Dan Rosensweig

Dan Rosensweig
Born	Dobbs Ferry, New York
Alma mater	Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Occupation	President and CEO of Chegg

Dan Rosensweig is an American business executive, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chegg. Previously, Rosensweig served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Guitar Hero, a series of music rhythm games published by RedOctane and Harmonix, Chief Operating Officer at Yahoo!, President of CNET, and President and Chief Executive Officer of ZDNet.

Rosensweig was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York and raised in Scarsdale, New York, where he graduated from Scarsdale High School. He played offensive lineman on the school's football team.

Rosensweig enrolled at Hobart and William Smith, graduating in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. As a Hobart student, Rosensweig was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Little Theatre, and studied abroad in London.

Rosensweig's first job out of college was at Pitney Bowes Dictaphone, selling word processors door-to-door in Manhattan. Within three hours on the job he was informed that the company had to lay off nearly 1,000 people, including his division.

Following this experience in 1983, Rosensweig took a job at Ziff Davis Publishing Company as a cold caller selling magazines to mom-and-pop computer retail stores. He continued to work for Ziff Davis until 2000, where he worked his way up from the circulation department, to classified ad sales, to front-of-book ad sales, then publisher of PC Magazine. Under Rosensweig's leadership, PC Magazine became the leading computer magazine in both audience reach and revenue.

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