Through a combination of luck and persistence, Giovanni Rodriguez has worked in the company of some of the most interesting and colorful leaders in several worlds: the law, theater, and technology. Recently, he was a principal and partner at Eastwick Communications, a Silicon Valley PR agency, where he advised both emerging companies and market leaders on executive leadership, public speaking, marketing strategy and media relations. Today, he is co-founder and principal of Hubbub, a new kind of communications consultancy deliberately designed for the globally networked economy.

In recent years, Giovanni’s professional interests have focused on the intersection of commerce, technology, and civic leadership. On behalf of the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley, Giovanni helped spearhead an effort to investigate the validity of the electronic vote in the 2004 presidential election. He has also worked for, consulted and advised numerous businesses and organizations including HP, Stanford University, Fujitsu Computer Systems, Cadence Design Systems, VMware, the American Arbitration Association, and the Unified Court System of New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University (Religion and Anthropology), and he has done graduate course work at the Columbia School of Journalism and N.Y.U.