Altimeter Group

About Charlene Li, Founder

Charlene Li is the Founder of Altimeter Group and coauthor of the critically acclaimed, the critically acclaimed, bestselling book Groundswell. She is one of the foremost experts on social media and technologies and a consultant on leadership, strategy, social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. She is currently working on her next book, “Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform How You Lead” to be published in May 2010 by Jossey-Bass.

Charlene was named one of the 12 most creative minds of 2008 by Fast Company, and one of the most influential women in technology in 2009. She frequently consults and speaks on disruptive technologies and publishes a blog at blog.altimetergroup.com.

Charlene is a frequently-quoted expert and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Businessweek, USAToday, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought after public speaker and will be appearing at the World Business Forum in Radio City Music hall in October 2010. She has also presented frequently at top conferences such the American Society of Association Executives, SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, and Search Engine Strategies.

Previously, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. She joined Forrester in 1999, after spending five years in online and newspaper publishing with the San Jose Mercury News and Community Newspaper Company. She was also a consultant with Monitor Group in Boston and Amsterdam.

Charlene is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College.

Personal

Charlene is the mother of two kids and and the wife of Come Lague, a venture capitalist with Nueva Ventures. She is also an avid fan of reality TV shows, science fiction, and sudoku. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.

Awards for Charlene Li

• “Groundswell” named the recipient of the 2009 Berry-AMA Book Prize for the best book in marketing
• Named by Fast Company as one of The Most Influential Women in Technology
• “Groundswell” named by CIO Insight as one of the Top 10 Business-Tech Books of 2008
• Named by Fast Company as one of The 12 Most Creative Minds of 2008
• “Groundswell” named by Fortune Magazine as one of the 3 best Web books of 2008
• “Groundswell” named by Advertising Age as number 3 of 10 Books You Should Have Read
• “Groundswell” named by BusinessWeek as one of the Best Innovation & Design Books of 2008
• “Groundswell” named by strategy+business as one of the Best Business Books 2008 and “Top Shelf” in Marketing
• “Groundswell” named one of 10 Insightful Web 2.0 Books by CIO Insight
• “Groundswell”, co-authored with Josh Bernoff, named by Amazon as one of the Top 10 Business & Investing Books of 2008
• Named one of The 50 Most Influential People in Business IT by Baseline magazine
• Named Visionary of the Year by Society for New Communications Research, along with Josh Bernoff, Groundswell co-author
• Named by AdAge as one of its top 40 Women To Watch in 2008
• Named by NowPublic as one of the 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley
• Named one of CRM Magazine’s 2008 Influential Leaders

Contact information:

Email: charlene (at) altimetergroup (dot) com

Office: 650.898.7896

Charlene’s assistant, Denise Aday: denise (at) altimetergroup (dot) com

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