Peter Hirshberg

Peter Hirshberg has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 25 years. As chairman of Re:imagine Group, Peter shapes strategies at the confluence of people, places, brands and cities. He's worked with executive teams at Time Warner, Best Buy, Hertz, Sony, Unilever, Thomson Reuters, IBM, Verizon, GE, Estee Lauder, Telefonica and many others on digital and growth strategies. Peter is Chairman of San Francisco’s Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, where he’s developed initiatives at the forefront of citizen engagement in smart cities, open data and digital art. These include San Francisco's Summer of Smart with 16 mayoral candidates and Urban Prototyping in Singapore, London and San Francisco, Geneva and Zurich. As an advisor to United Nations Global Pulse he’s addressed the General Assembly real-time data for international development and is editor of, "Taking the Global Pulse." Peter was founder and CEO of Elemental Software, served as president and CEO of Gloss.com and is former Chairman of Technorati, the pioneering social media search engine and ad network During a nine year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership. Peter is a frequent technology and media industry speaker, having presented at TED, the World Economic Forum, DLD, EG the Entertainment Gathering, and The Aspen Ideas Festival. Peter Hirshberg earned his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton. He is a 1999 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.