Christopher Hartnett

Chairman, Global Media, LLC.

A pioneer in the advanced global telecom, internet and domain name industries, in 1992 Dr. Hartnett founded USA Global Link, Inc. and later Global Online, Inc. (GOL) and the publicly traded Global Online India, Inc. USA Global Link was an international facilities-based long distance carrier with over 5500 employees and agents, and offices in 160 countries and territories. Between 1992 and 2001, Global Link was the world’s largest provider of discount international telecommunications services and has been credited with being the first to introduce cutting edge technologies such as; International Callback, Global Calling Cards, Internet Telephony, Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and Settlement Rate Traffic Refile services on a global basis. Global Online, Inc. (GOL) was one of the first international web-based meta-hub portal directories on the Internet with more than 5,860 distinct websites in 1997. In 1999, Global Online India, Inc. was the largest ISP in India measured by its public market capitalization. Dr. Hartnett served as Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of these companies whose aggregate market value according to Deloitte & Touche exceeded $2.8 billion by 2000. According to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), in 1994, Dr. Hartnett was the largest private owner of Internet domain names in the world. His current portfolio contains more than 3,500 global domain names and 28,000 other premium domain names – most of which were acquired between 1992 and 1996, long before the potential of the Internet was realized. n 1996, Dr. Hartnett received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award sponsored by Ernst & Young, USA Today, and the NASDAQ Stock Market. To date, there have been over 4800 articles in over 116 countries written about Dr. Hartnett and the respective companies he has founded. This includes 7 front page stories in the Wall Street Journal, 8 magazine cover stories published in : INC, SUCCESS, NATIONAL JEWELER, INTERNET WORLD, PHONE PLUS, COMMUNICATIONS WEEK INTERNATIONAL and TELEPHONY magazines and Dr. Hartnett has appeared in over 200 international TV, radio and internet interviews. Dr. Hartnett currently resides in the United States with his family and serves on numerous corporate and philanthropic boards.