Fritz Demopoulos, CEO and Co-founder of Qunar.com (Beijing)

Fritz Demopoulos has been involved in the Chinese internet and media industries for nearly a decade. Fritz sold China’s first banner advertisement to Ogilvy & Mather in 1997 as part of the IBM account. He is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Qunar.com, a leading travel search engine in Beijing.

Qunar is one of China’s largest online travel media with over 26 million monthly unique visitors and venture-backed by Mayfield and GSR

Qunar means “where are you going?” in Mandarin Chinese.

Prior to Qunar, Fritz was the SVP of Business Development at Netease.com, one of China’s leading internet portals and online game companies. In 2002, Netease was the best performing equity on the NASDAQ exchange.

Fritz was also the CEO and Co-founder of sports portal Shawei.com, which was venture backed by Intel, IDG and Softbank. Shawei, which means “brave shark” in Mandarin Chinese, was profitably acquired by Tom.com in 2000. He began his career in China with The News Corporation Limited where he was involved with a range of News Corp companies including Twentieth Century Fox, STAR TV, NDS and ChinaByte.

A native of Los Angeles, Fritz was educated at UCLA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Karls-Ruprecht University in Germany.