Craig Newmark

Craig Alexander Newmark was born on 6 December 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey. Craig is a senior Web-oriented software engineer, with around twenty-five years of experience (including 18 years at IBM), and has become a leader in online community by virtue of running www.craigslist.org for over 9 years.

Newmark attended Morristown High School. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University.

Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, which plans to combine the work of amateurs and professionals to produce investigative stories on the Internet.

Newmark resides in San Francisco's Cole Valley and is active at craigslist in customer service, mostly dealing with spammers and scammers. He puts in at least 40 hours a week on customer service. "I'm just a customer service rep. My two biggest projects are dealing with misbehaving apartment brokers in New York and lightly moderating our discussion boards" - he says.

Craig has been featured in the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Business Week, Time Magazine, and Esquire Magazine.

Jim Buckmaster

Jim Buckmaster is a programmer who has been the chief executive officer of Craigslist since 2000. He was an undergraduate at Virginia Tech and studied medicine and classics at the University of Michigan in the 1990s.

Before joining craigslist, Buckmaster directed web development for Creditland (defunct) and Quantum. In 1994-95, he built what may have been the world's largest web site at the time, a terabyte-scale database-driven public web site for ICPSR at at the University of Michigan. In January 2000, he was recruited by Craigslist as lead programmer, where he contributed the site's multi-city architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self-posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best-of-craigslist. In November of 2000, he was promoted to the post of CEO.

He has been the subject of feature stories in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Telegraph, SF Chronicle, and many other publications; been interviewed for dozens of television and radio programs; and is possibly the only American CEO ever accused in major business periodicals of being anti-establishment, a communist, a socialist, and an anarchist.