ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Nissanoff is an entrepreneur who is an internationally recognized and accomplished expert in secondary market economies, technologies and businesses.

In 1994, the same year that eBay was founded, Nissanoff began focusing his professional energies on building a central online business-to-business exchange for the highly fragmented and inefficient electronic components industry. By the late 1990's, he had brought his vision to reality and founded a company called PartMiner. Working with a team of technologists from IBM's renowned Watson Research Center, Nissanoff built the "Free Trade Zone", a NASDAQ-like trading and information platform, which became one of the world's first business to business virtual marketplaces and the leading online marketplace for the semiconductor industry. Today, Partminer's digital solutions are used by almost all of the top electronics manufacturers in the world, helping facilitate billions of dollars in trade.

While at Partminer, Nissanoff invented the first commercially deployed business shopping robot and also holds various patents for marketplace technologies and business processes for the secondary market.

In 2004, having spent most of his professional life on the b2b sector, Nissanoff decided to dedicate the next phase of his life to the consumer side of secondary markets. In addition to sharing his vision globally by writing this book, he has spent the last year helping to build Portero, a specialty online facilitator focused on the secondary market for luxury consumer products.

Nissanoff was a 2001 finalist for the coveted Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was named a "Mover and Shaker of 2001" by Electronic Industry, alongside 14 CEO's of multi-billion dollar public electronics companies. His deal with IBM was recognized by Line 56 as one of the 20 Top Events in 2000. Under his leadership, Partminer was ranked as a Deloitte Fast 500 company, for two years in a row. He is also an active member of Young President's Organization (YPO), an international assembly of over 11,000 influential business leaders, since 1999. He has been a frequent public speaker and featured guest at prominent events worldwide including Internet seminars, venture capital workshops, semiconductor industry events, and platform user conferences. Hundreds of articles have been written about him, his companies, his views and cutting-edge strategies on the Internet.

Prior to conceiving Partminer, Nissanoff founded a software company that automated secondary markets. Previously, he was also an associate attorney in the corporate reorganization group of the law firm of Weil, Gotshal and Manges.

Daniel Nissanoff holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.S. in Economics from California State University, Northridge. He was born in L.A. and lives in Manhattan with his wife Amy and his son Asher.