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Chris Hughes 
Born November 26, 1983 [1]
Hickory, NCEducation Harvard University[2] Occupation Entrepreneur Known for co-founder of Facebook Partner Sean Eldridge Chris Hughes (born November 26, 1983)[1] is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin.
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Early life and education
Hughes grew up in Hickory, North Carolina,[3] as the only child of Arlen "Ray" Hughes, a paper salesman, and Brenda Hughes, a public-school teacher.[4] He is a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.[4] In 2006 he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature.[2]
Career
Hughes was the coordinator of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online social networking website.[5] He was the subject of an April 2009 cover story in Fast Company magazine under the headline, "The Kid Who Made Obama President; How Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Unleashed Barack's Base - and Changed Politics and Marketing Forever".
In March 2009, Hughes was named Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, venture-capital firm.[6]
He is the Executive Director of Jumo, which he founded in 2010. Jumo is a non-profit social network organization which "aims to help people find ways to help the world."[7][8] In July 2010, UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) appointed him to a 17-member "High Level Commission" of renowned politicians, business leaders, human rights activists, and scientists tasked with spearheading a "social and political action campaign over the coming year aimed at galvanizing support for effective HIV prevention programmes".[9]
He is also an invitee of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Swiss 2011 Bilderberg conference at the Suvretta House in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[10]
Personal life
Hughes is gay[4][11] and in 2009 attended President Obama's first state dinner with his boyfriend Sean Eldridge, Political Director of Freedom to Marry.[12] Hughes and Eldridge announced their engagement in January 2011 at a reception in support of Freedom to Marry.[13]
Depictions in media
In the film The Social Network, Chris Hughes is played by actor Patrick Mapel.
References
- ^ a b "Chris Hughes profile". CrunchBase. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-hughes.
- ^ a b "Facebook Founders Bios". Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?founderbios.;
- ^ Stelter, Brian (July 7, 2008). "The Facebooker Who Friended Obama". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html.
- ^ a b c McGirt, Ellen (April 1, 2009). "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign". Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/134/boy-wonder.html?page=0%2C1.
- ^ "My Barack Obama". Obama for America. http://My.BarackObama.com.
- ^ Schonfeld, Erick (March 17, 2009). "After Facebook And The Obama Campaign, Chris Hughes Takes a Post At General Catalyst". TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/17/after-facebook-and-the-obama-campaign-chris-hughes-takes-a-post-at-general-catalyst/. Retrieved October 8, 2009.
- ^ McGirt, Ellen (March 18, 2010). "Facebook Chris Hughes Jumo.com". Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/1587959/facebook-chris-hughes-jumocom.
- ^ Wortham, Jenna (November 30, 2010). "A Facebook Founder Begins a Social Network Focused on Charities". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/technology/30jumo.html.
- ^ "Top world personalities join UNAIDS' High Level Commission to bring about a prevention revolution". UNAIDS TODAY. July 21, 2010. http://unaidstoday.org/?p=408.
- ^ "Bilderberg 2011 list of participants". BilderbergMeetings.org. http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants_2011.html. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
- ^ Kim, Ryan James (October 25, 2005). "Out on Facebook". The Advocate: p. 44.
- ^ "A Place at the State Dinner Table". The Advocate. November 24, 2009. http://www.advocate.com/article.aspx?id=102977.
- ^ "Forty Under 40". The Advocate. May 2011. http://www.advocate.com/Print_Issue/Cover_Stories/Chris_Hughes_and_Sean_Eldridge/.
External links
- Chris Hughes, official blog
- Profile at Facebook
- Founder and Executive Director profile at Jumo
- Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners
- Articles
- DeWitt, Katie (July 21, 2004). "A Hot New Twist on the Old College Try". BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jul2004/sb20040721_8133.htm.
- Schatz, Amy (May 26, 2007). "BO, U R So Gr8 — How a Young Tech Entrepreneur Translated Barack Obama into the Idiom of Facebook". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118011947223614895-iSeQ_DC8SbZxiNLhtHwJyIftJN0_20070625.html. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- Benderoff, Eric (September 23, 2007). "Social Sites Go Political — A Facebook Founder Helps Design Obama's Online Network, and Other Candidates Are Doing What They Can To Add 'Friends'". Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sun_obama_websep23,0,4824579.story. Retrieved January 18, 2011. and photo gallery
- "The Class of 2009: Chris Hughes". Out. 2009. http://out.com/out100_2009/nominees_19.asp.
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