Director of Communications, Board Member
Pierce Reid has spent more than 25 years in high-tech and defense-related industries.
He began his career at IBM, serving in technical marketing, speech writing and technical public relations. He was involved in the launching of the IBM PC Company in 1992 and went on to run communications for IBM’s billion-dollar Space Shuttle and Space Station contracts. In 1994, he joined CompuServe where he ran the technical public relations for the Information Service and Network Services Division. He was instrumental in launching CompuServe’s Internet strategy division and started their government relations department. He was also credited with one of the first successful resolutions of an “Internet PR Crisis” with his handling of the GIF tax issue in 1995. Between 1996 and 2001, he served as Senior Vice President of Schwartz Communications where he worked on accounts including Aerial Images, eInk, eBay and Kollmorgen. Beginning in 2002, he ran a unit of General Dynamics ATP Advanced Programs. In 2005, he helped co-found Qovia, Inc., a successful VoIP telephony company. He also has worked as a consultant to the DoD and Pentagon in the area of psychological operations and military information operations.
In 2005, he retired from the technology industry, opening his own antique car restoration shop (www.vintagegaragevt.com). He remains active in the defense and technology communities, mentoring several small businesses and sitting on the board of Moscow Mills, Inc. and Vibration Solutions North.
He is a sworn law enforcement officer and serves his community as a part-time member of the Stowe Police Department.
He earned a B.S. in Technical Communication from Clarkson University and went on to pursue an M.S. in Studies of the Future from the University of Houston at Clear Lake.