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Walt Boyes, Editor in Chief
P: 630-467-1300 Ext: 368
E: wboyes@putman.net
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Walt has more than 25 years of experience in sales, sales management, marketing, and product development in the controls and instrumentation industry both for process instruments and environmental controls, including Executive Committee experience in three companies. Walt currently is serving as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of CONTROL.
He served as Principal of Spitzer and Boyes LLC, as an expert at business transformation for small to medium-sized companies. He provided strategic planning, organizational development, business re-organization and electronic business re-engineering services for companies from roughly $5 million to roughly $100 million in revenues per year. Walt has served both the profit and not-for-profit business sectors.
One of Walt's proudest accomplishments is the R&D100 Award he shared with four other product development team members for development of a novel flow meter for use in wastewater. In addition, he is considered an authority on business-to-business marketing and on electronic commerce in the business-to-business arena, automation marketing and sales management.
Walt was Senior Contributing Editor for Industrial Marketing Practitioner magazine and Contributing Editor for Flow Control magazine. He is the Editor of The Instrumentation Reference Book, 3rd Edition, published by Butterworth-Heinemann Publishing, and is currently working on the 4th Edition, to be published in 2008. He co-authored, with Shari Worthington of Telesian Technologies, eBusiness in Manufacturing: Putting the Internet to Work in the Industrial Enterprise. Walt was a founder and President of the CorgiAid foundation, and is a member of the board of ReadAssist and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Public Library foundation. He also served ISA for many years as a volunteer, and was Vice President of Publications for ISA, and is Past President of the ISA Seattle Section.