SUSAN GAIDE is a professional writer and editor with twenty years of experience in a broad spectrum of industries, including professional audio and video, recording media, music, digital imaging, real estate, higher education, distance education, legal and professional foodservice.  Formerly with the New York based firms of Geltzer & Co. and Technology Solutions, Inc., her work has been published in leading trade publications, including Pro AV, Mix, Pro Sound News, Sound and Communications, Distance Education Report, Petersen's Photographic and Rodale's Scuba Diving.  She is contributing author and editor of the Defensive Eating® series published by Bellringer Books, and is co-authoring Justice for Sale, the true story of one man's battle for justice for his murdered father.  

Susan earned her M.B.A. with honors from Adelphi University and a Bachelor of Science in music merchandising from Hofstra University. She is currently an adjunct professor/facilitator and faculty mentor in the online/distance education business degree programs offered by Indiana Wesleyan University, for which she teaches Professional Communications, Introduction to Human Communications, Communications I & II, Seminar in Business, Strategies in Marketing Management, Organizational Behavior, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, and Philosophy of Corporate Culture, and has rejoined the faculty of New York's Five Towns College after a 10 year absence.  As Associate Professor of Business and Music Business, she is authoring the proposal and curriculum for the college's new Master of Professional Studies degree in Entertainment Industry Management.

Susan's professional affiliations include the Councils of Advisors, the Council of Communications Advisors, the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE), International Webmasters Association/HTML Writer's Guild, National Association of Women Writers (NAWW), Film Music Network and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). She also a member of the Board of Advisors to The John Lennon Center™ for Music and Technology.

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