Biography of Rajiv Pant

Rajiv is Vice President of Information Technology at CondeNet, where he is responsible for technology for Conde Nast’s destination web sites.

Prior to this, he was Chief Technology Officer at COXnet. COXnet is part of the Newspapers Division of Cox, one of the nation’s leading media/communications companies and providers of automotive services. 

Before joining Cox, for nearly a decade Rajiv worked in many roles at Knight Ridder, then the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States.

As Vice President, Technology/Engineering at Knight Ridder Digital in San Jose, Rajiv led the development and implementation of Knight Ridder’s Web site products. At the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, he worked closely with newsroom colleagues in many successful projects.

He twice received the prestigious Knight Ridder Excellence Award for Technology Innovation for several award winning products. Among some of his team’s products, Cofax is today a leading open source content management system used by newspapers and other companies in many countries. Xmultra, a systems integration product for feeds transfer and transformation with multiple newspaper systems, won the Newspaper Association of America’s New Media Award.

As a consultant, he has assisted organizations with technology leadership and product development. He founded a consulting company in the Enterprise Software and Open Source spaces.

Due to his family’s work in the media industry, Rajiv has spent time in newsrooms and television studios since he was a little child. He often helped them using computers not realizing it would one day become his career.

(updated November 2007)