Rick Klau is the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google, where he leads the monetization efforts for the world's largest blogging platform. He is a member of the board of directors for the University of Richmond Law School Alumni Association and for Augsburg Fortress, and is a graduate of Lafayette College and the University of Richmond School of Law. Rick joined Google as a result of its acquisition of FeedBurner, where he ran FeedBurner's publisher services team. Prior to FeedBurner, Rick held senior roles at several software and Internet companies, focusing on marketing and business development. At the University of Richmond School of Law, he founded the world's first student-edited law journal to publish exclusively online, and received the T.C. Williams award from the law school faculty for the most significant contribution to legal scholarship.

Rick has lent technology advice to two US Presidential campaigns, ran the campaign weblog for President Barack Obama in his 2004 Senate race, ran product strategy for and managed Google's presence at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, and is the creator of superdelegates.org, a collaborative website that profiles all of the 700+ Democratic National Committee super delegates and presents them in a Google Earth layer. He is the co-author of three books about the Internet, was co-author of a long-running technology column on technology for the American Bar Association, and has presented to more than 70 audiences about the impact technology is having on business, politics, and society.

Interviews with Rick have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, Washington Post, InfoWorld, CIO Magazine, Information Week, and dozens of others. His work has been featured on CNN, in the New York Times, on NPR, and Wired Magazine.

Rick is married to Robin, has three children and lives in San Ramon, California. His weblog is at http://tins.rklau.com, and he can be reached via e-mail at rick@rklau.com.

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