Speakers
Cyril Zimmermann
As CEO of French media company, Hi-Media Group, Cyril Zimmermann has built an global online media company that integrates Europe’s third largest advertising network with a top-100 Internet publishing company and a highly-profitable, rapidly-growing micro payments business. Cyril founded Hi-Media Group in 1996 at age 24 in order to sell advertising on the radio and on CDs. Following the dot com bust Cyril created an entirely new model by acquiring and growing complementary advertising, publishing and payments businesses.
In 2007, he took Hi Media’s strategy to a new level by acquiring Fotolog and combining the photo-blogging social network’s 17 million online member community in 200 countries with his publishing platform. Fotolog has gained over 7.5 million member accounts since the acquisition was announced in August 2007 and Hi-Media has unveiled plans to continue investing in publishing assets and payment networks in 2008.
