Ourmedia has two new board members:
Joining our Board of Directors is John Seely Brown.
JSB is one of the most revered figures in Silicon Valley. For many years he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He describes himself as being “deeply involved in the management of radical innovation and in the formation of corporate strategy and strategic positioning of Xerox as The Document Company.” In 2004 he was inducted into the Industry Hall of Fame. He is also the author of several books.
Joining our Board of Advisors is Susan Wu, whom I hope to meet in person on Friday.
Susan is Chief Marketing Officer of the Apache Software Foundation, where she helps define the organization’s overall strategy and leads its PR, branding, partnership and marketing activities. The Apache Software Foundation is one of the world’s most influential open source software organizations, with over 1,200 contributors, 35 major product groups, and 70% global market share in web server software.
Susan’s roots in the open source community stems from her long-abiding interest in how technology catalyzes social and economic change. She began her career as the chief architect of a multiplayer gaming environment hailed by Sony Online Entertainment’s Chief Creative Officer as revolutionary and one of the best of its time. In Susan’s spare time, she has remained active in online gaming. She was the Executive Producer of GXMod, a widely popular, award winning Quake 2 modification. Susan also contributed as a developer and project manager to the open source Nebula 3D Graphics and Game Engine. She was also one of the leaders of a 1,000 person guild within the MMORPG Asheron’s Call.
Which sounds pretty impressive, even to us non-MMORPGies.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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