Joe Hyrkin drives sales and business development for gaiaonline.com, the leading teen hangout on the web. Joe has more than 15 years of experience in senior sales and business development management, both in the USA and internationally. He has focused his career on creating and launching new businesses around the world, and has been instrumental in pioneering creative revenue opportunities in the community web space. Prior to joining Gaia Online, Joe headed up the business side of Multimedia Search at Yahoo, where he also served as head of Business Development and Sales for Flickr.- Before his time at Yahoo, Joe served as Vice President of Strategic Accounts and Asia Pacific Operations at a publicly listed company, Virage Inc., now a division of Autonomy. Prior to Virage, he headed sales for Sina.com, the top Chinese language web portal, and before that Joe ran The Economist Group’s business in China for 4.5 years establishing the company’s presence in the country and overseeing offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Joe has a BA in Political Science and Chinese Studies from the State University of New York.