Kevin Maney is a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio and a blogger for Portfolio.com.
He is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM, published in 2003 by John Wiley & Sons. Fortune magazine made it one of four suggested books to read in the summer of 2003. BusinessWeek named Maverick one of the 10 best books of 2003. Maney also wrote the 1995 BusinessWeek bestseller Megamedia Shakeout.
Maney is often on television and radio, and appeared regularly on the PBS show “This Week In Business” during its two-year run. He is also a regular keynote speaker and on-stage interviewer, appearing at university events, conferences and company events around the world.
Maney began his career by working for six months as a technical writer for General Electric until he got his first job offer in journalism. He then joined the Evening Press in Binghamton, NY, as a business writer.
Maney went to USA Today in 1985 as a technology writer. In his career at USA Today, he has been an editor of various stripes and, from 1989 to 1992, covered the economic changes in the old East Bloc.
He began writing a weekly column in 1991, and his technology columns played a significant role in the industry throughout his years at USA Today. In 2007, Maney left USA Today to join Conde Nast's start-up business magazine, Portfolio.
Maney has a B.A. in English and Journalism from Rutgers University. He grew up in Binghamton, N.Y., and now lives outside Washington, DC, where he plays and coaches soccer as much as possible.
