ZACK O'MALLEY GREENBURG

Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a Forbes staff writer and author of the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind. He writes a column called The Beat Report at Forbes, where he's covered finance and music since 2005, profiling the likes of Bon Jovi, Bruno Mars, Richard Branson and 50 Cent along the way. Zack's stories have taken him from Omaha's rail yards to the diamond mines of Sierra Leone. He has also written for The Washington Post, McSweeney's, Sports Illustrated and others. He has served as a guest lecturer at Yale, Berklee School of Music, Georgetown and Harvard, and has appeared as an expert source for BBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, E!, MTV, Reuters and other outlets.

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