Roger McNamee- author, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Roger McNamee is one of America’s leading technology investors and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, which documents his journey from mentor to Mark Zuckerberg to critic of Facebook. Since April 2017, Roger has been engaged in a campaign to trigger a global conversation about the dark side of social media.
McNamee was the co-founder, along with U2’s Bono, of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and technology.
McNamee is a co-founder of the Haight Street Art Center and the Center for Counterculture Studies, serves on the board of directors for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and raised the funds to create the Wikimedia Foundation. Roger serves on the advisory boards of the Open Markets Institute and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Roger is also a musician, and performs in the bands Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System. Moonalice’s single “It’s 420 Somewhere” has been downloaded more than 4.6 million times.
Roger holds a B. A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. for the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.