Dee Dutta is currently Chief Marketing Officer for Bodog Europe, starting this role in September 2011. Prior to this, he was recently the Global CMO of mobile telecommunications company Sony Ericsson. During his tenure at Sony Ericsson, the business achieved CAGR growth in sales by 25%, 35% volume and 36% in NIBT.

He joined the business in 2002 and was one of key figures in the success of the Sony Ericsson joint venture in the recent years. Under his leadership the brand rose from 6 to no 2 in the world and delivered 18 successive quarters of growth. He was instrumental in launching the mobile walkman and is widely credited with turning around the fortunes of women’s tennis when he signed them to bring glamour and appeal to the Sony Ericsson brand. . In 2005, he signed the largest ever deal in women’s sport and was critical in defining the vision forward for the whole of tennis to appeal to the younger 15-34 generation.  Not only did this benefit the brand but he also redefined the presentation of tennis around the world. In February 2008, he was honoured by the WTA with a lifetime achievement award.

Born in India, Dee Dutta was educated in the UK and completed his MBA in London and was trained in marketing at Procter & Gamble Ltd upon graduation at the University of Liverpool in 1982. During the 1980’s Dee worked at a number of major FMCG companies including Quaker Oats, Golden Wonder snacks, Borden Foods in Asia etc.   He brings a wide level of experience in sales & marketing having held senior marketing positions in Europe, North America and Asia.  In the 1990’s   Dee moved into the telecommunications industry and was instrumental in creating wider access and ownership of phones with the launch of prepay phones which changed the face of the UK mobile industry.  In 2000, he was approached to lead the marketing and commercial efforts for MCI World Com, where he was appointed Senior Director for EMEA. He left them to join Sony Ericsson after having delivered 41% uplift in revenue in his first year for WorldCom.

Dee is known for delivering innovative business solutions within consumer businesses and ensuring high returns on investment for shareholders.  His understanding of global consumers and the ability to monetise the value led to him being appointed by a number of  private equity companies to advice and act as non executive director in 2008 on a number of their investments He was also appointed onto the Board of one of UK’s largest universities in 2006 as non executive director and independent governor of the Manchester Metropolitan university.

Sherilyn is the CEO of the Marketing Hall of Legends (UK) and Founder of The Marketing Academy. 

As CEO of Highfield Human Solutions Group, Sherilyn is a leading figure in the world of Talent Management, Leadership Development and Executive Search. She is also the Executive Vice President of IMD International Search Group responsible for Communications across 23 countries around the world.

Sherilyn regularly consults Boards on attracting, retaining and developing the very best leadership talent.

In November 2011 Sherilyn won the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Women In Marketing Special Contribution to Marketing Award 2011.

She lives with her husband Mike and her three daughters in Berkshire.

Ann Pickering is the Human Resources Director for the UK’s No. 1 mobile phone network provider, Telefonica O2 UK Ltd.  She manages an HR team of 130 who provide HR services to the 10,500 02 employees in the UK.

Ann has achieved a whole host of accomplishments within the company since joining in March 2004, including the delivery of a comprehensive company-wide management development and talent management programme and a succession planning process for managers.

Ann is married, has two teenage boys and lives in Sheffield.

Tim Kaner leads the Capabilities Practice at The Value Engineers, a strategic brand consultancy.

He spent the first part of his career in advertising before moving client side to Sony Europe where he took responsibility for the development of regional brand and product advertising and the management of creative and media agency relationships . From 2006, Tim headed the Marketing Strategy Office with a mission to help Sony Europe build a more customer centric sales and marketing culture. He led a change programme whose scope covered marketing capability, designing and embedding common processes and developing and implementing tools such as customer segmentation across Sony’s complex multi-country, multi-category business.

Whilst at Sony he completed an MBA and has been an adviser to the Young Enterprise scheme.

He has also been on the judging panel for the Account Planning Group and IPA effectiveness awards and spoken at various conferences.

He is passionate about helping organisations understand how they are seen through their customers eyes and building a stronger link between what the brand says – its marketing and communications – and what the brand does – the customer experience it delivers.

In 2007, Stephen founded TCBA, which is dedicated to understanding the performance of brands. TCBA runs the selection process for Superbrands’ annual UK programmes.

Stephen works with a variety of brands and agencies on brand, market and marketing analysis whilst delivering brand insights at conferences and for international media.

Craig has an HR background which spans over 20 years across a number of companies in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector. He started his HR career as a specialist in Learning & Development, and has worked at HR Director level at Group or Regional level for a number of international and UK businesses, most notably BT, Aegis Media, Sky, and Compaq Computer, with overall HR responsibility for up to 15,000 employees. He has also worked as a senior change management consultant at Accenture, advising corporate clients in the banking and utilities sectors.

Criag is currently HR Director for Bypa Health & Wellbeing.  Previously he was Interim HR Director for Jersey Telecom and Interim Global HR Director for 2ergo, an AIM listed high technology business which specialises in the development of business and consumer applications for the iPhone, Smartphones and other devices. 2ergo are headquartered in the UK, with international offices in the US, Latin America, India and Australia.

Craig is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and holds an MA (Hons) in French & Italian from the University of Cambridge.

Daren Rubins is Managing Director of PHD.

Emma has worked for Kraft Foods and previously Cadbury plc for 10 years. She currently works with the UK&I marketing teams across the five categories of Chocolate, Cheese, Coffee, Biscuits and Gum & Candy. She also works with the sales team which is one of the largest in the UK&I. She has held a number of senior HR positions in the UK&I and EMEA region but has always worked closely with Marketing and Sales teams and enjoys the dynamism and excitement of this side of the business. Emma is also leading the colleague engagement programme for the Cadbury sponsorship of London 2012.
 
Previously, Emma worked in HR for Coca-Cola Enterprises and joined Marks & Spencer on their graduate programme. Emma has a degree in Management Studies and is a member of the CIPD. Emma is also a qualified coach and has coached leaders within Cadbury and Kraft as well as graduates and young talent.

Kevin Allen is founder of KevinAllenPartners, dedicated to transforming the way companies grow. Specialists in growth skills training, leadership development, executive coaching, go-to-market and growth strategy advisory and planning, pitch coaching and growth support services. KevinAllenPartners is proud to work with companies such as Nokia, Burberry, Smythson, Omnicom, Swedbank and M&C Saatchi.

Kevin is an experienced global leader with a unique blend of holding company, network agency, major brand and long-standing business development know-how.

As Lowe Worldwide’s Vice Chairman he played a pivotal role in the turnaround, named Ad Age’s “Turnaround Agency of the Year” in 2009. He expanded existing clients Unilever and Nestle, lead the addition of global accounts including Sharp, Ericsson, Becks, Electrolux, AEG, Zanussi and China Mobile.

He was Chief Growth Officer for the Interpublic Group, creating the first holding company-wide business development and collaboration program, driving substantial new revenues. He led IPG teams to win Computer Associates worldwide and Nokia’s coveted new multimedia N-Series device.

Veteran of IPG agency McCann Worldgroup, Kevin directed brands such as Microsoft, Smith Barney, MasterCard, (he led the now globally famous “Priceless” campaign), Nestle, L’Oreal, Lufthansa and with Johnson and Johnson a groundbreaking launch of the first home access HIV test.  At McCann he created what is arguably one of the industry’s most envied new business programs, spanning the globe in the pursuit of growth, with dozens of major pitch winners to his credit including, JP Morgan Chase, Marriott, Opel, South African Airways Pfizer, DeutscheBank, Siemens, Microsoft, Credit Suisse, Winthetur to name a few.

His civic contributions includes acting as an adviser to New York Mayor Giuliani and leading the creation of public service communication, including the anti-crime support hotline initiative, award winning teen pregnancy programs and fire safety. He served on the board of the AIDS Quilt Names Project Foundation. KevinAllenPartners currently sponsors the Women in Marketing Awards for the Chartered Institute of Marketing, London.

A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Dowling College, Kevin holds a Certificate in Economics from Queen Mary College, University of London and a MBA from Adelphi University.

After an English degree at Oxford, and a happy decade in advertising client service (at WCRS and AMV BBDO), Alison pursued her evolving interest in talent development with a leap in 1999 from AMV Board Director to trainer and coach in consultancy.

Alison returned to agency life in 2002 as AMV’s first Talent Director, immersing herself in growing world class talent for the agency and also the sector, through her involvement in the IPA’s PDG and CPD working groups. In 2003 Alison was named in Management Today’s ‘35 women under 35’ list.

Alison is now AMV Group Talent Director and also develops the BBDO network’s top talent as Director of BBDO University.

In 2008 Alison won the creative and media sector’s Mann Award for Women, enabling her, along with BBDO’s support, to take a Masters in Executive Coaching at Ashridge.

She is married with two daughters, and relaxes by walking her dog in the Oxfordshire countryside.

Tony brings a blend of experiences to the Marketing Academy combining international brand marketing, board level operational leadership, innovation, M&A and entrepreneurial venturing.

He is a founding investor of Springboard.com, Europe’s leading venture accelerator, a shareholder / board member of Lingospot Inc, and ScreenReach Ltd and is also a shareholder in P2i Labs, Minimonos, PlayMob, Arachnys, apiary.io, Spontly and Hubflow.

Previously he was Group Managing Director of Bauer Digital one of the world's largest privately owned media companies where he played a key role in the €1.4BN M&A integration of EMAP Plc.

Prior to Bauer he was on the operational board of T-Mobile International (€50BN Revenue) as Group Executive Vice President, Business Development & Innovation.  He also served on the advisory board for Deutsche Telekom's VC arm, T-Ventures. 

In 2000 he was in the leadership team for the $800M IPO of Agency.com (NASDAQ: ACOM). In addition to his TMT experience, he has a passion for consumers and brands gained during nine years in brand marketing roles at Nestle SA and Diageo Plc.

He holds a BSc (Hon) in Physics & Electronic Systems, Brunel University and an MBA from Henley Business School majoring in corporate venturing and innovation.  

He has a keen interest in developing useable and relevant technology services to address the digital divide and in his spare time he is active in martial arts competing at national level.

Kerstin is a senior HR leader with over 15 years of managerial HR experience. She spent most of her career in the International Media and Online Advertising and Technology industry having worked for Bertelsmann and Kirch Media, AOL Time Warner, and Yahoo! prior to joining the WPP group as Chief Talent Officer for Millward Brown in Europe, the Marcomms group's global leader in brand, media and communications research. 

Kerstin enjoys working with great people creating a meaningful impact on the business and the team she works with, and the wider community. Kerstin’s approach to life and work is structured, organised and always full of activity. 

A German national, Kerstin has lived and worked in the UK since 2010 Her little spare time she enjoys spending with outdoor activities including walking, hiking, skiing, cycling and with her friends and family. She is passionate about fine food and wine, cooking and foreign cultures and languages. Kerstin speaks German, English and Spanish and has a more passive but decent command of French. 

Rachid ‘Ben’ Bengougam, Vice President Human Resources Europe, Hilton Wo0rldwide

Ben Bengougam was appointed in May 2010 as Vice President HR Europe for Hilton Worldwide, having previously been based in Kuwait in the position of HR Director Middle East for MHAlshaya. Ben had run his strategic HR practice for nearly a year after 7 years at the Dixons Group (FTSE100) where he was Group HR Director on the Executive Board of a pan European Electrical Retailer employing 42,000 people in 13 countries.

 He was previously Chief People Officer at ebeon , an Irish/global e-business builder and services provider.  Ben had joined ebeon from Pegasus Solutions, Inc a Dallas based Nasdaq quoted hotel technology and distribution management company, where he held the title of executive vice president, human resources, and where he was also in charge of worldwide facilities and customer training fulfillment. Prior to that he had held the same responsibilities at REZsolutions, Inc as Executive Vice President based in Phoenix, Arizona USA and as Human Resources Director of London based Utell International. Previously, Bengougam had spent 11 years with Forte International Hotels in various operational and human resource management roles. His last role there was as Human Resources Director for the Forte Grand Division. Bengougam is a BSC engineering science graduate and subsequently obtained a Master's Degree in Human Resources Development.

Simon Montgomery is a founding partner of Adam Recruitment, having spent his early career in professional services marketing he moved into marketing recruitment in 1999 which is the industry he has specialised in since.

Throughout his career Simon has developed a real passion for finding top quality marketing talent hence when he was approached to become involved in the marketing academy it was a ‘no brainer’! It was this passion that also led him to set up Adam recruitment, a search, selection and recruitment business, in 2006.

On a personal note he is delighted to point out that he is getting married to Alex this summer, he lives in Cheshire but spends half of his working week in London. Whilst not working he loves his sports especially rugby (watching nowadays), cricket and golf (still playing).

Over many years, Fiona has worked for numerous communications companies, including Novell, Oracle, Nortel and Verizon in senior Marketing Business to Business roles, or at Director level managing teams across Europe and Africa.  With an early career in HR and Training, Fiona decided to transition 7 years ago to re-visit her passion for coaching and developing others. 

Fiona has a degree in Marketing, and is a member of the CIPD.  Travelling is her biggest weakness, and she’s often taken time out of her busy career to explore other parts of the world and different cultures.