Anthony Citrano

Personal Factoids

•             Once saved a friend from a speeding locomotive
•             Is synesthetic (even without drugs)
•             Had broadband, GPS, and MP3s in his car in 2001

Mr. Citrano has more than two decades of experience in information technology, communications, and public policy. In 1993 - while a student at the University of Maine - he published The Virtual Journal, the world’s first web magazine. From 1994-1997 he served as chief technology advisor to Maine Governor Angus King, helping Maine set an early example of how online technology can improve government, and it became the first state to bring public services to the web.

In 1998, Citrano founded BrainPaste.com, the company that invented dynamic customer acquisition. He was its CEO until successfully effectuating its acquisition by R3Media in 2000, where he became R3Media's chief communications officer through 2001.

In 2001, Citrano co-founded fama PR, helping grow it into one of the nation's top boutique PR firms. Over the next five years, he led or supported marketing & communications programs for technology companies in a variety of fields from consumer software to wireless semiconductors to quantum cryptography.

Along the way, Citrano helped start Pop!Tech, the world's preeminent conference about the intersection of technology and culture. For more than a decade, he served Pop!Tech in various roles, including three years as conference chair.

Citrano joined EdgeCast in 2007 when it was still in "stealth mode" and helped launch the company as a new challenger in the content delivery and site acceleration business. Over the next six years, he built and managed the company's marketing and communications organization, establishing the company as the top contender in an increasingly crowded market. In 2013, Verizon acquired EdgeCast and Citrano became chief evangelist of Verizon EdgeCast.

Citrano has consulted for dozens of corporations, government agencies, elected officials, and non-profits on issues ranging from media strategy to drug policy and is a frequent commentator on American culture; regularly contributing to media including The Huffington Post, Boing Boing, and Money.

As a photographer, Citrano has hundreds of publishing credits that range from major newsweeklies such as TIME to niche fashion magazines such as Iconia and Dazed.
Living in the Venice district of Los Angeles, Citrano keeps his finger on the pulse of up and coming trends and can sometimes be found wandering between art galleries in search of new pop surrealism.