 David McEvoy has been Marketing Director of JCDecaux, the UK's market-leading outdoor advertising company since 1999. David strategy has transformed the media industry's understanding of Outdoor's place in the wider media mix.
Working across JCDecaux's portfolio of roadside, retail and rail environments, David has championed the development of Outdoor as a fast-response medium introducing a FastForward print hub and launching digital sites nationwide, attracting new brands to the medium.
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 Mark is EVP of Creative Technology at McCann New York. He has been focused on exploiting change since his first day in advertising. Working in global, regional and local roles across a broad range of brands (IKEA, UPS, L’Oreal, Nokia, Microsoft, Oracle, Land Rover, Bass Beer, Johnson & Johnson), He has successfully managed multi-disciplinary teams in Europe, Asia and North America. In every instance, I created a culture of creative problem solving.
In 2006, Mark was hired to establish McCann London's digital capabilities and drive digital innovation inside the "machine". From nothing, he assembled a team of web designers, developers, UX specialists, PM's, SEO and social media strategists to |
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 Michelle Adams is a recognized speaker in translating consumer and shopper insights to marketing and corporate America; especially the latest findings from Virtual Shopping & NeuroScience. Working with PepsiCo the past 10 years, she has focused on understanding both rational and emotional decision-making of male and female shoppers. She is the founder of Marketing Brainology, a new company focused on helping companies better connect to consumers and shoppers and understand their decision making.
Michelle was the Vice-President of Customer Strategy and Shopper Insights for PepsiCo,working with some of their most strategic retailers across the beverage and |
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 Katleen joined Tesco in March 2011 as Head Group Marketing Procurement for Print, Paper and Post. Belgian, living in the UK, having spent 4 years in Moscow and 9 months in Prague. She speaks 5 languages and has 15 years experience in international production and procurement roles. Her career before Tesco includes Production roles at Hachette Fillipacchi (Russia), The Conde Nast Publications Russia and UK) and Marks & Spencer. She was most recently working as Group Purchasing Director (Print & Paper) for Adare and Head of Category (Print, Paper, POS) at Williams Lea.
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 Cindy Bohm joined Saatchi & Saatchi NY in August of 2012 as the Director of Project Management. She is responsible for the implementation of Project Management within the NY office.
Cindy has over twelve years of experience in purchasing retouching, prepress and printing for number of top New York agencies. Within that time she has managed several print production departments at BBH | NY, TBWA Chiat Day and Lloyd & Company where she was responsible for competitive pricing and the overall quality of output.
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 Haris Munif is the Head of Marketing in the Telecommunications division at Samsung Gulf Electronics. He is in charge of heading the product marketing function for Samsung Mobile devices (including smartphones and tablets) for the lower Gulf region. He is also responsible for enhancing Samsung Mobile devices' brand power and increasing their market share.
As the Head of Marketing, Haris played an integral role in establishing Samsung as the leading regional smartphone and tablet brand, especially with the launch of the Galaxy range of devices. He joined Samsung in 2005 as the Regional Marketing Manager of Mobile Communications at Samsung Middle East and Africa headquarters. Followingwhich, in 2009, he held the position of Marketing Manager of |
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 Mohan is Creative Director at TBWA Singapore. After his degree in Psychology, instead of delving into the minds of people on the couch, he chose to do it from a safe distance. As an advertising copywriter.
After close to twenty years of plying his trade in India, Malaysia and Singapore, Mohan has had the chance to create advertising for cleaning liquids, cognac and everything in between. And in the process, he has won several awards at Effies, Cannes and everything in between.
Mohan's other passions include photography, cars, and all the racquet sports.
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 Rob Rosborough is a seasoned High Tech Executive that has always followed the leading edge of technology. He has held senior level positions in sales, marketing, product management, and marketing communications in large corporations as well as small venture backed startups.
Rob is currently working with Scanbuy, Inc., one of the largest commercial grade QR providers in the world. Scanbuy services companies such as Coca Cola, Danone, Nestle, Mediacom and many mobile marketers of various sizes. The company provides a simple to use platform that enables companies to drive permission based relationships directly with their customers or client base.
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 Andrew Hodson is Sales & Marketing Director at Icon World. Responsible for all new business and company marketing activity. Andrew has built to develop Icon's global portfolio, including the last two football World Cups, Euro 2004 and 2008 and a host of other major international event branding projects.
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Laurens Bianchi was one of the first graduates of the Johan Cruyff University. Johan Cruyff, a former professional soccer player, developed a dynamic, innovative and practical sport marketing & management study program especially for athletes. Within this study Laurens could leverage his passion for sports and marketing at the same time.
In 2007 he co-founded SocialMedia8, one of the first full service social media agency with clients like LG, Nike, Motorola and Castrol. In 2008 the company was acquired by world leader in marketing communications WPP (Nasdaq: WPPGY).
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 Andrew Fraser has been the Senior Adviser to Mitsubishi Corporation (Europe, Africa, and Middle East) since October 2000. He also serves on the Advisory Board of FTI Consulting, and advises UNCTAD re. Economic Development.
His pro bono commitments include the Council of Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), the Trust Board of Shakespeare’s Globe, and the Council of the Japan Society UK, where he chairs the Business Group.
For the previous six years (July 1994 – September 2000) Andrew served as Chief Executive of Invest UK – the sole Government body marketing the whole of the UK to |
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 Graduated in 1992 with Diploma in Art & Design from Coleg Gwent, Wales.
Between 1990 – 2003, held various Pre-press and Design roles with Bowater and Rexam Corrugated, before becoming Graphic Design Manager with SCA Packaging to develop HD Flexo Printing business.
In June 2003, joined Unilever as Packaging Artwork Manager for Spreads & Cooking Products Category, Europe in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. For the next three years I rolled out new innovation and renovation projects for Primary and Secondary branded packaging brands such as; Blue Band, Rama, Flora and Bertolli with the support of |
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 Laurel Brunner, Managing Director at Digital Dots Limited started her career in 1978 as an accountant for a printing company. Since then she has worked exclusively in the prepress and publishing industries, with a particular specialisation in digital prepress, digital production and digital printing. She is Managing Director at Digital Dots an international consulting group, and publisher of Spindrift. This is the industry’s only independent, subscriber supported newsletter for the graphic arts, printing and publishing industries.
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 David's career in aviation started in a primary school yard in suburban Adelaide. He was 11 years old when he watched the very first Boeing 727 fly into Adelaide Airport, it was then that his love of aviation started.
Since accepting an apprenticeship as an Airframe Aircraft Mechanic with Ansett Airlines of Australia in Melbourne in 1971. He has been in the aviation industry ever since. Over those 41 years he has fulfilled many roles including Licensed Aircraft Engineer on a total of 5 aircraft types, various management roles within the Heavy Maintenance Engineering Division of Ansett including Business Unit Manager, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, HR, and Heavy Maintenance Manager. |
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 Paul Noble has been working in the large format graphics market since the mid 90’s. He is a director of The Specialised Canvas Group who are owners of several of the UK’s most active Flag and Banner Manufacturing companies, including Banner Box, Flagmakers, & Porters. An early advocate of digital textile print, he has been heavily involved in the development of the markets for direct to textile digital print. Paul has challenged the perception that offshore manufacturing is the only way to remain competitive and has developed a business model that allows his companies to operate in a sustainable and competitive way, whilst retaining the agility of manufacturing close to market. He graduated from Sheffield Hallam University |
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 Duncan joined FESPA in January 2010 as Conference and Events Manager. In early 2011, Duncan was promoted to his current position to reflect the expansion of his role in both events and online.
Before joining FESPA Duncan enjoyed a successful career as an event producer at William Reed Business Media – operating in the UK food sector - bringing about several new launch events and delivering the company’s biggest awards programme.
Duncan began his career in journalism where he edited a portfolio of several international business publications and websites for dmg world media. Spanning a |
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Prof. Dr Marc Van Parys is  Dr of Chemistry and Professor at the University College Ghent - Belgium
He is Head of the Textile department and research Lab TO2C and President of UNITEX - National SME-assocoation of Textiles in Belgium, he also contributes as a Senior Consultant at Centexbel (national research centre for Textile) Belgium.
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 Owner and Company Director eco-procure. Sion has over 25 years retail experience at a senior level with Tesco, Sainsburys and W.H.Smiths. Sion`s experience covers Group Procurement, Commercial Trading, Supply Chain, Property, Store management and packaging, recycling and waste, bringing about sustainable change through his collaborative approach with suppliers.
He recently left Tesco as Group Head of Packaging, Recycling and Waste and started his own business called eco-procure, a solution orientated procurement consultancy working within the Packaging, Recycling and Waste arena. They work with a pioneering supply base, supporting them in bringing their innovation to the retail and |
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Ronen Zioni is the Marketing Director for the Graphic Solution Business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Ronen has been 10 years in the Graphics industry having done a variety of roles in Region sales & Business management, central roles in EMEA, as well as marketing in Scitex GBU.
He did work in Scitex GBU as product marketing for 3 years in Israel, focusing on textiles and packaging and display markets, then moved to EMEA region sales, 7 years ago. Ronen was leading Scitex Sales when HP acquired Scitex. In the last 3 |
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Steve honed his leadership skills in the military before taking up a successful career within the commercial world.
A variety of roles in the brewing industry paved the way to several senior assignments within Coca Cola, across Europe and North America. His passion for leadership led him to First Ascent, a consultancy specialising in igniting the ambition and inspiring the confidence of leaders, teams and organisations.
When he's not developing leaders, Steve enjoys taking part in endurance sports. Some of his achievements include the Marathon Des Sables (156 mile foot race |
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 TBWA is ranked as a Top-Ten worldwide advertising agency (www.tbwa.com).
Zaid is the strategic lead for TBWA\London, responsible for delivering category-defining communications and brand strategies by using the power of Disruption. His client portfolio includes some of the world's biggest brands including Nissan, adidas, EA Games, Aquafresh and Absolut.
Prior to joining TBWA, Zaid began his career at Unilever and spent seven years working up to Senior Global Innovations Manager for brands including Lynx & Sure. He then switched to agency side, working at MOTHER as Strategy Director on EMAP, |
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 Jacky Morgan has over 25 years experience of delivering strategic marketing support & consultancy, predominantly in the print space, and heads up a UK, Midlands based agency, Shire Marketing Services Ltd.
She has worked with in excess of 60 UK-based printers, ranging from one-site "copy shops" to large multi-national corporations, helping them create and deliver strategies which generate new business and cement profitable relationships with their existing client base.
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 Dr Colin Thompson has over 30 years experience as a Managing Director. His career to date has given him a complete exposure to business management and management of people. He has wide experience in PLC and private company’s in top level management of increasing sales/profit. Also, turnaround and re-engineering experience linked to new corporate identities and successful mergers/take-overs. Plus, he has developed many business models to increase profitability.
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 Lesley has been writing about the changing face of the UK commercial printing industry for 25 years. Having graduated from London University to 'pasting-up' advertisements for Yellow Advertiser Group magazines and spending long hours at typesetters and printers proofing galleys and passing pages, Lesley migrated to writing about the print sector, starting out in the 1980s as a novice reporter on the long gone New in Printing magazine before becoming a news hack. She followed this as news/features editor of PrintWeek (then LithoWeek!) where she also had the dubious pleasure of editing one of the first trade show 'dailies'. For the last ten years she has edited print trade publications for St John Patrick Publishers, where she has edited Image Reports for the last three and a half years.
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 During his long career in the paper industry, Martyn Eustace has gained a wealth of experience having held a variety of senior management positions.
After a period in manufacturing with Domtar, Martyn moved to distribution as CEO of Howard Smith Paper, now part of the PaperlinX Group, and in 2004 he joined Map Merchant Group as CEO of Premier Paper.
Martyn is a member of PwCs' turnaround panel and is Managing Director of Newvizion, an independent business consultancy. He is the Director of the |
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 Beatrice is 42 years old, of German origin and studied Business Administration, European Studies and International Management in Germany and France. She graduated with a double degree from the University of Osnabrück and the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Poitiers. Beatrice has lived and worked in Germany, the US, France and Belgium. Prior to her work at Intergraf she worked for the German company Mannesmann in their liaison office in Brussels. In 2001 she started working for Intergraf, the European Association representing the Graphic Industries, and in 2003 she took over the position as Secretary General of the association.
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Barney Cox is a Senior Consultant for InfoTrends’ European On Demand Printing & Publishing services. Barney is responsible for conducting graphic arts market research, providing forecast analysis, consulting with clients, and creating editorial content for product and market analysis reports.
Covering the printing & imaging industries for two decades, Barney has a deep and broad understanding of the applications, technologies and business issues of those markets. Well-connected throughout the industry he is an accomplished contributor to printed and online publications, both as a writer and commentator and frequent speaker at conferences and exhibitions. |
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Simon started his marketing career in New Product Development working for Nabisco Foods and then for Avon Cosmetics, before joining Sony Computer Entertainment, where he was Marketing Director for the launch of the first Playstation console in UK. He then moved to Kodak, defining a new business strategy and setting up 10 sales and marketing operations across W. Europe, India and Russia.
At Sainsbury he worked on a major New Business Development project, launching a Virtual Mobile Network operation before becoming the European Marketing Director for Freeport Retail, a leading owner and manager of out of town shopping centres, spearheading their expansion into mainland Europe. |
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 Managing Director, PSJ Training Ltd. Paul established his own training consultancy – Paul Streeter Training Services - in 1989, specialising in the areas of professional sales and people management. Prior to that he had several years experience in the City, including 3 years as the Management Training Advisor for a B2B publishing organisation and 4 years as the Training Manager for a leasing company.
Over the last 22 years Paul has worked with more than 60 organisations, at both national and international level. He continues to design and deliver practical learning and development workshops that help delegates make a real difference in the workplace. He is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
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 Peter is an engineer by training a printer by choice and a teacher by predilection. He joined the industry in the 1970's and has progressed through various stages starting first in equipment sales, then as a Director of a Reprographic company after which he set up his own printing company with production facilities in Yorkshire and South Wales. Starting first with Pad Printing and then Screen Printing he gained a vast knowledge of operating and managing these processes in a very challenging market place with many household names and multinationals as clients. As a sub-contract printer there could be no compromise on quality and very tight deadlines had to be met. Peter's engineeringapproach came into play with the adoption of close process |
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