Hans Peter is passionate about inventing new applications and building businesses that help people better communicate and connect. He is a successful technology entrepreneur who is at it again. Plum – www.plum.com - his fourth start-up lets small groups of people set up social spaces where they can share media, post updates and have conversations in a private setting. Plum is perfect for families, co-workers and close friends who want to share and communicate much like they do in the big social networks, yet in a more private and intimate way.

In 1996 Hans Peter founded Post Communications a pioneering email marketing software-as-a-service (SAS) company. As CEO and Chairman of Post he led the company to a successful acquisition by Netcentives in 2000. Prior to Post Hans Peter co-founded DiVA which brought digital video editing to consumers in the early 90s. DiVA was acquired by Avid Technology in 1993. He has written a NYT best selling book on Email Relationship Marketing and has testified at US Senate and FCC hearings on Internet privacy and spam.

Hans Peter wrote his first commercial software program as a 17 year old high-school student in Norway in the late 70s and after a detour north of the polar circle in the Norwegian Army, came to MIT to study computer science. He went on to do his graduate work at the MIT Media Lab and in the MIT Technology and Policy Program. While at MIT he was awarded a patent for “micons” - movie icons – as a novel way to provide contextual links in video. He has also worked at the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Genava and at Apple Japan in Tokyo.

Hans Peter has been featured broadly in national media and has addressed more than 50 conferences in the past several years on topics ranging from the new models of sharing and social collaboration on the Internet, to privacy, to entrepreneurship, to the broader impact and influence of technology on individuals.