Mike Davidson

Founder and CEO of Seattle-based Newsvine, acquired in 2007 by msnbc.com. Mike is responsible for both the day-to-day operations of Newsvine.com as well as community integration efforts between Newsvine and msnbc.com. Before co-founding Newsvine, Mike worked as Art Director and Manager of Media Product Development at both ESPN.com and the Walt Disney Internet Group, leading the first ever standards-based redesign of a major media web site. Mike studied business at the University of Washington and Oxford University and is also co-inventor of sIFR, a technology that has enabled thousands of web sites to display text in an unlimited number of typefaces.