Hans is president of Suite 48 Analytics, a boutique research firm focused on the photo & video industry and chair of Visual 1st, an annual conference focused on promoting innovation and partnerships in the photo and video ecosystem. Prior to founding Suite 48 Analytics, most recently Hans was sr. director of market research at multimedia software company, Nero, and director of product strategy at desktop publishing software company, Quark.
Hans has directed the first European Future Image Mobile Imaging Summit and chaired various Seybold Seminars PDF Conferences. He co-founded Piczo, a teen photo sharing site that in its heydays counted over 25 million registered users. Hans was also director of professional solutions at imaging software company, Live Picture.
He has spoken at The Photo Managers Conference, Business Forum Imaging, Dscoop, Photokina, PMA@CES, Telecom Council, DI Symposium, GigaOm Mobilize, 6Sight and many other industry conferences.
