Speakers Infomation - China Travel Innovation Summit

StartUp Challenge

Startup Challenge is the most exciting part of the Summit. 6-8 selected entrepreneurs from the startup companies who are less than 12 months in existence or companies leaving stealth mode will have the chance to demonstrate their innovative solutions or products that will significantly impact travel planning, purchasing and trending.【More】

Panel of Judge

William Bao Bean
Partner
Softbank China & India Holdings

Allen Zhu
Partner
GSR Ventures

Erhai Liu
Managing Director
Legend Capital

Kevin Jin
Vice President
ChinaVenture

2008 Event

2008 China Travel Distination&Technology Summit

China Travel Distribution Summit hosted by TravelDaily is now regarded as the most prestigious event for China’s travel industry. This event is set to be the impeccable opportunity to develop your China entry strategy. 350 senior travel executives from Ctrip, Elong, Mangocity, Expedia, Google, PayPal, Rakuten【More】

Sponsorship

Sponsoring or exhibiting at this event will give you the vital opportunity of greater face to face interaction and time to promote your product or services to the people who control the distribution of travel in China.

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Organizer

Online payment service provider

Sponsor

Official Hotel

Media Partner

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Name: Fritz Demopoulos
Job: CEO & Co-founder
Company: Qunar.com

Fritz Demopoulos
Qunar.com
CEO & Co-founder

Fritz Demopoulos has been involved in the Chinese internet and media industries for nearly a decade. Fritz sold China's first banner advertisement to Ogilvy & Mather in 1997 as part of the IBM account. He is currently the CEO and Cofounder of Qunar.com, a leading travelsearch engine in Beijing.

Qunaris one of China's leading online travel media with over 30 million monthly unique visitors and venture-backed by Tenaya Capital, Mayfield and GSR.

Qunar means “where are you going?” in Mandarin Chinese.

Prior to Qunar, Fritz was the SVP of Business Development at Netease.com, one of China's leading internet portals and online game companies. In 2002, Netease was the best performing equity on the NASDAQ exchange.

Fritz was also the CEO and Cofounder of sports portal Shawei.com, which was venture backed by Intel, IDG and Softbank. Shawei, which means “brave shark” in Mandarin Chinese, was profitably acquired by Tom.com in 2000. He began his career in China with The News Corporation Limited where he was involved with a range of News Corp companiesincluding Twentieth Century Fox, STAR TV, NDS and ChinaByte.

A native of Los Angeles, Fritz was educated at UCLA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Karls-Ruprecht University in Germany. He is a supporter of the Arsenal Gunners of the English Premier League.