Brett Kizner leads Silicon Publishing's work with customers from the presales process all the way through delivery. He has a knack for sitting down with clients, listening closely to what's actually slowing their teams down, and then working hand-in-hand with both the business and engineering sides of Silicon Publishing to build something that genuinely makes their day-to-day easier, not just technically sound, but a pleasure to use.
Brett's love of publishing goes back to age ten, when he first learned the trade on an A.B. Dick sheetfed offset press at Buck's Rock Camp. It was a hands-on start that gave him a feel for the craft long before it went digital. From there, he grew up alongside the desktop publishing revolution itself, working his way through Ready,Set,Go!, PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and eventually InDesign as each new generation of software reshaped how publishing teams worked. That front-row seat to decades of change gave him an instinct for where the industry is headed next, along with a healthy respect for the fundamentals that never go out of style.
Before coming to Silicon Publishing, Brett spent years deep in the world of editorial workflow and InDesign automation, helping Fortune 500 companies like McGraw-Hill Education rethink how their publishing teams operate at scale. At MEI, he became the person clients trusted to walk them through the company's core products, pairing genuine product knowledge with a talent for helping people see exactly how a tool would solve their problem. Along the way, he also worked directly as a software trainer for InDesign and InCopy, teaching editorial and production teams how to actually use the tools in their daily work. That experience gave him a close-up view of where software helps people and where it gets in their way, insight that still shapes how he thinks about product today.
At Silicon Publishing, Brett has focused on tightening the whole arc from sales to delivery, making the process smoother and more predictable for clients and internal teams alike. He also led a ground-up modernization of Silicon Publishing's enterprise software, driven by a simple goal: make it easier to use and more reliable at every step. It's the kind of work that reflects how he thinks about product as a whole. Technology should get out of people's way, not add to their workload.
What makes Brett's perspective distinctive is where he started: as a photographer. That creative background never left him, and it still shapes the way he thinks about product today. He doesn't just see the technical architecture behind a workflow; he sees it the way a designer or editor experiences it, which is part of why colleagues describe him as someone who pushes teams to build things properly, with the end user always in mind.
Brett holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and lives in Philadelphia.
