Shel Israel writes and speaks about technology’s impact on business and life. He has been a keynote speaker on all continents not covered by ice.

Israel is currently writing Lethal Generosity: How Loving Your Customers Kills YourCompetitors.It is scheduled forrelease in September 2015. Two of his previous works, Naked Conversations and Ageof Context, written with Robert Scoble, were critically acclaimed bestsellers.

Israel has also contributed to Forbes, FastCompany, BusinessWeek, BusinessInsider, Dow Jones &Conferenza Premium Reports.

Hating the writer’s mandatory vow of poverty, he became aSilicon Valley PR guy, where he ran his own agency for nearly 20 years.

He is now a recovering publicist.