Aug
21
2008
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The World Renowned Interviewer
Sir David Frost is probably the world’s most prominent television interviewer.
In addition to hosting and creating television programmes, he is a publisher, lecturer, impresario and chief executive officer to numerous companies.
Landmark interviews have always featured in his remarkable career. Perhaps the most infamous being the Nixon Interviews, broadcast in virtually every television nation around the world.
“One-man conglomerate.”
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Aug
19
2008
Former Formula 1 World Champion
Damon Hill OBE is a British former racing driver from England. He was the 1996 Formula One World Champion and is the son of the late double Formula One world champion Graham Hill, and is the only son of a world champion to win the title. He retired from the sport at the end of the 1999 season, after 122 race starts. In 2006, Damon Hill became president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club, succeeding Jackie Stewart.
“A living F1 legend”
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Aug
14
2008
Strategy and Innovation Specialist
Renée Mauborgne is a key authority on value innovation and wealth creation.
She is Distinguished Fellow and Affiliate Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD.
Using her latest work on tipping point leadership she advises organisations, from Europe, the US and Asia Pacific, on how to create a climate of leap performance even in difficult times
She stimulates creative thinking at an intellectual level with great ease.
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Aug
12
2008
Futurologist and Lecturer
Magnus Lindkvist is a futurologist and lecturer within business intelligence and trends. He has a MSc. in Business and Economics from The Stockholm School of Economics and studied at The School of Film, Television and Theatre at UCLA. Before founding Pattern Recognition, Magnus Lindkvist worked as a brand strategist at Differ and as a planner/account director and management group member at brand strategy agency, Grow.
“Where the day takes you, that’s where you’re going”
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Aug
07
2008
Director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Paris
Jean-Marie Chevalier is currently professor of Economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine, Director of the ‘Centre de Géopolitique de l’Energie et des Matières Premières’. He is also a Director at CERA. He has worked, as an economist for Elf Aquitaine and the energy department of the World Bank. For several years, he was a member of the board of directors of the Banque Nationale de Paris.
The world’s leading expert on current global energy trends
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Aug
05
2008
Leading Expert on Energy and Global Economics
Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on international politics, economics and energy. He is Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and Vice Chairman of the Global Decisions Group.
He is both a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the 1997 United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.”
“No one could ask for a better account of the world’s political and economic destiny since World War II.”
The Wall Street Journal
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Aug
02
2008
Expert on Energy and the Environment
Claudia Kemfert is Head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Professor of Energy Economics at Humboldt University, Berlin. She advises EU president José Manuel Barroso as a member of the High Level Group on Energy and she is an external advisor for the World Bank, the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“Germany’s leading exponent of green economic policies”
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Jul
29
2008
Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology & Innovation at INSEAD
Yves Doz is a Professor of Business Strategy and the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD.
His business experience includes work on multinational aircraft programmes, along with consulting for many major multinational corporations and teaching in their internal development programmes.
“The metanational hypothesis is becoming reality.”
In detail
He was Associate Dean for Research and Development from 1990-1995. From 1990-1994 he held the John H. Loudon Chair in International Management.
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Jul
25
2008
Global Marketing Expert
René Jäggi is the former CEO of Adidas International and Chairman of H.T.M. (Head– Tyrolia-Mares-Penn) the international sports group. He is also the former Chairman of the Board of Head N.V and he was CEO of the LOC Venue office during the football world cup in 2006 in Germany. He is currently on the board of several international companies and Chairman of Flora Eco Power AG in Munich, a public bio energy company. In May 2007 he was appointed as a new member of the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Based Artificial Life, Inc. a provider of award-winning mobile 3G technology and applications.
René Jäggi is a recognised corporate marketing expert
In Detail
In addition to his corporate work Mr Jäggi is also the former President of the Executive Board of the Kaiserslautern Football Club and former President of Football Club Basel.
He was also Chairman of the advisory board of Romika GmbH, the sports shoe manufacturer as well as holding prior management positions in marketing and sales at battery giant Duracel and Reynolds the tobacco giant.
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Jul
24
2008
Former Director of Marketing for London 2012
As Director of Marketing for London 2012 (the organisation which successfully bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games) David worked with Sebastian Coe to build UK public support for the bid, and sell London’s proposals to the International Olympic Committee around the world. He devised and directed the crucial final presentation in Singapore before the election of the host city. This race has been described as the fiercest competitive pitch of all time
Marketer of the Year (1999 and 2005)
In detail
Co-founder of Go with Barbara Cassani, and also responsible for all their commercial activities, following the MBO his marketing strategies contributed to increasing Go’s value from £100m to £400m in nine months, and David then helped lead the sale of Go to EasyJet, and managed the integration of the two airlines. Before launching Go, David had 10 years experience at major advertising agencies. David is director of Dyson, Glasses Direct, The Property Investment Market and New Moon Television, and has been UK Marketer of the Year twice (1999 and 2005), and Advertising Age’s Global CMO of the Year (2006).
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