J. V. "Jack" Bryar is a grizzled and grouchy veteran of the IT wars. After years of laboring in senior marketing and product development capacities at a couple of Boston-based high tech firms, and co-founding an Electronic Document Management firm, he despaired of finding honest work. So Bryar ran a consulting firm, extracting exorbitant fees for performing what he called "technical due diligence" on behalf of high tech investors. In other words, finding out if the technology actually worked, if the creators still worked for the company, or if the patents were any good. A self-proclaimed specialist in the area of broadband, "computer mediated communications" technology, his most recent (and ongoing) gig has been as an analyst and business consultant for NewsEdge Corp., where he bites his tongue far more than he apparently does on our pages. Jack splits his time between Burlington, Massachusetts and Grafton, Vermont, where he lives with his brilliant son, winsome twin daughters and, his charming, beautiful, and incredibly patient wife, who wrote the last line of this biography.

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