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Joe Hyrkin has over 15 years of experience in senior sales and business development management both domestically and internationally. He has focused his career on creating and launching new businesses around the world. Most recently, Joe headed up the business side of Multimedia Search at Yahoo, where he also served as head of Business Development and Sales for Flickr. Joe has been instrumental in pioneering creative revenue opportunities in the community web space. Prior to his time at Yahoo, Joe served as Vice President of Strategic Accounts and Asia Pacific Operations at a publicly listed company, Virage Inc., now a division of Autonomy. While at Virage, Joe and his team pioneered some of the first business relationships in the broadband entertainment space, and brought in business with some of the leading media companies in the worlds. Prior to Virage, he headed sales for Sina.com, the leading Chinese language portal and established Sina's key accounts. Joe was recruited to Sina from The Economist Group, where he ran the company's China business for 4 1/2 years. This included opening The Economist Group's first office in China and overseeing businesses in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

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