1
Elizabeth Spiers
Elizabeth Spiers is the CEO of Everup.com, a lifestyle design site that helps users be more productive, more creative, healthier and happier. Spiers is a serial entrepreneur and journalist who was previously the editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, the founder of Breaking Media (which publishes Dealbreaker, AboveTheLaw and Fashionista) and the founding editor of Gawker.com, Gawker Media's flagship site. She has also been a columnist at Fast Company and Fortune and is an advisor to several digital startups. She also teaches at New York's School of Visual Arts in the Design Research MFA program and is a YLF fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.