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Evan Davis, TV and radio presenter, economics journalist
Today and Dragon's Den presenter and former economics editor, Evan Davis is one of the most respected economics journalists in the country. He is renowned for his ability for putting complex business and fingernail matters into simple to understand yet comprehensive language. As well as broadcasting, Evan is a member of the Advisory Council of the Social Market Foundation and has written the acclaimed book Public Spending and co-authored The Penguin Dictionary of Business and The Penguin Dictionary of Economics.
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Chris Lenton, Chairman, The Chartered Institute of Marketing
Chris Lenton was elected as The Institute’s Chairman on 15 January 2008. Chris also continues in his current role as a full time director of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, where he heads their Group Marketing function. Chris’s career as a director has centred on strategic planning, marketing and corporate governance. Ethics and corporate social responsibility have played a key part in his business philosophy.
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Karren Brady, CEO, Birmingham City Football Club
Karren Brady began her career at LBC when she was 18 years old and swiftly moved onto Saatchi & Saatchi as junior Account Handler. She joined Sports Newspapers Ltd in 1988 and became director within a year. Karren is now known as the first woman in football. She has been Managing Director of Birmingham City Football Club since 1993 and has turned the Club’s fortunes around.
In March 2006 she was chosen as the team leader on BBC1’s The Apprentice, for Comic Relief, where she lead her team (Trinny Woodall, Jo Brand, Cheryl Cole and Maureen Lipman) to a resounding victory over the boys team (Alistair Campbell, Piers Morgan, Rupert Everett, Danny Baker and Ross Kemp) raising over £750k (the two teams together raising £1million for charity).
In October 2007 Karren was voted Business Woman of the Year.
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Dave Chaffey, author of Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, Director of Marketing Insights Ltd
Well known for his practical online marketing advice, Dave Chaffey has helped tens of thousands of UK businesses improve their Digital Marketing through his bestselling books, workshops and consulting. Dave has also been recognised by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of 50 marketing ‘gurus’ worldwide who have shaped the future of Marketing. Dave has advised companies including 3M, BP, Euroffice, HSBC, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, Siebel and Tektronix.
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Simon Drakeford, CEO, Euroffice
Simon Drakeford is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Euroffice, the UK’s leading online office supplier for small businesses. Simon has over ten years of online experience, most recently at T-Mobile where he was responsible for leading, developing and managing T-Mobile UK’s online businesses. Simon has a CIM Diploma in Marketing and is a Henley MBA.
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John Grant, author of The New Marketing Manifesto, co-founder of St Luke's, the innovative and socially aware London advertising agency
Co-founded St Luke’s, the innovative and socially aware London ad agency. Working with clients such as the Body Shop, St Luke’s pioneered the view of a company’s “Total Role in Society”. Since leaving in 1999 he has worked as an independent consultant and recent clients include IKEA, Innocent, LEGO and O2. Over the years he has also been involved with green brands.
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Jim Dinnage, Chairman, Seacourt Ltd
Jim has spent his entire professional career in the printing industry. His first job was at Harrisons, a gravure printer (the printer of postage stamps). His experience lies in a wide range of areas including heatset web, sheetfed litho, trade binding and trade reprographics. In September 1991, Jim joined Seacourt as Sales Director. Together with the then MD, he was instrumental in the decision to purchase the new environmental printing technology. This set Seacourt on the route to becoming a true sustainable champion and an acknowledged market-leading printer, highlighted last year when Seacourt was awarded the coveted Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development. Together with his son Gareth, Jim bought the company earlier this year from its previous long-time owners, and is Chairman of the company.
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Les Sayers, Managing Director, Tyrrells Potato Chips
Les Sayers joined Tyrrells Potato Chips as Managing Director in spring 2007, having previously been Managing Director of M&J Seafood, a division of Brake Brothers for five years. Les has built a solid career within the snacks industry, having held several senior positions within PepsiCo International, including Sales Director of Walkers Snack Foods and General Manager of their Frito Lay division in New South Wales, Australia.
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Lyndon Simkin, co-author of Market Segmentation Success: Making It Happpen!
Dr Lyndon Simkin, a Reader in Strategic Marketing, has been at Warwick Business School since the mid-1980s. Formerly Academic Director of the world-leading Warwick Full-Time MBA Programme and the IBM in-house MBA, Lyndon launched and then Directed Warwick Business School’s innovative MSc in Marketing and Strategy. Lyndon teaches undergraduates, but mainly MBAs and executives the basics of marketing, advanced strategic marketing and business planning. His research focuses on market segmentation, marketing planning, marketing communications and strategy implementation. He has published extensively in the marketing, strategic management and operational research journals in the UK and USA. Lyndon is co-chair of the Academy of Marketing’s special interest group in Market Segmentation.
Lyndon is a highly active senior consultant to the Boards of many UK and international corporations, addressing strategic planning, target marketing, competitive strategy, the implementation of strategic plans and organisational realignment. He also operates as a coach to a number of CEOs, BD and Marketing Directors. Lyndon is a recognised High Court expert witness in cases of commercial litigation around strategy and implementation failure, in the USA, Switzerland and England.
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Gareth Mitchell-Jones, Director of Analytics, Experian
Gareth is Director of Analytics at Experian and is responsible for insight projects. He has 14 years experience in the industry with a proven record of successful CRM, data warehousing, project management, system analysis and business development delivery. Gareth has also worked at eBay, Tesco and Visa, amongst other major blue-chip clients. He holds a BA (Hons) degree in Marketing.
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John Smythe, author of The CEO: Chief Engagement Officer: Turning Hierarchy Upside Down to Drive Performance, founder of Engage for Change
John founded Engage for Change, a consultancy dedicated to advising on engaging leaders and everyone at work to drive change, transform organisations and raise day to day business performance.
John also co-founded SmytheDorwardLambert in 1989, a consultancy which was acknowledged to be the thought leader in organizational communication, change communication/leadership and change management.
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Glenn Manoff, Director of Communications, O2
Glenn Manoff has been Director of Communications at O2 since 2003. Coach for a 40+ strong team of communications professionals responsible for corporate responsibility, public relations, internal communications, public affairs and community relations. His role is to put reputation, pride, trust and community at the heart of O2’s strategy. O2 has consistently been recognised as a leader in this field and has received various awards. In 2007 PR Week named Manoff PR professional of the year.
Prior to O2, Glenn held director level Communications and Marketing roles at Ebone, Global TeleSystems and Esprit Telecom. Previously, he worked as a journalist, teacher, aid worker and basketball coach. He has an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Economics from George Washington University. An American by birth, Glenn has lived and worked in the UK for 13 years and is married with two children.
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Pierre-Yves Gerbeau, Executive Director – Capital & Regional, former Chief Executive of the Dome, former Vice President – Operations at Disneyland Paris
PY is Executive Director of Capital & Regional, the £1bn leisure property company.
Voted Personality of the Year by his industry peers, he heads the X-Leisure business.
PY famously became Chief Executive of the Dome in February 2000. He did a great deal to turn around the Government-built attraction, generating over six million visitors. Such is his energy that on a rare day off he won the Pro-Am in the Alfred Dunhill Cup at St Andrews.
Before coming to the UK, PY had already honed his skills in corporate rescue as Vice
President, Operations at Disneyland Paris.
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