Altimeter Group

About Charlene Li, Founder

Charlene Li is founder of the Altimeter Group and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership. She is also the coauthor of the critically acclaimed, bestselling book Groundswell, which was named one of the best business books in 2008.

She is one of the foremost experts on social media and technologies and a consultant and independent thought leader on leadership, strategy, social technologies, interactive media and marketing. Formerly Li was vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and a consultant with Monitor Group. She was named one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company in 2010 and one of the most influential women in technology 2009.

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.

Charlene is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College. You can follow her blog at charleneli.com/blog or at twitter.com/charleneli

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

• Named by Fast Company as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2010
• “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, Susan Wu : swu (at) altimetergroup (dot) com
Office: 650.212.2272
Mobile: 650.762.9388

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