Market-leading Vendor Completes its International Advisory Board
SAN JOSE, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 10, 2015 / 1World continues its momentum and international growth for 2015 via the announcement of seven new equity-holding advisors to its advisory board and the opening of new international offices.
The new advisors to the prestigious 1World World Advisory Board include:
Mr. George Hara and his firm, DEFTA Partners, are the lead investors in the company's latest financing and is advising and leading initiatives for 1World in the Japanese market.
Mr. David Schlesinger is intellectually leading 1World's entry into Asia, in particular into China. Mr. Schlesinger was the Chairman of Thomson Reuters China until August 2012, and was previously the global Editor-in-Chief of Reuters news. He holds a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting.
Mr. Sean Koh has taken a leading stake in 1World to facilitate partnership initiatives in Korea and entertainment industry in general. Mr. Koh is a third-generation Korean family industrialist and successful modern-day capitalist, bridging Korea and the USA.
Mr. Gregory Mark Hill and Mr. Peter Saulnier, principals of Merchant Banker GCH Partners, are advising 1World on Social Impact implications of the 1World platform, coordinating select strategic partnerships, and advising on pre-IPO and mid-market considerations.
Mr. Richard Hecker, a New York City digital media technology veteran and founder of Traction & Scale, LLC, is helping 1World on business development and strategy.
Mr. Dan Reich is a New York City entrepreneur, a writer for Forbes, and a successful entrepreneur having co-founded Spinback which was acquired by Buddy Media which in turn was acquired by Salesforce.com.
Mr. Gene DeRose, a Research and Online service industry veteran, ex-CEO and President of Jupiter and now Managing Partner of NYC-based 1World Ventures.
The new members join the current 1World advisor board that started in 2012 and includes Matthew Le Merle (General Partner, Keiretsu Capital), Rob Enderle (famous tech analyst and writer), John Ricci (head of US Angels), Kira Makagon (CTO of RingCentral, Scopus, Octane Software), Greg Kahn (media and technology consultant), Michael Minkevich (VP, Technology Services at Luxoft), Nate Williams (former Google executive), Ted Sanford (founder and CEO Flashsoft), and Dr. Augie Grant (renowned researcher and writer).
1World's engagement applications-supporting eight languages today, growing to over a dozen in 2015- include content, and analytics tools allows web-based operations to better engage their audiences, conduct customer analytics and market research, and enjoy various monetization programs. The benefits of using the 1World solution are an increase in user session times and page views, an ability to attract returning visitors, methods to accurately discover visitor opinion's, and the power to effortlessly collect valuable data for advertisers, sponsors, and partners. Already present on over 500 web sites around the world such as Reuters in multiple countries, The Huffington Post, San Francisco Examiner, The Blaze, Peru.com, Mexico2014.com, Liga.net, Global Editors Network (GEN), the Reuters Foundation, Blog Catalog (largest blogging network in the world with over 400,000 member blogs), and Project Syndicate (a site which features editorial opinions from world-famous experts from around the world), Le Tribune (France), and El Universal (South America's leading publisher). The 1World user-friendly platform offers an expansive suite of features and online product modules for publishing-focused or high-traffic web sites.
1World, headquartered in San Jose, CA, in early 2014 opened regional offices on the USA East coast with presences in Boston and New York. Internationally in the second half of 2014, 1World set-up its second European office in UK (adding to the two-year old office in Ukraine), established an office in Mexico recently covering all of Latin America via its acquisition of Flipter.com, began operating an India country office with locations centered in Gujarat and Mumbai, is able to cover Japan now through its affiliation with Defta Partners and new advisor George Hara, and is able to cover China and establishing new clients and partnerships which will be announced in 2015 via its new advisors David Schlesinger, Donald Yu, and Gregory Mark Hill.
1World, to its namesake, has always had an international ambition and focus, and it has now emerged as one of the differentiators the company enjoys helping to propel 1World to #1 status among all its competitors, as measured by the independent Alexa rankings. 1World's Global Exchange network uniquely allow for syndication of online opinion gathering apps- polls, debates, quizzes, surveys, or info-graphical interactive apps-so as to enjoy user/visitor engagement while conducting market research and audience analytics. Please contact 1World if you want to increase engagement on your web site, increase audience insights, and add new revenue models to your business- and we welcome international or multi-lingual web site partners.
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1World Online has developed and maintains a Web Engagement and Analytics Platform providing simple but effective engagement applications, unique-engaging content, ongoing market research, and insightful end-user analytics of their customers. 1World is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices in San Jose, CA and on the USA East coast. Internationally, 1World has operations in Europe, India, Latin America and now Asia as well. The 1World service is available on the Web at 1Worldonline.com, for iPhone in the App Store and for Android devices in Google Play and for Windows 8 in Windows Store. Please visit us at http://www.1Worldonline.com or contact us at [email protected] or [email protected].
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