David Kirkpatrick

• Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Techonomist, Techonomy Media, USA

BA in English, Amherst College; studies in Fine Art, New York. 1978, Life Magazine, Time; video artist, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Writer, fyi, Time in-house publication; Staff Writer, Time Teletext. With Fortune: 1983, Reporter; 1988, Assoc. Editor; 1995, Member, Board of Editors; Sr Editor, Internet and Tech.; 2001, Founder, Fortune Brainstorm Conference; 2010, Founder, Techonomy Conference, Tucson and Detroit (2012). Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Since 2010, writes for Vanity Fair, Forbes, LinkedIn and Techonomy, covering Internet and impact of tech. Author, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World (2010).