Michael J.G. Gleissner

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Michael J.G. Gleissner (born in 1969), also known by nickname Mick Gleissner, is a German businessman, film producer, actor, photographer, musician, and director.

Gleissner was born in Regensburg, Germany, and is one of the online pioneers, having launched the first e-commerce company Telebuch ("Telebook") in Regensburg, which, in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com, where he served two years as vice president.

Gleissner also started one of the first webhosting companies in Germany, "WWW-Service GmbH", which was acquired by Verio (later NTT), and was a large shareholder in public companies like J2 Communications (NASDAQ:JCOM) and United Internet AG (German Stock Exchange:DE0005089031)

He relocated to the United States in 1996 where he spent most of his professional life, but moved to Asia in 2001 where he set up a large presence for several of his companies, among them Bigfoot Communications and Cleverlearn Inc.. Both had formerly been New York City-based.

Based in Hong Kong, he retired from money management to dedicate his time to entertainment projects under the umbrella of "Bigfoot Entertainment." Gleissner built both a large film production facility and film school called the International Academy of Film and Television in Cebu, Philippines. He was producer on the movies 3 Needles, [[The Curiosity of Chance]], Shanghai Kiss, East Broadway and Within, and started acting in feature films in 2005, and directed his first feature film Irreversi (which was also shot in Mandarin Chinese as Hui Lu) in Hong Kong in 2006.^[1]

Among his entertainment projects, Gleissner works as an underwater fashion photographer and featured his photography in a calendar titled Nautical Angels Underwater Calendar 2006^[2]