Founders

Lisa Stone — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:16:50 -0600

BlogHer began as a labor of love in February 2005, when founders Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins launched a conference for women who blog.

We blogged the idea. Women who blog made it much, much better. And ever since, we've been working on these projects, which make the most of our diverse backgrounds in media, marketing and business strategy.

Today BlogHer is the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online, reaching more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub (http://www.blogher.com), and an publishing network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted blog affiliates (http://blogherads.com). BlogHer Inc. is run by its three co-founders and has backing from Venrock, the Peacock Fund and Azure Capital Partners.

Here's a little more about us:

Lisa Stone
Co-Founder

As BlogHer’s CEO, Lisa Stone works with BlogHer’s investors and across the entire organization to advocate for bloggers, partners, products, and events that fulfill our vision. A leading expert on developing successful online communities and interactive programming for women, prior to BlogHer Lisa has worked with Hearst and Rodale magazines, E! Television/Online, HBO's Sex and the City, Bloomberg, Gallup and Knight Ridder. While executive producer and Editor in Chief/VP, Programming for Women.com, Lisa launched an 18-channel network and grew it to a Top 30 site, overseeing all original programming and integrating Hearst and Rodale magazines. The first Internet journalist awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University (2002), Lisa began blogging, as an extension of her 2004 political reporting for the Los Angeles Times. Lisa also blogs about politics and best business practices for today’s media companies on BlogHer. An in-demand speaker, Lisa recently keynoted the ONA (Online News Assn.) Annual Conference, as well as the Mom 2.0 Summit, and analyzed new media business models on panels at the EconWomen Summit and the Fairchild | WWD Summit. Lisa sits on Advisory Boards for both the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships and the Knight Digital Media Center of the USC Annenberg School for Communications. A traditional journalist who left CNN for the Internet in 1997, Lisa has written for The New York Times, CNN, The Los Angeles Times and The Oakland Tribune, among other publications.

Elisa Camahort Page
Co-Founder

As BlogHer's COO, Elisa Camahort Page leads events, marketing, public relations and research for BlogHer, while working to ensure that all company operations deliver on our vision. A longtime Silicon Valley marketing executive, Elisa was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging. Prior to co-founding BlogHer, Elisa was running a marketing consultancy, Worker Bees, and was among the first to integrate corporate marketing strategies into the social media environment. Worker Bees followed a successful career as in the cable broadband sector. Her most recent corporate position was Senior Director of Product Marketing at Terayon Communication Systems, where she managed multiple product lines and senior product management staff. In addition to her many personal blogs, Elisa is widely read as BlogHer's conference leader and reality television editor. Elisa is a frequent public speaker, bringing research data about women and online communities to life in recent keynote sessions at MediaBistro Circus, Fem 2.0, New Comm Forum and WOMMA Marketing Summit. Elisa is a founding Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and serves on the Board of Directors of the 42nd Street Moon Theatre in San Francisco, the programming advisory committee for SXSW Interactive and the Board of Advisors of the Anita Borg Institute.

Jory Des Jardins
Co-Founder
As BlogHer's President of Strategic Alliances, Jory Des Jardins has developed strategic relationships with Fortune 500 brands and leads innovative campaigns to integrate contextual marketing and advertising into communities of women interested in every topic, from food, health and family to business, finance and technology. As an author and media strategist, Jory has written on personal development and women's business issues, blogging, relationships and pop culture for such publications as Fast Company, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the The New York Times and edited for The New York Times Syndicate and Time Inc.'s Custom Publishing Division. Immediately prior to co-founding BlogHer, Jory helped high-technology start-ups Pluck and Rojo launch successful blog syndication initiatives and produced Third Age's network of bloggers. In addition to her personal blog, Pause, Jory blogs about personal career growth and entrepreneurship on BlogHer.Having keynoted such events as ad:tech Chicago and the Marketing to Moms Conference, Jory has also represented BlogHer at events for the IAB, ANA and WOMMA. She also speaks at companies and agencies that are navigating the social media space. Jory serves on the advisory board of RSS company FeedBlitz and Juno Baby.

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