John Battelle

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Mr. John Battelle serves as Board Member at LiveRamp Holdings. Mr. Battelle is an Angel Investor. He is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded various media and technology-based businesses. He is the co-founder of DOC, a healthcare media business, and a Senior Fellow and Professor of Practice at Northeastern University. Previously, he founded Recount Media Inc., a NY-based media platform, sold in 2023 to The News Movement. He is chair of the board of directors of Sovrn Holdings, Inc., a programmatic advertising and publisher platform that connects publishers with data and monetization solutions. He is also a director at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and has taught at Berkeley as well as Columbia University. In 2012, he was the founder and CEO of NewCo Platform, Inc., a city-based conference and media platform. In 2005, Mr. Battelle founded the Internet media company Federated Media Publishing, where he served as chairman and CEO until its sale to LIN Media in 2014. He actively maintains Searchblog, an ongoing daily site which covers the intersection of media, technology and culture. In 2004, Mr. Battelle co-founded and served as executive producer of theWeb 2 Summit. From 2001-2004 he occupied the Bloomberg chair in Business Journalism for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founder and served from 1997-2001 as chairman and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to that, hewas a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures. Mr. Battelle previously served on the board of directors of the MMA, the Internet Advertising Bureau, and the Online Publishers Association. In 2005, he authored The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (Penguin/Portfolio), an international bestseller published in more than 25 languages. He is considered to be an expert in the field of media and technology, and has appeared on national and international news channels such as CBS, BBC, CNN, PBS, Discovery and CNBC. Honors and awards include: "Global Leader for Tomorrow" and "Young Global Leader" by theWorld Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; a finalist in the 2000 "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition by Ernst & Young; "Innovator - One of Ten Best Marketers in the Business" by Advertising Age; and one of the "Most Important People on TheWeb" by PCWorld. Mr. Battelle holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.