Hans Peter Brondmo

Head of Social Software and Services, Nokia

Hans Peter is a successful serial entrepreneur and executive who has spent his career at the intersection of technology innovation and empowering consumers. He has invented several novel software applications and services and built businesses that help people better communicate and connect.

Hans Peter's last start-up, Plum was acquired in September of 2009 by Nokia where Hans Peter is now head of the social experience product group responsible for defining and building Nokia's mobile, web and desktop social applications and enablers. He splits his time between Berlin and Mt. View.

In 1996 Hans Peter founded Post Communications a pioneering email marketing software-as-a-service (SAS) company. Post was acquired by Netcentives in 2000. Prior to Post Hans Peter co-founded DiVA which brought digital video editing to consumers in the early 90s. DiVA was acquired by Avid Technology in 1993.

Hans Peter is the author of The Engaged Customer, a NYT best selling book on Email Relationship Marketing and has testified at US Senate and FCC hearings on Internet privacy and spam. He has addressed more than 50 conferences in the past several years on topics ranging from the new models of sharing and social collaboration on the Internet, to privacy, entrepreneurship and the broader impact and influence of technology on individuals. He has been broadly featured in the media.