Gary Shapiro

Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® which represents over 1300 consumer technology companies and owns and produces CES® — the Global Stage for Innovation. As head of CTA for more than three decades, he has ushered the consumer technology industry through major periods of technological upheaval and transformation. Shapiro is also theNew York Timesbestselling author ofNinja Future: Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation (HarperCollins, 2019), Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses(HarperCollins, 2013), andThe Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream(Beaufort, 2011). Through these books and through television appearances, and as a columnist whose more than1200 opinion pieces have appeared in publications such asThe Wall Street Journal,The New York TimesandThe Washington Post, Shapiro has helped direct policymakers and business leaders on the importance of innovation in the U.S. economy.