Jane Metcalfe
{{short description|American businesswoman}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2008}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jane Metcalfe
| image = Jane Metcalfe in 2021 02.jpg
| caption = Metcalfe in 2021
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|11|15}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/business/sound-bytes-tracking-high-tech-culture.html |title=Sound Bytes; Tracking High-Tech Culture |last=Flynn, Laurie |date=July 10, 1994 |work=New York Times |access-date=10 October 2013}}
| birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
| education = University of Colorado Boulder (B.A., International Affairs)
Louisville Collegiate School
| known for = co-founding Wired with Louis Rossetto
}}
Jane Metcalfe is the co-founder, with Louis Rossetto, and former president of Wired Ventures, creator and original publisher of the magazine Wired. Prior to that, Metcalfe managed advertising sales for the Amsterdam-based Electric Word magazine. She and Rossetto co-founded TCHO chocolates. Metcalfe is life-partners with Rossetto and they have two children.
Career
In 1994 Metcalfe was elected to the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.{{Cite web |title=Sound Bytes; Tracking High-Tech Culture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/business/sound-bytes-tracking-high-tech-culture.html |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=www.nytimes.com}}
Metcalfe was on the 2004 and 2005 Digital Communities jury of Prix Ars Electronica.
In 2015 Metcalfe and Rossetto were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at The 19th Annual Webby Awards.{{Citation |last=The Webby Awards |title=Cenk Uygur Presents WIRED with Lifetime Achievement at The 19th Annual Webby Awards |date=2015-05-19 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FZE4F3fFpI |access-date=2017-03-13}}
Metcalfe and Rossetto co-founded Tcho Chocolate, a Berkeley, Calif.-based maker and vendor of artisanal chocolates.[https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Couple-s-Tcho-Ventures-sets-the-bar-for-chocolate-4872858.php]. In early 2018, Tcho was sold to the Japanese firm Ezaki Glico (maker of Pocky).{{Cite web |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/02/20/berkeley-chocolate-maker-tcho-sold.html |title=Berkeley chocolate maker to be acquired by Japanese food company |last=Burke |first=Katie |date=2018-02-20 |website=San Francisco Business Times |access-date=12 October 2018}}
Metcalfe in 2017 founded NEO.LIFE, a web-based and email magazine, that focuses on the people, companies, and biological technologies that are improving, repairing, and extending life.{{Cite web |url=https://www.inc.com/magazine/201707/thomas-goetz/selling-new-products.html |title=How to Get Real People to Buy Your Products Online |last=Goetz |first=Thomas |date=2017-06-30 |website=Inc.com |access-date=2018-12-12}}
Metcalfe is a partner, along with Rossetto, in Força da Imaginaçao, an independent investment concern with interests in technology, media, and real estate. She is also a board member at One Economy Corporation, which maximizes the potential of technology to help low-income people improve their lives and join the economic mainstream. She was a founding board member of Ex'pression College for Digital Arts as well as ZERO1: The Art and Technology Network.{{cite web |title=Jane Metcalfe's Biography |url=https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/jane-metcalfe/ |website=Chartwell Speakers |access-date=29 April 2023}}
Metcalfe is vice president of the board of trustees of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.{{Cite web |title=Jane Metcalfe |url=https://www.imaginationinaction.co/summitspeakers/jane-metcalfe |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=www.imaginationinaction.co}}
She has been a board member of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation since 2020.{{Cite web |title=Metcalfe, Jane {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/economics-magazines/metcalfe-jane |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}
She is a frequent speaker and presenter at various events and institutions, from UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford and Singularity University to ComicCon, De Young Museum, StartUp Health, Health 2.0, Wired Health, TEDx San Francisco, TEDx Carnegie Mellon, Hello Tomorrow, Wanderlust Festival, etc.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-28 |title=Jane Metcalf {{!}} HIMSS |url=https://www.himss.org/global-conference/speaker-jane-metcalf |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=www.himss.org |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
References
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External links
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- [http://zero1.org/ ZER01: The Art and Technology Network]
- [http://www.expression.edu/index.html Ex'pression College of Digital Arts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102073125/http://www.expression.edu/index.html |date=2012-11-02 }}
- [https://proto.life PROTO.LIFE]
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Category:Louisville Collegiate School alumni
Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni
Category:Wired (magazine) people
Category:Businesspeople from Louisville, Kentucky
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