René Rechtman currently serves as the Group Managing Director for Goviral - a global online video content and ad network focused on delivering high impact viral video content for major global brand advertisers. Prior to that he was Vice President International at TradeDoubler, a leading European provider of online performance based marketing solutions with offices in 18 countries. René has been part of TradeDoubler since it was founded, and has held several positions on the management board. He was responsible for TradeDoubler's Advertiser, Agency and Publishers Sales globally having previously helped build TradeDoubler's international client and strategic partnerships business and been the MD of TradeDoubler's Danish operation.

Prior to TradeDoubler; he was European VP for Business Development at Incentive/ALTO, a Danish management and financial holding that was a global player in the industrial service industry, worked as a strategy and communication consultant for several years in Scandinavia and Brussels with multinational clients such as Mattel, Coca-Cola, Monsanto and APEAL and was part of the Centre for Stakeholding and Sustainable Enterprise team that conducted stakeholder research for The Body Shop International and Novo Nordisk.

He is involved in several new economy start-ups, holding advisory board positions in a number of growing companies; his involvement ranging from developing businesses and internationalisation, to advising on day-to-day management issues.

René has a background in Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he holds an MSc and BSc, and has published several articles on business strategy and communication.