Alex Balfour has been working in digital media since 1994. He started out as a print journalist but quickly took to digital work. He edited GE'97, the UK's first general election website, developed the first online government consultation and went on to be part of the team that produced the Guardian newspaper's websites. In parallel he was a founder of CricInfo and became Chairman before the business was sold to ESPN. Alex Balfour is currently Head of New Media for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (London 2012). He is also a Director of the Pensions Advisory Service and of Datatracks (UK).

Having graduated from HEC Paris in 1998 with a major in Marketing, Amélie has since then developed a career in the travel/leisure industry both in France and in the UK.

She began with her working life with Air France in Paris, where she worked on the IPO and then in Pricing. In 2001, Amélie moved to London and was one of the first full time employees of Opodo; taking part in the launch of the first 3 websites (Germany, UK, France) as their Pricing Manager. Returning to Paris at the end of 2003, Amélie spent 5 years in the leisure travel business, first at Thomas Cook as their e-commerce Manager, then at Carlson Wagonlit Voyages as the Marketing and e-commerce Director.

Amélie joined Disneyland Paris in 2008 as their Direct Marketing & Internet Director, where she is currently in charge of Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, CRM, the management of the brand e-commerce websites and mobile applications, for all European countries.

Amina Belghiti is Facebook's Head of Platform Partnerships for New Markets. Her team is tasked with increasing the use and engagement of the Facebook Platform across CEEMEEA markets through the establishment of partnerships with media, commerce and gaming companies and innovative start-ups.

Prior to Facebook, Amina held senior roles at eBay and PayPal where she led PayPal's developer platform in Europe and previously worked in the strategy & business development team at the company's headquarters in San Jose, California. Amina holds a degree in Economics from Williams College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Becky Moffat is Head of Digital Engagement at Barclaycard and is responsible for transforming customer experiences across digital channels. She has over 15 years of experience in digital proposition development and digital marketing, predominantly within Blue Chip Financial Services brands but also in Publishing. She was involved in the “birth” of online Banking when Barclays launched PC Banking back in 1997 and has gone on to develop and implement award winning digital strategies and experiences for Barclays, Santander (Abbey) and Iliffe News and Media.

Benjy Meyer is a full time multichanneler. He started his career very much in physical stores, working for Tesco to build a location and format strategy to drive growth. Key to this is a need to gain accurate and actionable insight about customers. He took this career path internationally to Ireland, India and then the US with fresh & easy neighbourhood markets where he helped build a business from the ground up for 4 years. Returning to the UK, Benjy moved into an internal consulting team at Tesco and led a non-food strategy and review, with multichannel very much as the focus. Benjy now works for Marks & Spencer as Head of New Channels, where he is leading a wide variety of initiatives to develop new customer journeys and experiences. The works is focused on what he calls 'little webs': in store, mobile, tablet and more.

Benoist Grossman joined Idinvest Partners in 2002. He was appointed a board member in 2003 and operates mainly in the sectors of internet. Benoist is currently on the boards of Criteo, Viadeo, Dailymotion, 24h00 and Winamax.

Before joining Idinvest Partners, Benoist worked for several venture capital funds for over 10 years. He was a partner at Viventures from 1998 to 2002 and worked as Investment Manager at La Financière de Brienne. He had previously spent over 10 years working in the industry as a laser systems specialist at EDF, NASA and Thomson-CSF Optronique, for whom he invented five patents and authored over twenty publications.

Benoist has a Ph.D in physics from the Université de Paris VI and an MBA from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.

Christian Herzog was born in 1956. After graduating from HEC School of Management, he began his career at Colgate-Palmolive before joining Air France in 1982 as Product Manager for Domestic Routes.

In 1986, he became Sales Manager for the Central France District, in Lyon, and then Sales and Marketing Manager for UK and Ireland, in London, from 1988 to 1990.

Back in France, he was appointed Principal Private Secretary to the Air France Chairman until 1993.

He then joined the International Division in the position of General Manager for the Benelux, based in Brussels (1993-1995).

In 1996, Christian Herzog was appointed Commercial Vice President for Europe (coordination of the 14 Regional General Managers in Europe and North Africa).

From 1998 to 2002, he held the position of Vice President for International Commercial Affairs and was in charge of International Sales, Keys Accounts, Distribution and Commercial Coordination with SkyTeam partners, and Commercial Projects on the internet (in 2001, Christian Herzog was the first Chairman of OPODO, the online travel agency launched by the major European airlines, including Air France).

Christian Herzog returned to London in 2002 as General Manager UK and Ireland.

In September 2003, he was appointed Senior Vice President for the Americas. He has been Senior Vice President Marketing, Air France KLM since September 2010.

Christian joined e.ventures in the San Francisco office in March 2003.

He has since moved back to Europe where is working out of the Hamburg and Berlin offices, leading European Internet Consumer investments. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and previously worked with management consulting firms in Paris and Berlin.

Christian also held various research positions at the Daimler Chrysler Research Center India in Bangalore and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Christian is frequently quoted in the media as an expert on Venture Capital by key publications such as Spiegel Online and FAZ.

After almost 20 years experience in CRM and then e-CRM, Claire Fouquerand joined Recats as Director of CRM & Customer Innovation in 2010.

She is in charge of providing the means to develop and evolve the marketing efforts of the Group’s portfolio of 17 European and International brands, by anticipating market trends.

One of Claire’s largest achievements was to establish the Big Data project “Redlift”, which gives an in depth 360° view of the customers of the Group’s brands in France.

Darin is responsible for strategy, delivery and distribution of native applications for smartphones and tablets at InterContinental Hotels Group. In 2011, he helped lead InterContinental Hotels Group to nearly $150 Million in revenue from mobile products.

David Steinberger is the co-founder and CEO of comiXology, the leading digital comics platform that was recently hailed by The New York Times as the “iTunes of comics.”

A long time comic fan and passionate entrepreneur, David's inspiration for comiXology came from participating in NYU | Stern's 2007 Business Plan competition. David designed comiXology's Guided View Technology, the revolutionary way to read digital comics on mobile devices, which was celebrated by Wired Magazine as "comics done right." ComiXology consistently charts as one of the top grossing iPad apps in the entire iTunes App store.

David Steinberger holds an MBA from NYU | Stern School of Business, a Masters degree from Manhattan School of Music, and an Advanced Certificate from The Juilliard School.

Senior new media and mobile product professional with 15 years digital media experience spanning web, mobile, and broadcast.

In his current role, Derrick is responsible for launching and expanding Al Jazeera's presence on mobile devices. Prior to relocating to Doha to join Al Jazeera, Derrick was Product Manager at W3i Mobile Solutions, where he led the development of new virtual currency monetization and app distribution platforms for freemium iOS games.

Prior to that, he was Product Manager at Internet Broadcasting, where he managed a network of premium mobile web portals on behalf of some of America's largest media companies.

Frederic Mazzella created BlaBlaCar under the initial name "Covoiturage.fr" in France when coming back from 3 years in California where he was commuting between San Francisco and Palo Alto, sharing his car with ride sharers every day. BlaBlaCar is now one of the hottest startups in Europe with 45 employees in Paris, London, Milan and Madrid, and an ambitious international growth ahead.
BlaBlaCar connects Drivers & Passengers going the same way. Drivers offer their available seats to paying passengers usually on distances ranging from 100km to 1000km. Ride sharing thus saves both money and CO2. With 2,3 million members sharing cars, BlaBlaCar is now the largest and most active collaborative consumption network in Europe.
Frederic holds a Masters degree in Physics from ENS Ulm in France, a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from INSEAD. He currently teaches the “Startups” class at Sciences Po in Paris.

Gaëlle joined Iscool Entertainment as a Web Analyst in 2011. She now heads the Data & Analytics Team, which handles data collection and storage, analytics and data mining. Prior to joining IsCool, she spent three years with VSC Technologies e-marketing development team where she built an internal Tag Management System before turning her focus to analytics.

Gaëlle holds a 2-year computer science technical degree with a focus on application development.

Georg Ell is responsible for all aspects of Yammer’s business in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) to drive revenue growth and expansion across the region. He has overall leadership for sales, customer engagement, marketing, business development, recruitment and sales engineering teams. Georg has also been instrumental to the establishment and growth of Yammer’s first developer centre outside Silicon Valley.

Georg was previously the pan-EMEA sales director at Yammer. Prior to joining Yammer, Georg served as a European sales executive for Microsoft Online Services. While there, he was responsible for Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services sales across Europe and overseeing several large, strategic accounts; he also won multiple awards for his work with global customers and partners.

Georg graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge University with a degree in Social and Political Science with Management Studies.

Outside of work, Georg's proudest achievement is his participation as Core Crew in the Global Challenge - known as "The World's Toughest Yacht Race" - racing around the world in an all-amateur crew and raising £5,000 for charity.

Gille Storme is VP Advertising Sales EMEA and is responsible for driving advertising revenue across all King.com platforms including social networks and mobile.
Gilles has worked in the media industry for over 15 years starting his career in market research before switching to advertising sales and business development.
He has held several positions at BBC Worldwide, National Geographic and AOL before developing social gaming RockYou's pan European business. Gilles is also the co-founder of First Light Cosmetics.
Gilles holds an MBA from Kingston University and an Economics degree from the University of Brussels. Gilles lives and works in the UK but being Belgian he has kept a fondness for strong beers, cartoon characters and countries without governments.

Gokhan Salmanoglu is the head of the NeoBusiness & Digital Marketing Division for Pfizer, boasting more than 10 years business experience, with 5 years spent abroad, living and working across multiple continents. He has a significant track record, showing impressive results in Brand Management, Digital Marketing, Business Transformation and Organization Development/Management at global, regional and local organizations in multinational companies.

Gokhan is an external focused corporate entrepreneur and collaborative team player, with high energy levels for new business models and breakthrough innovation projects, and a global mindset in both B2B and B2C operations.

After obtaining his BS degree with honours from METU for Industrial Engineering, he has blended his rich experience and know-how in consumer marketing and technology, through his 7 years at Procter & Gamble, and his current position leading the marketing transformation in Pfizer. Gokhan served on the Board of Directors for the EMEA Mobile Marketing Association for three years. He is currently an active member of the AIFD interactive marketing committee and a lecturer at Istanbul Business School. Gokhan is a frequent keynote speaker at international industry events.

Grant Whitmore was named vice president, digital for Hearst Magazines in October 2011. Whitmore oversees Hearst Magazines' core U.S. digital operations, which include a network of 28 websites with an average of 22 million unique visitors per month, as well as 14 mobile sites for such brands as Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, Seventeen and online-only brands like Delish.com, a top-10 food site launched in partnership with MSN (source: ComScore), and RealBeauty.com. Hearst Digital Media is a growing part of the company's overall business, with year over year ad revenue growth of over 27 percent, as of January 2012 versus the same period last year.

Whitmore was most recently chief operating officer at HFM US Digital Media
(January - June 2011), where he oversaw digital strategy and execution for magazine brands including Car and Driver, Cycle World, ELLE, ELLE DECOR, Road & Track and Woman's Day. Previously he was chief operating officer at Jumpstart Automotive Group, an expert automotive marketing company that was acquired by Hearst in June 2011 as part of the Lagardère deal. In this role, Whitmore was responsible for the company's product strategy, working closely with the management team to ensure tight communication, coordination and teamwork. In 2008, he served as chief partnership officer/chief marketing officer at Jumpstart, a Hearst Media Services Company and expert automotive marketing organization.

Whitmore serves on the boards of IAB and OPA.

Iain Dendle has been with Shazam since 2008 and has responsibility for building and managing relationships with all European OEM’s and mobile operators as well as Business development for Shazam for TV in Europe. He has more than 11 years of experience in the mobile and technology industry in all aspects of business development.

Prior to joining Shazam, Iain worked with leading mobile and technology companies such as Motorola where he held a number of Sales and Product roles, including being Head of Music with responsibility for creating a compelling mobile music experience for the EMEA region. He also managed mobile operator relationships at Hugh Symons Group and a B2B sales force for AlfaTronix.

Isabelle Cinquin, VP of Digital Business Development at the L'OREAL group, drives customer marketing strategies for cutting edge brands with mobile media and lifestyle at their core.

She has more than 20 years experience with innovative organizations, such as Apple, in managing multi-channel customer-growth strategies, with the goals of developing engagement, intimacy, loyalty and advocacy of the customer base. Heading marketing services departments with a focus on developing e-business, mobile, social, geo-marketing, cross-channel customer management and best in-class customer experience across all touch points, she is instrumental in transforming marketing and sales in fast-paced environments.

Isabelle is launching the first L’Oréal Apps Centre of Excellence, creating a unique specific ecosystem supporting the incubation, design, development and launch of B2B2C mobile marketing and applications, including monitoring and intelligence for more than 30 brands.

J. Matthew Collins (Matt) is Vice President Marketing, Collaboration Solutions and Social Business, IBM Software Group. In this role, Matt Collins re-joins Software Group to continue to strengthen our leadership position in Social Business by driving its adoption across IBM and into new audiences in the global marketplace. Just prior, Matt was Vice President Strategic Systems Initiatives, IBM Systems & Technology Group, leading a cross-IBM marketing effort to set the agenda for Infrastructure Transformation. Prior to STG, he was the Vice President of Market Insights for IBM’s Global Business Units and was also responsible for IBM Software Group Market Management and Marketing Strategy.

Matt Collins joined IBM in 2003, as a Director of Business Transformation Growth Initiatives for IBM’s Enterprise on Demand Transformation Group. As a leader of this group, he led cross-unit initiatives to build and deploy technology solutions intended to improve productivity and provide decision support to IBM’s leadership Team.

Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Collins was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company where he served clients in the High Tech and Pharmaceutical industries. His early professional experience includes roles in Product Management, Sales and Marketing at Merck & Co., Inc.

Matt received his Bachelors of Administration degree from Dartmouth College and his Masters of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. He resides in Connecticut with his wife Christine and their three daughters, Rosemary, Annabelle and Caroline. His free time is spent enjoying various outdoor activities, and he is an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

With over 20 years of marketing and communications experience with big brand companies such as Disney, Procter & Gamble and Apple, Jaki Ellenby joined Cirque du Soleil in 2007, where she took on various functions related to the marketing of big top and arena shows as well as market strategy and intelligence. In 2012, she was promoted to the position of Vice-president of Strategy and Marketing Solutions to oversee strategic planning and market/consumer insights, brand management and development, consumer experience and relationships, digital assets and production in addition to consumer products and licensing.

Throughout her career Jaki Ellenby has established a solid track record in marketing strategy, branding and management coupled with an expertise in all techniques of traditional and new media marketing and communications, including online, direct mail, point-of-sale, trade, event-driven marketing and partnerships.

After obtaining her B.A. honours in European Business at Middlesex Business School in London, England, Jaki moved to France where she earned her graduate degree in management at Reims Management School in 1989, specializing in marketing and international finance.

In 1992, she became European Marketing Manager for the newly opened Disneyland Paris theme park. Her combined market strategies and action plans contributed to making the resort the leading tourist destination in Europe. In 1997, she moved to Disney Online and successfully launched the Walt Disney Company’s European online division, rolling out cross-divisional sites in 14 countries. She was responsible for 150 sites for various Disney business units and spearheaded the company’s Customer Relationship Management initiative in Europe.

In 2002, driven by her entrepreneurial spirit, Jaki Ellenby founded and managed Born2be, a profitable marketing agency that developed fully-integrated « call-to-action » marketing programs designed to create a sustained and lucrative relationship between brand and consumer. Her portfolio of clients included prestigious companies such as Apple, Disney, Procter & Gamble, ELLE and Rémy Martin.

In 2006, she became Sales and Marketing Director at Parc Astérix, the second largest theme park in France, where she set out on a nine-month mission to rebuild the marketing and sales of the theme park and reposition 2 other theme parcs within the Compagnie des Alpes group..

Jaki Ellenby then moved to Montreal to become Sales and Marketing Vice-president at the Just for Laughs Festival – the world’s largest comedy festival – quickly achieving record-breaking sales through coordinated business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing, communications and sales campaigns.

Throughout the years Jaki received numerous awards and accolades for her innovative work, including the Double Click award for Best Direct Marketing Campaign for Pampers, the Special European Commission recognition for the Safe Surfing Educational Program for Disney, the Milia d’or award for Best Children’s Site for Disney, the Clic d’or award for Best Promotional Campaign for Touchstone Pictures and the Festival de Biarritz Prime d’or for Best International Site for Disney.

Jaki Ellenby was born in London, England.

Jamel joined Microsoft in 2005 as an industry hire, bringing with him; both his media and networking technical expertise as a Ph.D. in distributed Multimedia systems, and his business and entrepreneurial experience as a CEO and Founder of a pan-European media delivery and CDN Software startup.

Within Microsoft, Jamel has first led the product and partner ecosystems expansion for Microsoft’s media technologies across the EMEA region, first in the Windows Division, then as part of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) division . For the past 5 years, Jamel has made deep and lasting contributions in the expansion of IEB’s Music and Entertainment Product, Services, and Strategy. As part of that, he proposed and drove the due diligence and acquisition of Musiwave (a European multimedia services startup) in 2007, played a leading role in the integration of the new team into Microsoft, and for the past two years turned this venture into a strong engineering powerhouse with large Microsoft-class contributions to IEB and to the company.

As the Partner GM of the Microsoft Engineering Center – Paris, Jamel is heading Xbox Music Engineering as it’s delivered in 35 countries on Windows 8, Xbox 360 and Windows Phone devices to potentially hundreds of millions of consumers

James Davlouros is a Business Leader working for the Strategic Alliances team. He is responsible for business development of mobile payments programs across Europe. He is based in London, UK.

Mr. Davlouros joined MasterCard in 2007 with over 10 years of banking and financial experience as well as over 10 years of Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence. Prior to his current role, he headed the Professional Services/ Product Specialists team at VeriFone Europe and the European mobile team at Brokat and First Data. He was responsible for the deployment of many regional as well as global mobile and financial programs and services.

A computer scientist by profession, James began his career with the National Research Council of Canada and then joined the Canadian Space Agency working on research in Artificial Intelligence on some key government projects.

Mr. Davlouros holds a Bachelor in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics from Concordia University in Montreal.

James Quarles is a Director in Facebook’s Global Marketing Solutions, working with the largest European and Global advertisers to harness the tremendous growth and daily engagement of its over 955 million users into authentic interactions with their brands. From movie and handset launches to international events like the Olympic Games, the World Cup and Fashion week, his team help brand partners apply the unique insights and social nature of the Facebook platform to their business objectives across categories. His region includes pan-European, French, Belgian, Dutch and Swiss clients.

James has spent 15 years leading marketing and sales transformation in multinational technology companies. Prior to Facebook he worked at Dell, most recently as General Manager of the UK Public Sector and previously as a European Marketing Director with successive responsibilities for product, pricing, CRM and integrated campaigns. He also has worked at TiVo, the digital video recorder pioneer, and in management consulting at AT Kearney. He holds an MBA in marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. James and his wife live in London and have two young sons

Jamie has worked in the advertising industry since his career began. He joined Unilever in 2007, after 6 years advising ad agencies at Lewis Silkin LLP and a brief affair with the music business. As Unilever’s Global Digital General Counsel, Jamie advises on the legal and regulatory implications of digital and social media marketing, from the development and implementation of digital campaigns, apps and consumer-generated programmes, to the protection and defence of Unilever's rights, interests and reputation online. His digital responsibilities also extend to global privacy and data protection compliance. Jamie’s areas of expertise include intellectual property law, advertising and marketing, data protection and information security, image rights, talent engagement and sponsorship. Jamie has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a Master of Laws (LLM) in Intellectual Property.

Javier has been working for Lonely Planet as a Community Manager for the last 12 months. Prior to that, he worked for BBC Children’s Online for 5 years managing their communities and bringing multiplatform content to online audiences. He also has vast experience moderating, reporting and assisting the online communities of brands such as Sony, Activision, iTunes, Diageo and Benetton.

Having graduated from EM LYON with a diploma in marketing and business Law in 1998, Jérôme Boudot had a successful start to his career, gaining experience in marketing, operational and development functions in luxury industry, both in France and abroad (at companies such as LVMH – Dior, Guerlain, Puig - Nina Ricci).

Fascinated by the Internet since 1994, Jérôme created Tripnity in 2005, the web agency which developed some of the most innovative dedicated social networks for French brands (Bluenity / Air France, Idtgvandco / Idtgv, Thalyseo / Thalys), enabling clients to meet other travelers during their trip.

A year and a half ago, he created Statigram, a social media dashboard for Instagram accounts, which became the most famous third-party app in the IG ecosystem with 9 millions unique visitors per month and 1.8 million registered users.

Katia Sanerot, holder of a BBA from l’ESSEC and a Masters in Media from l’ESCP Europe, has been the Head of Business Development for Madame Figaro since January 2012.

Katia heads up operations for the development of the audience and of the digital brand for Madame Figaro, as well as monetization through marketing, the promotion of the site, the partnerships and management of special events and operations.

She began at Le Figaro in 2009, when she was responsible for partnerships across the whole group (Figaro.fr, Sport 24, etc…), before moving in 2010 to the position of Web Marketing Project Manager.

Katy Dickson was recently named Vice President, Marketing Excellence & Integration, in the GCOM Division, championing world class marketing solutions that create marketing advantage for General Mills.

A 1988 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, she spent five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, managing laser development for the “Star Wars” initiative. Katy went on to earn her MBA at UCLA’s Anderson School. She joined General Mills in 1992, and has managed brands in the Big G, Snacks, and Meals Divisions. In 2003, she was promoted to vice president of marketing for Betty Crocker, and advanced to VP /BUD for Pillsbury Brands from 2004-2010.

During her career at General Mills, Katy has stewarded leading brands such as Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Trix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Pillsbury. Her teams have received multiple Eagle Awards for outstanding performance.

Katy’s most rewarding work has been in the area of strategic philanthropy, driving profitable growth through programs such as the General Mills Boxtops for Education, Pillsbury’s Feeding America, and Betty Crocker’s Great American Bake Sale. She has been featured in Working Mother, showcasing career progression and work/life balance. Katy served on the MELD Board of Directors, promoting parenting skills for at risk moms/dads.

Marta leads social marketing strategy for EMEA’s Consumer and Small Business segment. She works with global teams spanning marketing, online and communications to develop social campaigns, deliver toolkits enabling adoption of social media regionally, and incorporation into the marketing mix in the right way for our customers.

Prior to this role, Marta led the Online Marketing team in EMEA responsible for driving traffic to the Small Business website via Paid Search, Online Advertising, Email, Affiliate / Partner marketing and Social Media.

Marta joined Dell over 5 years ago, working in both EMEA and Global Online roles. She was part of a global taskforce focused on delivering next generation of online experiences and innovation to Dell.com, including focus on social online experience. She also served as Online Lead Generation Manager responsible for Dell’s online/offline channel integration strategy. Prior to Dell, Marta spent several years on the Agency side, working for marketing and communications consultancies in New York.

Connect with Marta on Twitter @MartaatDell

Michael Amar has spent the last decade at the intersection of online media, retail and innovative technologies. Prior to founding Ifeelgoods, Michael founded and successfully sold DAOODA, a thriving ad network in the EU, and AGORAD, which was the number one independent French media company at the time he sold it in 2007.

As CEO of Ifeelgoods, Michael is leveraging his leadership, experience and insights in e-commerce and online advertising to transform the digital promotions industry with what he believes is the most significant innovation in online marketing since search: the Ifeelgoods platform.

Michael is a graduate of Institut Superieur de Gestion business school. Michael lives with his family in Palo Alto, California.

Michail is business oriented digital native, who leads games' monetization at Rovio. With the aid of metrics, user tests and some creative thinking, his aim is to inject fun into games while at the same time provide several powerful options for monetization.

Before joining Rovio, Michail worked at Digital Chocolate where he developed, launched and managed social games as a product manager.

Amit Shah leads social and mobile commerce for 1800flowers (NYSE: FLWS), the world's leading florist and gift company. In addition, he manages the strategic adoption of new and emerging technologies across the online, mobile and social media customer experiences. Amit's innovative work in leveraging technology and marketing has been featured in publications like the New York Times and Ad Week, and in numerous industry case studies.

Previously, Amit worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company where he advised global enterprises and start-ups on hyper growth initiatives. Amit grew up in Calcutta, India and studied at Bowdoin College and Harvard University.

Before joining Viadeo, Michel Meyer founded Kewego in 2003, an online video company which he sold to KIT digital in 2001. There, he held the position of Vice-President of Product Management in charge of creating an offering for Kewego products. Michel began his career as a developer for Raydream. He then founded Multimania in 1995, sold in 2000 to Lycos France, where he held the position of Managing Director.

At Viadeo, Michel Meyer is in charge of creating and developing a business unit entirely dedicated to Viadeo’s mobile strategy.

Michel’s teams are focused on create innovative services for mobile-savvy markets while also offering solutions adapted to mobile usage in emerging countries where cell phones are the main gateway to the internet.

He is an Engineering graduate of ENSEEIHT where he majored in IT and Applied Mathematics.

Mikael is responsible for the mobile channels for Volvo Car Corporation globally, including the mobile web, mobile apps and other consumer engagement initiatives that falls under the mobile umbrella.

Before he commenced working for Volvo about 1.5 years ago, he spent 5 years at Adidas Global Brand Marketing, working on digital campaigns for Football and Lifestyle categories.

Nathalie Gaveau is a serial entrepreneur and currently the founder and CEO of social shopping platform, Shopcade.com.

The 20-person company currently has offices in London and New York and is backed by business angels – including Carrefour’s Daniel Bernard, Eidos’ Ian Livingstone and the BBC’s Lord Birt.

Prior to Shopcade, Nathalie was a cofounder of French eBay competitor PriceMinister, which was successfully sold to Rakuten for 200 million euros in 2010 as one of the biggest recent exits in consumer web in France.

Launched in December 2011, Shopcade’s application allows users to discover real-time trending products and get personalized product recommendations based on their social and interest graphs.

Nathalie holds a Master’s Degree from HEC. She shares her passion for new technologies and entrepreneurship in various groups focusing on promoting women entrepreneurs and web & mobile technologies.

Nenad Marovac has more than 20 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the media, telecom and technology sectors.

Nenad is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital which is a media and technology early stage and growth capital investor with offices in London and Palo Alto. His investments include Apsmart, Datanomic (Acquired by Oracle), Eyeka, Mister Spex, Shazam Entertainment, Tbricks, Windeln, OLX (Sold shares to Naspers), JacobsRimell (Acquired by Amdocs). He is also Chairman and CEO of DN Capital.

Nenad founded DN Capital in June 2000 after leaving Advent International, one of the world's leading global private equity houses, where he was a Partner in the London office. At Advent International, he spent five years investing in European media, IT services, Internet and telecom companies. His investments include Synergon (IPO: LSE/BSE), Hogart, Internet Securities (Acquired by Euromoney) and @Entertainment (IPO Nasdaq: Acquired by UPC).

Prior to Advent International, Nenad was a Financial Analyst in the leveraged buyout group of Bankers Trust in New York focusing on media and communications.

Mr. Marovac received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Business Administration cum laude from San Diego State University with Distinction in Finance.

Noel is a technology strategist working closely with product management on product direction, contributed to FatWire’s pre/sales enablement initiatives as Vice President technology strategist, and serves as an evangelist for Oracle WebCenter, seeking speaking engagements and participation in industry groups to help raise Oracle’s WebCenter profile in the market. He also brings his knowledge of and experience with customers and prospects back into the product management process.

Noel has worked with Web technologies, eCommerce and Web Content Management solution since 1996, when he joined Open Market as a senior Pre-Sales Engineer.

Since then he has held a number of senior roles in international technical management.

A graduate from la Sorbonne and l’Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme in Paris, Océane Ciuni joined Le Figaro.fr as a journalist in 2009. Responsible for all of Le Figaro’s content and blogs, she is in charge of developing the relationship between journalists and users of the site’s forums.

Day to day, Océane promotes Le Figaro’s online articles, manages the communities of followers that are present on social networks in cooperation with the company’s marketing teams, while she also takes charge of the moderation of the communities, forums and journalists that make up the publications web and social presence. In addition to that, Océane is heavily involved with the development of LeFigaro.fr and its functions.

Prior to working at Le Figaro, Océane was in charge of the news desk at Post.fr, and as a field reporter for a daily broadcast featured on France 2.

Olivier is in charge of the development of Airbnb in France, Belgium and Morocco. The development potential in these markets is very impressive, given that they make up some of the most visited and important tourist destinations in the world. Olivier has recruited and taken charge of a whole team to take on this challenge.

Before Airbnb, Olivier worked at the McKinsey & Company, the leading management consulting firm, in both Paris and San Francisco offices. He has also been heavily involved in the launch of several start-ups.

Olivier holds a masters degree from ESSEC, and an MBA from Harvard.

As Vice President of business operations, Olivier is in charge of overseeing all aspects related to the business performance of IsCool Entertainment’s products. This includes marketing, business development, business modeling, production management, and financial planning and forecasting. In his role, he uses analytics every day to make informed business and product design decisions. Prior to joining IsCool, he spent 6 years working at Vivendi games (now Activision Blizzard) in the Asia Pacific region where he most notably worked on the launch and operation of World of Warcraft. He started his career as a financial analyst in a private equity fund.
Olivier is a graduate of HEC School of Management.

Olivier Mathiot is the CoFounder, and Vice President of Marketing and Communication at Priceminister. He is in charge of all marketing (on and off line), as well as communication (internal and PR).

Until October 2000, Olivier was the Commercial Director at DDB, an advertising agency, where he was in charge of the brands Badoit, Noos, Lactel, Bridelice and Bridel.

He had previously worked as the Brand Director with the CLM/BBDO agency, where he was in charge of the France Télécom, Dell, MontBlanc, Lancel, French Red Cross, French Army, Marie Surgelés and the Danone Group’s fresh products brands.

Olivier graduated from HEC, where he specialized in Marketing.

Patrick Ferraris is Capgemini Consulting Global Leader for Digital Transformation. He advises organizations around the world on their digital strategies and transformation, with a focus on financial services, fast moving consumer goods and retail. Patrick has 20 years of experience in strategy and management consulting. He is leading our research program with MIT Center for Digital Business.

Patrick was previously Head of the Telecom & Media Practice in Capgemini Consulting France and in the Middle-East, leading major strategy and operations projects with TV, Mobile Telecom and Entertainment companies.
Patrick holds a Master of Science from the MIT (Cambridge, USA) and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC – France).

With 9 years of experience working in digital media start-up companies and monetizing online content, Paul Bowen is one of the leading advocates of mobile virtual currency in the UK. Formerly at the UK office of Adknowledge (owner of Super Rewards), he is now Vice President of Europe for Tapjoy, Inc.

Tapjoy is the leader in discovery, engagement and monetization services for mobile applications. The company’s turnkey in-app advertising platform helps developers acquire cost-effective, high-value new users, drive engagement within their applications, and create incremental income by providing an ad-funded virtual currency based payment method.

With a degree in business administration, Pepe Moder has begun working in the marketing at I.net. His next step was in the role of Product Manager of UUNET(WorldCom group IBD) and later Mktg Partner in strategic consulting for the digital world. In the same period he published “Web Marketing for Small and Medium Enterprises” and “Internet Startup” both with Apogeo.

In Genialpoint (RAS Group) Pepe took care of Digital Business Development to then play the role of New Media Manager for Internet communication and institutional web sites in Ras and for the entire Allianz Group in Italy. in 2008 he joined Barilla where he remained until 2012 as the Head of Digital Marketing & Communication Group.

Since April 2012 he entered in Pirelli Tyre covering the position of Global Director for the Digital for the Car market. He is also a lecturer in digital communication an dmarketing at several Italian universities.

Peter joined EMI Music in March of 2012 as the VP of Global Consumer Insight. He previously held global research roles and was Head of EMEA Customer Insights at BlackBerry (RIM). Before that, Peter had worked in strategy, research, marketing and database analysis for a range of financial services and software companies.

As global head of digital for Puma (PPR Group), Remi is responsible for developing the company’s digital marketing creative and content strategy, while overseeing the digital technology strategy, driving traffic to Puma’s on-line owned and earned marketing and commerce sites. Additionally, he is responsible for curating Puma’s digital footprint, working with sports and product managers to drive marketing campaigns, and proving the brand as a digital marketing and communications innovator and leader within the industry. Previously, he has helped various creative and digital companies, from start-up to large corporation; including the Benchmark Group, peoplesound, Studios Harcourt, Soundwalk and Discovery Communications.

Ruth Coates is an experienced marketer with international experience across both agency and corporate environments.

Over the past 8 years Ruth has managed accounts including ING, AVIVA, The Post Office, Reckitt Benckiser and Intel working with both Media Planning Group and Omnicom Media Group in London and later with Omnicom Media Group in Sydney, Australia.

Today, Ruth holds a role as Marketing Manager Europe for Staples Inc. European Headquarters based in Amsterdam, where she leads Staples European strategies across a number of marketing programs including Social Media, and drives implementation of same with her local marketing teams across 15 European Countries.

Sarah Watson is the Group Mobile Manager for THE NET-A-PORTER GROUP, whose brands include NET-A-PORTER.COM, the world’s premier online luxury fashion retailer, THEOUTNET.COM, the most fashionable fashion outlet and MRPORTER.COM, the first global online menswear destination.

She began her career in marketing at Bauer Media as eb marketing manager before joining NET-A-PORTER in 2008 as an SEO specialist. Sarah became new technology and social media manager in 2010 and since then has successfully implemented a social media strategy that has seen NET-A-PORTER's social audience grow significantly across all platforms. Recent achievements include the implementation of the award-winning Window Shop initiative at Fashion’s Night Out, an augmented reality experience where shoppers could shop and win product by using their mobile phone and iPad to scan items displayed on vinyl graphics.

Promoted to group mobile manager in 2012, Sarah is now responsible for the development and growth of all mobile platforms and launched the latest NET-A-PORTER app for iPhone and Android. NET-A-PORTER is the first luxury fashion retailer to have a shopping app on the Android platform.

Stéphanie Perotti is Worldwide Casual & Online Games Director at Ubisoft’s International HQ. Stéphanie graduated from ESSEC Business School and joined Ubisoft in 1997 as an Export Sales Manager. She spent 13 years at the EMEA Business Headquarters, and in 2003 was appointed COO in charge of Retail, Digital & Strategic Sales, Finance and Operations.