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Jeffrey Bates

Jeffrey Bates

Vice-President, SourceForge / Geeknet (USA)

Jeff Bates has served as Geeknet’s Vice President, Platform since February 2008. He heads Geeknet’s core engineering and product teams for Slashdot, freshmeat, and Sourceforge. In this role, Jeff oversees the websites’ application development, interface and the overall content strategy for the sites. From July 2004 through February 2008, Jeff served as Vice President, Editorial Operations and Executive Editor of Slashdot. He was responsible for driving new site and product development, and managing strategic story editing and placement for the leading tech news site. While at Slashdot, Jeff was responsible for several industry awards including a Webby People's Voice Award for Community, as well as Yahoo!, Inc.'s "Top 100" Best of the Internet Award. Slashdot was also cited by The Washington Post, TIME, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Business Week, and Forbes as one of the most innovative and important sites for the technical community. From May 2001 to July 2004, Jeff was director, media operations for Geeknet’s online media business.

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