James Louderback was born on 1961 and is the CEO of VidCon, and was previously the CEO of Revision3.
18 Facts About Jim Louderback
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Jim Louderback has had numerous jobs in media companies involved in technology, most notably with TechTV and editor-in-chief of PC Magazine.
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Jim Louderback is well known as the television host of TechTV's Fresh Gear for three years from 1998 to 2000.
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Jim Louderback graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School, then attended the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont from 1979 to 1983.
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Jim Louderback graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Communications.
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Jim Louderback started out working for Fortune 100 companies in the 1980s building computer systems and LAN-based client-server systems.
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In 1991, Jim Louderback was hired as the Executive Lab Director of PC Week magazine.
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In 1996, Jim Louderback headed back to Boston to become the Vice President and Editorial Director at PC Week.
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In 1997, Jim Louderback headed out to San Francisco, California to be Vice President and Editorial Director of ZDTV, the first 24-hour technology television channel.
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Jim Louderback was in charge of the program content for the channel.
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Jim Louderback appeared in numerous segments on the network, and hosted the Fresh Gear show for three years.
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Jim Louderback developed a daily 8-hour live TechTV news program called TechLive in 2000.
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Jim Louderback became Editor-In-Chief for Ziff Davis Media's internet properties in 2002, he managed PCMag.
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Jim Louderback was promoted to Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief of PC Magazine in the fall of 2005 where he managed DL.
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Jim Louderback did a weekly podcast along with Patrick Norton called What's New Now as well as a video podcast called DL.
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Jim Louderback had served as editorial director of VidCon's industry programming track for the last three years.
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Jim Louderback is the author of the book TechTV Microsoft Windows XP for Home Users.
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Since early 2011, Louderback has been one of the featured "CoolHotNot Tech Xperts," along with John C Dvorak, Chris Pirillo, Dave Graveline, Robin Raskin, Dave Whittle, Steve Bass, and Cheryl Currid.