Nathan James
Nathan James is CEO of Fishbone Marketing a conference producer that brings people together for commerce, for community, and for good. He produces Share.Like.Buy. Marketing + Millennials, the world’s leading conference about marketing to youth, now in its fourth year.
He has spoken widely about the impact of the Internet era on human communication and business ethics. Nathan is the son of Dust Bowl babies who escaped the farm to become a professor and a judge, now he lives in Russian Hill, San Francisco. His gigs include: Newspaper editor, magazine investigative journalist, flak catcher, copywriter, creative director, rainmaker, college instructor, novelist, and entrepreneur.
He earned a BA from Georgia State University and his MFA from Columbia University where he learned with legendary figures: Russell Banks, Harold Brodkey, Milos Forman, Stephen Koch, Gordon Lish, Bernard Malamud, Sharon Olds, Cynthia Ozick, and Robert Pinsky.
His vision emerged before Facebook and LinkedIn: The Internet created radical transparency, and companies would either embrace it or be crushed. Everything about a company’s internal operations – from morale to pay scales – would be visible to the world. Business owners’ only sustainable choice was to lead their companies as social institutions, responsible to all.