, OEMs, EMS providers and semiconductor and passive component suppliers—for the past 20 years. He also frequently writes about the purchasing strategies that major electronics OEMs and EMS providers employ.

Susan Avery, Senior Editor 
With Purchasing Magazine for more than 20 years, Susan covers MRO/Distribution, Information Technology, and Office Technologies as well as strategic sourcing and nontraditional services buying. In 2008, The National Business Travel Association named Purchasing Senior Editor Susan Avery the winner of its second annual Business Travel Journalism Award.