Peter Hirshberg

A Silicon Valley executive with several high profile marketing and branding related ventures, Peter has led emerging media and technology companies for more than 20 years. He is chairman of the executive committee of Technorati, the leading aggregator of user-generated content in the world, tracking over 100 million Weblogs and 70,000 posts per hour. He also is co-founder and chairman of The Conversation Group, a fast-growing agency helping brands with strategy and marketing. During a nine-year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing, where he grew Apple’s large business and government revenue to $1 billion annually and helped lead the company’s entry into the online service arena. After leaving Apple, Peter’s new-media strategy firm served clients including America Online, Microsoft, NBC Television Network, Estee Lauder, Pacific Bell, and Silicon Graphics.