Alistair Shrimpton

Currently the UK Manager of VOIP giant Skype, an eBay company, Alistair Shrimpton was formerly the UK Business Development Manager for blogging software company Six Apart, whose blogging communities have a heavy presence around the world. Before that, he was a vice president at KeeBoo, the managing director of Jobline, and the managing director of entertainment publications at Cendant. Alistair has more than a decade of start-up and business initiation experience across Europe, with internet media, telecoms, and software his speciality areas.

At What MySpace Means, Alistair will discuss how Skype has built a multi-billion pound company through the cultivation of communities, and how its upcoming product development plans will extend Skype’s community enabiling reach even further.