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Jimmy Maymann-Holler (born, 1971) is a Danish entrepreneur specializing in digital advertising, digital technology and new media strategy. Since December 2012, Maymann has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Huffington Post, based in New York. Maymann’s tenure has been focused on the transition of The Huffington Post towards becoming a profitable, global media company.〔‘Jimmy Maymann discusses building a global media brand’, The Next Web, 4/23/2013 http://thenextweb.com/media/2013/04/23/huffington-post/〕 == Early career == Maymann started his internet career in Denmark in the mid 1990s after he graduated from the University of Odense with a degree in Economics and International Marketing.〔‘Jimmy Maymann: Dane in charge of the Huffington Post’, Jyskebank.tv, 3/6/2014 https://jyskebank.tv/013855554731551/jimmy-maymann-danskeren-i-spidsen-for-huffington-post〕 His final university thesis – about the commercial opportunities presented by the internet – was inspired by a fieldtrip Maymann took to the US in 1994,〔Profile: Jimmy Maymann, CEO of The Huffington Post, LBS Business Strategy Review, () http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/793/index.html〕 during which he was exposed to the internet for the first time, and which ultimately laid the foundation for his first business ventures. In 1995 Maymann founded Neo Ideo along with two old friends, Morten Lund (a future investor in Skype) and Lars Holm Hansen.〔‘Business diary: Jimmy Maymann’, Financial Times, 3/14/2011 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/46357cbe-4e6e-11e0-98eb-00144feab49a.html#axzz33gmWN1XS〕 Neo Ideo was an internet consultancy advising Scandinavian companies on internet strategy () and Maymann served as Managing Partner until 1999, when the company was acquired by global advertising agency Leo Burnett.〔Jimmy Maymann: personal overview, CrunchBase, viewed 3/29/2014 http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jimmy-maymann〕 As part of that acquisition Maymann joined Leo Burnett first as its Strategic Director responsible for managing the firm’s major Scandinavian clients, but ultimately becoming Global Discipline Head of Leo Burnett’s Marketing Service practice Arc Worldwide.〔Bloomberg Businessweek Company Overview: GoViral Limited, 05/30/2014 http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=60227713&privcapId=54256792〕 Maymann remained at Leo Burnett for five years during which time he also completed an executive MBA at London Business School.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jimmy Maymann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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