User:Davidmbank

I am a long-time journalist, now working in the nonprofit/social innovation world. I'm a vice president at Civic Ventures, which is working to establish the encore career as a new norm for the new stage of life after midlife and before old age.

As a reporter, I covered technology, software, ecommerce, security and Internet for the Wall Street Journal and the San Jose Mercury News. In particular, I was the Journal's Microsoft beat reporter and wrote a book, "Breaking Windows," (Free Press, 2001), that the Harvard Business Review and Amazon.com both selected as one of the "Best Business Books of 2001."

I live with my partner in Berkeley, Calif., and we have a five-year-old son who is starting kindergarten this fall.