Brian Turchin, a 30-year software industry veteran, is founder and president of Cape Horn Strategies, Inc. which since 1998 has provided strategic planning services to the software industry.

He writes the "Executive Strategy" column for Software Business magazine. He founded and chairs the Long Island Software CEO Roundtable. He is a contributor to Sandhill.com's strategy blog. He moderates the Strategy and Leadership forum on SoftwareCEO.com. And he has been a judge for SIIA's(Software & Information Industry Association) Codie Awards.

Prior to founding Cape Horn Strategies, Turchin was VP Sales & Marketing for a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp which sold Internet-based software products and services. Prior to News Corp, Turchin held several executive titles at Prodigy Services Corp, helping to build the first consumer-based on-line service. Earlier in his career, on the technical side, at a time of mainframe domination, he helped pioneer the building of distributed processing applications.