Richard Grigonis is an internationally-known technology editor and writer, and was the Editor-in-Chief of VON Magazine from its founding in 2003 to August 2006. The author of five books on computers and telecom (including the Computer Telephony Encyclopedia and Dictionary of IP Communications), he was the Chief Technical Editor of CMP Media’s Computer Telephony magazine (later called Communications Convergence) from its first year of operation in 1994 until 2003.

Grigonis is the former MIS Director of Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Scheinfeld (now part of Hogan & Hartson LLP) a major law firm representing such clients as Rupert Murdoch and his News America Corp.

The winner of several programming awards, in the early 1990s Richard did multimedia programming and consulting for AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. He was the principal consultant on town24.com, the world’s first all-Flash Web site. He has also designed and implemented complete LAN and business systems for law firms and literary agencies, and during the 1980s worked for KPMG Peat Marwick at their New York headquarters. Richard has published articles in Forbes, VON Magazine, Dr. Dobb's Journal, TELECONNECT and Call Center magazines. He has also advised foreign governments and corporations on computer telephony, Voice-over-IP and call center technology.

In the early 1980s he was part of the production staff of the TV show Sesame Street.

Grigonis is a graduate of Rowan University in New Jersey.