Edi Taslim started his career at Kompas Gramedia in 1997 as founder of CHIP, a licensed computer magazine from Germany. Following the success of CHIP in Indonesia, he led the company’s expansion from 2004-2006 to publish CHIP magazine in Singapore & Malaysia as CEO & Editorial Director. In 2007, he returned to Jakarta and was a key figures in reformulating & rebranding KCM to Kompas.com as the leading news site in Indonesia.In late 2008, Kompas.com started Kompasiana as the journalists’ blog network and has successfully transformed Kompasiana to become the biggest citizen journalism site in Indonesia. As key strategist of Kompas Cyber Media & Kompas Daily, he initiated the web and mobile business development that had regularly won multiple awards in Asian Digital Media Awards by WAN-IFRA, including Silver Award for Best in Newspaper Website (Kompas.com, 2011) and Best in Social Media (Kompasiana, 2010).Since appointed as Digital Group Director of Kompas Gramedia (holding) in 2012, he expanded the company’s network by investing in Urbanesia, a city directory startup, as major shareholders. In June 2012, he founded Grazera, an online book store, which partner with Gramedia, Indonesia biggest book store chain. In April 2013, he started regional expansion by leading Series B funding round of SCOOP, a popular digital newsstand based in Singapore, where he acting as Director. His latest expansion is mandiri e-cash, a joint venture company providing revolutionary digital payment.In 2015, Edi leads the vertical development at kompas.com and launch 2 new sites, Otomania.com (automotive site) and NexTren.com (trend & technology site) on May 2015. Recently, Kompas.com and Harian & Tabloid Bola form a joint venture company to publish Juara.net, sport & football dedicated site, where Edi acting as Director.