Tom Abate covers the technology sector for GlobalPost. Abate has covered Silicon Valley as a newspaper reporter since 1992, but his experience with high-tech goes back to the mid-1980s when he tracked the industry for a Wall Street investment firm. A former businessman who has founded two companies, he made the transition to professional writing after attending Columbia Graduate School of Journalism where he earned a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for exemplary performance. He began his daily journalism career as a science writer for the San Francisco Examiner and now works for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he also has covered economics and biotechnology, and authored "The Biotech Investor." Abate is a native of New York and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and lives in the San Francisco Bay area.