Ralf Hirt

Ralf Hirt is the Vice President- International at Glam Media, a Web 2.0 distributed media firm. He previously spent nine years at DoubleClick in New York, London, Sydney and Hong Kong as the Vice President- Operations and Strategic Partnerships, Senior Director- Publishers, Managing Director- Asia Pacific, and Director of the Board for DoubleClick Japan KK. He has worked with players in the industry including The Washington Post, Dow Jones, News Corp, Ft.com, Sina, Netease, WPP's Ogilvy group, Carat, and ebay. Earlier in his career Mr. Hirt was with FIT, a database marketing / CRM firm part of BBDO/Omnicom. He is the Founder and President of 8W8 ventures Inc., a company specializing in business models, knowledge and marketing for the digital and integrated age. He co-authored "Infrastructure & Productivity in Asia", and is the author of the fiction/faction work 8W8 - Global Space Tribes. (This is me - Update Profile)