Evan Welsh is head of executive communications, SME (small and midsize enterprises) and Partner communications at SAP, a $100B market leader in enterprise application software. He is responsible for overall communications, including executive communications, speech writing, messaging strategy and social media, for the President of Global Partner Operations, as well the entire leadership team. Previously,…
Jenny Zirinsky leads Global Media for the Consumer Beauty division of Coty Inc. This portfolio of over 30 brands across cosmetics, hair care, and fragrance includes iconic brands such as CoverGirl, Rimmel, Clairol, and Sally Hansen. Tasked with helping brand leadership navigate the complexity of the global media marketplace, Jenny drives thought leadership and leads…
Graduated at Bocconi University in Milan, Filippo Vizzotto joined Shazam as Commercial Country Manager for Italy in July 2015 and is now Senior Director for Central/Southern Europe & Africa. He has a 12 years experience in Digital Advertising and before moving to Shazam’s London HQ, held the position of Country Manager at Mobvious Italy where…
Multicultural digital mind who speaks four languages and dreams in five. With a 25-year journey surfing between advertising, marketing, and social business; working for integrated and social media agencies as well as client side with global brands in a number of industries: automotive, IT, luxury, travel and hospitality, financial and banking, professional services, FMCG, retail,…
Sameer is an award winning marketing and analytics leader, management coach and entrepreneur with 15 years of technology and leadership experience across brands such as IBM, Wipro, Rackspace, TMobile, Alert Logic, Gold’s Gym and several others. He has won several industry awards including the coveted Revenue Marketer of the Year and Game Changing Marketer awards…
Before his name was even a definition and inventions were more impactful than Edison’s, Nicola Tesla worked in Budapest. Few knew that he was barely 25 years of age when as the Chief of engineering for the American Telephone company in Hungary, he invented the phone speaker or as we would put it today, speakerphone. And in…
JC Oliver is an award winning digital creative, strategist, evangelist, futurist, investor & advisor with over 25 years global media experience. He recently launched his own innovation agency 31Flavas which he runs alongside his roles as Global Chief Creative Officer of Unlockd & EdisonX. His passion is across both Digital Marketing/Transformation, Business Strategy & Innovation.…
Richard is responsible for the global content offering at Wavemaker, bringing together over 750 experts from around the world to offer bespoke content solutions for clients. He has a diverse background across media and advertising, having worked in both full service and media owner (Yahoo!) roles in the UK, as well as setting up digital…
Hussein has over 17 years of solid Marketing Communication experience in the space leading and building integrated marketing practices within multinational agencies (JWT, Leo Burnett, and TBWA\) and client side (Fortune 500 companies – Virgin Mobile and Red Bull), across the Middle East and Africa region. Hussein was among the first batch of WPP MENA…
Tina Funk worked as a journalist before entering the music industry at Virgin Germany in 1994, then joined Independent Intercord as Label manager for Mute Records. In 1997 she was member of the set-up team for Richard Branson’s V2 Records and left in 2000 to establish an affiliate for Mute Records in Berlin. Together with…










