Martin Manley (born August 27, 1952) is an American entrepreneur and politician, who currently serves as the Executive Director

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's San Francisco Campus. Manley previously served as US Assistant Secretary of Labor under President

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. He co-founded the major online bookseller

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Early life

Manley was born in

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, the son of Jack Manley and Georgia Rodecker. He graduated from Lowell High School in

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and UCSC, with honors degrees in Politics and Community Education. In 1987, he received his

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from

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Career

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Manley became a prominent California labor organizer. He held positions with the Hotel & Restaurant Workers in Monterey, California (now UNITE), Hospital Workers Local 250 of the Service Employees (

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), and the

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(IAM). He was among the earliest union organizers in

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, directed a large community-based campaign in Silicon Valley during the 1984 US Presidential election, and was a frequent and prominent critic of AFL-CIO President

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. In 1993, the newly elected

nominated Manley as US Assistant Secretary of Labor. Following his Senate confirmation, Manley served under

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as head of a new federal agency, which became the

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's Office of the American Workplace (OAW). The OAW was charged with promoting innovation in US workplaces.

Alibris

In 1997, Manley founded the major

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bookseller Alibris and served as the company's CEO for 10 years. Alibris integrates inventory from second-hand booksellers from around the world and is considered a classic example of a long tail ecommerce retailer. In 2000, Alibris became a significant Internet retailer. By 2005, Alibris was named by the

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and Silicon Valley Fast 50 list as one of North America's fastest growing technology companies. That same year ''

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'' declared that Alibris had "radically changed the buying and selling of used books".

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acquired Alibris in 2006. Manley then stepped down as

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of Alibris in 2010 and was succeeded by Brian Elliot, the company's president and COO.

Hult International Business School

Since May, 2013, Manley has served as the Executive Director of the San Francisco campus of

– a business school that in ten years has grown to become one of the largest and most global business program in the world. The San Francisco campus in

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currently enrolls more than 900 graduate students from more than 100 countries in one-year degree programs that enable students to rotate to Hult campuses in

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, and

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Personal life

Manley resides in

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and is married to AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean of the Information School at

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References

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