JD Lasica

San Francisco Bay Area

J.D. Lasica is an entrepreneur, social media strategist, public speaker and author. He has been named one of Silicon Valley's top 40 influencers, one of the top 100 influencers in social media and one of CNET's Top 100 Media Bloggers. He has over 22,000 followers on Twitter at @jdlasica.

J.D. has given talks at the United Nations,South by Southwest, BlogWorld Expo, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, NYU, UC Berkeley, the Cannes Film Festival and at events on four continents.

His new startup, Cruiseable, is bringing innovation to the cruise industry. His partners continue to run his national social media consultancies Socialmedia.biz (with clients such as Charles Schwab) and Socialbrite (with nonprofit clients such as Goodwill Industries & Habitat for Humanity).

J.D. was co-founder of Ourmedia.org, the first free video hosting and sharing site, founded a month before YouTube.

  • Work
    • Cruiseable
  • Education
    • Rutgers