Professional Experiences

2001-10 to Present: OurLinX Digital Consultancy (武陵客数位顾问公司),. CEO. OurLinX is an Internet Professional Services company in Greater China.

• Responsible for managing the business and operations of OurLinX.
• Major Clients in Taiwan:
  • "Chinese Marketing Intelligence Bank"全球华文行销知识库) of China Times, one of the biggest media company in Taiwan.
  • "Digital Culture E-zine" (数位文化志) of United Daily News, one of the biggest media company in Taiwan.
  • "Q!ba Blog Hosting Service" (Q!ba网路志) of Asia Pacific Online Service Inc., a subsidiary of Asia Pacific Telecom Group in Taiwan.
  • "Digital Content Industry Promotion and Development" (数位内容产业推动服务专案) of Information Industry Institute (III) in Taiwan.
  • Chung, Lin & Wu International Law Firm (长江大方国际法律事务所)
• Major Partners in Mainland China:
  • iResearch.com.cn, an Internet market survey company based in Shanghai, and the only one in China.
  • DoNews.com, an Internet IT Community and Media in Beijing.

2000-10 to 2001-09: Business Weekly Online (商周线上), Vice Chairman, Chairman, Business Weekly Online is a subsidiary of Business Weekly Media Group, Business Weekly is the biggest magazine focus in commerce and business in Taiwan.

• Responsible for managing the business and operations.
  
• Proposed to construct a collaborate newsgathering and editing platform for all periodicals of Business Weekly Group.
  
• Integrated the Group's core competence in media industry, redesigned Group's content database.
  
• Issued online magazine in the form of "electronic book".

1999-12 to 2000-10: China.com Corp. (Nasdaq: China), Vice President, Business Development

• Responsible for leading China.com's business strategy in Taiwan.
  
• Built up management team for Taiwan.com.
  
• Made "Taiwanese, Taiwan issues, Taiwan.com" as the strategic development direction of Taiwan.com.
  
• Proposed to Integrate China.com, HongKong.com, and Taiwan.com horizontally to establish Greater China's Internet business.

1997-07 to 1999-09: China Times Interactive (中时电子报), Vice President, CEO, China Times Interactive is a subsidiary of China Times Group, in charge of all online businesses of China Times Group.

• Responsible for managing the business and operations.
  
• Established the strategic direction of taking online advertising as business main shaft in 1997.
  
• Made China Times Interactive the very first site to follow IAB standards in Taiwan.
  
• Brought China Times Interactive to reach Profit and Loss balanced and realized gain from loss from May 1999.

1993-03 to 1997-06: China Times Group (中国时报集团), Manager, Director, Corporate Planning Division

• Responsible for the Group's development strategy planning, focused on the application of information resources over cross-platform, and development of information re-utilization and value-added products.
  
• Key member in the project of "News Databank", participated its construction and commercialization.
  
• Initiated and implemented the Internet new media strategies for Group.
  
• Key member in the project of "China Times WWW" in 1995, made China Times the first newspaper online in Taiwan.
  
• Completed the first advertising sale for China Times WWW when it launched in October 1995, and made it become the first paid online advertisement case in Taiwan.

1984-07 to 1993-02: China Times Group (中国时报集团), System Engineer, Manager, Computer Division

• Responsible for the Management Information System (MIS).
  
• Built up Advertising, HR, Financial Management System, and Decision Support System for high-level executives.
  
• Key member of "Production Computerized System", which set up the objectives of fully automation of newsroom and typesetting functions.
  
• Successfully had more than 600 reporters in Group get online gradually, realized China Times the first newspaper have reporter remote offices in Taiwan.

Education

• 2002-09 to 2006-06: Ph.D, Journalism and Communication College, Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), Beijing, China
• 1982-01 to 1984-01: Master, Computer Science, City University of New York (CCNY of CUNY), New York, USA
• 1974-09 to 1978-06: Bachelor, Chemistry, Chung Hsing University, TaiChung, Taiwan (中兴大学)

Publications (Books)

• "Media Competitiveness: Analysis of the Value Chain of Viacom" in "Media Competitiveness", “传媒竞争力：维亚康姆价值链分析”, Co-Author, Hua-Xia Publishing House, Beijing, 2005-01
• "Online Advertising Lesson One: The Survival Philosophy in Wild West Wrestle", 《网络广告第一课：蛮荒西部角力赛的生存之道》, Xinhua Publishing House, Beijing, 2000-10
• "Online Advertising Lesson One: The Survival Philosophy in Wild West Wrestle", 《網路廣告第一課：蠻荒西部角力賽的生存之道》, Times Publishing House, Taipei, 1999-01. This was the first book focusing on Internet Advertising and covering opportunities on the Internet published in Chinese, and the book has served as an educational tool for many corporate and online/offline media executives.

Publications (Thesis)

• "The Emerging 'Republic Media' and Model of Future Journalism: Media Ecosystem Metamorphoses", Dissertation for Ph.D degree, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, 2006-06
• "Online Advertising Market Review of 1999", Advertisement Yearbook 1999 to 2000, Taipei Association of Advertising Agencies (TAAA), 2000-12
• "Internet Market Review of 1998", Advertisement Yearbook 1998-1999, Taipei Association of Advertising Agencies (TAAA), 1999-12
• "The Outlook of News Publication Industry in 1997", Taiwan Publication Yearbook 1998, Journalism Bureau, 1998-06
• "Modern Operation and Management of Newspaper Industry: The Development in the Crucial 10 Years", Advertisement Yearbook 1993 to 1994, Taipei Association of Advertising Agencies (TAAA), 1994-07

Additional Professional Experience

• Chairman, Executive Juries Committee, Click Award, the first and only Online Advertising Awards in Greater China, 金手指网路广告奖), 2000-01 to 2000-12
• Commissioner, TV Culture Research Committee, Taiwan（电视文化研究委员会）, 1999-01 to 1999-12
• Lecturer, Public Communication Dept., World Journalism University, Taiwan（世新大学）, 1998-02 to 2000-06
• Chief Consultant, AsiAd Advertising Network (亚洲网), which was the first ad network launched in Taiwan, and resulted in successful acquisition by DoubleClick in October 1999.
• Founding member, CyberOscar Award (网际金像奖) in Taiwan, 1998
• Founding member and Chairman, Internet Auditing Coalition (IAC) in Taiwan, 1997
• Keynote speaker, at numerous seminars, universities and conferences, topics focused on Internet advertising and online media.

Additional Reference

• Please Google Lewis Liu (in Traditional Chinese), or Baidu Lewis Liu (in Simplified Chinese).
• Visit Lewis Liu's personal blog: Republic Media (in Chinese).