Eason Jordan is the co-founder and chief executive officer of two companies: Poll Position and Headline Apps.

Poll Position is a news, polling, and social media company whose goals are to engage, enlighten, and entertain millions of people every day.

Headline Apps produces unique, timely applications for the iPad, iPhone, and other electronic platforms.

From 2005 through March 2010, Jordan served as the chief executive officer of Praedict, a provider of exclusive, customized insights and guidance on and from the world's most challenging regions.

From 1982 until 2005, Jordan worked with CNN, where he rose through the ranks to become the network's chief news executive and president of newsgathering and international networks. Jordan oversaw CNN's news coverage, international outlets, global expansion, and international relations. He traveled around the world on CNN's behalf and reported on-air and online from Iraq, North Korea, and elsewhere.

Jordan's journalistic honors include Emmy Awards, Peabody Awards, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Headliner Awards, ACE Awards, The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, The Vanguard Award, the Livingston Award, and the first Charles Weltner Freedom of Information Award.

Jordan has written op-ed articles that appeared in dozens of newspapers including The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. His exclusive 1997 reporting from North Korea on the famine there appeared in Time magazine.

Jordan's university lectures include appearances at Harvard, Columbia University, the American University of Beirut, UCLA, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, Northwestern, Hampden-Sydney, Emory University, and Georgia Tech.

He has made guest appearances on PBS, NPR, the BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, Israeli TV, Chinese TV, Indian TV, Pakistani TV, TV Asahi, and Fuji TV.

He attended Georgia State University and DeKalb College.

Jordan serves on the leadership council of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the North America board of the International News Safety Institute, and the advisory board of Peacetree Productions. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the ONE Campaign.