Denise Caruso (Executive Director and Chair) founded the Hybrid Vigor 
Institute in 2000 after 17 years as a commentator and analyst for and about 
technology-based industries and issues. Most recently, from 1995 to 2000, 
she wrote the Technology column for the Monday Information Industries 
section of The New York Times. In January 2000, she became a contributor to 
the Times' Arts & Ideas section, writing primarily about scientific and 
academic research in progress. In addition to consulting with the Pew 
Charitable Trusts and Consumers Union on standards and practices for 
improving credibility on the Internet, Caruso has been a visiting scholar 
at Interval Research Corporation and a visiting lecturer at Stanford 
University in the Human-Computer Interaction program. She was also the 
executive producer of Spotlight, an invitation-only conference for senior 
executives from the technology, communications, media and interactive media 
industries. Before launching the Technology and Media Group, an information 
services company for Norman Pearlstine's Friday Holdings, in 1994, Caruso 
was founding editor of Digital Media - then acclaimed as the seminal 
newsletter in the emerging new media industry - and an anchor columnist for 
the San Francisco Examiner's Sunday technology section. Her analyses have 
been published in The Wall Street Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, 
Wired, I.D. Magazine, the San Jose Mercury News and the Utne Reader. She 
has also provided commentary for NPR's 'Morning Edition' and 'All Things 
Considered.' For more on Caruso, please see her extended bio, 
http://www.hybridvigor.org/bios/caruso_bio/index.html.