Anita Campbell
Anita Campbell has been an entrepreneur at heart her entire life. A lawyer by
training, she has a wide range of interests, as reflected in her varied
background in banking, information technology, human resources, marketing and
eCommerce.
Today she is the CEO of her own business, Small Business Trends LLC, a media
and information company. In that role she closely follows trends in the small
business market and trends in technology.
Before starting her entrepreneurial journey she held various executive
positions in the corporate world. Most recently she was a senior executive with
Bell & Howell Company, including serving as CEO of a technology subsidiary
of Bell & Howell.
A respected speaker and emerging trends resource, Ms. Campbell’s expertise
has been noted or her opinion quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Inc Magazine,
Entrepreneur Magazine, CIO Magazine, Entrepreneur Radio, BusinessTVChannel.com,
Cleveland Plain Dealer, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Akron
Beacon Journal, Boston Globe, CRM Buyer, Small Business Podcast, numerous trade
publications, websites, podcasts and more.
Her popular website, Small Business Trends , is regularly
noted as a rich informational resource. In 2005 the site won the “Best of the Web”
award for small business blogs from Forbes, Honorable Mention from
MarketingSherpa as Best Small
Business Marketing blog, and the #1 Most Practical Blog for Entrepreneurs
from About.com.
She writes for a number of online publications, including BNET, and edits the
RFID Weblog, which was recognized in 2005 in the CNET “Blog 100.” In November
2005 she became the host of “Small Business Trends Radio” on the WSRadio
network.
Ms. Campbell serves on various Boards, including the Advisory Board for NEOSA (the technology arm of
COSE); the Advisory
Board for the Center for Information Technology and
eBusiness at the University of Akron; the Board of NorTech; and
the Board of Governors of the Ohio IT Alliance.
Ms. Campbell holds a B.A. from Duquesne University and a J.D. from the
University of Akron Law School. She also completed the Leadership at the Peak
Program at the Center for Creative Leadership, and the Executive Program at the
University of Michigan Business School.