Speakers
Speakers at Local Social Summit ‘09 will include: Longer biographies are being published as blog posts
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 Andrew Burke is CEO of Amino Technologies plc. He is also Chairman of Crisp Thinking, Non Executive Director of IT Forum Foundation and a partner at Snowy Road Ventures. Before Amino he was CEO BT Entertainment.
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 Dr. Bernie Hogan is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at the Univ. of Oxford. His present work is primarily focused on the emerging issue of social information overload and effective methodologies for leveraging online interactions and new media in everyday life.
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 Greg Sterling is the founding principal of Sterling Market Intelligence (SMI), focused on how the Internet and mobile impact offline consumer behavior and marketing. He also is the senior analyst for Opus Research’s Internet2Go program. Before SMI, Sterling ran The Kelsey Group’s Interactive Local Media program.
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 Jonathan Ewert was most recently SVP of Corporate Development for LookSmart. From 2003 – 2006, he was CEO of ePALS until selling the company. Prior to ePals he managed the IPO process for Modem Media. Mr. Ewert also serves on the Advisory Board of Cancer101, a non-profit that provides tools and resources to the newly diagnosed.
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 Sebastien Provencher is VP Product Mgt and Co-Founder at Praized Media Inc. Prior to that he was a senior executive at Yellow Pages Group in Canada. He’s a Real-time Web and Social media aficionado. Local search, traditional media & Yellow Pages industry expert.
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 Sokratis Papafloratos is CEO and Co-Founder of TrustedPlaces.com. TrustedPlaces is a social network focused on local reviews, where people share opinions on their favourite places and discover new ones through people’s recommendations. The company is based in London, UK with a development office in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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 David Ingram is co-founder and CEO of Brownbook.net. David spent around 10 years in traditional business directory firms (Thomson, Scoot, BT) before joining a file sharing startup in 2006 which provided the bridge from traditional publishing to the peer-produced model. He joined a file sharing start-up to head up product strategy and saw that grow from 3 people to a team of over 30 on both sides of the Atlantic, before starting www.brownbook.net with Marc Lyne in 2008.
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 Michael Weston has racked up more than a dozen years in the online industry, making a leap of faith after spending too long in print (7 years at Associated Newspapers alone). He’s started (and sold) his own agency (Digital Oxygen), held senior roles both at media-owners (Associated New Media; Yahoo!) and technology companies (Silverpop, Engage) and is currently VP International for targeting company/ad exchange wunderloop.
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 Claudia Poepperl is founder and CEO for adaffix, a Call 3.0 company that enriches the call experience by adding relevant content to calls in real time. Prior to adaffix, Claudia was Chief Marketing Officer for mobile search firm mobilePeople. As Managing Director for UCP Claudia was behind the success of Germany’s largest youth social network ‘uboot.com’.
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 David Pearce is Head of Mobile Services, Yell.com This ‘year of the mobile internet’ marks the 21st anniversary of David’s career in wireless communications, which commenced in 1988 when he joined the then Racal-Vodafone, with the responsibility for the commercial management of its mobile data products and services.
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 Paul McCrudden has been active in the local+social space for the last five years, which has included creating a pioneering video website introducing city neighbourhoods. Now a digital strategist at Imagination, his recent #sixweeks project used social media tools to challenge basic assumptions about consumer behaviour and saw a number of companies pay him for being their customer.
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 James Thornett is currently responsible for overseeing the development of BBC Local, the BBC’s online news and information service across the UK, and location services across BBC Online including mapping and location based technology. He has been working in regional and local broadcasting since 1998, initially as a strategy analyst covering the audience reporting and strategic positioning of regional television and local radio services across England.
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 Robert Barnard has spent the last 15 years decoding youth, young adults and families. Since 1994 as a founder of DECODE, Robert has led a passionate team of decoders to discover and develop what’s next. Through his exploration of consumers, employees and citizens in Canada and increasingly around the world, his work transcends industries and sectors.
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 Simon Greenman joined European Directories as Managing Director – Online in 2007. His focus is on driving online revenue and usage growth across the eight operation countries, including the rollout of flagship IYP sites, video products, the social local site Tupalo.com, and the recent launch of the Skype partnership.
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 Ben Barney is a founder member and Director of Akesios. He specialises in productising new media products for traditional businesses with large sales forces, and creating monetisation opportunities from the developing players in the Local Search space. With over 10 years experience with Directory and Yellow Page companies throughout Europe.
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 James Brown is CTO at CloudMade where he is responsible for all development, technology and infrastructure. He came to CloudMade after serving as CIO at Sonopia, a US based MVNO. Before Sonopia, Jim was CTO at WinWin Technologies, building a CRM and advertising ASP around a real-time profiling engine that hosted over 300 million data points across 35 million consumers and supported over 1 million ad-serving transactions per day.
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 Roland Bryan, Director, Strategy at Associated Northcliffe Digital. He currently leads digital strategy across A&N’s digital assets under the AND umbrella. He has recently launched a new pilot in the hyperlocal space, localpeople, which has 50 live sites across the West of England.
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 Anton Grutzmacher is the Director of Custom Data Products UK at Experian Hitwise. Anton is responsible for identifying and developing new opportunities for data integration and product development by working with other Experian businesses and external data providers. |
 Miriam Warren is Director of Marketing for Yelp. She evangelizes Yelp and leads a team of community managers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Toronto, and London. One of the first members of the Yelp elite squad, she recently wrote her 2,000th review.
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 Felix Petersen, was co-founder of Plazes.com, a bottom-up approach to spatial interaction and location oriented service platform, sometimes also dubbed “Mobile Social Software”. With the acquisition of Plazes by Nokia, he is now Head of Social Activities for Nokia.
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 Joachim Helfer has been with Müller Medien since 2005 and is co-ordinating all pay-for performance-activities with the company family that contains various businesses from directories, local radio and tv stations books and direct distribution divisions in Germany and other EU markets
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 Carolyn Watt will be heading up Profero’s social marketing offering as the Managing Director of their Social Media and Digital PR business unit. Previously, Carolyn was Head of SEO, Digital PR and Social Media and spent the first five years of her career as a print, digital and broadcast journalist.
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 Andrew Hunter is General Manager of Qype UK. A record of growing profitable online businesses and generating high volumes of traffic on shoe string budgets. Particular interest and expertise in SEO, SEM, Online Marketing Strategy, Affiliates, Tracking and Spend allocation/metrics. Previous positions include Head of Marketing at Gumtree.com and Search Engine Marketing Manager Thomas Cook. |
Remember, longer biographies are being published as blog posts.
