Jerry Michalski (ma-call-ski) is the founder and president of Sociate, a technology consulting firm. Through Sociate, Jerry offers advice, speaks, writes and invests, taking a more hands-on role in developing the products and services he has written about for a dozen years. His interests lie mainly in the many ways that technology and people interact -- in private and business settings, and at all scales: as individuals, businesses, economies and societies.
Jerry is working on his first book, which offers (among other things) a humanist answer to the dysfunctions of consumer capitalism, innovative approaches to improve the world's culture and help creators make a better living, and ways for corporations to make transparency and openness profit drivers, not just ethical guidelines.
For the five years before he founded Sociate, Jerry was the Managing Editor of Release 1.0 , Esther Dyson's monthly newsletter, and co-host of the annual PC Forum. For the five years before that, Jerry was an industry analyst and research service director with New Science Associates, which was later bought by Gartner Group. Jerry earned an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from UC Irvine. He was raised in Peru and Argentina and speaks fluent Spanish, German and French.