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Barry Libert

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Barry Libert is a business executive, author, and speaker with more than 25 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience who has been instrumental in advancing the awareness and use of social technologies within the business world.

Libert is the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. To date, he has published five books on the business value of social networks and human interactions. Social Nation, his latest book, examines how businesses can harness the power of social media to attract customers, motivate employees and grow revenue. He also co-authored the critically acclaimed book, We Are Smarter Than Me, which highlights the power of social technologies by using the Wiki-based contributions of more than 4,000 people to illustrate how businesses could profit from the wisdom of crowds.

A regularly featured keynote speaker, Libert has delivered speeches at industry and private events to audiences of up to 20,000+ globally. He has been published in Newsweek, Smart Money, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and he has appeared on CNN, CNBC, FNN and NPR. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors at Innocentive and The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2000, Libert founded Shared Insights, one of Mzinga's predecessor companies. Prior to Shared Insights, he was a senior partner at Arthur Andersen and John Hancock. He began his career with McKinsey & Company, is a graduate of Tufts University, and holds an MBA from Columbia University. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons.

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