BRENTHOBERMAN Co-Founder LastMinute.com

Brent Hoberman shot to fame as one of the bright young faces of the ‘dot-com’ boom, when he co-founded lastminute.com. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Brent’s venture survived when the bubble burst and has gone from strength to strength.

Operating across multiple markets, lastminute.com has established approximately 13,600 supplier relationships and over 10 million subscribers. It also owns a number of online brands, including holidayautos.com and travelprice.com. By the time it was sold to Sabre, the company was valued at $1.1bn.

Before lastminute.com, Brent was a Senior Associate at Spectrum Strategy, a media and telecoms consultancy. He then held business development responsibilities at Line One, British Telecom and United News & Media, and was also one of the founding team of the online auction site, QXL.com.

A prolific entrepreneur, Brent went on to establish another VC-backed site, mydeco.com, which provides interior design advice and furniture retail. He then took up the post of chairman of Wayn.com, a travel and leisure social network with over 10 million members. As an angel investor, Brent has backed a number of other startups including moveme.com (house moving), viagogo (tickets), t5m (celebrity channel), imagini.net (dating) and wigadoo.com (social events). With all that, he still finds time to be a Governor of London’s University of the Arts College, and a non-executive board director of the Guardian Media Group.

	PETERKIM Managing Director The Dachis Group

Peter Kim is a leading thinker and analyst on social business, which he discusses in his blog at Being Peter Kim. He is regularly quoted in the press by media outlets including CNN, CNBC, NPR, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Peter was previously an analyst at Forrester Research, focusing on the intersection of social technology and marketing strategy. Prior to this he managed international marketing operations, e-commerce, and digital marketing at PUMA AG.
Peter is on Twitter here

The Dachis Group was founded in 2008 by Jeffery Dachis of Razorfish fame. Its mission is to unlock the value of social technologies through Social Business Design.
They work with leading brands such as Coca Cola, AXA, The BBC and BP.
They have recently purchased the UK social media agency Headshift.

	RUSSELLDAVIES

Russell was born in Derby, enjoyed an uneventful childhood, did college, all that. After failing as a popstar and a joke writer he ended up in advertising and tried to do ‘interactive marketing’ way before anyone was interested. Ended up at Wieden + Kennedy working on clients like Microsoft, Nike and Honda. Then he went to work for Nike as Global Consumer Planning Director. He went freelance in 2006 and works with shadowy organisations like the Open Intelligence Agency and the Really Interesting Group. He also writes eggbaconchipsandbeans occasionally organises ‘Interesting’ conferences, plays with things like speechification, dawdlr and slowpoke and does columns for Campaign magazine and Wired UK.

If asked what he actually does all day, he’ll normally mutter something about ‘post-digital’.

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	MARTINBAILIE Planning Director Glue London

After a few eventful years as a theatre director followed by marketing roles at the Arts Council of England, at the BBC, BBC worldwide and at UK charities, Martin formed a digital marketing agency for the Arts and media sectors creating some of the earliest digital marketing in the UK. In 2000, Martin joined glue as Planning Director and a founding partner. Martin is a regular lecturer at the Institute of Direct Marketing, a founding member of the IPA Direct Marketing Committee, a member of the IPA strategy group and writes and lectures widely on marketing, business and technology.

	TIMDUGGAN Co-Founder and Director Mercury Girl inc

Tim has worked largely in film and TV Commercial production and post production for the last 10 years. Working with Windmill Lane, Screen Scene and Toytown Films as assistant producer.

He took time off in 2004 to work with international telecoms firm Mount Wilson where he quickly rose to the position of head of production and business development opening up operations in Australia and The US for the firm, growing revenues and expanding the investment portfolio.

With his group company Mercuryboy inc starting to secure large production contracts, Tim moved back into media production and development, while maintaining interests in telecoms and mobile.

When the iPhone released, Tim and his business partner decided to develop a small application for the handset, proving a success and proving a market. MercuryGirl was born in 2009 as a mobile software and web design company working with clients such as RTE, Etihad Airlines, The Irish Times, Meteor, Eircom, Agency.com and TBWA.

MercuryGirl inc now has 4 applications in the Apple App store, 3 in completion on development as of October 09, and 6 further video distribution and premium content apps wit full investment for production and delivery. MercuryGirl also has one Google Android app NextDart which uses Augmented reality. MercuryGirl are also only 1 of 100 authorized worldwide developers for the layr platform on Google Android.