Thomas Hess is the Director of the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the Ludwig Maxmillians University (LMU) in Munich, Germany.  He received a PhD in Economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and served as an Assistant to the Board of Bertelsman, one of the world's largest media companies. At LMU, he leads a research group exploring a wide range of issues related to digital media and business.
 
For more information, please visit his web page at:
http://www.en.wim.bwl.uni-muenchen.de/persons/professoren/hess/index.html
 
The Digital Media and Business research group's page can be found here:
http://www.en.wim.bwl.uni-muenchen.de/research/digitalmediabusiness/index.html