1. Sreenath Sreenivasan was previously chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and chief digital officer of Columbia University.
17 Facts About Sreenath Sreenivasan
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Sreenath Sreenivasan served as chief digital officer of the City of New York from October 2016 through May 2017.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan has been a technology journalist based in New York City and served as an academic administrator and professor in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan was identified as the most influential Chief Digital Officer of 2016 by CDO Club.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan grew up in USSR, United States, Fiji, and India.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan received a Master of Science degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1993.
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In 2005, Sreenath Sreenivasan was appointed dean of students at the journalism school, overseeing student-oriented programs.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan is the former advisor to the school's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and won the David Eshelman Award for Outstanding Campus Advisor in 1998.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan was appointed the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Chief Digital Officer in August 2013.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan helped found SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, a group of more than 1,000 journalists of South Asian origin in the US and Canada.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan was the association's first president and continues to sit on its board, while serving as an editor and writer of SAJAforum, one of the most widely read South Asian news and analysis blogs.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan was named by "UNITY: Journalists of Color" in a seed list of one of the 100 top journalists of the century.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan appeared twice a week on air and on WNBC.
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From 2009 through 2011, Sreenath Sreenivasan helped launch and develop DNAinfo.
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Sreenath Sreenivasan has contributed more than 50 articles to The New York Times on business and technology, and has hosted more than 40 episodes of his own podcast, the @SREE SHOW, for CBS Radio.
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In May 2016, Sreenath Sreenivasan made news headlines by spearheading an effort to boycott participation in all-male panels, conferences, and events.
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At the Met, Sreenath Sreenivasan led the redesign of their website and the development of a smartphone app.