Caterina Fake

Caterina is the cofounder of Flickr, almost certainly the best photo management and sharing application in the world.

Before joining Ludicorp (founder of Flickr), Caterina worked as Creative Director of Yellowball (later Sonamo), an online collaborative animation company in San Francisco. Yellowball was originally developed at Interval Research, where Caterina was employed as a Member of the Research Staff. Prior to Interval, she was an Art Director at Salon.com, winner of numerous design and content awards including Time Magazine's Best Site of the Year and 3 consecutive Webby Awards. She served as a Lead Designer at Organic Online, a top web development agency, where she worked on web sites for Fortune 500 companies such as McDonald's, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, Levi's and Nike — many of them their first online ventures. Her design work has been recognized by Print Magazine, Communication Arts, The Web Design Annual 2003 in Japan, and appears in Taschen's 1000 Favorite Web Sites. She serves on the board of the Intermission Artists Society.

Caterina has acted as host for many online communities including the book forum at Electric Minds and the design forum at Netscape. She publishes a daily weblog at www.caterina.net and is a regular speaker at many industry conferences and universities in the U.S. and Canada. She recently was heard on CBC Radio's Sounds Like Canada. She also shows her sculpture and installation work, publishes her fiction and poetry and last read her work at the Vancouver International Writers' Festival. She graduated with honors in English Literature from Vassar College.