SDM Welcomes Laura Toops as Managing Editor, Promotes Amanda Reed to Associate Editor
SDM welcomed a new managing editor on Oct. 4. Laura Mazzuca Toops is the former editor of the Insurance Technology Association, a website and digital magazine focusing on insurance technology trends, including IoT and cybersecurity. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the B2B publishing world and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Columbia College Chicago.
As SDM managing editor, Toops will write exclusive cover stories such as SDM’s State of the Market series, as well as other feature-length articles. She will be in charge of the magazine’s case study department, Technology at Work, as well as the Technology Solutions & Skills department, and also manage the annual Monitoring Today and Video Monitoring Today supplements.