Gary Shapiro

Gary Shapiro is the president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA(R)), the U.S. trade association that represents more than two thousand consumer electronics companies, and owns and produces the annual International CES, the most mportant innovation-oriented trade show in the world. As head of the CEA(R) for more than three decades, he has effectively ushered the consumer electronics industry through major periods of technological upheaval and transformation.

Shapiro is the New York Times bestselling author of The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream. A regular columnist for the Huffington Post, Forbes, and the Daily Caller, he has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He also appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, and C-SPAN.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. He splits his time between Detroit and Washington, D.C., and is married to Dr. Susan Malinowski.