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Ned Desmond
President, Time Inc. Interactive

Ned Desmond is the president of Time Inc. Interactive (TII), the central group at Time Inc. responsible for most of its digital businesses and associated technology teams.

Prior to assuming this role in early 2006, Desmond was executive editor of TII (2003-2005).

From 2000-2003 Desmond was editor and president of Business 2.0, the successor to eCompany Now, previously a Time Inc. magazine and Web site that he helped launch in San Francisco.

In past roles, Desmond was an executive at the Internet start-up Infoseek (1996-97) and Disney's Go.com (1998-99). He established Infoseek Japan and led the teams that built the Go.com content channels.

Prior to his work on the Internet, Desmond had an extensive career in journalism. He was a researcher, writer and correspondent for TIME magazine, and served as bureau chief in New Delhi (1988-1992) and Tokyo (1992-1996). He was also a senior correspondent for FORTUNE magazine (1997-98). Desmond has also written for The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs and The National Review, among other publications. He began his career in journalism at The Cape Cod Times and The Middlesex News in Massachusetts.

He is a graduate of Amherst College (1980) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1982). He was also a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University.

He served as a board member of Hoovers, then a public corporation (2002) and he also sat on the board of the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley (2002-2003).

Currently he is a member of the board of the Online Publisher's Association and a member of the board of advisors of New York University's Master's in Publishing Program.