Next Coast Media founder Kirk Laughlin is an award-winning media executive and former Managing Director/VP of Events at Ziff Davis Enterprise. During his 18-year international media career, Laughlin has been engaged as a strategic consultant supporting custom media, events and marketing solutions for such organizations at Qualcomm, Nokia, VeriSign, Oracle, WebEx, Bearing Point, CDW, Openet, BMC, CA, Proofpoint, Surf Control, Symantec and Pella Windows. He was a key member of the launch team that created the Custom Solutions division at Ziff Davis Media. He earlier held senior editorial positions at Advanstar, Cygnus Business Media and Primedia. During the last five years, Laughlin has been an active moderator and subject matter expert at information and communication technology events. During his career, he has presented at over 250 face-to-face and digital events globally. Laughlin has also worked as a journalist in Japan and directed event and custom media projects in such diverse geographies as Spain, France, UK, Japan, India, Thailand and China. He is based in southern Connecticut.
Email: Kirk@NextCoastMedia.com
Office: 203-453-5556
Cell : 203-738-9572
