Clarence Gregory “Austin” Burbridge

During Austin Burbridge’s career as editor, man­a­ger, and bus­i­ness ex­ec­u­tive, he has created value for stakeholders, and opportunities for employees.

• He supervised thir­ty cor­res­pon­dents in Af­ri­ca, Asia, Eu­rope, North A­mer­i­ca, and South A­mer­i­ca during fifteen years as ex­ec­u­tive editor of Cine­ma Min­i­ma, an on­line news service for mo­vie makers which he had founded in 1997.
• He led twenty-five employees to execute a marketing plan at the industrial marking-equipment manufacturer where he was CEO.
• He set up the first copyediting service at Ap­ple’s ded­i­cat­ed creative agency, TBWA\Me­dia Arts Lab.
• He automated mission-critical operations for enterprises—including Kais­er Per­ma­nen­te, and Well­stream Cor­por­a­tion—with Mac apps which he designed and coded.

Austin was educated at Brown University (B.A., art, and semiotics), Rice Media Center (mo­tion-pic­ture pro­duc­tion), and the U­ni­ver­sit­y of Chi­ca­go (art history).

He is a native speaker of American English. He has a working knowledge of metropolitan French.

Born and raised in East Texas, Austin lives in Southern Cal­i­for­nia.