Larry Walsh
Vice President and Group Publisher, Channel Insider
Ziff Davis Enterprise

Larry Walsh is one of the most recognizable figures in the IT channel and security communities, and an expert in security technologies and thought-leader in reseller channels and managed services. As vice president and group publisher of Ziff Davis Enterprise's Channel Insider, Walsh oversees editorial, face-to-face events, virtual events, research and marketing.

Prior to his appointment to Channel Insider, Walsh was the editor of Ziff Davis Enterprise's Baseline Magazine, where he oversaw online and print editorial, transforming the magazine into a unique business-technology decision making publication. Prior to joining Ziff Davis Enterprise, Walsh was the editor of VARBusiness and GovernmentVAR magazines, where he developed innovative new models for developing and managing channels and ideas for how solution providers can achieve higher degrees of success. Under Walsh's leadership, VARBusiness earned several business publishing awards.

Walsh is a frequent speaker at IT industry and business conferences, where he presents on topics ranging from technology market forecasts to transformative business models to the value of technology in business. He has been a features speaker and moderator at such high-profile venues as the RSA Conference, Black Hat, XChange, CompTIA Breakaway, Ingram Micro's VentureTech Network and the Commonwealth Club of California.

Before focusing on channels, Walsh was the editor of the award-winning Information Security Magazine, where he was widely known as one of the foremost experts on security technologies, policies and processes. At Information Security, Walsh earned national accolades for his probing expose on Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative.

Walsh started his journalism career as a newspaper reporter and editor in Greater Boston, having held various editorial roles at the Boston Globe, Salem Evening News, The Enterprise and MetroWest Daily News. During his newspaper days, Walsh won several awards for editing and writing on diverse topics ranging from religious issues to politics scandals. In 1997, Walsh lead a team of reporters that broke several national reports on teen drug abuse, which earned his newspaper - The Woburn Advocate - the New England Newspaper of the Year award.

Walsh is a graduate of Suffolk University in Boston. Walsh served in the U.S. Army in the late 1980s, specializing in communications and security. He earned several military awards and accolades, and was the distinguished leadership graduate of the 7th Army Non-Commissioned Officers Academy in Bad Tolz, Germany, and recipient of the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award. Walsh is based in Manhattan.