Joichi Ito is the Director of the MIT Media Lab. He is on the board of The Sony Corporation, The New York Times Company, the MacArthur Foundation, the Knight Foundation, The Mozilla Foundation and co-founder and board member of Digital Garage an Internet company in Japan. He has created numerous Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and was an early stage investor in Twitter, Six Apart, Wikia, Flickr, Last.fm, Kongregate, Fotonauts/Fotopedia, Kickstarter and other Internet companies. He is the Guild Custodian of the World of Warcraft guild, We Know (http://weknow.to/). He is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, an Emergency First Responder instructor and a Divers Alert Network instructor. Ito was named by Businessweek as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web in 2008. In 2011, Ito was chosen by Nikkei Business as one of the 100 most influential people for the future of Japan and by Foreign Poicy Magazine as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers". In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute in recognition of his role as one of the world's leading advocates of Internet freedom. Ito received the degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, from The New School in 2013 and a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Tufts University in 2015. Specialties: venture investing, Japan entry, Japanese policy, speaking, blogging, media art, Internet advertising, Japanese business. VERY busy lately so don't take it personally if I can't accept a request.

Director @ From September 2011 to Present (4 years 2 months) Chairman of the Board @ June 2014 - May 2015 - Board Member May 2015 - Present - Chairman of the Board 2015 - Present - Nominating Committee From June 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Greater Boston AreaBoard Member @ 2013 - 2015 - Nominating Committee From June 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Board Member @ Audit Committee Technology and Innovation Committee From June 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Greater New York City AreaBoard Member @ From September 2006 to Present (9 years 2 months) Board Member @ Budget and Compensation Committee Institutional Policy Committee Nominating Committee From February 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) Greater Chicago AreaBoard Member @ Program Committee Mission Related Investments Sub-Committee From December 2011 to Present (3 years 11 months) Miami/Fort Lauderdale AreaGeneral Partner @ Small venture investment fund. From April 2015 to Present (7 months) Board Member @ From September 2011 to Present (4 years 2 months) Greater New York City AreaBoard Member @ The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project which includes the Firefox browser. From August 2005 to Present (10 years 3 months) Board Member @ From January 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Board Member @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Greater Boston AreaAdvisory Council Member @ From December 2013 to Present (1 year 11 months) Advisory Committee Member @ From December 2013 to Present (1 year 11 months) Greater New York City AreaAdvisory Board Member @ From June 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) COI STREAM Governance Committee Member @ COI STREAM stands for: ＣＯＩ ： Center of Innovation - ＳＴＲＥＡＭ ： S&T based Radical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. From April 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Board Member @ From January 2012 to Present (3 years 10 months) Board Member @ From July 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Greater New York City AreaAdvisory Board Member @ From December 2013 to Present (1 year 11 months) Board Member @ From June 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) IDC Staff Instructor @ Certified to teach: Assistant Instructor, Divemaster, Master Scuba Diver, Open Water Diver, Wreck, Underwater Video, Underwater Photography, Search & Recovery, Night Diving, Underwater Navigation, Underwater Naturalist, Emergency O2 Provider, Dry Suit, Drift, Deep, Boat, Fish ID, AWARE Coral Reef Conservation, Project Aware, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Digital Underwater Photography, EFR & Care for Children w/AED, Marine Life Injuries, On-Site Neurological Assessment, Shark Awareness, AED for divers, O2 Admin and First Aid From May 2011 to Present (4 years 6 months) General Partner @ From November 2009 to Present (6 years) Affiliate @ From May 2010 to Present (5 years 6 months) Advisory Board Member @ From March 2011 to Present (4 years 8 months) Instructor Trainer @ Instructor for the following courses: Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving, Basic Life Support and First Aid, Basic Life Support for Dive Professionals, Diving Medicine for Divers Part 1, 2 & 3, First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries, On-Site Neurological Assessment for Divers, Oxygen First Aid for Aquatic Emergencies, Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries From January 2011 to Present (4 years 10 months) Board Member @ From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Board Member @ From July 2009 to Present (6 years 4 months) Board Member @ From May 2009 to Present (6 years 6 months) Board Member @ From December 2008 to Present (6 years 11 months) Visiting Executive Researcher @ From April 2015 to Present (7 months) Advisory Board Member @ From September 2008 to Present (7 years 2 months) Board Member @ From August 2007 to Present (8 years 3 months) Board Member @ From August 2007 to Present (8 years 3 months) Board Member Emeritus @ From April 2007 to Present (8 years 7 months) Board Member @ CGM Marketing, now called BI.Garage is a joint venture between Digital Garage, Cyber Communications, Dentsu and Asatsu. The company is focusing on marketing and advertising in the user generated content space. From July 2006 to Present (9 years 4 months) Tokyofounder and op @ #joiito is a channel on Freenode, an IRC network. I started the channel, but it has developing into quite a community where I am merely a participant. There is a wiki page for the channel at http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/IrcChannel From June 2003 to Present (12 years 5 months) Founder and primary contributor @ Joi Ito's Web is my blog, but the comments section has become quite a community. The blog can be found at http://joi.ito.com/ From June 2002 to Present (13 years 5 months) CEO @ Neoteny is a venture capital firm investing in Internet technologies and services. Our current focus is weblogs, microcontent and metadata as well as enabling technologies for open standards based consumer electronics. Neoteny is based in Tokyo. From December 1999 to Present (15 years 11 months) Guild Master @ We Know is a World of Warcraft (WoW) Guild on Eitrigg. I am a co-founder of the guild which moved to Eitrigg from Khadgar. I am the founder of the Horde sister guild We No but have passed GM of We No to Paineater. See http://weknow.to/ for more information. From September 2005 to September 2015 (10 years 1 month) Senior Visiting Researcher @ Working on Internet and Society Lab. From September 2008 to March 2015 (6 years 7 months) Board Member @ Electronic Privacy Information Center. http://epic.org/ From April 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 10 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaBoard Member @ From July 2008 to December 2014 (6 years 6 months) Board Member @ From July 2009 to November 2014 (5 years 5 months) Board Member @ From January 2010 to April 2014 (4 years 4 months) Board Member @ WITNESS uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. By partnering with local organizations around the globe, WITNESS empowers human rights defenders to use video to shine a light on those most affected by human rights violations, and to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools of justice. (http://www.witness.org/) From March 2006 to January 2014 (7 years 11 months) Board Member @ Creative Commons is a non-profit corporation founded on the notion that some people may not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them. We believe there is an unmet demand for an easy yet reliable way to tell the world "Some rights reserved" or even "No rights reserved." Creative Commons intends to help people express this preference for sharing by offering the world a set of licenses on our Website, at no charge. http://www.creativecommons.org/ From June 2003 to December 2013 (10 years 7 months) Board Member @ From December 2004 to August 2013 (8 years 9 months) Member @ Strategic Headquarters for the Promotion of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society (IT Strategic Headquarters) in the Cabinet of Prime Minister of Japan From February 2012 to February 2013 (1 year 1 month) Tokyo, JapanChairman @ From June 2010 to November 2012 (2 years 6 months) Board Member @ From November 2008 to August 2012 (3 years 10 months) Board Member @ "We founded Startl to pave the way for cool new digital media learning products to move from idea to funding and into learners’ hands. We’re working outside the established systems in a public-private partnership to break new ground in the education market and help to launch the next generation of digital tools for learning." From October 2009 to 2012 (3 years) Angel Investor @ I sometimes invest in companies as an angel investor and also enjoy helping people with their ventures. From June 1966 to 2012 (46 years) Trustee @ From November 2008 to November 2011 (3 years 1 month) Board Member @ From August 2007 to November 2011 (4 years 4 months) Chairman @ Japan subsidiary of Six Apart, a leading provider of Weblog software and hosted Weblog services through Movable Type and TypePad. From April 2004 to June 2011 (7 years 3 months) Chairman and CEO @ From September 2010 to March 2011 (7 months) CEO @ Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." We're a nonprofit organization. Everything we do — including the software we create — is free. From April 2008 to March 2011 (3 years) Board Member @ iCommons was founded by and is affiliated Creative Commons. iCommons coordinates the activities of the global network of activists and projects that have sprung from Creative Commons as well as other friendly projects. From January 2006 to February 2011 (5 years 2 months) Advisory Board @ From December 2009 to 2011 (2 years) Board Member @ From November 2009 to 2011 (2 years) Advisor @ Helping Twitter with Japan and internationalization From August 2009 to 2011 (2 years) Advisory Board Member @ From December 2008 to 2011 (3 years) Part-Time Instructor @ From July 2008 to 2011 (3 years) CEO @ From 2001 to 2011 (10 years) Board Member @ Blog index and and user generated content media network. From October 2006 to February 2010 (3 years 5 months) Board Member @ Provider of Wiki solutions. From May 2004 to February 2010 (5 years 10 months) Founder @ My wiki page has grown into a vibrant community. The Emergent Democracy section is the most active. It can be found at http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/ From April 2003 to 2010 (7 years) Board Member @ ZeroOne stamps the intersection of art and technology. We believe in the magic that happens when fine, experimental; geek, media, research and explosive artists join forces with entrepreneurs, tools, platforms and innovative technological advancement. The potential is vast and the opportunities infinite. Join us in delving, exploring and pushing the limits of what is known and what is being discovered in Silicon Valley and the world. http://www.groundzero.org/ From January 2000 to 2010 (10 years) Board Member @ Foundation for education which runs a nurse school in Mizusawa, Iwate, Japan. From January 1996 to April 2009 (13 years 4 months) Board Member @ I am on the board of Nishimachi International School (NIS) which is a unique multi-cultural and bilingual (English/Japanese) K-9 school in Tokyo. I attended NIS for one year in 9th grade. From December 2005 to November 2008 (3 years) Board Member @ Software and technology company in Hokkaido Japan. http://www.bug.co.jp/ From July 2006 to September 2008 (2 years 3 months) Board Member @ From June 2002 to July 2008 (6 years 2 months) Board Member @ From 2007 to May 2008 (1 year) Chairman and Board Member @ Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." We're a nonprofit organization. Everything we do — including the software we create — is free. From December 2006 to April 2008 (1 year 5 months) Board Member @ CPSR is a global organization promoting the responsible use of computer technology. Incorporated in 1983 (following discussions and organizing that began in 1981), CPSR educates policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues. CPSR has incubated numerous projects such as Privaterra, the Public Sphere Project, EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center), the 21st Century Project, the Civil Society Project, and the CFP (Computers, Freedom & Privacy) Conference. Originally founded by U.S. computer scientists, CPSR now has members in 26 countries on six continents. From July 2005 to 2008 (3 years) Board Member @ Selected to serve for 3 year term by the Nomination Committee of ICANN. From December 2004 to December 2007 (3 years 1 month) Board Member @ Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program. http://www.opensource.org/ From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Fellow @ Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication of the University of Southern California (USC) which supports leading-edge interdisciplinary research on the meaning of the new networked information age. From May 2006 to March 2007 (11 months) Chairman of the Board @ iCommons was founded by and is affiliated Creative Commons. iCommons coordinates the activities of the global network of activists and projects that have sprung from Creative Commons as well as other friendly projects. From October 2005 to January 2007 (1 year 4 months) Board Member @ The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501.(c).3 tax-exempt non-profit based in San Luis Obispo, California that operates the MusicBrainz project. MusicBrainz is a user maintained community music metadatabase. Music metadata is information such as the name of an artist, the name of an album and list of tracks that appear on an album. MusicBrainz collects this information about music and makes it available to the public. http://metabrainz.org/index.html From April 2005 to October 2006 (1 year 7 months) General Manger of Global Operations @ Blog index and notification company providing ability to track conversations in real time on the world live web. From March 2004 to September 2006 (2 years 7 months) Treasurer and co-founder @ http://www.cpsr.org/ From October 2002 to March 2006 (3 years 6 months) Jury Member, .Net & Digital Communities @ Prix Ars Electonica is a government affliated electronic art competition and festival manged by the Austrian broadcast company in Linz, Austria. They are one of the largest prize awarding organizations which focuses on arts in emerging technologies. I particpated in the first Intenet category jury and missed one year between 1995 and 2002. Did jury for Digital Communities 2004. See http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp From May 1995 to May 2005 (10 years 1 month) Vice Representative Secretariat Member @ Association of 100+ cultural leaders in Japan pursuing the advancement of culture and it's influence on society. http://www.enjin01.org/ From January 2000 to 2005 (5 years) Secretariat Member @ The largest association of corporate executives in Japan and the counterpart to the Keidanren which is the association of corporations. Keizai Doyukai discusses and takes positions on a variety of policy issues in Japan. Keizai Doyukai also sponsors the Japan dinner at Davos. From April 1999 to 2005 (6 years) Chairman, Board Member @ Infoseek Japan was the first commercial Internet search engine in Japan. From October 1996 to July 2003 (6 years 10 months) Board Member @ ECD focuses on energy and information technology. Their work involves atomically engineered materials. ECD invents the materials, the products, and the production technology. ECD is a pioneer in hydrogen storage and transportation technology, NiMH technology, amorphous photovoltaic technology, thin-film displays, phase-change amorphous memories, and a variety of other technologies involving disordered materials, thin-films and amorphous materials. See http://www.ovonic.com/ I am currently advisor to management and continue to support ECD's activities. From August 1995 to July 2000 (5 years) CEO @ Digital Garage was originally a joint venture between my company Eccosys and Kaoru Hayashi's company From Garage. It was one of the first web companies in Japan. We merged our companies together and the company had two CEO's for awhile. We built Infoseek Japan as a licensee of Infoseek in the US and eventually sold the division to Infoseek in the US. I resigned from Digital Garage as part of the transaction and became the Chairman of Infoseek Japan. Digital Garage went public December 14, 2000. From August 1995 to June 1999 (3 years 11 months) Headmaster @ Bithaus was a multimedia, Internet and game technology school. From January 1997 to April 1998 (1 year 4 months) CEO @ Eccosys was an Internet technology company set up by myself and a few young hackers huddled around a used Sun Sparc 1+ and the PSINet 128K leased line in my apartment. We set up one of the first web pages in Japan, "Tomigaya" and consulted to a variety of companies interested in Internet technology. We eventually merged with Digital Garage. From April 1994 to May 1997 (3 years 2 months) CEO @ PSINet Japan was the first commercial Internet Service Provider in Japan. PSINet Japan was acquired by Cable and Wireless. From December 1995 to October 1996 (11 months) CEO @ Launched Mac Zone, a Macintosh catalog mail order business, in Japan. From October 1993 to April 1994 (7 months) Producer @ XY Relax was a nightclub in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. From April 1990 to February 1991 (11 months) Associate to Mr. Mount (The Executive Producer) @ Indian Runner was a movie directed by Sean Penn starring David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, Charles Bronson, Sandy Dennis, and Dennis Hopper. From January 1989 to January 1991 (2 years 1 month)

Doctor of Literature, honoris causa @ New School UniversityGraduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University From 2004 to 2007 University of Chicago From 1986 to 1987 Doctor of Literature, honoris causa @ The New School From 1985 to 1985 Tufts University From 1984 to 1985 High School @ American School in Japan From 1982 to 1984 Jr. High School @ Nishimachi International School From 1980 to 1982 Harvard UniversityHarvard University Joichi Ito is skilled in: Public Speaking, Blogging, Venture Capital, Social Media, Scuba Diving, Usability, Online Publishing, Digital Media, Entrepreneurship, International Market..., Online Advertising, Social Software, Publishing, Start-ups, Photography, Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Product Marketing, Marketing Communications, Business Development, Mobile Devices, Editing, New Business Development, Leadership, User Experience, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Social Networking, Strategic Planning, Content Management, SEO, Project Management, New Media, Angel Investing, Web Development, SaaS, Public Relations, Mobile Applications, Web 2.0, Marketing Strategy, Business Strategy, E-commerce, Product Management, Non-profits, Digital Strategy, Management, Journalism, Strategy, Web Analytics, Innovation Management