Mike Hettwer is a photojournalist specializing in archeology and dinosaur expeditions, as well as unique geocultural stories around the world. His travels have taken him to seventy countries and since 2000, he has photographed dinosaur expeditions to the Sahara Desert and Gobi Desert with top dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno, and Lake Turkana archeology expeditions with renowned paleoanthropologists Louise and Meave Leakey.
Mike Hettwer’s photos have appeared in 5,000 magazines, newspapers, books and Web sites and includes National Geographic magazine, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times, Science, Nature, Discover, Stern, BBC, Scientific American and USA Today. He has also created an expedition photography book with Meave and Louise Leakey and is producing several short films currently.
In his other life, Mike is a serial entrepreneur, who has started and built six companies focused on technology, software and the Web. His last two agencies built over 500 web sites and drove over $1.2B in revenue for it’s clients online. Previously he sold his web development firm to the public company IXL and built that group to 200 people and $30M in revenue annually.
Mike holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, has been a member of the TED Conference for a dozen years. He is one of the founders of TEDx Midwest a locally organized version of the TED conference. It is viewed as one of the top TEDx events in the world and brings 25 world class speakers to Chicago annually.
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Mike Hettwer
Mike Hettwer is a photojournalist specializing in archeology and dinosaur expeditions, as well as unique geocultural stories around the world. His travels have taken him to seventy countries and since 2000, he has photographed dinosaur expeditions to the Sahara Desert and Gobi Desert with top dinosaur hunter Paul Sereno, and Lake Turkana archeology expeditions with renowned paleoanthropologists Louise and Meave Leakey.
Mike Hettwer’s photos have appeared in 5,000 magazines, newspapers, books and Web sites and includes National Geographic magazine, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times, Science, Nature, Discover, Stern, BBC, Scientific American and USA Today. He has also created an expedition photography book with Meave and Louise Leakey and is producing several short films currently.
In his other life, Mike is a serial entrepreneur, who has started and built six companies focused on technology, software and the Web. His last two agencies built over 500 web sites and drove over $1.2B in revenue for it’s clients online. Previously he sold his web development firm to the public company IXL and built that group to 200 people and $30M in revenue annually.
Mike holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, has been a member of the TED Conference for a dozen years. He is one of the founders of TEDx Midwest a locally organized version of the TED conference. It is viewed as one of the top TEDx events in the world and brings 25 world class speakers to Chicago annually.