Charlene Li is the Founder of Altimeter Group and co-author of the business bestseller Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies, published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008. She frequently consults and speaks on social and emerging technologies and publishes a blog The Altimeter.

Charlene is one of the most frequently quoted industry analysts and has appeared on 60 Minutes The McNeil NewsHour ABC News CNN and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal The New York Times USAToday Reuters and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought after public speaker and has presented frequently at top technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo SXSW Search Engine Strategies and the American Society of Association Executives.

Previously Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. She joined Forrester in 1999 after spending five years in online and newspaper publishing with the San Jose Mercury News and Community Newspaper Company. She was also a consultant with Monitor Group in Boston and Amsterdam.

Charlene is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College. She also serves on the advisory boards for The Poynter Institute and Web 2.0 Expo.

More information about Charlene is available at charleneli.com.

Charlene is the mother of two kids and blogs about that experience on her personal blog "Midnight Musings."  She is the wife of Come Lague, a venture capitalist with Nueva Ventures. She is also an avid fan of reality TV shows science fiction and sudoku. She lives in the Bay Area with her family.

Named by Fast Company as one of The Most Influential Women in Technology
Named by CIO Insight as one of the Top 10 Business-Tech Books of 2008
Named by Fast Company as one of The 12 Most Creative Minds of 2008
Named by Fortune Magazine as one of the 3 best Web books of 2008
Named by Advertising Age as number 3 of 10 Books You Should Have Read
Named by BusinessWeek as one of the Best Innovation & Design Books of 2008
Named by Strategy+Business as one of the Best Business Books 2008 and Top Shelf in Marketing
Named one of 10 Insightful Web 2.0 Books by CIO Insight
Co-authored with Josh Bernoff named by Amazon as one of the Top 10 Business & Investing Books of 2008
Named one of The 50 Most Influential People in Business IT by Baseline Magazine
Named Visionary of the Year by Society for New Communications Research along with Josh Bernoff Groundswell co-author
Named by AdAge as one of its top 40 Women To Watch in 2008
Named by NowPublic as one of the 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley
Named one of CRM Magazine's 2008 Influential Leaders

Briefings: 
Creating Winning Social Media Strategies