Changing Media Summit 2013: speakers

Find out who will be speaking at the Changing Media Summit

Jonathan Allan, director of sales, Channel 4

Jonathan is Channel 4's director of sales and leads the corporation's sales team of over 200 people across agency sales, airtime management, sponsorship, ad-funded programming and product placement, future and digital media ad sales and strategic sales.

The portfolio of channels sold by Channel 4 Sales House includes Channel 4, More4, E4, Film4 and 4Music, UKTV's ten channels, six Box Channels and UK PBS.

Allan is responsible for leading a team responsible for generating over £1billion in annual revenue across spot advertising, online, product placement. As a not-for-profit corporation, the profit generated by Channel 4's commercial activity is directly reinvested back into delivery of its public service remit.

He has successfully restructured stand-alone departments Strategic Sales, Future Digital and New Media Ad Sales, and Sponsorship into fully integrated agency/client-focused teams of specialists, to consolidate Channel 4's position as the essential marketing partner for those targeting young and upmarket audiences.

Jason Anderson, head of creative technology, WCRS

Jason is responsible for the creative technology output of the agency, from Facebook applications, through to responsive and mobile-first websites, to fully-formed web-apps and large-scale sites, and even experiential products that combine the physical and digital elements.

With more than 15 years experience in technology and communications, Jason leads and inspires the creative technology team at WCRS to produce ever-more innovative and magical solutions. A true believer in cross-domain collaboration, he ensures that technical know-how and passion is fully distributed across the agency network so thateveryone is up-to-date with the newest technical possibilities and that allintrepidation around technology is deleted.

Eric Berger, executive vice president, digital networks, Sony Pictures Television

Eric is the executive vice president of digital networks at Sony Pictures Television (SPT). In this position, Berger supervises Crackle, the studio's multi-platform video entertainment network, overseeing its content development, programming, marketing, distribution, product video operations and engineering. Crackle is a three-screen service, available online, on connected TVs and game consoles, and mobile applications. Crackle is currently available in 22 countries including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Latin America and Brazil. Berger also manages mobile games and applications based on television properties and, in conjunction with the general managers, the digital presence of the company's channels around the world. The studio's channels, including AXN, SET and Animax, reach more than 800 million households worldwide and are supported by a digital presence that includes more than 75 websites. Additionally, Berger manages all ad-supported digital businesses and partnerships with companies such as YouTube and Hulu.

Berger joined the company in 2006 as vice president, mobile entertainment.  He guided SPT's mobile games division from 17th to 5th place in the market, and he successfully launched video services on all major mobile operators. In 2008, Berger was named senior vice president, digital networks, where he was responsible for creating and syndicating content to major online and mobile providers. He then took over management of Crackle.

Henry Brook, executive creative director, Digit London

Henry has been immersed in the world of interaction, exploring how we engage and connect with technology and how we might do so in the future. For the past 15 years he has pioneered the development of Digit's experimental work, consulting on a diverse range of clients from museums to global corporations.

Kate Bulkley, media commentator and journalist

An award-winning business journalist both on camera and in print, Kate contributes to national UK newspapers and writes regularly for specialist publications, including DTVE, Hollywood Reporter and Broadcast Magazine in the UK.

Kate was previously international editor for pay TV title Cable World magazine; media editor for European Business News, a 24-hour, pan-European channel, owned by Dow Jones & Co., where she created and co-presented the award-winning media show, Media Report.

Kate is past chairman of The Broadcasting Press Guild, where she remains on the executive committee and is awards secretary for the Guild's annual Television & Radio Awards.

Kate Burns, founder, Accelerate

Kate has over 16 years experience working for the world's largest and most reputable digital corporations. Most recently, she ran AOL Europe and led her team through a swift and successful business turnaround. As a high profile business leader and strategist she is an expert in shaping businesses and growing them profitably. Notably, she was Google's first employee outside of the US, where she drove its sales in Europe to $1bn.
 
As CEO of AOL Europe, Kate was responsible for setting the strategy and overseeing the day-to-day operations in the UK and Ireland of this media giant. During this time she took the European business back to profitability and spearheaded a growth strategy that led to the acquisition of goviral a/s and the launch and expansion of The Huffington Post in the UK, all inside 18 months.

Rory Cellan-Jones, technology correspondent, BBC News

Rory has been a reporter for the BBC for more than 25 years, covering business and technology stories for much of that time. After working on everything from Breakfast Time to Newsnight, the Ten O Clock News and the Money Programme he was appointed technology correspondent in 2007 with a brief to expand the BBC's coverage of the impact of the internet on business and society.

He now covers technology for television, radio and the BBC website, and has a popular blog. In 2012 he was voted Tech Personality of The Year by readers of T3 magazine.

Rory studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Jesus College, Cambridge, and worked in Paris and Berlin before entering journalism. He is married with two sons, and lives in Ealing in West London.

Pierre Chappaz, co-founder and CEO, Ebuzzing

Darren Childs, CEO, UKTV

With a prestigious career in broadcast media spanning the globe and nearly two decades, Darren has delivered growth across large media portfolios around the world. Darren joined UKTV – a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive - in September 2010 with the primary objective of driving the profitability and development of the multiplatform network.

Darren's achievements for the network include the positioning of UKTV as the nation's fastest growing commercial television network of 2012; committing to investment of over £100m a year in content; launching five new HD channels; creating the number one programme in Pay TV with Dynamo: Magician Impossible and running the UK's number one channels in both the lifestyle and factual genres.

Michael Comish, CEO, Tesco Digital Entertainment

Michael is CEO of Tesco Digital Entertainment, overseeing movie and TV streaming service blinkbox, personalised music offering WE7 and digital books business Mobcast. Michael founded blinkbox in 2006 and built the business in to one of the UKs online streaming movie services before selling it to Tesco in May 2011. He also co-founded AtomFilms, a pioneer in the online entertainment space, which was sold to Viacom for $200m in 2006. Between 2002 and 2005, Comish was managing director of 4 services at Channel 4.

Tanya Cordrey, chief digital officer, Guardian News & Media

Tanya Cordrey has 13 years' experience within digital businesses. She has worked for many successful dot coms, setting up the award-winning parenting site Babycentre.co.uk (the UK version of babycenter.com) before it was sold to Johnson & Johnson. After that she worked as eBay UK's Product Director for five years, during a period of exponential growth as the company became a household name. Prior to joining GNM, she was the UK General Manager of Webby-award winner zopa.com.

In 2008 she joined Guardian News and Media as General Manager, environment, building a portfolio of digital products and services around environment and sustainability, including the launch ofenvironmentguardian.co.uk –which is the UK's number one news site in the green sector based on unique visitors.

Tanya is currently the Chief Digital Officer at the Guardian and is responsible for leading a team of world-class digital talent. This team incorporates product, engineering and systems as well as the Guardian Digital Agency which builds digital products for a wide range of external clients. Tanya is also a Trustee for the online charity globalgiving.co.uk.

Paul Dawson, founding partner, Fluxx

Paul is a founding partner at Fluxx, a product and service innovation company working with companies like Selfridges, EMAP (Top Right Group), The Sun and The Times newspapers, Barclays and More Th>n. For 15 years he led customer experience projects for brands like Tesco, Virgin Atlantic, BBC and Setanta. He also built one of the best user-centered design teams in Europe (according to Forrester) at digital agency Conchango. At Fluxx, he specialises in innovation techniques and in product development, driving products and propositions that are loved by consumers and create value for the brands they work with.

Philip DeBevoise, president and co-founder, Machinima

Philip is the president and co-founder of Machinima, Inc. Machinima is the next generation video entertainment network for young males. Across its global network, over 262 million unique viewers watched in excess of 2.6 billion videos in December 2012, making it the number one all-time Entertainment Network on YouTube. Machinima properties are found across the largest global distribution platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, iOS and Android, to name a few. Philip oversees all aspects of the business with a special focus on the global expansion of the brand.

Philip was one of the founders of Creative Planet. Prior to that, he was VP of TCI Interactive, formerly the Internet investment vehicle of the giant cable company, Tele-Communications, Inc. While at TCI he helped execute investments in Sportsline, iVillage and Interzine. Prior to TCI, Philip was a co-founder and SVP of AND Interactive Communications, an award-winning interactive design and production company, which was sold to TCI in 1994. AND's clients included IBM, AT&T, TCI, Silicon Graphics and TimeWarner.

Lewis D'Vorkin, chief product officer, Forbes Media

Lewis serves as chief product officer, leading all editorial areas for Forbes and its related brands. A seasoned journalist and experienced business entrepreneur, since joining the company in June 2010 he oversaw the redesign of Forbes magazine and launch of a new digital publishing platform on
Forbes.com, the #1 business site on the Web, delivering a user experience that is cleaner, simpler, more interactive and easier to navigate, and one that puts authoritative journalism at the center of a social media experience.

The redesign of Forbes.com, which is part of the ongoing changes Lewis oversees, includes new People, Places and Profile pages, as well as a new Home Page, Channel and Section pages, and the creation of the New Newsroom that fosters participation and interactivity between readers, content
creators and marketers in real-time to meet the demands of an ever-evolving media landscape.

Luke Gaydon, vice president of media, EMEA, Brightcove

Luke is a highly experienced senior executive with an extensive knowledge of the media and broadcast sector. He has been at Brightcove since 2008, where he spent 5 years leading the post-sales business in EMEA, before moving to his current role as vice president of media. In his present position he is responsible for high profile media and broadcast relationships with existing customers such as BBC Worldwide, Turner Broadcasting Europe and Sky Sports, in addition to driving new business in this key vertical.

Luke is passionate about technology and has spent 12 years helping top media organisations to meet their business challenges in a fast paced and complex digital landscape. Luke has considerable industry experience, which has seen him work with leading organisations such as Channel 4, where he ended his 5 year tenure as Business Manager for Channel4.com.

Linda Grant, managing director, Metro

Linda was appointed managing director of A&N Media's Free Division in March 2011, responsible for the highly successful Metro and its sister brands 7Days in Dubai and Dublin's Metro Herald.

Grant has spearheaded a new focus on digital products, a 'mobile first' strategy born out of the original 'mobile' commuter newspaper product. This vision allows Metro's audience to engage with the brand at different points throughout the day, offering busy on the move urbanites more Metro news, sport, fashion, celebrity gossip and entertainment, more often and across more platforms.

Tony Haile, CEO, Chartbeat

Tony is the CEO of Chartbeat, the leading real-time data service. Over the last three years, Tony has lead Chartbeat from two guys around one desk to a 40+ person company with more than 4,000 paying clients, including companies such as CNN, the New York Times, Gilt Groupe, and Starbucks. Prior to entering the startup world Tony competed in a round the world yacht race and led and managed polar expeditions in the high Arctic. Startups are apparently similarly exciting with less chance of losing a limb.

Ed Haslam, SVP marketing, YuMe

Ed is a strategic marketing executive with substantial experience in online media, networked communications, and infrastructure computing.

Prior to joining YuMe to oversee marketing, Ed was co-founder & VP marketing of Ludic Labs (Groupon), which developed both the social media community Diddit.com and local commerce service OfferFoundry.com. Prior to Ludic Labs, he served as the founding marketing executive for several other venture-backed technology companies including Orbital Data (Citrix) and Inktomi Corporation (Yahoo!). Ed holds a B.S. in Structural Engineering, an M.S. in Systems Engineering and ABD in Operations Research from Purdue University.

Peter Ingman, founder and CEO, Mynewsdesk

Peter is founder and CEO of Mynewsdesk. Born and raised in Stockholm, he was one of the entrepreneurs behind web agency Spray Razorfish. Peter co-founded Mynewsdesk in 2003, with the mission to create a better way for brands to communicate with the media and key influencers. Today, Mynewsdesk is used by over 30,000 brands. Peter sees a future where brands will become media companies, creating and publishing their own content. Peter is a keen triathlete, but one of his most patience-testing challenges, apart from being a father, was to take his sailing yacht from the Mediterranean to Stockholm, a journey that took five years.

Victoria Jaye, head of IPTV and TV online content, BBC Vision

Victoria is editorially responsible for transforming the way the BBC brings its TV channels and content portfolio (programmes, web original and archive content) to audiences within BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer.

Victoria is a pioneer in cross platform channel and content brand strategy, commissioning and production, with experience working across broadcast, retail, banking, FMCG and entertainment brands

Prior to her current role, she was head of fiction and entertainment multiplatform commissioning at the BBC, charged with transforming many of the broadcaster's most iconic programmes into powerful cross platform brands.

Nic Jones, vice president, international, VEVO

Based in VEVO's London office, Nic oversees VEVO's global strategy and is responsible for its International operations, which include the UK, Australia and Brazil.

Nic has led the digital businesses for some of the world's largest media companies. Prior to joining VEVO in 2011, Nic was chief digital officer at Starcom MediaVest EMEA, helping build the agency's regional digital capability. While at Starcom, he was instrumental in the agency's biggest wins of 2010: securing the GSK and Honda accounts for pan Europe.

Nic moved to London from Australia in 2009, where he pioneered the country's digital sector from its infancy in 1996. As managing director, digital at Starcom MediaVest Australia, Nic launched and built SMG Search - the first in house media agency search business in Australia. From 2003-2007, Jones was CEO of News Corp.'s digital business Down Under. Jones was CEO of Yahoo! Australia & New Zealand from 2000-2003. He was previously MSN's founding sales director.

Paul Joyce, co-founder and CEO, Geckoboard

Paul is co-founder and CEO of Geckoboard, a London based SaaS company that makes it easy for any business to see all of their key metrics in one elegant real-time dashboard.

Geckoboard connects to popular web services out of the box and their API makes it easy for customers to include data from their own sources too. Geckoboard has a team of 12 people based in London supporting over 1,800 customers from around the world.

Prior to starting Geckoboard Paul worked for financial institutions, designing and building data warehouses.

Paul Keenan, CEO, Bauer Media

Paul has worked in the media industry for over 20 years. In 2000, he was appointed chief executive of Emap Digital, managing the development of the group's global digital assets. Paul became chief executive of Emap Consumer Media in 2001, managing the company's magazines and online assets in the UK, Australia and its licences internationally. Paul was asked to join the Board of Emap plc as a Director in 2005.

Following the sale of Emap Consumer Media to Bauer Media Group in 2008, Paul has led the business in the same capacity. He has been a board director of the PPA (Professional Press Association) for a number of years.

Saul Klein, partner, Index Ventures

Saul joined the London office Index as a partner in February 2007. He currently serves on the boards of Alertme, Chartbeat, Erply, GlassesDirect, MyHeritage, Seedcamp, Songkick and Soluto.

Saul brings over 15 years of experience successfully building and exiting companies in both the US and Europe as an entrepreneur, operator and seed investor. Most recently he was the co-founder and original CEO at what is now Lovefilm International (Amazon) and part of the original executive team at Skype (eBay).

Alexander Koppel, chief commercial officer, Red Bull Media House

Alexander is chief commercial officer of Red Bull Media House. He started his career with Austrians UPC subsidiary in 1997 working in various commercial roles until joining the UPC Media Division in London in 2001 as corporate business development manager. Involved in the set up of Hutchison 3G from the beginning, Alexander Koppel joined Hutchison's Austrian operation in 2002. Appointed director of commercial development he played a significant role in taking Europe's first 3G player from launch to operation.

In 2008 Mr. Koppel joined the Red Bull Media House dedicating his focus onto the global content licensing and Red Bull's Mobile and Telecom operations. On top of this role, he was also responsible for Red Bull Media House's print division over the last four years.

Nick Law, executive vice president, global chief creative officer, R/GA

As global chief creative officer, Nick is responsible for the creative vision of R/GA, the New York-based agency for the digital age. He guides teams of visual designers, copywriters and interaction designers as they create award-winning work for a many of Fortune 500 companies. He also ensures that R/GA stays true to the company's unique legacy of collaboration between world-class creative and groundbreaking technology.

Since 2001 Nick has played a significant role in shaping R/GA's creative vision. In that time, his work has won numerous international awards and has been widely published in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia-Pacific. Within a year of joining the company, he was promoted to vice president of visual design and shortly thereafter named executive creative director on the Nike account, an account responsible for some the industry's most innovative and high profile work.

Emma Lloyd, director of corporate business development and investments, Sky

As director of corporate business development and investments at Sky, Emma identifies and nurtures strategic relationships with third-parties ranging from start-ups to major technology firms to help continue Sky's leadership in innovation. 

Previously, Emma was director of emerging products, where she led a team that focused on identifying and new product opportunities across TV, online and mobile and then bringing them to scale. In this position, she played a key role in the early development of Sky's award-winning multiplatform TV service, Sky Go, which now attracts more than 3 million users each quarter.

Emma joined Sky in January 2008 as a business development director, leading in the development of Sky's mobile services, alongside other cross-business product development initiatives. She started her career in management consulting, where she has ten year's business consulting and mobile telecommunications experience.

Sarah Marshall, technology editor, Journalism.co.uk

Sarah is technology editor at Journalism.co.ukand reports on innovations in the digital news industry.

Sarah is also organiser of Hacks/Hackers Brighton, a global movement of journalists and technologists who get together with the aim of "rethinking the future of news and information".

Mike McCue, founder and CEO, Flipboard 

Longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike McCue founded Flipboard in early 2010, with former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll. Together they set out to build a global service that would let people make all of their news, photos, and videos from across social networks accessible from a single place.

In July 2010, they launched Flipboard for iPad: a social magazine that brings people the most informative, entertaining and amazing stories from around the world and from their daily life. With each flip, people can learn about stories and events that take place thousands of miles away or right at home; see life's great moments in one place; and be inspired by what others share. Today, Flipboard works across iPad, iPhone and Android.

Matthias Metternich, co-founder, Believe.in

Matthias is a German-American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Believe.in, a venture backed start-up based in the heart of London's Silicon Roundabout. Believe.in is at the forefront of disrupting the third sector, public giving and CSR through technology and design. Previous to Believe.in, Matthias worked as a client partner at AKQA and as a managing partner at Poke in Istanbul, where he worked to create transformative products and services in the banking, telecoms, media and technology industries for such clients as Microsoft, Virgin, Barclays, L'Oreal, Diageo and others.

Ivvet Modinou, co-founder, Richseam.com

Ivvet is the co-founder of music discovery website Richseam.com. She started her career as a volcanologist in Hawaii before moving onto journalism and science communication. A huge music fan, she became frustrated at the repetitive nature of online music discovery services and decided to build her own – one that is uniquely based on real-life artist relationships. Richseam launched in August 2012, and has rapidly built up a dedicated fan base around the world.

Tony Moorey, content director, Absolute Radio

As Absolute Radio's content director, Tony has responsibility for One Golden Square's unified on-air and digital teams, controlling programming and content output. He is leading the Absolute Radio team forward as a music, comedy and football brand into a smart, connected and logged-on age. The Absolute Radio Network has a strategy of dedicated digital decade brands; Absolute Radio 60s, Absolute Radio 70s, Absolute 80s, Absolute Radio 90s, Absolute Radio 00s and Absolute Classic Rock.

Tony continues to hold creativity at the brand's core, with a commitment to entertaining programming from talented broadcasters including Frank Skinner, Christian O'Connell, Ian Wright and Geoff Lloyd, alongside the much loved 'No Repeat Guarantee' and 'Absolute Radio Live' - a dedicated portfolio of live events and music coverage. With their colleagues in communications, marketing and technology, his team deliver groundbreaking digital innovations, PR and award-winning campaigns - the highly successful 'Faces for Radio' campaign showcasing the station's Sony Award winning line-up.

Neil Morgan, senior director digital marketing, Adobe Europe, Middle East & Africa

Neil leads digital marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Adobe Corporation. A career marketer in enterprise software, he has spent over 20 years across all marketing disciplines including product management, product marketing, channel marketing, public relations, analyst relations, and strategic marketing management. He has extensive international experience, having held UK, European, US domestic and worldwide roles.

For the past ten years Neil has been involved in working with customers on customer facing systems from CRM to digital marketing. Prior to Adobe, Morgan created the European marketing team at Omniture, subsequently acquired by Adobe, and previously led the marketing team at Siebel Systems, responsible for marketing to all sectors across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before Siebel, Morgan was vice president of Worldwide Marketing for Chordiant Software and held global marketing roles at Oracle Corporation including a period at Oracle's San Mateo, CA headquarters.

Dennis Mortensen, CEO and founder, Visual Revenue

Dennis is CEO and founder of Visual Revenue, Inc., whose real-time decision support platform enhances the hand of editors for more than 250 global online media properties. He is a pioneer and expert in Web Analytics, the author of "Data Driven Insights" from Wiley, and a frequent speaker on the subject of Analytics and Online Media. Previously, he was COO of IndexTools when it was acquired by Yahoo! Inc. and he became their director of data insights. A native of Denmark, Dennis currently calls New York City his home.

Alex Newman, head of mobile, OMD and Omnicom Media Group EMEA

After graduating in Politics and Philosophy from Birmingham University, Alex took his first steps within the media world by joining Starcom Motive as a TV planner/buyer. During his five year stay, Alex worked across Heinz, McDonald's, John West and Honda accounts, whilst also running the TV launch campaign for the ground breaking Nintendo Game cube. Alex then joined Mediacom as a TV manager with sole responsibility for the VW/Audi account. Alex joined OMDUK in June 2006 as a TV associate director working across the Coty portfolio. 

During his time at OMDUK, Alex developed a keen interest in the ever expanding world of mobile technology, and spent a lot of time investigating its increasing effect upon consumer behaviours, and ways in which it was beginning to be used as more than a simple communication tool. 

Alex launched OMDUK's mobile operation in June 2007, specializing in educating clients about the latest developments in the world of mobile technology, explaining how to incorporate mobile into their overall campaigns, developing mobile assets from apps, sites and creative, to advising on mobile infrastructure.

David Pemsel, chief commercial officer, Guardian News & Media

David has worked in many senior roles within advertising and marketing for the past 20 years. He was head of marketing communications at Hutchinson Telecom, before going on to become one of Ogilvy and Mather's youngest account directors.

He joined the fledgling St Lukes, helping build it into a top 10 agency within the UK and winning agency of the year in 1997. In 2000, he was headhunted by Elizabeth Murdoch to launch Shine Entertainment.

In 2005 he joined ITV as marketing director, before becoming group marketing director in 2007; he was promoted onto the ITV PLC executive committee in 09. Having left ITV in September 2010, David is now chief commercial officer of Guardian News and Media, responsible for all revenues, marketing and insight.

Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO, Buzzfeed

Jonah is founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, the first true social news organization that provides a pioneering mix of breaking news, entertainment and shareable content. Mr Peretti, known for creating viral hits, tracking online social behavior and building technology to amplify buzz is also a co-founder of The Huffington Post. He has been called a "viral marketing hotdog" by the New York Times, "the poster boy of guerilla media" by AlterNet and a "computer-whiz" by The New Yorker. Fast Company named Mr Peretti one of the "New Faces of Social Media" and Business Insider listed him as one of the "11 Rising Tech Stars to Watch in 2012."

Mr Peretti is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and has taught at NYU and the Parsons School of Design. His work has been covered by Time, the Economist, Fortune, and Business Insider and he has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America and CNN.

In 2012, Mr Peretti launched five new verticals on BuzzFeed: including Politics, a tech vertical called FWD, a lifestyle vertical called Shift, Sports and Animals. Ben Smith of POLITICO was hired in January 2012 to lead as editor-in-chief. BuzzFeed reaches over 20 million monthly unique visitors and gets the majority of its traffic from social sources like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more.

Sanam Petri, associate creative director, R/GA

With almost a decade's worth of award-winning experience, Sanam has developed interactive campaigns for global brands like Nike, Dove, and Converse. She's spent the last seven years leading creative teams in both New York and London at R/GA, the digital agency recently declared Agency of the Decade by Ad Age. Her primary interests include things like teen marketing, digital storytelling, and retraining her liver to cope with life in England. Sanam is currently the head of R/GA's copy department in London.

Vaibhav Puri, founder and CEO, Taggito

Vaibhav is founder and CEO of Taggito S.L. a mobile startup that develops products and services based on the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Prior to Taggito, he worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co and Ernst & Young. Vaibhav has consulted major telecom operators and regulators in Europe and the Middle East. He has an MBA from the Said Business School, University of Oxford and graduated with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Pune, India.

Leo Rayman, head of planning, Grey London

Leo joined Grey London in January from Adam & Eve DDB where he oversaw strategy on Foster's, YouTube, Phones4U, John Lewis and Lastminute.com and founded a highly successful social media division. Significant digital projects included managing fan ecosystems for YouTube to change viewing behaviours and aid content discovery and developing Foster's brand equity in a digital space.

He also ran Volkswagen at DDB, developing a famously high end creative product for all channels from the brand's mobile experience to the strategy, design and build of Volkswagen.co.uk, retail communications to brand advertising.

Previously, Leo launched a Europe-wide strategic planning function for world-leading PR network, Weber Shandwick, and spent five years at brand and CRM consultancy, Zalpha.

Ralph Rivera, director, future media, BBC

Ralph is director of the BBC's Future Media division. He holds overall responsibility for the BBC's interactive services, BBC Online and BBC Red Button, ensuring the delivery of the BBC's purposes and editorial priorities in the internet age. As part of this remit, Ralph oversees the development of the BBC's digital products, such as BBC iPlayer, and the enabling business partnerships which allow these products to be experienced on desktops, mobiles, tablets and connected TVs. Ralph is responsible for shaping and leading the BBC's R&D activities, collaborating on common standards and contributing to the development of new broadcasting technologies such as 3D and HD, supporting free-to-air media for the benefit of the public. Ralph is the chair of the BBC Future Media Board and of the BBC's Online Direction Group, and is a trustee for BBC Children in Need and Media Action charities.

Stephan Shakespeare, CEO and co-founder, YouGov plc

Stephan is chief executive officer and co-founder of YouGov plc, a leading market research and polling company based in the UK and operating in America, Germany, the Middle East and the Nordics. One of the pioneers of internet research, Stephan has been the driving force behind YouGov's innovation-led strategy. He also founded PoliticsHome.com and ConservativeHome.com. Stephan is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and chair of the Data Strategy Board for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Leanne Sharman, VP and managing director, digital strategy and business development, EMEA, Warner Music

Based in London, Leanne oversees WMG's digital innovation and strategic expansion across EMEA. Leanne and her team manage relationships and commercial negotiations with digital partners to ensure Warner's vast music catalogue is accessible on newly established commercial models/services across the region.

Leanne joined Warner Music in 2008 as VP, business development, EMEA, and expanded her role to VP, commercial development in 2009, with responsibility for devising and advancing digital and new business strategies.

Before joining Warner Leanne worked at Napster as vice president and general manager, Napster UK, where she established the successful US service in the UK. Developing a localised strategic, operational and commercial plan in line with the company's global vision, she quickly built an award-winning platform and established an array of best-in-class content and marketing partnerships. Leanne's prior roles include; VP, sales and marketing for Vivendi's MP3.com in Europe, as well as posts at Fox Kids Europe and Walt Disney TV International.

Tony Southgate, CEO, The Brand Union UK & Ireland

A seasoned commercial, strategic and operational leader, Toby now leads the UK & Ireland offices of The Brand Union, WPP's global brand strategy, design and engagement consultancy. 

Toby has spent the past 15 years driving growth in agency operations in the Americas, Continental Europe, and MENA, for both independents and multinational holding group OpCo's. In 5 years with The Brand Union he has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi, managed the North American business based in New York, and since returning to the UK has helped redefine the agency's network positioning and established a partnership with Digit.

He has extensive experience in the FMCG, finance, real estate, sports, and luxury goods sectors, and has led projects for clients including Vodafone, GlaxoSmithKline, Pernod Ricard, BlackRock, the London 2012 Olympic bid team, Reckitt Benckiser and Tottenham Hotspur FC.

James Temple, VP executive creative director, R/GA

As VP, MD, executive creative director, R/GA London, James leads the creative department and overall direction of the agency. Since its inception in 2006, James has been the driving force of the London office, leading the business from a team of 5 people initially serving the Nokia global marketing account, to a team of over 130 people operating across 14 industry leading brands including the BBC, Beats by Dr. Dre, Getty Images, Nike, O2, and Unilever.

James provides strategic direction and thought leadership across all agency accounts, working with a multidisciplinary team of copywriters, interaction designers, visual designers and technologists – an entrepreneurial group of digital disruptors passionate about the idea of creating new technologies that fit into people's lives. This group conceives digital product that has been acknowledged at the highest level, including a Cannes Gold Lion and Webby for Innovation, and industry best awards for retail, mobile, design and innovation.

Jason Titus, CTO, Shazam

Jason joined Shazam in December 2010 from Yahoo!, where he was vice president, communications (mail, messenger, PIM).

At Shazam, Jason is responsible for all Shazam's technology-driven operations and infrastructure, as well as launching new services and ensuring that the company's technology supports its rapid growth rate – Shazam recently revealed that it has more than 250 million users and that it is adding more than two million new users every week.

Titus joined Yahoo! in 2004 and held a number of key roles in his time there - from building-up the engineering team of Yahoo Mail to eventually leading the entire design, product management/marketing and engineering for Yahoo's flagship communications products portfolio with a user base of over 300 million people. He managed a team of 550 people across the US, India, and China and has experience of leading mobile development teams across a variety of platforms including iPhone, iPad and Android.

Tien Tzuo, CEO, Zuora

Tien Tzuo, widely recognised as one of the thought leaders in the software-as-a-service industry, founded Zuora in 2007. As Zuora's CEO, Tzuo has not only built one of the fastest growing SaaS companies, he's also evangelised the shift to subscription based business models and the complex billing structures they inherit, coining the phrase Subscription Economy. In an effort to empower this new Subscription Economy, Tzuo has spent over three years working with the best companies in the world to build an award-winning platform powerful and flexible enough to fuel any subscription business.

Before Zuora, Tzuo was one of the 'original forces' at salesforce.com, joining as employee number 11. In his 9 years at salesforce.com, Tzuo built salesforce.com's original billing system and held a variety of executive roles in technology, marketing, and strategy organizations, including building out the product management & marketing organization, serving as chief marketing officer for two years, and most recently as chief strategy officer.

Tzuo holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a master's in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was named CMO of the Year Finalist by the CMO Council and BusinessWeek Magazine while at salesforce.com and is on DestinationCRM's Who's Who in CRM list. He is on the board of directors for both Radian6 and Network for Good.

Alex Vlassopulos, vice president of commercial, Omnifone

Alex manages global commercial relationships with Omnifone's customers (Sony Music Unlimited, rara.com, Blackberry BBM Music among others) and rights owners including all major and independent record labels. Alex successfully licensed three global music services in just 12 months, including Sony Corporation's Music Unlimited, Blackberry's BBM Music and rara.com. Alex has also been instrumental in the negotiation of pioneering new business models and helped license the first ever global music subscription service to launch in Japan and Germany.

Prior to joining Omnifone Alex held roles at Sony Music where he handled new business activities and headed Sony UK's digital business, closing deals with the likes of We7, Napster and 7 Digital for Sony Music's first MP3 license. Alex also helped launch Sony's online advertising, brand partnership and direct-to-consumer strategies. Alex previously worked at Universal Music's digital division, where he created the world's first interactive mobile music TV deal between the Sugababes, Endemol, Nokia and O2 called Get Close to the Sugababes.

Patrick Vogt, president, international division, The Weather Company

Patrick serves as president, international division, for The Weather Company (TWC), parent company of leading weather providers The Weather Channel, weather.com, Weather Underground, WSI and Weather Central. He joined the company during the summer of 2012 when TWC acquired Weather Central, of which Patrick was CEO. Patrick is based in TWC's London office and reports to TWC chairman and CEO David Kenny.

In this new role, Patrick and his division are responsible for all international business including TWC's digital and professional products and services, as well as all sales, marketing, and operational functions within the international regions.

Nigel Walley, managing director, Decipher

Nigel is managing director of Decipher the media strategy consultancy, and chairman of the Decipher Group of companies, which includes iBurbia Studios, the interactive media research lab. Founded in 1998, Decipher works with large advertisers and with media companies to understand the commercial implications of new consumer technologies 
Nigel is a marketer at heart, but with an intuitive sense of the potential of digital technologies. His particular focus is the evolution of commercial advertising models in media markets affected by the advent of new consumer technology.

Founded in 1998, Decipher has worked on interactive media and technology projects for a wide range of clients including Virgin Media, ITV, the BBC, Sky, UKTV, Channel 4, Sony, Viacom, and the UK Govt.

Matthew Wilkinson, business leader, mobile, Eye

Matthew has over 11 years' worth of award-winning mobile marketing experience in delivering profitable, impactful mobile solutions for a range of global business and public sector organisations, including John Lewis Partnership, Waitrose, Mothercare, Estee Lauder, Dior, The GLA, Brakes Group, Asda/Walmart and Tesco to name but a few. Matthew now leads the mobile and technology division at Eye, a leading OOH media owner, pioneering mobile-enabled OOH solutions for a range of blue-chip clients.

Matthew is passionate about this evolving industry and wants to change the way businesses use mobile and OOH to enhance their customer understanding, and increase their bottom line.

Steve Wing, head of consumer UK, CBS Interactive

Steve began his career in digital in 1999 at the Guardian, joining Guardian Unlimited as launch advertising manager, and then, as head of commercial development, responsible for all digital revenue lines. In 2003 he was appointed head of advertising strategy working across all brands and in 2007 joined the GNM advertising board as business development director responsible for identifying and growing new revenue streams. In March 2010 he became head of digital marketing, and in January 2012 was promoted to business director, mobile, responsible for accelerating the growth of GNM's mobile, tablet and e-Reader business.

In November 2012 he joined CBS interactive UK, as head of consumer UK, tasked with ensuring the continued momentum and growth of the UK audience, brand and commercial performance of top consumer technology brand CNET and leading video games news and reviews brand GameSpot.

Brian Wong, co-founder and CEO, Kiip

Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Kiip (pronounced "keep"), which has raised $15.4 million in funding to date and is backed by IPG, Hummer Winblad, Relay Ventures, True Ventures, Digital Garage and others.

Called the youngest person to ever receive venture capital funding by CNBC and The Wall Street Journal, Brian received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia at age 18, after skipping four K-12 grades. He has been recognized with many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: Business Insider's Top 25 Under 25 in Silicon Valley, 30 Under 30 in Advertising and 18 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising; Forbes' 30 Under 30 in 2011 and 2012; Mashable's Top 5 Entrepreneurs to Watch; iMedia 25; and the AdAge Creativity Top 50.