Donald R. Katz

Who is Donald R. Katz?

Donald Katz is founder and CEO of Audible, Inc. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Newark, NJ since 2007, Audible.com serves millions of listeners and offers over 150,000 downloadable audiobooks, audio editions of periodicals, and other programs. Audible also commercialized the first portable digital audio player in 1997, four years before the introduction of the iPod. In 2004, Mr. Katz was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for New Jersey. Audible was a publicly traded Nasdaq company until it was acquired and became a subsidiary of Amazon.com in early 2008. Audible operates eleven global outlets, including websites in the UK and Germany.