Welcome. Manar [one of the (of late) shamefully over silent ones who does scan the mails and shamelessly benefits from the odd the thread. I'm sure one of my new year resolutions covers being less lame in that way...]
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Tom Rielly <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I understand it is proper protocol to introduce myself. I'm a friend of > Reuben Abraham's and am hard at work on our upcoming TEDIndia Conference in > Mysore Nov 4-7, 2009. My job at TED encompasses several aspects: the TED > Fellows program, the TED Book Club, Membership, > and working on producing the conferences. I am also the conference's > resident satirist, making fun of the speakers at the end of the conference. > > Right now we're in the process of selecting 100 Fellows for TEDIndia from > hundreds of applicants. > > In my spare time I am producing and directing a feature length documentary > on our youngest TEDAfrica Fellow William Kamkwamba, now 21 whom I've been > mentoring for the last two years. Don't try this at home. Directing movie > while having a full-time job is a distinctly bad idea. I'm loving it anyway. > > I also work on rural economic development in a village in Malawi, Africa > (which has nothing at all to do with Madonna, thank goodness.) I'm eager to > learn as much as possible about the subcontinent before the conference. I > welcome your suggestions, referrals and queries. > > Sincerely, > Tom > > Tom Rielly Community Director > TED Conferences LLC > > 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 > new mobile number: 646.256.7419 > Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 [email protected] www.ted.com > > For masochists only: > June 2009 > > Tom Rielly > > Biography > > Tom Rielly is Community Director at TED Conferences where he is responsible > for TED’s audience, including membership, fellowship, and book club > programs. He also serves on TED’s executive team. Rielly is also TED’s > acclaimed resident satirist, performing his unique summaries of the speakers > at many TEDs. > > Rielly may be best known as founder and former CEO of PlanetOut, the > leading gay and lesbian Internet company which accomplished three firsts: > first venture investment in, first corporate financing of, and first IPO of > a company serving the gay market. He also held senior sales and marketing > positions at technology startups such as Acronym Media, Farallon Computing, > Voyager, SuperMac Technology. > > Rielly has served as Executive Producer of two films, an experimental > feature about lesbian romance and the Golden Gate bridge as a suicide icon > called The Joy of Life, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and > Moving Windmills, a short documentary film about William Kamkwamba, a > promising young Malawian social entrepreneur. > > Moving Windmills was awarded the Pangea Day world film festival’s North > American Filmmaker’s Award from Participant Productions, producers of An > Inconvenient Truth, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, and Charlie Wilson’s > War. It also received an award from the Seven Fund and has been selected for > several film festivals including Without Borders in Rome > > He is now executive producing and directing a full-length documentary based > on Moving Windmills. His photographs of Kamkwamba and his family have > appeared in major newspapers, museums and on websites around the world. He > writes occasionally for I.D. Magazine and other publications and websites. > With Karen Wickre, he contributed to Out in All Directions: A Gay and > Lesbian Almanac (Warner Books). > > Rielly has founded or co-founded four NGO’s: most recently Moving Windmills > to work on projects in Africa (Executive Director, 2008-), Digital Queers > (1990-1995), a seminal gay and lesbian rights group in Silicon Valley, New > Media Centers (1992-) and the Yale Macintosh Users’ Group (1984-). > > Rielly’s interests include gadgets mentoring, filmmaking, photography, > politics, lesbian and gay civil rights, comedy, public speaking, traveling > and most recently rural economic development in Africa, particularly in > Malawi. As a teen actor, he had a small role in the feature film My > Bodyguard (1980). > > > Tom Rielly Community Director > TED Conferences LLC > > 55 Vandam St. 16th Floor NY NY 10013 > new mobile number: 646.256.7419 > Tel: 212.346.9333 Fax: 212.227.6397 [email protected] www.ted.com > > TED2010 Long Beach CA SOLD OUT. Simulcast in Palm Springs CA now open. A > few seats remain for TEDGlobal in Oxford, UK July 21-24, 2009. Watch for > TEDIndia registration opening soon. > > >
