Executive Team Biography

Kevin Beam, Executive Vice President

Kevin Beam is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of TechTarget's media groups, which include all TechTarget Web sites, events and magazines. He has over 20 years of experience in IT publishing and technology sales and marketing.

Kevin joined TechTarget in 2000 as vice president, responsible for developing the market strategy for the company’s portfolio of targeted IT Web sites. In later years, he assumed responsibility for the largest and most successful media units in the company as executive vice president and publisher of TechTarget's Storage, Security and Windows Media groups. In that role, Kevin has managed TechTarget's most highly-trafficked Web sites and overseen the development of TechTarget's conference model, the launch of its conference division, two successful magazine launches, the acquisition of Information Security magazine, and the launch of nearly a dozen highly targeted Web sites.

Prior to joining TechTarget, Kevin was vice president of the Technology division of business-to-business information publisher United Communications Group (UCG), where he was responsible for the launch or acquisition of more than a dozen publications and the implementation of hundreds of successful conferences and seminars. With TechTarget CEO Greg Strakosch, Kevin co-founded Reliability Ratings, an IT publisher acquired by UCG in 1992. He began his career at EMC, a world leader in storage technology, where he spent five years in sales and sales management positions.

Kevin holds a B.A. from Boston College.