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Christer Holloman

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Christer Holloman is the CEO and founder of Divido, an instalment payments company. Christer was formerly a technology feature writer for Sky News[1] and author of The Social Media MBA book. He helped launch Expedia founder Rich Barton’s latest start-up Glassdoor.com in Europe and prior to that was Head of Digital Product Development at The Times and The Sunday Times.[2]

Education and awards

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Holloman is an MBA graduate at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He earned his BS in Business & Economics at the University of Umeå, Sweden.

He won The Telegraph's Digital Innovation Award 2011. He was identified as one of London’s 1,000 Most Influential Individuals and ranked as Top 25 Within New Media by The Evening Standard in 2009.[3][4] Holloman was shortlisted as one of the UK's most important figures within the UK Digital industry in a competition held by The Hospital Club and The Independent in 2010.[5]

Books, commentary and speaking

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His book, The Social Media MBA in Practice, was released August 2013 in three languages by Wiley.[6]

He also wrote a series of four guidebooks titled First Time Entrepreneur Series that addresses the life cycle of a new business.[7]

He is a professional business speaker, and an expert commentator on TV.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Sky News - First For Breaking News From The UK And Around The World".
  2. ^ "Christer Holloman - Personally Speaking Bureau". Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  3. ^ "The One Thousand - London's most influential people". Archived from the original on 2010-04-06. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  4. ^ "The One Thousand - New media". Archived from the original on 2010-03-24. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  5. ^ "THC100". Archived from the original on 2010-08-04. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  6. ^ Palmer, Maija (2 October 2013). "The Social Media MBA in Practice, by Christer Holloman" – via Financial Times.
  7. ^ "White Hat Media's Jeremy Spiller Interviews Christer Holloman, Author of 'The Social Media MBA'". Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2010-07-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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