John Lewis Needham

Google, California, USA

John Lewis Needham is Strategic Partner Development Manager at Google, Inc, where he is responsible for content acquisition and strategic partnerships in the publishing and library industries. JL has held positions in content and business development at Congressional Quarterly, Ebrary, and Cambridge University Press. He is a member of the advisory board of Berkshire Publishing Group.

An international executive MBA candidate at International School of Management in Paris, JL holds degrees in liberal arts and languages and has studied at Denver Publishing Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Vienna, and Utah State University. His research interests include online publishing and product development methodologies.