Benjamin Joffe

Benjamin Joffe founded the digital strategy company +8* (www.plus8star.com) after being part during the past 9 years of Japan’s mobile revolution, Korea’s Internet boom as well as China’s mobile crash and web 2.0 revival. +8* works with large companies (Adidas, Microsoft, Nokia), investors (MIH, leading investor in Tencent) and startups (IMVU, Baihe.com) to bring them proven and innovative service concepts and business models from advanced Asian markets.

Benjamin is a regular keynote at industry events (Ad:Tech, GSP East, Asia Venture Capital Forum, eComm, etc.), he was selected among China’s Top 100 Mobile Industry Influencers in 2007 and 2008 and co-founded Mobile Monday in Beijing, the leading mobile industry forum in China with over 3,000 members.

He is also a founding partner of Cmune (www.cmune.com), a start-up building the next-generation social games platform. Benjamin speaks fluent English, French and Japanese with working knowledge of Korean, Chinese and Spanish.