In the words of the citation to the Roundarch Interactive Experience Award, which he was awarded in March 2007, Jeremy Geelan is “a leading evangelist and critical thinker in the Web 2.0 movement that is reshaping how people experience the web.” “Jeremy has been a voice of clarity as this next generation of the web is being redefined and going through its expected growing pains,” the award citation continued, “The overstated promises of Web 1.0 and accompanying irrational exuberance are in stark contrast to the Jeremy’s sober, well informed and insightful evangelization of today’s interactive possibilities.”Geelan is Founder & Chairman of Social Media Associates, LLC, based in New York City, and is Sr. Partner, Co-Technologies & Social Media, at Hinchcliffe & Company, based in Alexandria, VA. Formerly Sr. VP, Editorial Events of SYS-CON Media, before which he was Group Publisher & Editorial Director, he has been in the international publishing industry for a quarter of a century, serving as Managing Director of Adamantine Press Limited (international publishers), Joint Managing Director of The Vision Project Limited (a global CD-ROM project), and Chairman of The 21st Century Group – a loosely affiliated group of socially responsible media companies devoted to the simple premise that ‘There is always a better way.’British born and Cambridge-educated, Geelan’s “all-media” career spans 29 years and two continents, beginning with prime time program-making for BBC TV and BBC Radio, side by side with writing for the UK’s market-leading Daily Mail newspaper, followed by an international book publishing career centered on Adamantine Press in the UK and Greenwood Publishing Group in the US, where he founded Praeger Studies on the 21st Century (Praeger Publishers), a forward-looking, multidisciplinary book series devoted to alternative social, political, economic, educational, cultural, religious, and environmental futures.Prior to joining the BBC, Geelan founded and managed Logophile Press Limited, publisher of Logophile: The Cambridge Journal of Words & Language, which he launched while still an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, before building it out in just three years as an international publication with subscribers in 32 countries. An inveterate traveler and father of four, he divides his time between the USA and Europe, and most recently resides in Tallinn, the birthplace of Hotmail, KaZaA and Skype, where his Danish-born wife, H.E. Kirsten Rosenvold Geelan, is Denmark’s Ambassador to EstoniaWidely considered a domain expert on the future of the future, Jeremy Geelan’s history of speaking and moderating at international conferences already stretches back over a decade. He is on the Advisory Board of Kaazing Corporation.
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