Chris Hughes
Chris R. Hughes ( * November 26, 1983 in Hickory, North Carolina) is an American entrepreneur. He was next to Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin one of the co-founder and spokesman for the online network Facebook.
Life
Hughes is the only child of a retired teacher and a former newspaper seller. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Together with his roommates at Harvard University - Zuckerberg, Moskovitz and Saverin - 2004 he founded Facebook, which is now most widely used social network on the Internet, with only 1 % shareholder. As Facebook expanded beyond the borders of Harvard, he voted that each school can set up their own network - so that security and familiarity remain. Unlike Zuckerberg, he finished his studies and graduated in 2006 from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in History.
In 2007 he left Facebook to support the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. He coordinated the site My.BarackObama.com. (in short " MyBO "). Over a million of Obama's supporters used the platform to network with each other, to discuss and form action groups. In the U.S., Hughes is considered brilliant mind behind the online strategy of the current U.S. president. Among other things, he set during the campaign also includes Facebook, Twitter and other online portals. He pointed to it, which may have an impact on Digital Natives business and politics. The American business magazine Fast Company named him as the man who had helped the people in the Obama campaign, Barack Obama only to the presidency. In 2009, he was with his partner, Sean Eldridge, a guest at the first state dinner hosted by President Obama.
2010 Hughes founded the social Internet network " Jumo ", which focuses on the NPO sector and both for charitable organizations around the world as well as for other users is open. In the language of living in Africa Yoruba Jumo means " pulling together ". Accordingly, Jumo has set the goal of bringing together social organizations and volunteers for worldwide relief projects. People who want to be socially committed, it should be easier to find the right organization to get in touch with this and to support them if necessary.
In July 2010, Hughes was appointed UNAIDS ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS) in a high-profile Commission for HIV prevention. In this 17 -member "High Level Commission" next to Hughes noted politicians such as former French President Jacques Chirac and the former Bundestag President Rita Süssmuth, but also entrepreneurs, human rights activists, athletes and scientists are represented. Members should bring their contacts and experience in the course of 2011, and work toward effective and efficient prevention programs.
Today Hughes lives with his life partner Sean Eldridge (political director of Freedom to Marry initiative ) in New York and works for the venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners. However, he is still involved in Facebook and acts as a consultant to continue with the development of the company.