Tom Hayes

Tom Hayes has been called 'a tastemaker for the next Net Generation' and 'a model citizen for the 21st Century.' A longtime leader in Silicon Valley, Hayes has been a senior marketing executive at such Silicon Valley giants as Hewlett-Packard, Applied Materials and AMD.

Hayes is the author of Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business, published by McGraw-Hill and co-author of No Size Fits All: From Mass Markets to Mass Handselling(Penguin/Portfolio).

Hayes has developed a loyal audience through his award-winning blog, TomBomb.com, one of the most widely-read and quoted weblogs covering the new connected economy and its consumers.