Biography: Doug Kaye

Doug Kaye is a social entrepreneur and technologist working to change the world in both the for- and non-profit online sectors. Profiled in The New Influencers, Doug was also named as a Trendsetter for the Always On/Technorati Open Media 100 in 2005.

Doug Kaye is the founder and Executive Director of The Conversations Network, a 501(c)(3) non-profit online publisher of audio and video recordings of worldwide spoken-word events. The Conversations Network includes curated channels such as Social Innovation Conversations and grassroots production through the all-volunteer PodCorps.org.

Doug created IT Conversations, the longest running podcasting network with over 2,000 programs published or in production. IT Conversations was named to the Best of the Web list by Business Week. Doug was named the first Podcasting Person of the Year in 2005.

Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services
(Doug's first book)

Acclaimed as the customer Bible for the web-hosting industry.

Blogarithms

Doug's blog.

Essays and Articles

Archives of Doug's articles on web services, web hosting, and managed services.

 Resume

Prior to founding IT Conversations, Doug was a consultant, author, and lecturer, based in northern California, and working worldwide. Drawing upon nearly three decades of experience as a CEO and CTO, he spent most of his time translating between the languages of business and technology. He was the CTO/VP Engineering of four dot-com startups: Organic Online, NextMonet.com, GoodCompany.com (online dating service) and CoSite (web hosting).

Doug founded and served as CEO of Rational Data Systems from 1978 through 1996, during which time RDS was a leading developer of compilers, protocol stacks and networking products for OEMs such as Novell, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Xerox.

In his previous lifetimes, Doug was a recording engineer, motion-picture sound editor and filmmaker. He received a Bachelor's degree in directing and lighting design from the University of California at Berkeley and studied at the Graduate Institute of Film and Television at New York University.