Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Chris Anderson
Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine
Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, a position he took in 2001. Since then he has led the magazine to nine National Magazine Award nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for General Excellence in 2007 and in 2005, a year in which he was also named Editor of the Year by Advertising Age magazine. He is the author of New York Times bestselling book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, which was published in 2006, and runs a blog on the subject at longtail.com. In 2007, the book won a prestigious Loeb Award as the best business book of the year and Anderson was named one of the “Time 100,” the newsmagazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. His next book, FREE, will be out in spring 2009.
Brewster Kahle
Founder, Digital Librarian,
Internet Archive
Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and co-founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years.
Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet’s first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, the largest publicly accessible, privately funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet in April 1996, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers.
Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving there as lead engineer for six years. He is profiled in Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite (HardWired, 1996). He was selected as a member of the Upside 100 in 1997, Micro Times 100 in 1996 and 1997, and Computer Week 100 in 1995. He received the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information and the IP3 Award from Public Knowledge in 2004.
Judith Estrin
Author, Closing the Information Gap; CEO, JLABS, LLC
Judy Estrin is CEO of JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet Design Management Company, LLC. She is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap, published in September, 2008. Prior to co-founding Packet Design, in May 2000, Estrin was chief technology officer for Cisco Systems. Beginning in 1981 Estrin co-founded three other successful technology companies: Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, and Precept Software. In 1998 Cisco Systems acquired Precept, and she became Cisco's chief technology officer until April 2000. Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 most powerful women in American business. She sits on the boards of directors of The Walt Disney Company and FedEx Corporation as well as two private company boards - Packet Design, Inc. and Arch Rock. She also sits on the advisory councils of Stanford's School of Engineering and Stanford's Bio-X initiative. She holds a B.S. degree in math and computer science from UCLA, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Kara Swisher
Co-Producer, D: All Things Digital, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com
Kara Swisher is the co-creator and co-producer of the technology industry's prestigious annual conference, D: All Things Digital, with Walt Mossberg and is the co-executive editor of the AllThingsD.com website. Ms. Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column BoomTown originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post. She is also the author of "aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web," published in 1998. The sequel, "There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future," was published in 2003. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Presenters, Moderators and Panelists
Daniela Barbosa
Business Development Manager
Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group
Daniela Barbosa is business development manager for the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, where she is responsible for the Dow Jones Client Solutions business semantic and taxonomy management tool, Synaptica. Ms. Barbosa works with large corporations in deploying information strategies through various parts of the enterprise, including helping them develop and manage their corporate vocabularies. Prior to this role, Ms. Barbosa was a solutions architect for Dow Jones Client Solutions and Factiva Consulting Services, before Factiva was acquired by Dow Jones in December 2006. In this role she was responsible for the definition and design of customer solutions that incorporated content from Dow Jones Factiva to enable customers to deliver business intelligence and actionable insight to the right people at the right time within their organization. She has worked with various Fortune 500 clients in the high-tech, consumer products, consulting, telecommunications, pharmaceutical and financial industries, as well as with many B2C customers. An avid social media fan and contributor, Ms. Barbosa was recently named me one of the “Seven Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists” by ReadWriteWeb. She has participated in various speaking engagements and written on the topic of information delivery in the enterprise, including an ebook on hybrid approaches to folksonomies and taxonomies in the enterprise.
Mark Bernstein
President, Palo Alto Research Center
Mark Bernstein has led one of the world's premier centers of research innovation since 2001. He was named President and Center Director at this time to lead PARC in its transition from a research division of Xerox to an independent research business. Under Bernstein's leadership, PARC has broadened its research agenda and established an independent commercial perspective, while retaining close strategic ties with Xerox and XIG. Since Bernstein assumed his role, PARC has established strategic research relationships with multiple government agencies and industry partners, incubated new businesses, and developed significant IP licensing agreements. PARC's commercial relationships include client services for industry leaders in consumer electronics, biomedical sciences, enterprise computing, and renewable energy. Current public clients include IT service provider Fujitsu Ltd., and the world's leading commercial printing company, Dai Nippon Printing Co.
Kristina Bivins
President of MuseGlobal, Inc.
Kristina Bivins was appointed President of MuseGlobal, Inc., leading provider of OEM content integration software worldwide, in January 2008 and is responsible for advancing MuseGlobal’s strong position in the publishing, enterprise, government and mobile markets. Bivins previously served as MuseGlobal’s Chief Operating Officer from 2004-2007 where she helped lead the company to significant customer and partner wins and record-revenue growth. Bivins is a content-industry veteran with more than 15 years of business development and management experience for library and information technology companies. Prior to MuseGlobal, Bivins held various business management positions for library software companies, where her responsibilities centered on establishing and expanding new markets and global operations. Bivins has extensive international experience having lived and worked in the US, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining MuseGlobal’s senior management team, she spent seven years in Singapore running Asia-Pacific operations for several library software companies.
John Blossom
President, Shore Communications
Mr. Blossom's career spans more than twenty years of marketing, research, product management and development in advanced information and media venues, including major financial publishers and financial services companies (Citicorp, Quotron and for Reuters Holdings PLC), as well as earlier experience in broadcast media. Mr. Blossom served as a Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, Inc., where he provided research and analysis coverage of content technologies and financial and corporate information markets for major corporate clients, and developed successful online ecommerce services for research reports. For his excellence in qualitative research, Mr. Blossom was recognized with the Vendor of the Year award by Standard & Poor's in 2001. He is also the author of Content Nation from John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Blossom holds a B.A. in English from Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut and post-graduate studies in Management, Marketing, Accounting, Business Analysis, Financial Markets, Structured Systems Analysis, and Advanced Communications Networks.
Eric Elden
Editor, Venturebeat
Darrel Gunter
EVP/ CMO, Collexis Holdings, Inc.
Darrell W. Gunter is the EVP / Chief Marketing Officer for Collexis Holdings, Inc. He is responsible for the corporate strategy, business development and marketing to support the company's strategic objectives. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing for the Americas for Elsevier. He led the development and growth of Elsevier's first commercial sales organization and managing the transition from print to ScienceDirect. Prior to Elsevier he worked for Dow Jones Financial News Services and served as the National Sales Director. He began his career in sales at Xerox Corporation. He received his Business Degree from Seton Hall University and his MBA from Lake Forrest Graduate School of Management. He serves on the Content Board of the SIIA, Olin College of Engineering Library Advisory Board and is the Chairman of the Board for the Women's Venture Fund.
Jay Hallberg
Co-Founder & Vice President of Marketing
Spiceworks, Inc.
Jay Hallberg co-founded Spiceworks in January 2006 to develop the “iTunes of IT,” by creating industry’s first free, ad-supported management tool for IT professionals in small- and medium-sized businesses. In Just over two years, Spiceworks is being used by more than 400,000 organizations in more than 194 countries around the world. Before joining Spiceworks, Jay served as the Vice President of Product Management at Motive, the world’s leading supplier of broadband management software, which is used by industry leaders like AT&T, AOL, and Verizon to support over 30 million broadband customers worldwide. Jay’s marketing expertise helped Motive attract key technology customers, including leaders like HP, Dell, Gateway, EMC, VERITAS, Mercury Interactive, Lawson and others. Previously, Jay served as a marketing executive at 3M where he was the youngest project manager in the Optimized Operations group’s history. In that position, Jay led the reengineering effort of 3M’s $2B+ electronic materials business.
Ed Keating
VP, Content Division, SIIA
Ed Keating is VP of the Content Division for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Keating has over 15 years of experience in the information industry as both an internal manager and a consultant. He has led marketing, product management and sales organizations at both startup and established information companies. His work to enhance product processes and organizational effectiveness has helped numerous companies enter unfamiliar markets and launch new products.
J.B. has run a wide range of technology and media enterprises over the last two decades. As President of Ziff Davis International, Holston managed Ziff Davis' operations across more than 100 countries, and launched Yahoo! Europe. He was part of the senior management team that led the successful LBO of ZD by Forstmann, Little, and subsequent sale to Softbank. Since selling his last technology start-up, Holston has helped create a wide range of for-profit and not-for-profit entities, including Media-x at Stanford, among several others. After receiving a BA in creative writing from Stanford in 1979, he taught English at Phillips Academy, worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, studied and wrote in Paris, France, then worked in strategic planning for NBC and RCA. J.B. received his MBA from Stanford in 1986, then worked on Jack Welch's staff at GE before moving back to NBC, where for five years he was responsible for strategic planning and NBC's international operations.
Peter Jackson
Chief Scientist, Thomson Reuters
Peter Jackson holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Leeds. He then joined the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University, winning an IBM Young Professorship in 1985 and earning tenure in 1987. While at Edinburgh, he published “Introduction to Expert Systems” which has run to three editions and been translated into seven languages. In 1988, he moved to the US where he became a principal scientist at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories, bringing out a book of papers on “Logic Based Knowledge Representation” in the same year. From 1992 to 1995, he taught post-graduate classes in artificial intelligence and parallel computing at Clarkson University in New York, and was a visiting professor at Singapore Polytechnic. In 1995, he joined the Thomson Corporation, and he is now Chief Scientist and vice president of R&D at Thomson Reuters. He runs a group of 40 researchers who work with business units in the legal, financial, science and healthcare sectors to deliver custom information solutions. His latest book, “Natural Language Processing for Online Applications”, came out in a 2nd edition in 2007.
Steve Jones
Senior Director, Business Development
McGraw-Hill Construction
McGraw-Hill Construction is the world’s leading source of information and analysis specifically relating to the Architecture/Engineering/Construction industry. Steve Jones focuses on studying the impact of economic, technological and environmental changes on the future of the industry, and is highly regarded internationally as a speaker on these topics. In addition Steve leads McGraw-Hill Construction’s initiatives in developing alliance relationships with major companies and organizations for technology and content. Steve co-authored McGraw-Hill’s SmartMarket Report on Interoperability and the SmartMarket Report on Building Information Modeling, which have been read by over 250,000 industry professionals and are widely cited as authoritative texts on these subjects. He is currently working on a SmartMarket Report on the business value of technology which is scheduled for publication in September of 2009.
David LeDuc
Senior Director, Public Policy, SIIA
In his capacity of Senior Director of Public Policy, David represents the Association before Congress, the Administration and other policymakers across a number of key public policy areas, including tax and finance policy, e-commerce, global workforce issues, e-government and information policy. As a representative of the software and digital content industries for more than a decade, Mr. LeDuc has been instrumental in helping to advance many major industry objectives and protecting companies from potentially harmful legislation and regulations.
Jeffrey P. Massa
President and CEO, YellowBrix
Jeffrey P. Massa is a managing founder of YellowBrix since its inception in 1997 and has served as President and CEO of the company since September of 2003. Prior to serving as CEO, Jeff was the Chief Technology Officer of YellowBrix and served as a Director of the Company since 1997. Before launching YellowBrix, Jeff was the SVP of Technology of the Corporate Information Division of Infoseek Corporation. Jeff has served as the SVP of Technology for IntellX and as VP of Technology for COMTEX Scientific Corporation. Most notably, Jeff served three Presidents as the Manager of Information Systems and Deputy Director of Systems from 1987 - 1993 for the Executive Office of the President, National Security Council, The White House. Jeff is currently a member of two information industry executive boards, the Executive Leadership Committee for Outsell, and the Executive Committee for ASIDIC.
Pavan Mediratta
Sr. Director of Global Sites and Communities, LexisNexis
Randy MarcinkoFounder & CEO, MEI; President & CEO, Groxis, Inc.
Mr. Marcinko brings to Groxis over 20 years of senior–level leadership, strategy and advisory experience in the information industry. As founder and CEO of MEI, a service organization specializing in the monetization of publishers’ digital assets, Mr. Marcinko has designed and established content licensing strategy, executing deals on behalf of primary and secondary publishers with aggregators, syndicators, redistributors and specialty vendors within the information industry. Prior to MEI, Mr. Marcinko founded Dynamic Information Corp., a full–service information brokerage, which was sold to EBSCO Industries, Inc. In 2002 and 2003 he held the position of President and COO of Nstein Technologies, Inc. Mr. Marcinko received a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Alberta and did graduate research in organic chemistry at Stanford University.
Teri Mendelsohn
President, of Mendelsohn Consulting, Inc.
Teri Mendelsohn is President of Mendelsohn Consulting, Inc., a New York-based practice which specializes in the creation, implementation and launch of online information products and their enhancements. Previously, she was Director of Clinical Markets at Ovid Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer nv company and leading provider of biomedical full-text and citational databases. Also at Ovid, she was Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development. Before that, Ms. Mendelsohn was an Associate in the media practice of the global strategic consulting firm Mitchell Madison Group. At MIT Press, she was Coordinating Editor, Cognitive Science before becoming Assistant Acquisitions Editor, Philosophy. Ms. Mendelsohn received her MBA from Columbia Business School and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Greg Merkle
VP and Creative Director, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group
As Vice President and Creative Director at Dow Jones, Greg Merkle is responsible for overseeing the user experience design of the Content Technology Solutions within the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. With more than 20 years experience in the electronic publishing and information industry, Mr. Merkle Greg has both the big picture vision of where and how information is being used as well as the implementation expertise to bring goal and task oriented products and solutions to market. Previously, he was Associate Vice President, Product Design at Factiva and was responsible for user experience design for all products and services of Factiva. This included working strategically with the Factiva product organization and customers to prototype business ideas and build innovative products and solutions to meet their needs. The design group disciplines include: Information Architecture, Market Validation, Interface/Interaction Design, Human Factors/Usability and Data visualization.
Ann Michael
President, Information and Media, Really Strategies, Inc.
As President, Information & Media at Really Strategies, Ann Michael is responsible for managing the successful completion of all strategic consulting engagements and RSuite CMS implementations.
Focusing on the information industry, Ann Michael has worked with Wolters Kluwer, Sage Publications, Reed Elsevier, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and many other content creators to define and build the flexible product development environments they need to thrive in a changing world.
Ann is known for her expertise in defining customer-centered business strategies and managing their implementation. She consults with, and leads, teams that develop products, services, and systems in publishing and information management.
Her work with individual clients is tailored to their company culture and designed to assure that they achieve the results they expect. She has proven that successful companies manage to change: they anticipate change, cause change, and use it to motivate growth, flexibility, and innovation.
Jim Murray
Director Commercial B2B, Pictometry International Corp
Jim Murray is the Director of Commercial B2B for Pictometry. In this role, he is responsible for expanding the application of Pictometry technologies into commercial industries including insurance, utilities, real estate, financial, construction and architecture & engineering. Murray has more than 25 years of consumer product sales, marketing, and product development including leadership roles at Bausch & Lomb and Eastman Kodak Company. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he earned a Master’s of Business Administration.
Steve Nathan
President and CEO, Parity Computing, Inc.
Steve Nathan is CEO and President of Parity Computing, a leader in data analytics for science, technology, and medicine. Prior to Parity Steve was CEO at Exist Global, where he led the company to becoming a premier developer of open source, web 2.0, and enterprise middleware applications. Steve has also served as Vice President and General Manager at Sun Microsystems, where, among other things, he led the Messaging and Collaboration business unit in the iPlanet Alliance. Steve’s background also includes key positions at Alignent Software, Cray Research, and Celerity Computing, where he began his career as a software developer focusing on compilers, dataflow optimizers, and debuggers. In addition to Steve's operating experience, he has a diverse background working with entrepreneurs and businesses as an investor, advisor, and board member. He is currently a board member at Exist Global.
Dan Onofrio
Associate Vice President of Content and Data Development, EDR
Dan Onofrio is the Associate Vice President of Content and Data Development for Environmental Data Resources. He oversees EDR's ongoing leadership in collecting, digitizing and delivering the most accurate and comprehensive environmental information in the nation. Mr Onofrio joined EDR in 1993. Prior to assuming his current role, he was the Associate Vice President of Production for EDR and held a director level position at a Manhattan based company. He studied Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business from the University of New Haven.
Paul Pluschkell
For over 18 years, Paul has founded and led successful and profitable high-tech strategic organizations of both private and public companies. Currently Paul is CEO and Founder of Spigit, an enterprise social software provider. Prior to founding Spigit, Paul worked at Reuters/Thompson serving in multiple positions, including CTO and EVP of Sales. Post Reuters/Thompson Paul became CTO of a large Hedge Fund where he correctly identified a large market opportunity and founded his first company: MXNet, a financial market extranet. Within a three year span MXNet merged with IXnet, went public and sold to Global Crossing. Post merger Mr. Pluschkell relocated to California and became executive vice president of sales, products, and marketing for Global Center, a Global Crossing subsidiary. Following the subsidiary's sale to Exodus Communications in 2001, Mr. Pluschkell became president of broadband at Global Crossing, where he served until 2002. From 2003 - 2006 Mr. Pluschkell served as CEO and President of HyperFeed Technologies, a commercial direct ticker plant provider to both exchanges and financial service firms. Mr. Pluschkell received his BS degree from Eastern Illinois University and completed master's course work at the University of Dallas.
CEO, Spigit
Andrew Reid
President, Hanley Wood Market Intelligence
Andrew Reid is president of Hanley Wood Market Intelligence, a division of Hanley Wood LLC, the nation's premier media company serving the housing and commercial construction industries. At Hanley Wood Market Intelligence, Reid directs the division's strategic planning and growth as it expands its role as the country's leading aggregator and supplier of housing-market data and information to the residential real estate and new home construction markets. The division collects and reports both custom and proprietary data sets on housing-development activity and characteristics in the country's top 75 core-based statistical areas, delivering the information to a client base of developers, financial executives and building-products manufacturing executives.
Larry Schwartz
President, Newstex LLC
Larry Schwartz is a co-founder of Newstex and President of the company. Larry has guided numerous entertainment and new media ventures, from start-up through growth, development and maturity, including Bolenka Games Online (Trivial Pursuit Online), GFI Group (Nasdaq:GFIG - financial), Wizard World (publishing), Patron Technology (technology) and Tickets.com (Purchased by MLB.com). Larry attended Bates College and the Yale University Graduate School of Drama. He serves on the Content Board of Directors for the Software Information Industry Association, and is a frequent speaker on content, product development, start-ups and turnarounds. When he's not adding value to content, Larry is a show manger for hunter/jumper horse shows, is on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Horse Show Association and maintains several horse web sites and blogs (www.chsaonline.com, www.srostables.com). Larry, a confirmed gadget geek, also spends time on Broadway with his theatrical agent wife and two daughters.
Webb Shaw
Director of Editorial Resources, J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
Webb Shaw leads content creation and management, content software development, custom project development, IP protection and corporate knowledge management at J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. With nearly 1,300 employees based in Neenah, WI, J. J. Keller is the leading North American publisher of regulatory, compliance and best-practice materials - print, software and online - in the human resources, workplace safety, construction safety, heavy-duty trucking and hazmat markets. While at J. J. Keller, Webb has served as senior-management champion for development of: KellerOnline, the premier interactive safety management tool and winner of the 2005 CODiE Award for Best Vertical Market Business Content Solution; Prospera, the online people management tool for HR professionals and a 2008 CODiE Award finalist, and SAFE Sim Truck Driving Simulator software, also a 2008 CODiE finalist. He was responsible for creation of the company's content-software product line (Keller-Soft), CMS implementation and ERP evaluation/selection. Webb's previous experience was with Knight-Ridder, Harcourt Brace and Eaton Corp. He is vice chairman of the SIIA Content Division Board.
Clara Shih
Author, “The Facebook Era” and Director, Social Networking, Salesforce.com
Mr. Solomon is the CEO and Founder of Peer39. Together with Peer39 scientists, research and development and marketing groups, he developed the core patents covering Peer39's unique semantic analysis technology and business practices. Prior to founding Peer39, Mr. Solomon was a sales and business development executive at IDX (acquired by GE). Mr. Solomon is one of the world's leading experts on the application of semantic technology to next-generation online advertising.
Michael Tchong
Trend Analyst, Ubercool
Michael Tchong has spent more than two decades living at the leading edge of consumer trends. His intuitive sense for decoding where the consumer lifestyle is headed has earned him a reputation as one of the savviest thinkers of the information age. A serial entrepreneur, Michael developed a host of successful media and technology companies that help consumers and businesses harness the potential of trends and innovations. His successes include founding MacWEEK, CyberAtlas, ICONOCAST and Ubercool®, a next-generation, branded entertainment company. Michael tracks consumer lifestyles with boundless energy, translating trends into emerging opportunities. He maintains a blog at Ubercool.com, and is currently working on his sixth start-up. Michael surveys the landscape from San Francisco’s Potrero Hill district. A sought-after speaker, he has been quoted by, or appeared on, such leading media as Access Hollywood, BBC News, Bloomberg TV, Business Week, CNET, the UK’s Independent, The New York Times, Variety, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Wired.
Tien Tzuo joined Zuora after 9 years at salesforce.com where he built the original billing system while holding various executive roles. He oversaw the vision, direction and design of the first 17 releases of salesforce.com's award winning product line. In 2004, Tien was named CMO of the Year Finalist by the CMO Council and BusinessWeek Magazine. Tien is widely recognized as a thought leader in the software-as-a-service industry. Prior to salesforce.com, Tien was at CrossWorlds Software, where he launched CrossWorlds' Telecommunications business unit focused on integration with billing systems, and at Oracle Corporation where he managed several Telecommunications accounts.
Wasch's involvement in SIIA is based on both personal and professional interests. His long-standing interest in computers and software, coupled with the industry's need for a central trade association, led him to establish the Software Publishers Association (SPA) in 1984 with an initial group of 25 software firms. Wasch has led the association from its infancy to its merger with the Information Industry Association in January 1999, resulting in the formation of SIIA.
Keith White
Publisher & SVP, Congressional Quarterly
Keith White is the General Manager of Congressional Quarterly's professional publishing division, managing marketing, advertising and circulation sales, product development, human resources and financial services for the company. Mr. White brings over 15 years experience as a writer, editor and business executive in online and print publishing. Prior to joining CQ in 2001, Mr. White was Vice President of Publishing and Product Development for LexisNexis, where he ran two business units and product development for the $1.5 billion news, legal and public records business. Mr. White has also held sales, marketing, product management and editorial positions with The Washington Post, America Online, and Reader's Digest, and has launched some 30 new products with incremental revenues of over $100 million. Mr. White's writing has appeared in numerous national publications, including The Washington Monthly, Utne Reader, and Reader's Digest. He is co-founder of a literary journal that was anthologized in a book published by W.W. Norton and Co in 1997. Mr. White holds a B.A. in English literature from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was a Batten Fellow.
