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Chris Neimeth is Publisher of the Salon Media Group. Prior to joining Salon, Chris Neimeth was president of IAC Partner Marketing. He was responsible for all aspects of national advertising sales and partner marketing for Evite, Citysearch, Match and Ticketmaster. Neimeth also managed sales for non-travel advertising on Expedia. A proven industry veteran, Neimeth joined IAC following his tenure as president and CEO of Real Media, a marketing solutions company for the digital advertising industry, where he was directly responsible for increasing company revenues and growth opportunities. Prior to joining Real Media, Neimeth helped to build and operate two start-ups; Grey Interactive, where he was a founder and associate director and New York Times Digital where he was the senior vice president responsible for Internet advertising sales, marketing, research and product development. Neimeth is a graduate of Hamilton College, a two-year elected member of the Internet Advertising Bureau Board of Directors and a founding member of the AdCouncil's Internet Committee. He lives in New York City with his wife Kristen and his son Alexander.

Andrew Leonard, editor of the Salon Technology & Business section, began covering the Internet in the summer of 1993, about six months before cyberspace went mainstream. He is a contributing writer to Wired Magazine, and has been published in Rolling Stone, the New York Times Book Review, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and numerous other publications. His book "Bots: Origin of New Species" was published by HardWired books in August, 1997 -- the New York Times called it "a playful social history of the Internet." In 1997 he began writing for Salon, and was in fact the first full-time reporter hired by Salon. As a reporter for the Salon technology section, he was one of the first writers to cover in depth the open source movement and file-sharing phenomenon, and he specialized in investigating the cultural, political, social, and economic implications of new technology. In September 2000 he began editing the Salon Technology & Business sections.

Cary Tennis joined Salon in 1999 as a staff copy editor under then copy chief King Kaufman. Tennis became copy chief when Kaufman left the copy desk to write about sports. In 2001, when Garrison Keillor quit his Mr. Blue advice column, Tennis started writing the Since You Asked advice column. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two dogs.

Kevin Berger was executive editor of San Francisco magazine for six years. During them, the magazine's feature articles -- including one about a sausage plant owner who murdered four meat inspectors, and a Silicon Valley wunderkind who believes he was visited by space aliens -- which he assigned and edited won numerous writing and reporting awards from the City and Regional Magazine Association. For the past two years, he was the senior staff writer at San Francisco magazine, and this year won the Maggie Award (Western Publications Association) for feature writing for his story "What Does It Really Mean to Be Green." He is also the author of "Where the Road and the Sky Collide: America Through the Eyes of Its Drivers," which looks at the environmental impact and more of our beloved cars.

Michal Keeley, an associate editor in Salon's D.C. bureau, has spent her entire journalism career in Washington, previously working as an editor for the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, a now-defunct website called Sidewalk and, in a not-so-pleasant interlude, the federal government. This is her second tour with Salon, and she is delighted to be back.

Since Dr. John Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. Charles Geschke, the two have worked closely together to develop a stream of pioneering software products that leverage Adobe’s strength in transforming how people create, process and engage with information. For more than two decades, Warnock’s vision and passion have been integral to Adobe’s success, building the company from a small start up to one of the world’s largest, most recognized software companies. He was president of Adobe for the company’s first two years and CEO for the next 16 years. Warnock retired as CEO in 2000 and as the company’s CTO in 2001. Today, he is co-chairman of the board with Charles Geschke, continuing to shape direction for the nearly $3 billion company. As a respected software industry innovator, Warnock holds six patents, has contributed numerous articles to technical journals and industry magazines, and is a frequent speaker on the impact of computing technologies on business and publishing. Warnock is a distinguished member of the National Academy of Engineering. Warnock’s entrepreneurial success has been chronicled by influential business and computer-industry publications. To date, he has received more than 35 awards for technical and managerial achievement. A partial list of awards includes: Medal of Achievement from the American Electronics Association (Warnock and Charles Geschke are the first software leaders to receive this award); Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch and Inc. Magazine; Lifetime Achievement Award for Technical Excellence from PC Magazine; ACM Systems Award; the Bodleian Medal; the Land Medal; the Lovelace Medal; and dozens of others. Warnock is active on or has served on several boards in addition to Adobe, including the Sundance Institute, the American Film Institute, ebrary, MongoNet, Knight-Ridder, Octavo Corporation, Netscape Communications, and the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. He is also chairman of the board of the Salon Media Group. Before co-founding Adobe, Warnock was a principal scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Prior to joining Xerox, Warnock held key positions at Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, IBM and the University of Utah. Warnock holds a doctorate in electrical engineering (computer science), a master’s degree in mathematics and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Utah. He was also awarded an honorary degree in science from the University of Utah.

George Hirsch has served as a Director of Salon since April 2003. In 1978 he was the founding publisher of The Runner magazine and served as its President through 1987, at which time Rodale Inc., the publisher of Runnerddition to that of Chairman of the Board. Dr. Warnock received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah.