The Huffington Post is a leading online news source founded by Arianna Huffington, Ken Lerer, and Jonah Peretti. Contributors include more than 3,000 bloggersfrom politicians and celebrities to academics and policy expertswho contribute in real-time on a wide-range of topics.
The site started as a politics blog, but now covers more than 20 categories, including media, business, entertainment, living, style, sustainable “green” living, world news, technology, nonprofits, college life, and comedy. It began launching local versions in 2008, and increasingly is experimenting with social networking features.
Paul is the founder and CEO of Rebelmouse.
Formerly Paul was the CTO of HuffingtonPost.com where he also heads up product development.
Previously he built Avaaz.org and before that was CTO of CharterMac a real estate finance company that was market cap 4.5 billion at the time.
Paul was VP, Internet for Palo Alto Software where he built bplans.com and the ecommerce business of paloalto.com. Most importantly, Paul was a co founder of thedogisland.com
Killer apps. That’s what I do for a living.
– At Apple I led the development of the award winning ClarisWorks for Kids–the killer app for K12 education.
– At FlashPoint I led the UI design of the Digita Operating Environment–the killer app for digital cameras.
– At DoubleClick I led the development of DART5–the killer app for Internet advertising.
– At ContextWeb I led the development of ADSDAQ–the killer app for ad exchanges.
– At Conductor I led the development of the killer app for natural search.
– At LimeWire I’m leading the development of something awesome…
Killer apps are not designed by one person. It takes a team of exceptional performers. That’s how I build killer apps, by building great teams and leading them by example, on a clear mission.
VP Engineering at The Huffington Post
Head of UX & Design at The Huffington Post
Senior Vice President, Marketing at The Huffington Post
La Carmina is an alternative travel and fashion blogger, author, and TV host (Bizarre Foods, Oddities, Taboo).
Her popular LaCarmina blog – http://www.lacarmina.com/blog – chronicles her adventures in Goth street style, extreme body modifications, Asia cute culture, and earless cats.
A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law, her books include Cute Yummy Time (Penguin) and Crazy Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo (Random House). La Carmina hosts and coordinates TV shows for Discovery, National Geographic, Food Network, Travel Channel, Fuel, NHK Japan and other international networks. She is a journalist for CNN, AOL / Huffington Post, and Business Insider. Her travel video series is filmed worldwide, with episodes in Dubai, the Maldives, Japan, Hong Kong and Mexico.
For her TV presenting reels, full biography and photos, visit http://www.lacarmina.com
Senior Technical Director – Mobile Technologies at The Huffington Post
Mark Coker is Founder & CEO of Smashwords Inc.
He is a Technology Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Business Advisor.
In 2008 he founded Smashwords Inc.
In 1999, founded BestCalls.com, a directory of investor conference calls, where he advocated fair disclosure for small investors. The site was acquired by Shareholder.com in 2003, which itself was acquired by Nasdaq in 2005. Nasdaq continues to operate BestCalls.com.
In 1993, founded Dovetail Public Relations, a tech PR agency based in Los Gatos. He continues to own the agency though no longer manages day to day operations. Dovetail is Coker’s primary angel investing arm, where the firm provides marketing services in exchange for equity.
Through Dovetail, he has Invested in just over a dozen mostly early stage startups since 1993, including :
RightNow Technologies,
IPOed,
Quova,
Exploit Prevention Labs,
IP Metrics,
NeoScale,
Shareholder.
After ten years trading on Wall Street, Chris moved back to his hometown of Venice, California with one driving vision: build a tech lab that gives restaurants the tools to embrace the social and mobile era. As a founding investor of the popular LA-based restaurant chain Tender Greens, Chris saw firsthand the opportunity in the online ordering niche. When hes not discovering new modes of public transportation in Los Angeles, hes blogging for The Huffington Post, concentrating his analysis on the intersection of food and media. Hes always down to grab a coffee and on a constant quest to find LAs best.
Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer and investor. Ilya is a columnist for Inc., Forbes and Huffington Post, and the founder of Ciplex, a digital marketing and creative agency. In 2012, Inc. Magazine recognized Ilya as a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur.
Arianna Huffington is the president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books. Her latest, Third World America, published in September 2010, chronicles the struggles of America’s besieged middle class. She is a frequent guest on television shows such as Charlie Rose, Real Time with Bill Maher, This Week with Christiane Amanpour, and The Rachel Maddow Show.
In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. She was named to the Time 100 of 2011, Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, and to the Financial Times’ list of 50 people who shaped the decade.
Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics.
Roy Sekoff is the founding editor of The Huffington Post and the president and co-creator of HuffPost Live.
Before helping launch The Huffington Post, he was a writer, producer, and on-air correspondent for Michael Moores Emmy-winning TV Nation. Sekoff served as the head writer for the 2000 Shadow Conventions, and as Communications Director for Arianna Huffingtons 2003 gubernatorial campaign.
He has also worked as a screenwriter — penning scripts for 20th Century Fox, Universal, Disney, Caravan, and Sony — and as a free-lance journalist, writing for publications including The Village Voice, The Times, Elle, Redbook, and Rock Magazine.
Sekoff is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows, and has appeared on The Ed Show, The Joy Behar Show, Larry King Live, The OReilly Factor, Entertainment Tonight, and Anderson Cooper/360, among others.
In 2010, he was one of the Executive Producers of Freshmen, a pilot for ABC created by Greg Malins.
Kenneth Lerer is a Managing Director at Lerer Ventures.
He was the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Huffington Post.
Mr. Lerer is Chairman of Betaworks and Buzzfeed, and is Vice-Chairman of Bedrocket.
He is a member of Pilot Group LLC, a private investment firm.
Mr. Lerer is Chairman Emeritus of the Public Theater in New York City and serves on the boards of directors of several nonprofit organizations, including Association to Benefit Children (ABC), and the Bank Street College of Education. In 2008-09, Mr. Lerer served as the Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at Columbia Journalism School.
Director of Application Development at The Huffington Post
Senior Political Editor at The Huffington Post
Software Engineering Manager at The Huffington Post
Blogger at The Huffington Post
Business Editor at The Huffington Post