About Rohit Bhargava

Rohit is a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy and the best selling author of Personality Not Included, an entertaining and useful guide to using your personality in marketing which is available in more than 50 countries around the world in 8 languages. He publishes the Influential Marketing blog, which AdAge Magazine rates among the top 50 marketing blogs in the world and was recently described by the Wall Street Journal as "intellectual and educational."

Rohit has been featured on the covers of MarketingChina and PRWeek magazines and contributed to Fast Company and dozens of other publications both online and offline. He has also been interviewed as a marketing expert on SkyNews, Fox, PBS and other regional radio and broadcast outlets around the world. Rohit currently teaches Global Communications at Georgetown University in Washington DC and was named one of the Most Influential South Asians In Media & Marketing for 2009. In addition, he is a popular and entertaining keynote speaker at business events around the world with recent keynote appearances in Singapore, London, Kiev, Toronto, Sydney, and Paris, as well as more than dozen large cities across the US in the past year.

In 2005, Rohit invented the concept of Social Media Optimization (SMO) on his blog, and is widely recognized across the marketing industry (and on Wikipedia) for this. Prior to this, Rohit led the interactive team at Leo Burnett Advertising Agency in Sydney, Australia where he lived for 5 years. He holds dual citizenship with Australia and the US, and currently lives in Washington DC with his wife and two young sons, Rohan and Jaiden.