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Program: Michael Sherrod, TCU Entrepreneurship Program
Sponsor: Stoneybrook Memory Care

Joint Luncheon with the HEB Chamber of Commerce

About the Speaker:

Michael Sherrod has been a pioneer in the online world since 1985. At the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he created and sold one of the world's first electronic advertisements to AT&T through an innovative video-text news service he helped manage. In his career, Sherrod founded and co-founded 10 companies, including DigitalCity.com, as well as served in senior management roles at AMR Information Services, AOL, Ancestry.com, and examiner.com where he was founding president & CEO. He recently served as the first publisher of the paradigm-busting and highly successful TexasTribune.org, a non-profit, non-partisan media site covering Texas Government, politics and policy.

Sherrod is chairman of the board of Umbel.com, a web start-up that provides digital genome analysis for companies and brands. Additionally, Sherrod is chairman of the board of trustees of the Kinsey Institute, the world's leading research institute for sex, gender and reproduction. He is co-founder and director of Black Dove Media, LLC, a media think tank and experimental publisher devoted to developing new and innovative publishing models. He also serves as board member and adviser to a number of online organization and is an author and frequent speaker on online, cultural and media issues.

Sherrod hold a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied in the interdisciplinary Great Books Program, and M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri and an M.B.A. from the Neeley School of Business at TCU.