The European Pirate Summit - Cologne, September 10-11th 2012

Jens Redmer is responsible for New Business Development for Google’s efforts in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. This group works with Google Product and Engineering teams on incubation-exploratory efforts, technology and meta-data licensing, strategic partnerships, urgent special projects, and alternative distribution for existing and new business initiatives.

Jens joined Google in January 2005 from Endemol, the world’s largest independent television producer, where he was director of multimedia. At Google, Jens was previously heading up the Google Book Search project in Europe.

He began his career with German publishing group Axel Springer in Hamburg. He drove Springer’s first new media operations before becoming regional Managing Director for the group’s nascent internet service provider, a joint venture with fellow publishing houses Bertelsmann and WAZ.

Jens was one of the business drivers behind ricardo.de, the premier European online auction service which was bought out by qxl.com in 2000. He ran Premium/ Paid Services for internet service provider AOL in Germany between 2001 and 2004.

Jens holds a degree in computer science and medicine from Kiel University, Germany. He is Member of the Advisory Board at the Publishing Centre at the University College of London.