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In 1995 Chan recognized the potential of interactive technology and founded Agency.com with Kyle Shannon. He has guided us to industry leadership. With his knowledge we have gone from a two-person start-up to a global enterprise with more than 350 employees and a roster of blue-chip clients.
Chan is an expert in the interactive industry. In 2001 he was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Achievement. He has also been recognized by several publications, including Crain's Tech 100 List for 2000, ADWEEK where we were named one of top ten interactive agencies and Best Full Service Interactive Agency for 2000, and The Silicon Alley Reporter where he was consecutively ranked one of the Alley's top executives for three years.
Before opening Agency.com, Chan helped conceptualize and launch Pathfinder, Time Warner's web service. He started his career in 1986 in the publishing industry, first at Condé Nast then at Time Warner Inc., where he led the marketing efforts for various magazines including Details, Life and Vibe.
heart & soul his two kids
little known fact he worked as a bouncer in a New York nightclub
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Andy Hobsbawm established the first international Internet agency in 1994 and was a founding director of leading British new media company Online Magic which merged with Agency.com in 1997. As European Chairman of Agency.com, Andy helps guide and is a spokesperson for the firm with his unique insight into the continual evolution of the interactive medium.
A pioneer of the UK internet industry, he still remembers the buzz of watching users from around the world interact with his earliest Web site, the world's first commercial eZine PowerPC News, following the release of Mosaic in 1993.
Andy was recognised by industry professionals as one of the most influential 100 individuals who have contributed to the development and growth of e-commerce and the Internet in the UK over the last decade and also received a Special Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. In Campaign Magazine he has been voted New Media Innovator of the Year and named by industry peers as one of the most admired digital pioneers. He also featured as one of the Top 50 Internet Professionals in the U.K. for Internet Business Magazine.
Andy has spoken at numerous industry conferences, including Global Marketing Forum, Jupiter ClickZ Advertising Conference, Forrester Consumer Marketing Forum, the opening keynote at ad:tech, and has also helped to judge many awards such as New York's One Show Interactive and the Webby's.
He has been a weekly columnist about the new economy for the Financial Times, a member of GartnerG2's first advisory board on online advertising and published a widely acclaimed report on the global impact of communications technologies: "10 Years On: The State of the Internet a decade after Mosaic". He is currently writing "Small is the Next Big Thing" (http://www.small-big.com), which attempts to make sense of accelerating change in an interactive world and will be published by Atlantic Books Ltd in Summer 2008.
Andy was born and raised in London, and educated in London and Montreal. He lives in Highgate with his wife, two children and Gibson 330 ES, and has yet to receive any royalties from obscure pop songs released by a minor independent record label in Europe.
heart & soul his wife, two children and Gibson ES 330
little known fact as a kid he supported Manchester United, then Arsenal and finally Spurs
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