Instructor Name: Troy Anderson
 
Troy Anderson has been at the forefront of Web technology innovations and media for more than fifteen years. A former management strategy consultant to Fortune 100 companies, Anderson is the current President & CEO of KnowledgePlex, Inc. – a spin-off from the Fannie Mae Foundation – that democratizes information for the affordable housing community on www.knowledgeplex.org and for data on www.dataplace.org. Previously, Anderson was SVP, Interactive & IT of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com, the leading publications covering the Internet economy. Prior to The Standard, Anderson was an executive at Red Herring magazine, another leading publication covering state-of-the-art technologies out of Silicon Valley and beyond. Anderson joined Red Herring from StockMaster.com, the pioneer in online stock quotes and charts, where he was the President & COO. Anderson has consulted to companies like Caterpillar, US&G, and Amoco (now BP); helped set up his tribe’s (Coquille Indian Tribe) economic development corporation; worked at Inside Sports magazine; and was a professional Go apprentice at the Japanese Professional Go Organization – the Nihon Ki-In – in Japan and later the author of the Way of Go, published by Simon & Schuster, on how the game of Go can inform strategic thinking. Anderson holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from Stanford University, where he wrote a dictionary of the Coquille language, Milluk. He also holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Troy Anderson teaches the following course(s):
NR145 How to Find and Use Data for Your Revitalization Work
NR245 Working with DataPlace Maps and Data to Make Your Case