Founder | CEO, Clearspring Technologies
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Founder & CEO at Clearspring Technologies
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Upper St. Clair High School
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Hooman Radfar’s Summary
Hooman is founder and CEO of Clearspring Technologies. Clearspring is the leading social distribution network connecting online publishers and advertisers to audiences on the social web and reaches over 600MM users worldwide - over half of the entire Internet audience.
Hooman is a frequently requested speaker and moderator at industry conferences like AdTech, OMMA, Digital Hollywood, Web 2.0 Expo, and CES. He was named one of Tech's Best Entrepreneurs in BusinessWeek, one of Washington DC's 100 Tech Titans, and one of iMedia's 25 most influential online marketing professionals. He is a two-time nominee for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, delivered the prestigious Whiting-Turner Lecture at the University of Maryland, and was the recipient of the Technology Business Leadership Award from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.
When he's not busy building a better web, you can find him writing his blog Widgify - ranked one of the top blogs of 2007 according to Software Development Times - and contributing to publications like iMedia and SiliconAngle. He is an investor in Playlist.com and serves on the advisory boards of RateItAll.com, Social Gaming Network and AlphaLabs.
Radfar graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Economics and Computer Science. He holds an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where he researched Social Networking Theory.
Hooman Radfar’s Specialties:
Web 2.0, Social Media, Social Advertising, Digital Content Syndication, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Web Services, SaaS, Widgets, Social Applications, Modeling of Social Systems, Distributed & Agent-based systems, User Interface Design, Networking, Technology Entrepreneurship, Technology History
