SPEAKERS

PEOPLE

A

Victor Aimi
Microsoft Latin America
Corporate Communications Director

Mohamed Al-Ayed
TRACCS
President & CEO

John Forrest Ales
Hilton Hotels & Resorts
Senior director, global brand public relations

Carlotta Anderloni
Chicco Artsana
CSR and Communication Manager

B

Don Baer
Burson Marsteller
CEO

Madan Bahal
Adfactors
Managing director

Janet Balis
Huffington Post
Publisher

Roma Balwani
Mahindra
Group head of communications

Jens Bang
Cone
Chief executive officer

Christine Barney
rbb Public Relations
CEO

Susan Bean
Marina Maher Comms
Executive Vice President, Creative Catalyst Group

Scott Beaudoin
MSLGroup
SVP, Global Director of PurPle (Purpose + People)

Tom Beckman
Prime PR
Creative director and partner

Maxim Behar
Chairman, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Czech Republic
CEO & Chairman of the Board, M3 Communications Group

Jeff Beringer
GolinHarris
EVP, digital innovation

Pascal Beucler
MSLGroup
Senior VP and chief strategy officer

Craig Bida
Cone
Executive VP

Selim Bingol
General Motors
VP, global communications

Roger Bolton
Arthur W Page Society
President

Julian Boulding
thenetworkone
founder and president

Becky Brown
Intel
Dir., social media strategy (President, Womma)

Alex Buznego
Miami Marlins
Manager, Digital & Social Media

C

Jorge Cachinero
Llorente & Cuenca
Group Senior Director for Reputation, Innovation and Corporate Development

Leslie Campisi
Hotwire

Albert Canal
Verizon
VP of corporate communications

Christa Carone
Xerox
Chief marketing officer

Cheryl Casone
Fox News

Peter Chadlington
Huntsworth Group
Group chief executive

Mark Choueke
Good Relations Group
New business director

Sarah Clark
Mitchell Comms.
Executive VP, chief strategy officer

Ephraim Cohen
MWW Group
EVP, Tech and Digital Content Industry Group

Fred Cook
GolinHarris
CEO

Kathy Cripps
Council of PR Firms
CEO

D

Teri Daley
Samsung
VP, PR

John Davies
Davies
CEO

Harris Diamond
Weber Shandwick
Chief executive officer

Lewis D'Vorkin
Forbes
Chief product officer

E

David Eagleman
Baylor College of Medicine
neuroscientist and author

John Earnhardt
Cisco
Director, corporate comms

Ellen East
Time Warner Cable
CCO

Jasper Eyears
Another Company
Director General

F

Peter Finn
Finn Partners
CEO

Andreas Fischer-Appelt
fischerAppelt
CEO

Rob Flaherty
Ketchum
CEO

Carl Folta
Viacom
Executive VP, corporate comms

Tom Foremski
Silicon Valley Watcher
Founder and editor

Stephen Forshaw
Temasek
Head of communications

Robert Fronk
Harris Interactive
SVP, reputation practice leader

G

Ross Gan
Huawei Technologies
Worldwide head of corporate communications

Luisa Garcia
Llorente & Cuenca
Partner and CEO, Andean region

Sean Garrett
(Twitter)
Former VP of communications

Paul Gennaro
Aecom
CCO

Felipe Gomez
Alpina
Head of corp comms

Yann Gourvennec
Orange
Dir., digital & social media

Chris Graves
Ogilvy Public Relations
CEO

H

Fraser Hardie
Blue Rubicon
Senior partner

Matt Harrington
Edelman
Global COO

Uri Hasson
Princeton University
Asst prof of Psychology

Ralf Hering
Hering Schuppener
CEO

John Hlinko
Hlinko Consulting

Paul Holmes
Holmes Group
CEO

Mike Hotra
APCO
Sr dir, issues management

I

Jon Iwata
IBM
Senior VP, marketing and communications

J

Stuart Jackson
Everything Everywhere
Director of the Chief Executive Office

Al Jackson
Chandler Chicco Companies
Washington office director

Daniel Jeffreys
Quintessentially Asia

Jim Joseph
Cohn & Wolfe
President, North America

Davide Jucker
MSLGroup
Digital Strategist

K

Tim Kane
Makovsky & Co.
Executive VP

Alan Kelly
Playmaker Systems
CEO

John Kennedy
IBM
Vice President, Corporate Marketing

Abby Klanecky
Dow Chemical Company
Director, Digital & Social Media

Gary Koops
Burson-Marsteller
Managing Director and Chairman of the Global Media Practice

Kaiser Kuo
Baidu
Director of international communications

L

Luke Lambert
Gibbs & Soell
Chief executive officer

Ma Limin
Perfetti Van Melle
Marketing Director

Ian Lipner
Lewis
Vice President

Geraldo Llanes Alvarez
Mexico Tourism Board
Executive Director of Marketing

Frederik Lofthagen
Interel
Group CEO

M

Maril MacDonald
Gagen MacDonald
founder and CEO of Gagen MacDonald

Sandra MacLeod
Echo Research
CEO

Andre Manning
Royal Philips Electronics
Global head of external communications

Nitin Mantri
Avian Media Pvt Ltd
CEO and Business Partner

Raymond Mar
York University
Associate prof, psychology

Pete Marino
MillerCoors
VP, communications

Jack Martin
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Global chairman and CEO

Chris McCafferty
Kaper
Managing director

Mark McCall
FTI Consulting
Head of strategic communications practice, Americas

Daryl McCullough
Citizen Paine
CEO

Morgan McLintic
Lewis
Executive VP US

Gaurav Mishra
MSLGroup Asia
Asia VP of Insights, Innovation & Social

Elise Mitchell
Mitchell Comms.
CEO

Jack Modzelewski
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications
President of the Americas, Senior Partner

Ambre Morley
Novo Nordisk
Head of corp comms

Michael Murphy
Grayling
Global CEO

N

Jim Nail
Forrester
Principal Analyst Serving Interactive Marketing Professionals

Mickey Nall
PRSA
Chair-elect

Torod Neptune
Verizon Wirless
Vice President Corporate Communications

Angela Nganga-Mumo
Orange
Chief corporate comms officer

Jesse Noyes
Eloqua
Managing editor

P

Joe Paluska
Better Place
Vice president communications

Dominic Payling
MSLGroup
Head of planning

Bob Pearson
W2O Group

Jonathan Perelman
Google
Global lead, industry relations

Christina Perez-McDowell
Bacardi
US brand manager

Chris Perry
Weber Shandwick
President, digital

Andy Pharoah
Wm Wrigley Co
Senior VP, corp affairs

Bill Power
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications
Head of strategic integration

Xavier Prabhu
PRHUB
Founder & CEO

Marc Pritchard
Procter & Gamble
Global brand building officer

R

Kori Reed
ConAgra Foods
VP, Cause and Foundation

Jason Reifler
Georgia State University
Asst prof of Political Science

Allison Robins
Zumba Fitness
PR director

Dave Roman
Lenovo
Senior vp and chief marketing officer

Anthony Rose
Walmart
VP, corporate affairs

Sydney Rubin
Chandler Chicco
Senior strategist

D'Arcy Rudnay
Comcast
CCO

S

Jean-Leopold Schuybroek
Interel
Founder

Flavia Sekles
Embraer
Director of external communications

Dave Senay
Fleishman-Hillard
President and Chief Executive Officer

Kevin Sheekey
Bloomberg
Chairman of Communications and Government Relations

Gary Sheffer
General Electric
vp of corporate communications and public affairs

Dan Soulas
Echo Research
managing director

Helayne Spivak
Virginia Commonwealth University

Simon Sproule
Nissan Motor Co.
corporate VP, global marketing communications

Aaron Strout
W2O Group
Head of location based marketing

Arun Sudhaman
Holmes Group
Partner & Managing Editor

T

Justine Thody
The Economist Intelligence Unit
Editorial director, Americas

Daniel Tisch
Global Alliance for PR
Chair

Richard Tsang
Strategic Public Relations Gp.
Chairman and MD

V

Kelly Vanasse
Procter & Gamble
Vice president, communications

Jose Manuel Velasco
FCC
GM, comms and CSR (president, Dircom)

Tiago Vidal
Sonae Sierra
Head of corp comms

Eduardo Vieira
Agencia Ideal
CEO

Anne Villemoes
Danish Crown
head of communication

W

Barry Wacksman
R/GA
EVP, Chief Growth Officer

Michelle Weese
Duncan Hines
Strategist

Bill White
Sprint Nextel
Senior VP, communications

Stephen Whitehead
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
CEO

Rick Wion
McDonald's Corporation
Director of Social Media

David Witt
Hershey
Dir., global digital marketing & brand PR

Bill Wohl
HP
former chief communications officer

Ian Wright
Diageo
corporate relations director

X

Ana Margarida Ximines
Inforpress
Country Manager

Z

Peter Zandan
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Vice chair, research

Michael Zimbalist
The New York Times Company
Vice President, Research & Development Operations

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