Mena Trott is Co-Founder and president of Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type, Typepad and Vox. Named one of Fast Company's "Fast 50 for 2004," PC Magazine's "People of the Year" for 2004 and one of the MIT TR35 for 2004, Mena has been involved in the weblogging space since she began publishing to her own weblog, dollarshort.org, in early 2001. She speaks regularly at industry conferences — having appeared at DEMO, The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" and TED.

She lives in San Francisco with her husband and Co-founder of Six Apart, Ben Trott and her daughter, Penelope.