Pete Kistler is the Founder and Head of Product of BrandYourself.com, a free web app that makes it easy to push positive content to the top of search results for your name. His company has been called one of the Top 100 Most Innovative College Startups in the U.S. Pete was named the Young Entrepreneur of 2011 by the Small Business Association and named one of the Top 5 College Entrepreneurs of 2009 by Entrepreneur Magazine.
Pete is cited as a leading Online Reputation Management expert for Generation Y, one of the Top 30 Definitive Personal Branding Experts on Twitter, and was a judge for the 2009 Personal Brand Awards.
In 2010 Pete wrote the Wednesday column for the nationally acclaimed Personal Branding Blog, which is consistently ranked a Top 50 Marketing Blog in the World by AdAge, the #1 job blog by CareerBuilder in 2008, and syndicated by Forbes, Reuters and Fox Business.
Pete is also the co-author of the book “Career Launchpad” (Perry, 2009) and “From Tweet To Hired” (Brand-Yourself, 2010). Google him to connect on Twitter, LinkedIn, and his personal site.
Pete is passionate about using technology to make life simpler, easier and happier. He spends his time dreaming about and building tools that let us spend more time on the things we love.
Learn more about Pete at http://petekistler.com/.
Pete is from Needham, MA with an education in Information Management & Technology and Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises from the iSchool at Syracuse University.
