About Us
Meet the Team
Suzanne Kantra
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
For the past 15+ years, Suzanne has been leading the editorial team for Techlicious, covering the world’s most exciting and important consumer technology issues. She developed Techlicious to serve the role of that tech-savvy friend you can count on to share tips and tricks and keep up with the latest technology news and trends. Before that, Suzanne was the Technology Editor for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she hosted the radio show “Living with Technology." Previously, she served as Technology Editor for Popular Science Magazine. She has been featured on CNN, CBS, and NBC. suzanne@techlicious.com
Josh Kirschner
Founder & CEO
Josh has been covering the consumer technology space for over 15 years at Techlicious and has over 30 years of experience developing and running businesses in B2C & B2B media. He oversees all sponsored programs and content licensing for Techlicious, where he has helped hundreds of brands connect with media and consumers. Previously, he was the Chief Marketing Officer for a Media SaaS company and led marketing and strategy for S&P Global's institutional information business. Josh has an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. josh@techlicious.com
Andrea Smith
Contributing Editor
Andrea is an award-winning technology broadcast journalist, reporter, and producer. Andrea was the Technology Producer and an on-air Technology contributor at ABC News for over two decades before becoming the Lifestyle Channel Editor at Mashable, where she explored the ways in which real people, not just geeks, began using technology in their everyday lives. Today, she runs her own digital communications business and freelances for various media outlets, including CNN Underscored, NBC News, Today.com, PopSci, and WABC TV.
Elizabeth Harper
Contributing Editor
Elizabeth is a writer and editor with over a decade of experience covering consumer technology and entertainment. In addition to writing for Techlicious, she's the Editorial Director of Blizzard Watch and is published on sites all over the web including Time, CBS, Engadget, and DealNews.
Sagar Naresh Bhavsar
Contributing Writer
Sagar has been covering technology for more than two years. Previously, he was a staff writer at Guiding Tech and TechWiser. He loves working out, having a cup of coffee, and playing guitar.
John R. Quain
Contributing Writer
John has been covering science and technology for over 20 years. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, PC Magazine, Esquire, and U.S. News & World Report. He was the on-air technology contributor to the CBS News Up to the Minute television show for 17 years and is a regular contributor to The New York Times.
Tobey Grumet Segal
Contributing Writer
Tobey has been reporting on technology and consumer electronics for over 15 years. She was the Technology Editor of Popular Mechanics magazine for eight years, where she covered the launches of major products like the iPod, DVD player, the DVR, and the first cell phones—then became a Contributor to Gizmodo.
She now freelances for both print and digital media, writing about technology and CE for such outlets as InStyle, Sports Illustrated, Details, Men’s Journal and Family Circle. In addition, she covers travel, food, wine and spirits, and design for Conde Nast Travel, Lonely Planet’s Budget Travel and NY Family.
Hemant Sexana
Contributing Writer
As a lifelong tech enthusiast, Hemant is always looking for the latest gadgets that intersect with his hobbies. For more than a decade, he has been writing about consumer gadgets, popular apps, and social media tips for publications, including Windows Club and Techmate Tricks.
Natasha Stokes
Contributing Writer
Natasha has been a technology writer for more than 10 years covering consumer tech issues, digital privacy and cybersecurity. As the features editor at TOP10VPN, she covered online censorship and surveillance that impact the lives of people around the world. Her work has also appeared on NBC News, BBC Worldwide, CNN, Time, and Travel+Leisure.
Jonathan Takiff
Contributing Writer
Jon has spent the last four decades career as staff music critic and tech columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Inquirer. His weekly “Gizmo Guy” column and monthly “New Releases” (album) column were syndicated nationally by the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Newswire. He also spent a decade hosting WMMR during its most adventurous “free form” era, breaking the likes of Bruce Springsteen, U2, Bob Marley, Weather Report, Carole King, Genesis, Pat Metheny, and Billy Joel. A period Jon chronicles in the liner notes for the “Legacy Edition” of Joel’s “Piano Man.” Jon has also contributed to Audio Video Interiors, Video, and Sound & Vision magazines.
Stewart Wolpin
Contributing Writer
Stewart has been writing about consumer electronics for more than 35 years, including news, reviews, analysis and history, and has attended and covered nearly 50 Consumer Electronic Shows and around a dozen IFA shows in Berlin. For the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), he is an elector for and writes the official biographies of the annual CT Hall of Fame inductees, and is the keeper of the industry’s official history.
In the non-tech world, he is the author of "Bums No More: The Championship Season of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers" and "The Rules of Neighborhood Poker According to Hoyle.”
