Jan Van den Bergh
Born in Belgium 1952 already. Over 30 years in marketing, advertising ...half of that period online. Since 2006 in China - Shanghai
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.holaba.com.cn |
| Industries: | Computing, Information Technology, Internet, Media, Mobile |
| Location: | shanghai |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | brand reviews, interactive marketing, market research, nps, recommendation, reichheld, social networks, surveys, ugc |
FULL BIO
1977 Started in advertising LVH
1982 Creative director
1987 Ceo
1991 Entrepreneur / Own agency (Quattro) - in 2009 still successful as Saatchi&Saatchi
1994 Pioneered in all things web within Quattro
1998 Own agency i-merge - in 2009 still successful as Boondoggle
2004 Biggest interactive agency in Belgium – looking for scale - go to China.
2006 Interactive "agency" in China
2007 From agency to interactive scaleable platform:
• Holaba now being the only activity of i-merge
• 12 persons (all Chinese - except 1 Dutch partner).
• i-merge Apac (HK)
• Owned by Jan Van den Bergh (80%), Wenli (10%), Gemme (10%)
2009 May: Holaba launched in China.
Jan 's Startups (1)
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holaba
Holaba is a platform on which consumers can score and review 1000's of brands. Doing that they give companies very useful insights in the recommendation power of their total brand portfolio and predict growth or decline of future market share.
Jan is Following (12)
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ThisNext
ThisNext is a social commerce site where people recommend their favorite products so others can discover whats best to buy online. It blends two powerful elements of real-world shopping otherwise lost...
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Youlicit
The Youlicit web content recommendation engine leverages the wisdom of the crowds to return the most recommended sites related to a website or topic
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plista
plista provides a recommendation and personalization platform based on collaborative filtering and social graph applications that allows to connect content, products, people and preferences to the benefit of publishers, users and marketers through the int
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Jan 's Contacts (2)
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Marc van der Chijs
Dutch entrepreneur in Shanghai. CEO of Spil Games Asia, co-founder and board director of Tudou.com, angel investor. Blogs about his ideas and daily experiences at www.marc.cn
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