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Nadine Dereza , Chairwoman
Nadine Dereza is a specialist business presenter. With a background as a reporter for the BBC and CNN, she was named Financial Journalist of the Year whilst working as London Business Correspondent for Summit TV.
Off-camera, Nadine Dereza is a Non Executive Director for WorldSkills London 2011, bringing together young people from across the globe to compete in vocational skills.
Nadine regularly presents items on all the major business stories. She is an accomplished chair, facilitator, interviewer and presenter.
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Nadine works with a diverse range of businesses and organisations on their live events programmes and her national and international client list includes Infosys, Promethean, PwC, BAA, Vodafone, Sage, Aggreko, Kellogg's, The Candy Group, RBS, Camelot, AXA, WorldPay, Avaya, VeriSign, GE Money, AXA, Heidelberg, Business Link, EPCA, Capita and American Express, to name but a few.
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Burak Ertaş, CEO Sahibinden.com
Burak Ertas joined sahibinden.com in December 2009. Prior to sahibinden.com, Ertas worked at Turkcell, as the Division Head of Consumer Value Added Services, he was responsible of the development of Consumer VAS strategy, and marketing and product management for all non-voice consumer services. He was also responsible for the company web sites and Internet projects. Before Turkcell, he worked at Telenity for 9 years, a leading VAS technology provider headquartered in US, as the VP, Product Development and Engineering. Burak Ertas holds a BSc.EE and a MBA. |
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About Sahibinden.com
Established back in 2000 by Aksoy Group, sahibinden.com played a significant role in the development of internet in Turkey. Last 11 years, sahibinden.com earned a well deserved pioneering role in the Turkish internet sector by delivering innovative services and products. Today, sahibinden.com is the largest classifeds and marketplace website with more than 20 million monthly visitors and over 2 billion page views per month. With a great team of 180 people, sahibinden.com is enjoying a fast paced growth even after 11 years. |
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Friedrich Fleischmann, Global Director Retail of GfK Retail and Technology
As chairman of the Global Retail Committee he is responsible for the strategic management and operational cooperation with the trade.
Prior to this Mr. Fleischmann was also Head of International Retail Service Department and Head of Retail Services – Germany at GfK Retail and Technology. He studied International Business Studies and graduated as Master of Business Administration. Mr. Fleischmann gives guest lectures and assignments of the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule Nuremberg and the University Erding, Cross Mentoring Training |
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About GfK Retail and Technology
GfK Retail and Technology offers powerful insights into consumer goods markets with data from the world's largest retail network, reporting what's selling where, at what rate. Operating in more than 90 countries, the fact-based information we deliver enhances your decision making process and is fully comparable locally, regionally and even globally www.gfkrt.com |
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Pinny Gniwisch, EVP Marketing at Sabi
Pinny is recognized globally as a great thinker and expert in social media, online marketing and merchandising, and is widely sought after as a speaker on ecommerce and online branding with his warm and engaging speaking style.
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Under Pinny’s leadership as a founder and the EVP of Business Development, Ice.com revolutionized the way consumers bought jewelry, and the notion of modern e-commerce. As of 2012 Pinny moved over to Sabi.com.
Pinny is a Adjunct Professor McGill University in its first ecommerce and social media course, a board member of shop.org (the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) ecommerce organization), and Founder and President of a non profit organization
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Paul Greenberg, executive chairman and co- founder of the DealsDirect Group
Paul is the executive chairman and co- founder of the DealsDirect Group, a leader and pioneer in online retail in Australia. Paul is a registered psychologist with a keen interest in organizational psychology. He was the recent recipient of the prestigious 2011 Industry Recognition Award at the Australian Online Retail Industry Awards. He likes blues guitar and surfing. |
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About DealsDirect Group
The DealsDirect Group is a leader and pioneer in online retail in Australia. Within the group there are currently four key anchor brands, DealsDirect.com.au, DealMe.com.au, SuperMarketDeals.com.au and ShoppersAdvantage.com.au, with more adjacencies in development. Established in 2004, the DealsDirect Group employ around 200 people across the group and run the largest ecommerce fulfillment center and ecommerce customer service call center in Australia. |
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Entrepeneur in E-commerce
Brian Kalma is an entrepreneur with a long history in e-commerce. For over 7 years Brian was part of the Zappos.com family where he served several roles over the years. He began building and scaling the company's product photography practices and eventually moved on to head up their marketing efforts. A couple of years later and after incubating several departments within the marketing department Brian ultimately landed a new role as Director of User Experience. |
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As head of UX Brian built the team and led the charge in the Zappos site evolution efforts and ultimately brought V1 and V2 to market before leaving the company in April of 2010.
He then landed at Gilt Groupe where Brian was responsible for building and scaling their UX team and practices.
Brian has since left Gilt, launched and sold his own startup (Snipwits) and is now Chief Experience Officer at Gemvara.
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Member of the Supervisory Board of E-commerce Association of Estonia / Co-owner ON24
Peep Kuld (1972) has a studied in University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe and in the Tallinn Technical University and has a MBA Graduate . Before he
joined ON24 he also worked as Marketing Manager at Tallinn Department Store (retail), Member of the Supervisory board Eerung (furniture production),
Manager Investment funds in Swedbank, Co-founder of Cleveron Ltd.
Peep Kuld is a father of two and lives with his family in Tallinn. |
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About ON24
ON24 was established in 1999 and if the biggest e-retailer in Estonia
selling more than 12.000 furniture and interior products. ON24 has 160.000
registered customers in Estonia and Finland and is the best known internet
retail brand in Estonia. |
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Adrian Pritchard, E-Commerce Director Crocs
As E-Commerce director Europe, Mr. Adrian Pritchard is responsible for the E-Commerce strategy and execution for Crocs in 10 countries in Europe and the Nordics. From the European headquarters of Crocs in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, British born Pritchard and his team are responsible for the day-to-day management for the online branding, merchandising and maintenance of the DemandWare on-demand Ecommerce platform.
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About Crocs
Born in Boulder, Colo. as a simple, comfortable boat shoe, today Crocs™ footwear can be found across the globe and in more than 250 styles for men, women and children. With distinct collections, Crocs offers colorful, lightweight comfort for any occasion and every season.
All Crocs™ shoes are uniquely designed and manufactured using the company’s proprietary closed-cell resin, Croslite™, a technology that gives each pair of shoes the soft, comfortable, lightweight, non-marking and odor-resistant qualities that Crocs wearers know and love. Crocs™ footwear is ideal for casual wear, as well as for professional use and recreational activities.
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Monis Rahman, Chairman and CEO Naseeb Networks
Mr. Rahman started his career at Intel Corporation. He began his entrepreneurial journey when he founded Crestech, a Silicon Valley chip design consulting company. In 1999, Mr. Rahman co‐founded eDaycare.com with a fellow Intel colleague to provide online video streaming and related applications to over 3,000 daycare centers in the United States.
Mr. Rahman completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and did graduate coursework at Stanford University. He has been featured by numerous magazines and newspapers including Forbes, The New York Times, CNN, InfoWorld, Red Herring, Infoweek, The Chicago Tribune and CIO Pakistan.
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About Naseeb Networks
Naseeb Networks is a leading provider of recruitment, social networking, classifieds and related services in Pakistan. Naseeb Networks, an AllWorld Pakistan Fast Growth 25 company, launched ROZEE.PK in 2006 which is today Pakistan’s most powerful recruiting platform. With over 40,000 employers and 5.4 Million professionals using the job portal, the company boasts a 64% placement rate amongst its over 100 daily job postings. ROZEE.PK was visited by one quarter of Pakistan’s Internet population in 2010, more traffic than the next 10 job sites combined. In fact, more jobs are advertised on ROZEE.PK each week than the aggregate jobs posted in Pakistan’s newspapers. ROZEE.PK has experienced 15 consecutive quarters of growth, clocking in at 488% growth over the past three years. The site has won the coveted Brand of the Year Award for the past two years from the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Naseeb Networks is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capital funds Draper Fisher Jurvetson and ePlanet Ventures. |
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Ignacio Somalo, European president Alice.com
Ignacio Somalo is the European president for Alice.com and cofounder of Home24x7. Prior to joining Alice.com (Home24x7), Mr. Somalo served as Chief Executive Officer for Infoempleo.com (Vocento media group) the second largest job opportunities web in Spain. Mr Somalo started his professional career in Accenture, we worked in consulting practice for this firm along six years. Mr Somalo holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from UCM (Madrid), an Executive Master in Business Administration from IE Business School and a PHd in Aplied Economy from URJC (Madrid) |
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About Alice.com
Alice.com is an innovative eCommerce platform that partners with branded consumer packaged goods ("CPG") manufacturers to disintermediate the traditional retail layer and open up a direct sales channel to the end consumer. Why do CPG manufacturers need this new channel? Because major retailers have leveraged their customer access to become their own manufacturers, creating powerful store brands that compete directly with CPG manufacturers.
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Managing Director of QUELLE GmbH
Tim von Törne, 41, is Managing Director of QUELLE GmbH (a one hundred percent subsidiary of the Hamburg based Otto Group). He has been dealing with the establishment of e-business companies for more than ten years. The Graduate in Business Management and MBA of WHU and Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) was, among other things, Country Manager of the Internet telephone supplier, Skype, and attended and supported the sale of the company to eBay Inc. Recently, as co-founder of cellity AG, a start-up company for the development of a contact management tool, he was responsible for the management and the incorporation of the company, after its sale to Nokia Inc.
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About Otto Group
Founded in 1949, the Otto Group is now a worldwide-operating retail and services group with 49,721 employees (as per February 2011). The Group has 123 companies of primary significance and operates in 20 countries in Europe, North America and Asia. It is organised into three business segments: Multichannel Retail, Financial Services and Services. In financial year 2010/11, the Otto Group generated revenue of 11.404 billion euros. It is the world’s biggest online retailer for fashion and lifestyle products, second only to Amazon overall. It is the undisputed number one in Germany. |
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