Mr. Don Katz

Don Katz founded Audible, the leading provider of spoken audio information and entertainment, in 1995 after 20 years as an award-winning author and journalist.

Audible commercialized the first portable digital audio player in 1997, four years before the introduction of the iPod, and now includes more than 400,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible was acquired by Amazon in 2008 and runs digital membership businesses in the U.S., the UK, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Italy and Canada, and it serves as the supplier of digital audiobooks to Amazon. Since moving to Newark in 2007, Audible has become the fastest-growing private employer in the city.