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 JIMMY WALES
Founder of Wikipedia and Wikia
Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia, a free and open content encyclopedia in 2001, and Wikia, a privately-owned free web hosting service set up in 2004. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. His work with Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopedia, led Time magazine to name him to its 2006 list of the “100 most influential people in the world.”
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 SPIKE LEE
Premier Hollywood Filmmaker and Socio-political Provocateur
Spike Lee is the cutting-edge American film director, writer, actor and author. His films challenge cultural assumptions about race, class and gender identity. His debut film, “She’s Gotta Have It”, earned the Prix de Jeunesse Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986 and his third film, “Do the Right Thing” garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won Best Film and Best Director awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in 1989. His epic drama, “Malcolm X”, received two Oscar nominations. He also directed “Inside Man” and is the ad filmmaker of the famous Orange and Nike Air Jordan commercials. |
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 AL RIES
Legendary Marketing Strategist and Best Selling Author
Al Ries is the architect behind the marketing tool known as brand positioning. In 1980, he wrote his first book, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind which has become an industry hallmark and one of the best selling advertising books of all time. He is also a best-selling author of eleven books on marketing including Marketing WarFare, Focus, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding, The Fall of Advertising & The Rise of PR and The Origin of Brands. |
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 AL GOLIN
Chairman of the leading global PR agency, GolinHarris
A veteran for almost 50 years, Al Golin was named one of the 100 most influential public relations people in the 20th century by PR Week magazine for his contributions to the field of public relations. His clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, McDonald’s Corporation, Nintendo of America, The Dow Chemical Company Inc., Orange, Texas Instruments and Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc as clients. He has lectured at numerous public and private institutions including Ivy League universities and authored a book, "Trust or Consequences: Build Trust Today or Lose Your Market Tomorrow.” |
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 JOANNE OOI
Creative Director of Shanghai Tang
China’s first luxury brand did not have a smooth ride until Joanne Ooi joined Shanghai Tang. She helped boost sales, up almost 50% since 2003, and doubled the number of stores to thirty worldwide in the next three years. To reinvigorate the brand, she created bold design statements that combined Chinese cultural references and sleek, contemporary clothes.
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 WILL WRIGHT
Executive Producer and Chief Game Designer, Electronic Arts as well as creator of The Sims™ and Spore™
He is known as the “Spielberg” of the gaming industry, Will Wright is creator of The Sims game franchise. In 2007, he received a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Awards by PC Magazine in 2005, a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2001, and was the fifth person inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2002. His next video game, SPORE, is scheduled for release in September 2008. |
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 HARRY C. HUI
Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo International,
China Beverages
A veteran expert on youth marketing, (formerly with Universal Music and MTV), Harry Hui steers Pepsi product pitches to China’s next generation. The brands under his wing include Pepsi Cola (China’s #1 Cola drink), Gatorade, Tropicana, Dole, 7Up, Mirinda, as well as other locally developed brands. China’s youth is large, demanding and growing. Hence, any major player needs to understand this psychographic and what it takes to capture the China market. |
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 VIKAS MALKANI
The Enlightenment Specialist
Founder of SoulCentre, Vikas Malkani is one of the world’s leading teachers in spiritual awakening, personal growth and self-awareness. His forte is to make ancient spiritual wisdom simple to understand and apply, thus creating a life of health, harmony and abundance on all levels. He has written numerous books that involves the disciplines of meditation, spiritual wisdom and yoga. |
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 NIKO VON SAURMA
Director Singapore Studio
Niko von Saurma joined DesignworksUSA in California in August 1995. After a two year stay in Newbury Park he took part in the build up of the Munich Studio. In 2002 he was appointed creative director in the Munich Studio of DesignworksUSA. Since 2006 he is directing the new design studio in Singapore.
As director Niko von Saurma is responsible for office management, project direction and marketing of the Designworks services that range from strategic design, product identity development and product design development to future scenario creation.
After starting his product design education at Art Center in Switzerland, Niko von Saurma graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California as Bachelor of Science. |
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 NIC HALL
Client Service Director, Research International
Nic Hall is currently a Client Service Director in Research International Singapore. He has previously worked in Sales and Marketing, with Mobil Oil and Unilever.
He has a special interest in the impact of migration flows around the world and how immigrants affect the culture of their new host countries. As an immigrant himself he has observed at first hand the issues faced by immigrants all over the world.
Nic has considerable experience across virtually every type of research technique, both quantitative and qualitative, including both consumer and business to business research. Publications include numerous papers presented at various conferences around the world and in ESOMAR books. He is a qualified Chemical Engineer, with post graduate courses in Marketing and Business related topics |
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 RIZ KHAN
Moderator for the Global Brand Forum 2007-2008
Riz Khan is an international journalist based in Washington DC, in the USA, and Dubai in U.A.E.
In February 2005, he joined the world-renowned Al Jazeera network to set up its English-language channel and to host its flagship programme, "Riz Khan" – a daily, live, interactive global show featuring the world's top newsmakers.
He also hosts and produces a weekly profile show - "Riz Khan's One on One".
Riz's departure from CNN International in May 2001, after 8 years as one of the network's highest profile personalities, led him to found and run an independent production company, and work as an author, media consultant, and moderator of high-profile international conferences and conventions. He is also a founding Director and creative force of a company producing high-end 3D video games for niche markets such as the Middle East. |
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