Matthias Hohensee is the Silicon Valley bureau chief and columnist for the German national business weekly magazine Wirtschaftswoche. The magazine is published weekly and has approximately 900,000 readers. Matthias writes "Valleytalk," a column about technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship that is widely read in Germany and has been running for eight years now.

Matthias mostly does stories about US high-tech companies and entrepreneurs and is always looking for interesting ideas and people. He has interviewed Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and Meg Whitman, among others. Matthias also co-founded an Internet media company which has been acquired by a large German publishing company. He is the 2006 "Georg von Holtzbrinck" award-winner for Excellence in Business Journalism