Mr Tony Surtees Chief ExecutiveOfficer iPrime Prime Television

Sydney - Friday 7 March 2008
Gold Room, L'Aqua - Roof Terrace, Cockle Bay Wharf
12.00 for 12.30 - 2.00pm


"The Internet: where we came from is not where we're going"

Tony Surtees is CEO of iPRIME - a subsidiary of the Prime Media Group Limited (PRT).

Tony Surtees was one of the first to identify the spectacular impact that the web would have on our daily lives, shooting to prominence in the 1990s as Vice President of Yahoo!'s e-commerce division in the US.

A long term advocate of the "consumer in control" Tony believes that new consumer trends are driven not by a few influential opinion leaders influencing everyone else but by many easily influenced people influencing one another.

Tony believes that understanding the structure of social networks is essential for those marketers wishing to incorporate social influence into their campaigns.

Tony continues to develop media, communications and technology businesses, by actively investing in and contributing to the management of a handful of growth companies internationally. Tony is also a Board Member of Arasor International Limited an ASX listed developer of integrated optoelectronic chips and wireless solutions with operations in China, Japan and Mountain View, California.

Tony has also been a past NSW State President of the Australian Marketing Institute and is a regular public speaker in the United States, Asia and Australia - addressing numerous investment and industry forums. He co-authored an e-commerce marketing text with Seth Godin and is also an active committee member of the Stanford Australia Alumni Association, having co-founded the Stanford Australia Entrepreneurs Series. Tony is a guest lecturer for Macquarie University Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship as well as the Macquarie Graduate School Management, and the Australian Film Radio and Television School, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production.

Tony holds a B.Comm from UNSW and a Master of Science in Management from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California.

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