John Ball joined FM this week as a Sr. Account Manager in our Author Services group. John has product management and client relations experience with Intuit, Ticketmaster, Sprint, and a couple of management consulting firms. He also has startup experience at Vicinity and Wholesecurity – two companies which were ultimately acquired by Microsoft and Symantec, respectively.

John has been an FM author for about a year through his site Yao Ming Mania, which he started in 2002. It quickly became the top site for NBA and Chinese superstar Yao Ming (arguably the world's most popular athlete) and a top site for Houston Rocket fans in general.

John holds an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and a business degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Welcome to the family, John!