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Sky Dayton

Sky Dayton, Chairman

Sky is the founder and chairman of EarthLink and Boingo Wireless®.

Sky was introduced to computers in 1980 when he was 9 years old, by his grandfather, an IBM Fellow. He graduated from the Delphian School, a private boarding high school, in 1988 and decided to forgo college to pursue his interests in technology.

Immediately after high school, Sky spent two years managing the computer graphics departments of two advertising firms. In 1990, he co-founded the popular Café Mocha coffee house in West Hollywood. In 1992, while continuing to manage the coffee house, he co-founded Dayton Walker Design, a computer graphics boutique catering to the entertainment industry.

In 1993, Sky heard about the Internet and decided to get connected. After spending 80 frustrating hours attempting to configure his computer for Internet access, he concluded there must be a better way -- EarthLink was born. Sky's vision was that the Internet would be the next mass medium, and EarthLink was how the mass market would connect to it.

EarthLink has grown to become the second largest Internet Service Provider in the US, with 5 million customers, over $1 billion in annual revenue and thousands of employees.

In June of 1999, Sky joined with former Disney Internet chief Jake Winebaum to found eCompanies, an Internet incubator and venture fund that helped launch several successful start-ups and now serves as a holding company for these investments.

Sky launched Boingo Wireless® in December 2001 and serves as its Chairman. Sky believes the next phase of the Internet will be wireless, and Boingo® is helping to make that a reality.

Sky has received numerous awards and honors, including being named to Business Week's top seven entrepreneurs and being chosen as USC's 1999 entrepreneur of the year. He has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and on CNBC, CNN, and many other media.

In addition to EarthLink and Boingo, Sky serves on the board of Business.com and on the advisory boards of NTT DoCoMo and the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

An avid surfer and snowboarder, Sky resides in Santa Monica, California with his wife, novelist Arwen Elys Dayton, and their two young children.
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