Rex Hammock is founder and CEO of Hammock Inc., so he gets the longest bio. A self-confessed "magazine guy," Rex nonetheless was a pioneering developer of digital media in the 1980s. With a background in advertising, public relations, politics and journalism, Rex was one of the early and influential thought-leaders on the role of custom publishing in the mix of marketing media.

His focus on custom media-centered relationship marketing led to the creation of Hammock Publishing in 1991. In 1997, Rex was one of the co-founders of the Custom Publishing Council, now the nation's leading professional association of custom media providers.

A leader in the field of business-to-business media, Rex is now serving his third term on the board of directors of the century-old American Business Media, the trade association of business-to-business media companies. He has chaired numerous ABM committees including the "smaller publishing council" and the media brand-extension committee. He has appeared on the cover of Folio: magazine and has been included in its "Top 40" list of innovative individuals in the magazine industry.

For the past two years, he has been included in Business Media magazine's list of 100 business media leaders. As an editor, Rex has received the Jesse H. Neal award, the top journalism award in the business-to-business field. Rex speaks regularly at magazine editorial and business conferences on topics ranging from technology to advertising sales.

And then, there's RexBlog.

When he started it in the year 2000, Rex was following the lead of some of the friends he had made in his new media and web-based work. "I never thought people in the magazine industry would start coming up to me at conferences and say, 'I read your blog,'" he says. Although he claims there are only seven readers, the fact is his blog is now read by more than 30,000 people each month and is popular for both its insight and wit. Rex is noted as being one of the first CEOs in the nation to blog regularly and was, according to the Washington Post, the first person to ever "blog" a personal White House meeting with a President of the United States. (Such is the trivia of history, he jokes.)

Rex does not merely write about new technology affecting media and marketing, he has participated in the development of innovative new collaborative and conversational media projects, including the Hammock-owned website, SmallBusiness.com, the leading online resource for small business owners and managers composed exclusively of information shared by users.

Rex and his wife, Ann, have been married 32 years and are the parents of two children, a daughter, 22 and a son, 19. The family also includes two dogs named Feste and Kate.