While studying at the University of Southern Maine in the late 80's and early 90's, Anthony Citrano started Advantage Consulting Group, a small group of hackers that helped businesses get in early on the digital revolution. In 1993, Anthony founded new media company 3D Millennium, originally for the purpose of publishing a CD-ROM magazine called The Virtual Journal. Instead, he took it to the newly-minted World Wide Web, creating the world's first web magazine. After these adventures, he served for three years as chief technology advisor to Maine Governor Angus King, helping make Maine an early example of a responsive online state government. In 1995, the Governor appointed him to the Highway One Advisory Board, where he served with Senator Bob Kerrey and Congressman Vernon Ehlers to support the use of technology in the democratic process. After departing the Governor's Office, he worked at Alexander Communications, a leading high-tech public relations firm in San Francisco. While at Alexander, he handled PR for HP's Network Server Division and the Camden Technology Conference.When Anthony returned to Maine in 1997, he ran PR consultancy Digital Endeavors, which was named one of the "Hot 50" PR firms in the US. In May of 1999, he launched BrainPaste, the first company to utilize now-popular "dynamic customer acquisition," an e-commerce method that he invented. Industry guru Don Tapscott said BrainPaste exemplified "a new challenge to the old order" and USA Today said BrainPaste "uncorks an idea that can never be put back in the bottle." In April of 2000, BrainPaste was acquired by R3Media, a desktop entertainment delivery company where Anthony served as VP and chief communications officer until 2001. Later that year, he teamed up with some public relations pros and launched fama PR, a PR firm focused on growing infotech companies.While Anthony now denies it, some claim he worked as a field coordinator and technology wonk for Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign and subsequent transition to the White House.Over the years, Anthony has appeared in national and local media as an expert on the Internet, security and technology policy. He has appeared on NBC's Today Show, CNN Headline News, and numerous regional television stories. He has been featured in print mediums such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business 2.0, Inc. Magazine, Newsday, Computerworld, and dozens of regional and online publications. He was featured in Portland Magazine, which explored the expanding role of technology in the southern Maine economy back when it actually seemed real. He was a founding editor of SYNAPSE, an early CD-ROM magazine.Anthony was an Honors student at the University of Southern Maine, where he studied political science, religion and philosophy, served as vice president of the Honors Association and conducted a year-long philosophy research project on the effect of technology on culture (a topic he´d love to write a book about someday.) He has developed award-winning web sites, including a virtual reality site, The VR Bazaar, judged by Microsoft as one of the 50 best sites on the Internet in their 1996 Activate the Internet contest.Anthony is a voting member of the Association for Computing, a founder of the American Liberty Foundation, serves on the Board of Governors of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of New England and is a founding member of the CEO Council. He has been a member of the PopTech conference (named by Conferenza as "Best Conference of 2004") team since its inception and was president of the conference from 1999 to 2001. His speaking gigs include the Silicon Alley Executive conference, WebAttack and PopTech.While all of this may sound very impressive, Anthony's greatest accomplishment to date is his championship play on Williams' Robotron:2084 arcade game during the early 1980's, in which he invested roughly $1.8 billion in quarters. To this day, no living human has toppled his Robotron records. He also won a statewide championship for Atari's Marble Madness in 1985, but mostly because he
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