Peter Leyden is the founder and CEO of Next Agenda, responsible for integrating all the pieces of this new organization, new process and new media model. His background gives him the experience needed to pull all these diverse pieces together. Leyden previously was Director of the New Politics Institute, a think tank helping people in politics understand and adapt to the huge changes in technology and new media. NPI built a network of private sector experts in tech and new media who helped invent the new approach to politics characterized by the Obama campaign.
Jim is Next Agenda's CFO and Vice President of Business Development. He is responsible for developing and managing the business of Next Agenda including revenues, finance and investor relations. Jim is excited to be working in a business whose product is solutions to the challenges facing our world. Jim is a serial entrepreneur whose career had an important stop at Intel Capital where Jim's passion for digital media and convergence was inspired.
Kristin Cobble has partnered with leaders in strengthening their capacity to create high-performing leadership teams and organizations for 20 years. More recently, she has become interested in applying this expertise to systems that involve multiple organizations and stakeholders. She believes the challenges we face as a species are going to require new ways of thinking, talking, and working together - across disciplines, across values, and across both visible and invisible barriers.
EVP of Studio Operations, LTI3, an incubator of long tail content businesses. Ben’s experience is in media production, content development, management and social profit organizations. In media, Mr. Schick has served as Vice President of Operations at re:Sources, a premiere producer of pre-visualization and visual effects projects, on film projects that include "Armageddon," "Contact," and "Shrek.” The past six years he has been the General Manager and then CEO of MediaOne, the largest independent broadcast and video production company in Northern California.
Eugene is the cofounder and principal of Blue Oxen Associates, and is working as a strategist for CivicActions. He has developed collaborative strategies for a number of organizations, focusing especially on inter-organizational collaboration and collaborative learning. His research centers around identifying patterns of high-performance collaboration across different domains and in catalyzing collaboration in large networks. He is also a thought leader in the collaborative tool space, focusing especially on Wikis, digital identity, and usability.
Matt brings experience in a wide range of media and related technologies to Next Agenda including web development, graphic design, and audio/video production.
After studying Design at the University of Pennsylvania, Matt worked as a freelance designer and web developer for non-profits such as the Bus Project and Teens Living with Cancer in Portland, OR. He recently relocated to the San Francisco Mission district. In addition to his work for Next Agenda, he can be found performing locally as a VJ and musician.
Michael is also the Content Development Specialist for a Next Agenda, a startup company creating new ways to solve big problems fast, by making innovative use of video and the next generation of web collaboration tools.
He brings experience in a wide range of online content, including video, multimedia like Flash, and all written media. Michael received his master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
As some of you may have heard, Google last week made a surprise decision to stop developing Google Wave at the end of this year. At Next Agenda, we are very disappointed by this news.
