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Luke Beatty

Luke is a Vice President and General Manager at Yahoo! and oversees Yahoo Local and all of the community properties, including the Yahoo Contributor Network, Flickr, Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Answers. Associated Content, now called the Yahoo Contributor Network, which Luke founded in 2005 and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2010 and is known as the web’s first crowd sourced media platform.

Prior to founding Associated Content, Luke was the VP of Business Development at WAND, a leading developer of media search and advertising taxonomies technologies. Luke is recognized for his expertise in crowd sourced content, content collection and distribution platforms, online advertising models and digital media trends. In 2007, Luke has presented innovations in these areas at conferences worldwide and was selected as one of the Business Journal’s “40 under 40.” Luke is an avid fly fisherman, youth lacrosse coach and sits on the Board of Directors for the Denver Sports Commission. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College and a master’s degree from Harvard University.

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