Speakers

David Hendon is Director, Information Economy in the Business Group at Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and is responsible for BIS’s business-facing activities and policy in communications and broadcasting networks, internet, software and computer services, information security, electronics, digital content, media, publishing and postal sectors.

Tim Weller is CEO and Founder of Incisive Media. Tim started his career at VNU Business Publications in 1982 and left to join Centaur Communications in 1987 becoming a director of Centaur Publishing in 1989. In 1994 he became Managing Director of Reuters Publishing. In 2005 Tim received the publishing industry’s top honour - the Marcus Morris Award.

Alfred Rolington is Chief Executive Officer of consultants Oxford Analytica. A former journalist, editor and publisher at EMAP, he became MD at Eastside Publication, then Chief Executive of Lloyds Business Publishing Arm, followed by CEO of Croner Publishing. Before joining Oxford Analyica he was CEO of the Jane’s Information Group.

David Worlock is Co-Chair, Outsell Leadership Programs. A respected thought leader, David founded Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS) in 1985, a research and consultancy company working with the digital content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors. Outsell acquired EPS in 2006.

Michael Dell is Managing Director of Jane’s Information Group and was instrumental in its acquisition by IHS in 2007. This was followed by the acquisition by IHS of Documental Solutions and its integration into IHS Jane’s. Michael joined Jane’s in 2001 shortly after its acquisition by the Woodbridge Corporation for $110mn. In addition to the roles outlined above, he has been responsible through his career at the company for electronic product development and security editorial.

Giles Grant is VP, Strategy & Business for the Sweet & Maxwell division of Thomson Reuters , joining the business in January 2008. Prior to this, he was with Incisive Media, as both Group MD for Digital Strategy & Development, and MD for the Interactive Marketing Division, across both B2B and B2C brands. Between 1999 and 2005 Giles was MD of BSI Business Information, part of the BSI Group, developing digital and Asian business units.

Michael Berggren leads the Marketing Team at Planet Retail and has responsibility for marketing across several other businesses at parent company Emap. Prior to working for Planet Retail and Emap, he held various marketing roles across the technology and new media sectors, working both in North America and Europe for Sybase and Iona Technologies.

Danny Meadows-Klue, one of the Europe’s pioneers in online media and marketing, best known for helping launch the Interactive Advertising Bureau in the UK, and then across Europe where he became president and CEO for 4 years. Over 45,000 people have attended his lectures and training courses. In the mid 90s as publisher of the UK’s first online newspaper www.Telegraph.co.uk he won over a dozen awards and has helped run web businesses from portals and magazines, to shops and search, directory and email services. Recognized by the government as one of the 100 founders of the UK web industry, he also helped launch BBC’s News 24, acted as a government advisor in the DTI and Home Office and continues advising VC funds. He set up Digital Strategy Consulting in 2000 to help media groups and consumer brands get their content and commerce strategies right, and launched Digital Training Academy in 2004 to coach management teams on how to build the right strategies, sales and revenues. Recently he became an inaugural Commissioner for the digital content industry’s regulator, the DMC.

Dominic Feltham started his career with Reed Business Information in 1991 working in marketing across a variety of sectors but with a particular focus on RBI’s Aerospace portfolio. Dominic led the launch of key web-based information services in the Air Transport sector and with New Scientist, while based in the U.S, as part of RBI’s significant organic online growth plan. He has also led RBI’s acquisition of online services in Aerospace and in the lead generation/business directory sector. During his career with RBI, Dominic has been responsible for the portfolios in Aerospace, Commercial Property, Social Care sectors as well as New Scientist. He joined the RBI UK Board in 2006 and is currently Managing Director with responsibility for New Scientist and the RBI Search division which includes Bankers’ Almanac and online directories including Kellysearch.

David Wormald is Sales Director for Media at Mark Logic UK and has sold applications and software platforms in the areas of CRM, Data-feeds, Search, Online-Commerce, Scanning & Imaging, CMS and XML Dbases. One common thread that has run through each role and product type has been the use of technology as a means to increase the relevance, usability and value of content and data. David has held Sales Director and District Management roles at Captiva Software, EMC and Mark Logic and Territory Management responsibilities at Individual Inc., NewsEdge, Verity and Ingenta.

Dusan Rnic is Practice Director for EMEA, overseeing Endeca implementations and practices in these territories. Having successfully introduced novel internet technologies during his time with Netscape, Dusan has since occupied roles as a CTO for Netengines Worldwide and VP Services for Jobpartners. Originally working as a developer in the field of knowledge management, Dusan has worked in all major industry sectors positioning and applying market-changing technologies over the last 25 years.

Marc Geall is CEO at Autonomy Broadcast, Publishing and Rich Media Solutions, and has 15 years experience of the software industry. Firstly, he was a technology consultant for Parametric Technology Corporation, the Global market leader in the Mechanical Design Automation market. For the subsequent nine years he was the head of the leading European Software & IT Services Equity Research team at Citigroup. Over the years Marc and his team were consistently ranked in the Top Three by Independent surveys such as II and Extel.

Neal Perry is responsible for EPiServer’s operations in the UK, Ireland and Middle East having grown the business from start-up to 250 customers and over 2000 implementations. He is also directly involved with some of EPiServer’s largest customers including Bauer Consumer Media, RBI and Reed Exhibitions. Prior to working with EPiServer, Neal ran Northern Europe for a VC funded software start-up, Webgain, and was UK Managing Director for document management software company, IXOS.

Tony Hart is a Search Business Consultant at Microsoft specialising in working with organisations to create strategies for new and innovative ways to use Search technology. He has more than 10 years of experience working with global organisations leading and defining business and IT strategies across a range of enterprise technologies. Focus areas include enterprise application integration, BPM, supply chain integration, enterprise portals and enterprise search.

Ian Eckert is an award-winning journalist and online publisher with more than decade’s experience in digital media. He specialises in the migration of traditional print businesses. Ian recently returned to Abacus e-Media for a second stint as a Project Director working mainly with the company’s publishing clients. Previously as TSL Education’s Internet Director he developed the 2009 AOP award-winning TES Connect site that links teachers from across the UK through an innovative Web 2.0 platform. Before joining TSL he was a main board director CMP Information in a digital development role.

Frank Jennings is a Partner within the Technology Group and head of the Commercial Team at DMH Stallard. He has extensive experience in technology law, intellectual property and commercial contracts. He regularly advises clients on issues including data protection, copyright, trade marks & brands, franchising, sponsorship, domain name transfers, developing and publishing software, software as a service / ASP / hosted software services agreements, selling and distributing via the web, web 2.0 issues, escrow arrangements, systems integration, reselling and SLAs.

Alastair Brigg joined Reed Business Information at the start of 2009 and is responsible for growing Bankers Almanac’s footprint in the international finance sector.He has over 14 years media experience in print, events, social media and running digital portals, working across a number of media brands, launching and running operations on a local and global basis. Alastair started his career at Haymarket Media where we worked across a number of their flagship titles including Campaign, PRWeek, Management Today and Revolution. It was working on Revolution in the late 90’s that fuelled his passion for the digital space. He went on to be the first Online Publisher at Haymarket running Brand Republic, developing the site to become the UK’s leading advertising, marketing and media portal.

Rosemary Smith set up Opt-4 with partner Jenny Moseley in 2003 to advise organisations on data protection compliance and the maximization of marketing permissions. She has helped to shape the regulatory framework for marketing through extensive trade association involvement including chairmanship of the Direct Marketing Association’s Governance Committee and the DMA Board. Rosemary has given presentations covering all aspects of data protection compliance and permission based marketing to audiences in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia and South Africa.

Trevor Fenwick has over 30 years of experience in the global business information market as Managing Director of Euromonitor International plc, the leading publisher of market research analysis and reference databases and online information systems serving the global business and academic research markets. Trevor is Chairman of the Data Publishers Association.

Lawrence Clarke is head of consultancy services, SiftGroups and has 20 years experience working in international reference publishing, with the last 13 years in electronic publishing. He has developed online concepts for major media groups – including Schibsted in Scandinavia and Egmont in Germany – and is the founder of two online community-focused companies, the first based in the UK for online games, and the second based in Germany for member organisations.

Helen Trendell is a senior digital marketing professional with a decade of experience specialising in SEO, content production and online pr strategies. As Digital & Search Marketing Manager at Site Visibility, Helen has worked both client and agency side within the publishing, financial services, telecoms, marketing and IT sectors.

Simon Conroy was appointed Chief Executive of Madgex in January 2005, having previously acted as a consultant to the company for four months. His knowledge of growing businesses and business transformation has allowed him to successfully spearhead challenging growth plans and evolve the Madgex brand. Madgex has a proven history in helping clients such as Haymarket, Reed Elsevier, Emap, News International and The Guardian in the end to end outsourcing of their jobs board and recruitment classified businesses.

Stephen Morgan is Founder of Squiz UK and has over 10 years experience in the document, content and knowledge management business. Before Squiz he worked for American Express, Canon and ran an international network of offices for Wilcom.

Kenton Ward, a digital and internet specialist, is Head of Partnerships at Squiz, the leading open source web services company working with MySource Matrix content management system. Previously Kenton ran his own digital agency specialising in open source and worked across a number of large projects in the entertainment, travel and publishing sectors.

Chantal Burns has over 18 years of experience in media, sales and business development, having worked with many of the world’s leading media companies. After heading up advertising sales at IPC Media, she left to successfully launch the online advertising and sponsorship operation for the Fish4 network. In 2000 Chantal set up Star Consultancy which provides world class training and development solutions, specialising in business development and communication.