John Battelle serves on the board of directors of LiveRamp Holdings. He is also the founder and chairman of the board of directors of Souvrn. He is also an advisor to RoBhat Labs and Spaceback. He co-founded and serves as CEO and board member of The Recount. He is also an advisor at Luma Partners. He is a co-founder and board member of NewCo. He has served as chief executive officer of NewCo. He is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded too many companies in Internet business, events, media and technology. Battelle also runs NewCo, an inside-outside conference model and media platform. He is also the founder and chairman of Sovrn, a publisher-driven programmatic advertising and data platform. He holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.