Andy Hobsbawm – Dothegreenthing (10 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)
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A pioneer of the UK internet industry, Andy still remember 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 established the first international Internet agency in 1994 and was a founding director of leading British new media company Online Magic that merged with Agency.com in 1997. As European MD and later Chairman of Agency.com between 2003-2009, he helped to guide and was a spokesperson for the firm with his unique insight into the continual evolution of the interactive medium. He currently advises the boards of Omnicom companies on digital strategies and is a non-executive director and advisor to Internet companies such as Trendwatching.com, iAnnounce and Rapha.cc.

He co-founded award-winning environmental movement Green Thing in 2007 which inspires people to lead a greener life (people from 205 countries have saved over one million tonnes of CO2). In 2009 he co-founded Web 3.0 software company Everything which provides a platform for exchanging information about real objects in realtime.