THE EDITORS
David Kirkpatrick, Peter Petre, and Brent Schlender each spent the last twenty years as senior writers and editors at Fortune Magazine, where they led the magazine’s technology coverage during most of that period.
David Kirkpatrick was the founder, host, and program director for Fortune’s Brainstorm conference series from 2001 through 2006 in Aspen, and for the Brainstorm Tech conferences in 2007, 2008 & 2009. In June, Simon & Schuster will publish his book The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World. At Fortune, he wrote a column about matters technological entitled Fast Forward. Kirkpatrick is a big believer in conferences, and regularly attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, DLD in Munich, TED, D, and other seminal events. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Peter Petre co-authored Alan Greenspan’s memoir, “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.” Published in September 2007, the book was No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. For more than 20 years, Petre wrote and edited at Fortune magazine. He was executive editor and directed coverage of information technology, biotechnology, medicine, industrial technology, and science. Petre has co-written two other bestsellers: General H. Norman Schwarzkopf’s “It Doesn’t Take A Hero” and Thomas J. Watson, Jr.’s “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond.” As treasurer of the Authors Guild, he participated in settlement negotiations with Google after the Guild sued the company for illegally scanning books. He holds a B.A. from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Ann Banks.
Brent Schlender has written extensively about the high-tech industries, business strategy, and management and leadership, and also spent many years as a foreign correspondent for both FORTUNE and The Wall Street Journal in Latin America and Asia. He also co-developed a dramatic television series with Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau called Killer App, and moonlighted playing saxophones in a Bay Area rhythm and blues band for 15 years. He’s best known for his lengthy interviews and profiles of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, Akio Morita, Bill Joy, John Chambers, Peter Drucker, and other notable business leaders.