Stewart Alsop II
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop, Jr. (born January 7, 1952) is an American investor who is a partner in Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital firm. He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates in Menlo Park, California. He was an editor-in-chief and executive vice-president of "InfoWorld", a weekly magazine for information-technology professionals. Alsop previously founded Industry Publishing Company, which published a fortnightly newsletter for computer industry insiders and produced the Agenda and Demo conferences for executives of companies in the computer industry. Before 1985, Stewart served in several editorial positions at business  and trade magazines, including "Inc." Stewart received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Occidental College in 1975. His father was Stewart Alsop; his uncle, Joseph Alsop. Alsop's failed prediction on the death of the mainframe in the March 1991 issue of InfoWorld prompted a huge debate: