Jim Montgomery fulfills the role of senior market research and content editor for NanoMarkets. Since 2003 he has covered various business and technology markets, delivering a wide range of content to broad B2B/B2C audiences in renewable energy, industrial lasers, and semiconductor manufacturing. He has produced content from daily news to C-level executive interviews, magazine features, blogs, and video coverage. Most recently he was associate editor at RenewableEnergyWorld.com, reporting on trends in solar and wind technologies, policies, and finance; examples include early offshore wind energy development in the U.S., state-by-state analysis of solar energy support, and New York State's potential for renewable energy integration. Prior to that he focused on the market for industrial lasers used in manufacturing for Industrial Laser Solutions, and for nearly 10 years he covered semiconductor manufacturing trends and technologies for Solid State Technology. His work has earned both internal recognition at PennWell and an Azbee Award from the American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE).