Jerry Michalski (ma-call-ski) is the founder and president of Sociate ("so-see-8"), a consultancy. Through Sociate, Jerry offers advice, speaks, writes and invests, taking a more hands-on role in developing the products and services he has written about for a dozen years. His principal interests are in the many ways that technology and people interact -- in private and business settings, and at all scales: as individuals, businesses, economies and societies.

Jerry is working on his first book, which offers (among other things) a humanist answer to the dysfunctions of consumer capitalism, innovative approaches to improve the world's culture and help creators make a better living, and ways for corporations to make transparency and openness profit drivers, not just ethical guidelines.

Among his major roles, Jerry is adjunct faculty for the Wharton Fellows executive education program; a senior fellow at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation; and an advisor to several startups, conferences and non-profits, including TheBrain, Pyra (makers of Blogger), Idealist and Earth Train; For the five years before founding Sociate, Jerry was the Managing Editor of Release 1.0, Esther Dyson's monthly newsletter. With Esther, he also co-hosted the annual PC Forum, the technology industry's premier executive conference. Jerry has been quoted regularly in major news media and trade publications; he has appeared on CNBC, CNNfn and other TV broadcasts.

Prior to joining Release 1.0, Jerry was a vice president with New Science Associates , a retainer market-research company – later bought by Gartner Group – that helped large corporate clients make effective use of emerging technologies such as neural networks, object-oriented programming and groupware. At New Science, Jerry launched and directed two research services: Intelligent Document Management (1989) and Continuous Information Environments (1991). Jerry is also an alumn of Price Waterhouse's Strategic Management Consulting group and Mobil Oil's domestic supply and transportation department (well before they became PriceWaterhouse Coopers and ExxonMobil, respectively).