Robert Faletra is president of CMP Channel, where he is responsible for all operations, including sales, editorial, marketing, new business development, acquisitions and other issues pertaining to the group's print, online, events and research-based products.

Faletra has had a long and impressive career at CMP. As a professional journalist who chronicled the formation of the high tech industry, he won numerous awards, including most influential high tech editor five straight years. Since taking on the leadership of CMP Channel in 2001, Faletra has conceptualized and launched numerous successful new businesses in the online and research areas.

An earlier adopter of the Internet, Faletra pushed CMP into the online world in the early 1990’s and has been instrumental in driving CMP’s transformation from a print publisher to a full service supplier of integrated media and other services.

Faletra is considered one of the foremost authorities on the high tech indirect sales channel and is highly sought after by both start-up firms as well as large well established companies to help them conceptualize and build strategic channel initiatives.

A member of CMP’s Management Board, Faletra also serves on the board of directors for high tech start-up eXalt Solutions, Cambridge, MA. He also serves in an advisory role to many small companies looking for expertise in building their indirect sales channels.

Faletra is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.