Creative Director, TED Conferences LLC
For the past 25 years, I have worked in a variety of media concerns, including book and magazine publishing as well as digital media. My central role has been developing creative ways for companies to engage with influential consumers, with programs built around cultural ideas and unconventional thinking. I am currently the creative director of TED, shaping new ways for companies and organizations to align their own messages and missions with TED's expanding initiatives worldwide.
Along the course of life, I've also been able to witness an eclectic mosaic of work experiences that cut across several sectors: I've worked in a scary antiquated aluminum factory during a labor crisis, ghost written a book with Kermit the Frog, worked on a presidential primary campaign in New Hampshire, provided the voice of a claymation snake in a Nick Park Aardman production, and tended bar in one of Charles Dickens' favorite London pubs.