Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson was appointed a director of WPP in 1999. She is chairman of EDventure Holdings, the pioneering US-based company focused on information technology and new media. Having recently sold her business to CNET Networks, the US based interactive media company, she is now their editor-at-large. She is an acknowledged luminary in the technology industry, highly influential in her field for the past 20 years, with a state-of-the-art knowledge of the online/information technology industry worldwide, and the emerging information technology markets of Central and Eastern Europe. An investor as well as an analyst/observer, she sits on the boards of IBS Group, Meetup.com, NewspaperDirect, CV-Online and Graphicsoft, and on the consumer advisory of Orbitz, among others.

Dyson is also Former Chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the Advisory board of the elite networking group Renaissance Weekend and the board of Trustees of the Eurasia Foundation which prommotes the private sector in developing countries.