Profile

John Battelle
Founder/Chairman/CEO
Federated Media

John Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author who has founded or cofounded businesses, magazines, and websites. Formerly at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Battelle is a founder and executive producer of the Web 2.0 conference and "band manager" with BoingBoing.net. Previously, Battelle was founder, chairman, and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to that, he was a cofounding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures. John is currently the founder and chairman of Federated Media.

Battelle recently wrote The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (Penguin/Portfolio), an international bestseller published in 24 languages. He maintains Searchblog, a daily site covering the intersection of media, technology, and the Internet at www.battellemedia.com. Battelle was a founding board member of the Online Publishers Association and sits on the board of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, as well as the board of his children's school.

Battelle was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was a finalist in the "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition by Ernst & Young and has recently been named an "Innovator," one of 10 best marketers in the business, by Advertising Age and one of the "Most Important People on The Web" by PCWorld. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

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