Dan Kieran is co-founder of Unbound, the award-winning publishing platform that he led as CEO for over 11 years, taking the business from an idea on a piece of paper to a global, multi-million pound and profitable company. He is the author (and editor) of thirteen books including the bestselling Crap Towns, The Idle Traveller and The Surfboard. He has given talks about his entrepreneurial journey at Google, The DO Lectures, Toronto s Book Summit, London Book Fair, FutureBook, Hay Festival, Cambridge University and the EU Parliament. He has appeared on BBC Breakfast News, Channel Four News, Sky News, ITV News, the Today Programme and You and Yours on BBC Radio 4, BBC s The One Show, Newsnight and Radio 2. Having stepped down as CEO of Unbound in March 2022, he remains on the board as a non-executive director and now teaches on the Publishing MA at University College London.