Curriculum Vitae

ICANN chairman

Chair of EDventure Holdings, a company that invests in emerging IT companies around the world

Publisher of Release 1.0, a monthly computer industry newsletter

Sponsor of the PC Forum conference and EDventure’s High-Tech Forum in Europe

Board member of numerous companies, including WPP Group, Uproar.com, Newspaperdirect, GreaterTalent.com, Souceree, Trustworks, CV-Online, Rambler Group, IBS and Medicalogic/ Medscape

Former chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Wrote for Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Wired magazine, Forbes and Transition

Books

Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age (Broadway Books, 1998)

Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age (Broadway Books, 1997)

Contact

For speaking arrangements, contact Dyson’s assistant, Irene Lawrence, at 212 924-8800.

Geoffrey A. Moore

Developing high-tech markets and strategies

Claim to Fame

As a consultant, Moore has helped Fortune 500 companies learn the advantages of new, disruptive technologies. His best-selling books are required reading at leading business schools, including Stanford, MIT and Harvard.

Words of Wisdom for Today’s Business Executives

"In an era of dramatic change, the key currencies are time, talent and management attention. Waste any of these and you put your entire enterprise in jeopardy."

Q&A

What are some common misconceptions about high-tech strategy and markets?

Moore: In terms of strategy, the most common misconception is that it can be separated from execution and that execution is all that really matters. The truth is, a large number of failures in execution are from working out the flaws in strategy.

Who is the most influential person in the new economy?

I could not pick a person. The institution I would pick is venture capital companies. The top 10 companies have the catbird seat in shaping the new economy from the point of view of funding their most novel constituents.

What is the biggest change the Internet has brought to business?

The Internet empowers partnering for and outsourcing of business processes at a level of intimacy never before possible. This allows companies to focus more and more resources on what is their core value- add, thereby driving up their returns on invested capital to unprecedented heights.

Curriculum Vitae

Founder and chairman of The Chasm Group, a high-tech marketing strategy consultancy

Venture partner with Mohr, Davidow Ventures, a venture capital company specializing in specific technology markets

Former principal and partner at high-tech marketing company Regis McKenna (now known as The McKenna Group)

Taught literature at Olivet College, and received a PhD in Renaissance literature from the University of Washington

Books

Living on the Faultline: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet (HarperCollins Publishers, May 2000)