Tom Hayes is a leading authority on doing business in the new information economy. With the publication of his latest best-selling book, Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business (McGraw-Hill, 2008), he has cemented his place as among the most original thinkers on emerging business issues, cutting-edge consumer tastes and strategies for success in the connected global economy.

Hayes has a unique ability to make important trends in today's technology world both understandable and exciting to any audience, including the rise of social media forces like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, and the major global economic trends that are reshaping the business landscape for all.

A veteran of Silicon Valley, Hayes has been a senior marketing executive at some of the world’s most important technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Applied Materials and AMD. Several case studies have been written on his achievements as vice president of Applied Materials in repositioning that company to grow from obscurity to global prominence.  In the 1990s, Hayes was the founding Chairman and CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley, a pan-industry alliance credited worldwide with catapulting the region into economic leadership of the Internet Age. Hayes graduated from Boston University and completed executive programs at Harvard Business School and Stanford University.  He and his work have been featured in a wide array of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Fast Company and Rolling Stone, and he has appeared on global television ranging from CNN to CNBC.