Alan Webber

Alan Webber is the cofounder of Fast Company. Established in 1995 by Webber and Bill Taylor, Fast Company is a highly acclaimed, progressive business magazine and media brand focused on innovation in technology, leadership and design.

Webber and Taylor’s vision to break business magazine conventions and start conversations that mattered earned the publication recognitions such as the 2014 and 2011 National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors and the prestigious Gerald R. Loeb Recognition for Distinguished Business Journalism. Webber and Taylor earned recognition as AdWeek’s Editors of the Year in 1999.

Before starting Fast Company, Webber worked at Harvard Business School for six years, serving as a managing editor and editorial director for the Harvard Business Review and senior research assistant and product coordinator on an automotive industry study that culminated in a book. Prior to this Webber worked at multiple publications in Oregon and helped found the political paper The Oregon Times not long after graduating from Amherst College with a degree in English.

Webber has also served as a speechwriter and policy advisor at the local, state and national level and started One New Mexico, a nonprofit organization focused on public policy reform to improve the state he now calls home. He is a John J. McCloy Fellow, a former fellow of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program, has been designated an honorary Senior Fellow at the Design Futures Council and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Boston Architectural College.