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Porter Gale is a writer, public speaker, social media expert, entrepreneur, and marketing executive. She is also a former independent filmmaker.

Gale is the author of the forthcoming book Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age, which will be released by Simon & Schuster/Atria in June 2013.

From 2007 to 2011, Gale was Vice President of Marketing for Virgin America, where she managed brand and online marketing, the loyalty team, and in-flight content.

Prior to Virgin American, Gale was General Manager at marketing firm Kirshenbaum Bond and Partners, and President of her own marketing firm, the Porter Gale Group, whose clients included Country Music Television, Blue Shield of California, and Delta Dental.

Gale is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at business, marketing, and technology conferences and symposia, including the Economist Marketing Forum, Ad Age Digital Forum, Real Estate Connect, the Think Conference, SXSW, NFFTY, BizTechDay, TechCrunch, and the Powerful Women Paving the Way Conference at Penn State University.

She is also a blogger for AdAge and the Huffington Post.

Gale is on the advisory boards of WePay, Zuberance, Rocket Fuel, Dollar Shave Club, the Mina Group, zozi, and Here On Biz. She also sat on the board of directors for the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau from 2008 to 2012.

Gale was awarded the Changing the Game Award by the Advertising Women of New York (AWNY), was on AdAge’s Digital Hotlist in 2011, iMedia's Top 25-Digital Marketers, and Business Insider's The Fifty Sexiest Ad Executives list, and named a Digital Passionista by the Huffington Post.

Education
Gale has a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Boston University and a master's in documentary film and video from Stanford University.

Filmmaking
Gale was the executive co-producer of the 1998 film 2 Chicks, 2 Bikes, 1 Cause, a documentary detailing the bicycle journey of Gale and another rider, Donna Murphy, who pedaled 5,000 miles across 18 states in four months educating women about early detection and prevention of breast cancer. The film was broadcast on Lifetime in 1998.

She also co-directed the 2000 short documentary XXXY, a portrait of two individuals born with ambiguous genitalia that calls into question the medical practice of gender assignment surgery of intersex infants and children. XXXY was broadcast on PBS in 2000.

Gale was a co-executive producer of Fly Girls, a reality docu-series that followed the personal lives of five flight attendants working for Virgin America. The series aired on the CW Network in 2010.

Gale has also made documentary-style commercials for Kohl’s and Country Music Television.