Allen Noren is VP Online & Digital Initiatives at O'Reilly Media. He's been with the company since 1992 when one of his first jobs was to maintain the O'Reilly Gopher site. He was a founding member of the GNN team that built one of the first commercial web portals, and was part of the group that created Safari Books Online and SafariU. He is currently helping to drive O'Reilly's digital efforts.

Allen also occasionally edits trade books for O'Reilly, including Hackers & Painters, We the Media, Revolution in the Valley, and Devices of the Soul.

Allen is the author of Storm: A Motorcycle Journey of Love, Endurance, and Transformation.