Om Malik

Om Malik is an award-winning journalist who worked for Quick Nikkei News, Forbes.com, Red Herring and Business 2.0 before founding GigaOmniMedia, the company that publishes a group of blogs including GigaOM, NewTeeVee, Earth2Tech and WebWorkerDaily. Om also has a personal blog where he blogs about music, books and life.

Om is also the author of "Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist." His writings have also appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, Brandweek, and Crains, New York Business.

In the early and heady days of online news, he worked in Silicon Alley, observing the Internet revolution (and later bubble) from a close proximity. Om was part of the founding team of Forbes.com where he eventually became a senior editor. He left Forbes.com to join Hambrecht & Quist Asia Pacific as an investment manager, thus crossing over into the venture capital business. However, few months in the VC business he returned to the world of writing and reportage.

Om graduated from St. Stephens’ College in New Delhi with an honors degree in chemistry in 1986. He has also contributed to several Indian publications including the Economic Times and The Week, India’s leading news weekly. In 1995 he co-founded a South Asian portal, Masala.com. He was the founder of Desiparty.com, a South Asian Listings Service, that still exists as a standalone entity under different management.