Rod Thorn is an author, playwright, screenwriter, producer, voice actor, journalist, speaker, strategic advisor, and former communications executive for IBM, Kodak, and PepsiCo. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, and other major print and broadcast media outlets. As an advisor to dozens of Fortune 500 CEOs and hundreds of other leaders around the globe, he has been involved in some of the most important developments in business history, the dawning of the internet, a chess-playing supercomputer, mega-mergers, backbreaking bankruptcies, and cutthroat cola wars among them. He is based in Connecticut.