Lynda Weinman is co-founder and Executive Chair of Lynda.com. A Web graphics and design veteran, Weinman wrote the very first industry book on Web design, Designing Web Graphics, in 1995. She is a prominent educator and the author of dozens of best-selling books. Weinman was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, in 1989, and has worked as an animator and motion graphics director in the film special effects industry.

Since selling Lynda.com to LinkedIn for $1.5 billion, she left the company and now chairs the board of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and funds documentary filmmakers.

Weinman has worked as a consultant for Adobe, Macromedia, and Microsoft, and has conducted workshops at Disney, Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia. She has been a keynote speaker, moderator, and lecturer at numerous design, animation, Web design, and computer-graphics conferences. Weinman and her husband Bruce Heavin co-founded lynda.com in 1995.

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