James Kinsella (born 10 October 1959) is an American tech entrepreneur and former journalist and helped develop some of the earliest web- and cloud-based ventures in the United States and the European Union.
While on sabbatical from the Herald Examiner, where he was the editor of the editorial pages, Kinsella was a fellow at Columbia University's Garnett Center for Media Studies.
[12][13] The company had gone public in the spring of that year but was quickly dogged by the revelation that its founder and chairwoman, Nina Brink, had secretly sold shares at a drastic discount to the flotation price.
[19] In the aftermath of the dot-com bubble and financial crisis of 2007–2008, Interoute acquired a series of heavily discounted European assets, including the failed KPNQwest's Ebone network[20] and one of the world's first business-to-business Internet service providers, PSINet Europe.
Its primary role was to help create a responsible and business-friendly environment through advocacy, education, standardization and policy, with the secondary goal of preventing laws that might block the development of the Internet's creative potential.
[27] Two decades later, as a tech executive in the European Union, Kinsella worked to develop privacy tools to combat rampant violation of individual users' data.