John Hagel III
John Hagel (or John Hagel III) is a management consultant and author who specializes in helping executives to anticipate and address emerging business opportunities and challenges. Hagel has spent over 40 years in Silicon Valley. He is the founder of two technology startups and served as the Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning at Atari, Inc. He spent 16 years at McKinsey & Company, where he helped open their Silicon Valley office and served as a leader of their strategy practice as well as founded their e-commerce practice in 1993. Hagel has also been a consultant at  Boston Consulting Group. In 2007, Hagel founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley-based research center focused on identify emerging business opportunities that are not yet on the CEO’s agenda. The Center for the Edge now has offices in Amsterdam and Melbourne. Hagel is also involved with a number of other organizations, including the World Economic Forum, where he currently serves as co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Platforms and Systems. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization that conducts cutting-edge research  on complex adaptive systems, and Independent Institute. Additionally, he hosts executive roundtables at the Aspen Institute. He is credited with inventing the term "infomediary" in his book, "NetWorth," co-authored with Marc Singer, and published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1999. Hagel has been published in business publications including The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, Financial Times and Wall Street Journal as well as in mainstream media such as the New York Times, NBC and BBC.He has also been awarded two prizes by the Harvard Business Review for Best Article and acknowledged as an industry thought leader by  a wide range of publications and institutions, including the World Economic Forum and Business Week. Hagel also blogs at Edge Perspectives, the Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Techonomy.