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Brand Management Expert

Martin Lindstrom is a world leading expert on branding.

Since defining ten revolutionary branding rules he has provided brand-building advice to a host of international organisations.

His clients include Mars, Pepsi, American Express, Mercedes-Benz, Ericsson and Yellow Pages.

He is also a member of several international boards including Wotch, Hitwise and eKit.com.

A master
on the
power of brands
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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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Global Energy Economist

Philip K. Verleger Jr. is the President of PKVerleger LLC and senior advisor to The Brattle Group. He has been associated with the Fred Bergsten Institute since 1986 and is a senior fellow. He has held positions at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the U.S. Treasury, the Institute for International Economics, Yale University, the University of California, and various firms in the private sector. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council and the Council of Foreign Relations.

“The leading specialist in the study of energy commodity markets.”
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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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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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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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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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Former Nokia Enterprise Solutions EMEA Channel Marketing Manager

Until recently Erik Jan Koedijk was Country Manager (Netherlands) and EMEA Channel Marketing Manager at Nokia Enterprise Solutions. An expert on Web 2.0 and networking, Erik has developed strategic channel sales and marketing plans to open new channels to deliver sales growth and above all transform strategy into action. He is also an experienced branding expert and a recognised leader in the field of building strategic networks.

“Doing business nowadays is all about building communities.”

In detail

In the last 10 years Erik has built and managed local and European sales, marketing and channel teams for large companies and start-up networking organisations with a specific focus on the internet and mobile communications. One of Erik’s hobbies is social networking and he is often organising brainstorm and workshop sessions with senior managers about community building, web 2.0 and mobility eco system building.
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Authority on the Future of Management/IT, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation

James Woudhuysen is one of Europe’s best-known independent speakers and writers on the future. In the 1980s he co-directed Britain’s first major study into the future of e-commerce (’teleshopping’ in those days). He then moved to the Henley Centre, Britain’s best-known think-tank on EU markets, where he built up the firm’s forecasting on the broader future of IT and proposed, in 1992, that the Internet be delivered over TV.

In 1996 staff at Phillips nominated James as ‘Motivator of the Year’

In detail

A physicist, broadcaster and author of several books, James is a columnist for IT Week and is visiting Professor of Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is often on BBC Radio 4. James managed worldwide market intelligence for Philips consumer electronics in the Netherlands.
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Former CEO of Burger King

Barry Gibbons earned the title of ‘Turnaround Champ’ from Fortune Magazine thanks to his phenomenal success in boosting Burger King’s fortunes. Within a year of taking on the role, Burger King was opening two new restaurants a day around the world. Having retired from big business, he is now a successful author, speaker and is co-founder of the UK publishing business Infinite Ideas.

Believing that managing isn’t enough he debates what it really takes to be distinct in your leadership, product development, service delivery and customer relationships

In detail

During Barry’s 5 years as the US-based Chairman/CEO of Burger King he received international acclaim. He has since co-founded and invested in a variety of ventures including a branded food service business, a magazine-CD publishing company, speciality coffee bars and a Latin theme restaurant that opened in Disneyland. He was also Executive in Residence at the University of Miami School of Business and is a regular on the BBC’s Bottom Line business broadcast.
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