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HANKES
Bill
Chief Communications Officer at Forbes
In the rating #2 Chief Communications Officer
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Biography
Bill Hankes is Chief Communications Officer at Forbes. Also, Hankes is an entrepreneur and is founder of Sqoop, a news discovery service used in newsrooms around the world.
Career
Before founding Sqoop, he served as the senior communications executive and spokesman for both emerging growth and publicly traded technology and media companies. Most recently he was Director of Bing Public Relations at Microsoft and before that Vice President of Corporate Communications for RealNetworks. He has spoken regularly at journalism conferences including the SABEW Government Data Immersion Workshop, NICAR and IRE.



