Dr. Hannes Blum - Profile
<p>President and Chief Executive Officer, <a href="http://www.abebooks.com">AbeBooks Inc.</a></p>
<p>Hannes holds a Masters degree in Business and Engineering from the <a href="http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/index_en.php">University of Karlsruhe</a> and a PhD in business from the Otto Beisheim School of Management (<a href="http://whu.edu/cms/?id=1959&L=1">WHU</a>) in Germany. Hannes started his career with the <a href="http://www.bcg.com/">Boston Consulting Group</a> in strategy consulting. He then co-founded JustBooks in 1999 and became President and CEO at <a href="http://www.abebooks.com">AbeBooks Inc.</a> - the world’s largest marketplace for new, used, rare and out-of-print books and a <a href="http://www.internetretailer.com/default.asp">top 100 Internet Retailer</a> - following the acquisition of JustBooks by Abebooks in October 2001. During his tenure at AbeBooks, three companies have been acquired under his leadership (Iberlibro.com, BookFinder.com and Fillz.com) and AbeBooks also made a 40% investment in the leading social networking site for booklovers, LibraryThing.com. Hannes has won various industry awards, including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young for the Consumer Category in the Pacific Region in 2003. He's an active investor in several internet related businesses (including <a href="../../" target="_blank" title="http://www.suite101.com/">Suite101</a> in Vancouver, BC, <a href="http://www.admarketplace.net/" target="_blank" title="http://www.admarketplace.net/">Conducive Corp</a>. in New York, and two Victoria, BC-based firms <a href="http://www.teampages.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.teampages.com/">Teampages Inc.</a> and <a href="http://www.indochino.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.indochino.com/">Indochino Inc</a>). He also serves on three other Boards of Directors besides his mandate at AbeBooks Inc. In his free time he loves to spend time with his wife and his two young kids but he is also an avid tennis, golf and soccer player and enjoys skiing in the beautiful BC mountains.</p>