The judges

Community engagement &
Independent blog

Tariq Krim

Chief executive officer & founder, Netvibes

Tariq Krim is the Founder and CEO of Netvibes, the pioneer in super-personalized homepages. He created one of the first online messaging systems in France while attending elementary school. Since then, Tariq’s contributions to the Internet have continued on a grander scale, including founding GenerationMP3, France’s most popular blog network, and he is consistently recognized as one of the most influential innovators in the European web space. During the dotcom bubble, he was the exclusive overseas correspondent in Silicon Valley for the French newspaper La Tribune.

Tariq holds a degree in Physics from University of Paris VII and a Master’s in Telecommunications from ENST (Telecom Paris).

MEGAs © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008

Registered in England and Wales. No. 908396. Registered office: Number 1 Scott Place. Manchester M3 3GG