Globalisation:Jason Liebman
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Biography
Jason Liebman is a former investment banker at Credit Suisse and is also a board member and co-founder of the Alliance for Youth Movements and also co-founder of Howcast [1]. Liebman also worked at Applied Semantics before Google purchased it in 2003 [2]. Like his fellow co-founders of the Alliance for Youth Movements, Jared Cohen and Roman Tsunder, Liebman is a member of the group Gen Next which was set up by Tsunder [3]. During the 2008 United States Presidential Election, Liebman donated $5000 to the McCain/Palin Victory 2008 committee on the 3 November 2008 and this money was eventually transferred to the Republican National Committee on the 31 December 2008 [4]. Through this donation, it would appear that Mr Liebman is a Republican Party supporter.
Howcast
Howcast was set up in February 2008 with the inention to provide the "largest - and highest quality - how-to videos on the internet" and has links to companies and public bodies such as the State Department, US Department of Defence, Kodak and Ford [5]. Liebman set up Howcast with the help of three other people, who included his twin sister Darlene [6]. Howcast has offices in both San Francisco and New York [7].
Notes
- ↑ "[1]" Alliance for Youth Movements Profile, accessed on 14 October 2010
- ↑ "[2]" Management Team Profiles, accessed on 14 October 2010
- ↑ "[3]" Gen Next: Membership Profiles
- ↑ "[4]" FEC Individual Contributions List, accessed on 14 October 2010
- ↑ "[5]" Alliance for Youth Movements Profile, accessed 14 October 2010
- ↑ "[6]" Howcast Management Team, accessed 14 October 2010
- ↑ "[7]" About Howcast, accessed 14 October 2010
