Gold founded TeleSpan in 1981 as a publishing and consulting company in the area of teleconferencing. Since that time, he has had consulting contracts with over 50 providers of teleconferencing equipment and services, including several investment bankers and venture capitalists. His clients come from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Sweden. He is quoted frequently in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, and dozens of other business and trade publications. His assessment of the teleconferencing market has been published in a half-dozen languages on every continent in the world.

He has published TeleSpan, a newsletter on teleconferencing, since 1981 and has jointly authored a half-dozen books on the subject of teleconferencing.

Prior to founding TeleSpan, he was a Member of the Technical Staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he worked for 15 years in a series of positions in information systems and systems analysis.

Send email to Elliot Gold at "elliot@telespan.com"