Kaiser Kuo – Lead Guitarist, Chunqiu, Author, Speaker & Digital Strategist

Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. He currently divides his time between consulting for China’s leading Internet video site, Youku.com, where his brief includes international trade marketing, media relations, and multinational advertiser/agency relations.

In 2007, he joined the leading advertising agency Ogilvy as their director of digital strategy, but left in early 2009 to devote more time to writing and to his advisory work for several Chinese Internet startups.

He is a frequent guest on CCTV-9 program Dialogue, where he has debated issues ranging from Internet vigilantism to Feng-shui. Mr. Kuo has been the anchor columnist for the popular English-language monthly magazine that’s Beijing and its successor, The Beijinger, for almost eight years, contributing a satire column called “Ich Bin Ein Beijinger.” An anthology of 60 of his columns was recently published.

In his one-and-a-half decades in China he worked has a technology and business writer for such publications as Time, China Economic Review, Asia Inc., and the South China Morning Post.

Follow Kaiser on Twitter at: @kaiserkuo

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