Carolyn April joined CompTIA in April 2010 as director of industry analysis. She previously served as Editor for Channel Insider, a Ziff Davis Enterprise publication focused on news, information and resources for IT resellers and system integrators. Prior to her tenure at Ziff Davis, April was a principal analyst for the Institute for the Partner Education & Development (IPED), an industry leader in IT channel consulting, research and education analysis that is a division of Everything Channel. She was responsible for a wide range of research projects for IT vendors, distributors and other clients. April also served as executive editor of VARBusiness and editor at Redmond Magazine, which covers Microsoft technologies and the Microsoft user ecosystem. She also worked in editorial positions for InfoWorld and for daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts.