Jeff Bates brings many years of strategic management and editorial leadership to OSTG. As Vice President of Editorial Operations and Executive Editor of Slashdot Bates is responsible for driving new site and product development and manages strategic story editing and placement for the leading tech news site Slashdot. While at Slashdot Bates has been responsible for several industry awards including a Webby People's Voice Award for Community as well as Yahoo!'s "Top 100" Best of the Internet Award. Slashdot has also been cited by The Washington Post TIME USA Today Rolling Stone Fortune Business Week and Forbes as one of the most innovative and important sites for the technical community.
Bates is a member of the Open Source Advisory Panel for the US government and the on the Board of Advisors for the Lifeboat Foundation. Bates holds a Bachelor's Degree in History from Hope College. |