Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, an award-winning site and the largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Pete founded Mashable in 2005 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland when he was 19. His passion for sharing how web tools and social networks were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures drove him to create what would become Mashable. Today, Mashable's 23 million unique monthly readers and 5 million followers across social media networks form one of the biggest online news communities. Mashable has been named a must-read site by both Fast Company and PC Magazine and is ranked as the most influential media outlet by Klout. He was named to the 2012 Forbes 30 under 30 list and he was named as a Young Global Leader by The World Economic Forum in 2011. Time Magazine selected Pete for its "2010 TIME 100,” Forbes ranked him number three on the Web Celeb 25, and The Telegraph picked him as Briton of the Year in 2010. He writes a regular column on technology and media for CNN.