Patricia Brown, Award-winning journalist Patricia Brown has over 20 years experience including most recently her role as senior executive editor for Information Week’s monthly journal, Optimize magazine. At Optimize, which is distributed to 70,000 CIO readers, she helped establish editorial direction, managed editorial operations and developed content across the magazines as well as its online resources and executive programs. During her career she has covered business and technology for various magazines and online ventures at CMP Media. The McGraw-Hill Companies and Philips Business Information, Inc.    Currently Patricia is co-founder and editiorial director of Biz TechReports.com, an independent reporting agency. She heads up the publishing division of the company, which includes clients such as CMP Intelligence and Microsoft Corp.