With eight years enterprise and government level Social Media engagements, Axel Schultze is considered one of the most experienced Social Media strategists in the world, which lead to establishing the international Social Media Academy in 2008. Schultze was one of the Alpha users of LinkedIn in 2003 and an adviser to one of LinkedIn’s co-founders. His thought-leadership is currently used to create a pan European Social Media initiative with the objective to inspire small/medium enterprises to grow their revenue by leveraging Social Media and create 2 Million jobs by 2016. Recent keynote speaker engagements have been in the US, Europe and Australia helping various industry leaders getting executive level insight in the impact of social media on businesses and society. He is a published author and winner of the SF Entrepreneur Award 2008.

Axel Schultze is a well respected serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and Europe. He is CEO and founder of Society3 Corp, the mother company of XeeMe a social presence management software company, the Social Media Academy and the Social Business Consulting Group, a global Social Media consulting firm. Before that he was founder and CEO of Silicon Valley based BlueRoads, one of the most successful Channel Management Software companies, Infinigate one of the largest Internet Security provider in Europe, (today $200 Million in revenue) and Computer 2000, the most successful European computer distributor, which grew to $5 Billion in revenue and merged with TechData.

Axel's social presence:
http://xeeMe.com/AxelS