CEO/Founder, Skift, an early-stage travel intelligence startup. Founder, paidContent. Traveler. New Yorker. Global Soul.

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Rafat is the CEO/founder of Skift, an early-stage travel intelligence startup that offers news, data, and and services to the travel industry and business travellers.

Previously, he was the founder/CEO of paidContent and ContentNext, which he sold to UK's Guardian News and Media in 2008, and left in 2010. Prior to that, he was managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter.

Rafat was the Knight Fellow at Indiana University, where he completed his Masters in Journalism, 1999-2000. Prior to that he completed his BSc in Computer Engineering, from AMU in Aligarh, India.
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Professional Affiliations/Disclosures:
-- Board of Directors: International Women's Media Foundation
-- Board member, Asia Society's Digital Media Advisory Board
-- Board of Advisors: GigaOmni Media, parent of Gigaom Network.
-- Judge, Gerald Loeb Awards, organized by UCLA Anderson School of Management

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Selected photographs from my two years of travels, 2010-2012: http://rafat.500px.com/

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