Ned Desmond

Current

• advisory board member at Newser
• President at Go Sportn Inc.

Past

• President at Time Inc. Interactive
• President and Editor at Business 2.0
• Vice president at Infoseek.com

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Education

• University of Oxford
• Tufts University - The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
• Amherst College

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Ned Desmond’s Summary

Currently, I am an adviser to Newser.com and working on a variety of small consulting projects.

I am also president and co-founder of Go Sportn Inc. which will launch its first online property later this year.

From 2003 through 2008, I was responsible for Time Inc. Interactive (TII), a central group charged with Web strategy and operations. TII worked closely with the brands at Time Inc. to re-conceive, re-design, re-staff and re-build the formerly magazine-centric websites at People, Entertainment Weekly, Time, In Style and the Southern Progress titles. By 2006, TII's role expanded to include technology, ad operations, audience development and mobile strategy and products. TII's engineering team launched an innovative content management system amongst other advances in areas such as search engine optimization and effective site design. By the end of 2007, the combined audiences of Time Inc. sites had grown dramatically to more than 26 million consumers (Nielsen) and Time Inc. was consistently among the top twenty online media companies.

From 2000-2002, I worked in San Francisco as founder, editor and president of the Time Inc.-backed eCompany Now, a monthly magazine and website, which later acquired and merged with Business 2.0, a similar publication also based in San Francisco.

In the latter half of the 1990s, I worked in Silicon Valley as a vice president of content for Go.com, a portal venture created by search-engine start-up Infoseek and Disney, and prior to GO.com, I founded Infoseek Japan in a successful joint venture with Joichi Ito's Digital Garage.

Apart from a year spent writing at Fortune magazine, most of my career as a journalist was at Time magazine, where I was the bureau chief in both Tokyo ('92 - '96) and New Delhi ('88 - '91), and a staff writer and researcher in New York, prior to those assignments. I have also written for The New York Review of Books, The National Review and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.

Ned Desmond’s Specialties:

Creating new media and service businesses online. Online product development and delivery. Audience development. Inventing online complements to print properties. Digital staff recruitment and organization building. Angel investing.

Additional Information

Ned Desmond’s Groups:

Former Member of the Board, The Churchill Club, Silicon Valley, 2002
Former Member of the Board, Hoovers.com, 2002
Former Member of the Board, Internet Advertising Association, 2007-2008
Former Member of the Board, Online Publishing association, 2006-2008
Member of the Board, New York University Graduate Program in Publishing
Member, The Asia Society

•    Web Analytics Association
•    Amherst College Alumni and Friends
•    Time Inc.
•    Ex-Infoseek

Ned Desmond’s Honors:

Member of MIN Digital Hall of Fame (2006)