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With a management career spanning over 25 years, Ms Belén Amatriain is the Executive Chairman of Telefónica Publicidad e Información S.A. (TPI), the leading company in the Spanish and Portuguese language directory market. 
Mrs Amatriain is a marketing and advertising specialist and joined TPI in 1997. After several positions in the company, she became Managing Director prior to TPI's flotation on the Spanish stock market in 1999.  One year later, she became member of the Board and Executive Chairman of the company. Mrs Amatriain has led the profound transformation of the company which includes the implementation of the company's strategy on the Internet, the revamping of the publishing product, and the launching of new telephone information services. 
Mrs Amatriain Corbi has been a member of the recent committee of experts set up by the Spanish ministry of Science & Technology to study and propose an action plan for the development of the Information Society in Spain. Her work in the committee earned her the distinction of Spain's Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.

Professor Stephane Garelli,

Stephane Garelli is a Professor at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and at the University of Lausanne. He is the Director of the World Competitiveness Yearbook, published by IMD, which compares the competitiveness of forty-six nations. Professor Garelli is indeed an authority in this area and his research focuses on how nations and enterprises compete on international markets.

Professor Garelli remains practically involved in business, being Chairman of the Board of the Sandoz Financial and Banking Holding and a member of the board of the Banque Edouard Constant. For twelve years he was a permanent senior adviser to the European management of Hewlett-Packard and before that he was the Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and of the Davos Symposium.

  John F. Kelsey III, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

John is a recognized authority in Yellow Pages, local media and the electronic information delivery services industry. He established The Kelsey Group in 1986 to help publishing companies understand and profit from emerging technologies. Today, The Kelsey Group is respected for its relevant expertise, reliable foresight and proven ability to build important communities, making the firm the preferred source for local and personalized commerce intelligence.

During the past 18 years, John has managed and facilitated the growth of The Kelsey Group from a one-person consultancy to a full-service market intelligence firm. The company now offers Continuous Advisory Services, research, consulting, reports and conferences.

John earned a B.A. in Economics from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia’s Colgate Darden Graduate Business School.

Hugh Look, Senior Consultant, Rightscom Limited, UK 

Hugh Look is part of Rightscom's publishing team. For the past ten years, he has been a consultant, writer and lecturer working in the technology, media and publishing industries, focusing on business and technology strategies in publishing and digital media. Areas of special interest include digital publishing strategies, virtual communities and mobile and wireless services. He is currently undertaking a study of the competitiveness of the European publishing industries for the European Commission's Enterprise DG. Before becoming a consultant he held senior management and editorial positions in the publishing industry.

Neg Norton, President Y

Neg Norton heads the Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association (Yellow Pages I.M.A.), an association of publishers, national marketing agencies ("CMRs") and supplier organizations which aims to promote the $14 billion US print and electronic yellow pages industry and also provides its members with products and services that improve their businesses, while lowering costs.

Norton joined the Yellow Pages I.M.A. in August 2003, following a position as vice president of business development at Loyaltyworks in Atlanta. Before that, he was vice president of strategic accounts at Telephia in San Francisco from 2000-2001.

From 1997-2000, he served as vice president of national marketing for the Yellow Pages Publishers Association (YPPA), the predecessor of the current Yellow Pages I.M.A.  From 1984 to 1997, he held management positions at NYNEX Information Resources and Bell Atlantic Directory Services.

He has an M.B.A. from Northeastern University in Boston and a B.S. in marketing from Pennsylvania State University.

Dan Sehlberg, executive vice president, Citat Group, Sweden.

With 400 consultants and leading software innovations the Citat group creates competitive advantage for companies such as H&M, Pfizer, Volvo, Ericsson and Dagens Nyheter. Prior to the EVP position at Citat, Mr. Sehlberg was the Managing Director at one of Europe's largest IT consultants, LinneGroup/Cell Network, registered on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Mr. Sehlberg has also worked within the Bonnier media group, as Director of New Media for the leading daily magazine; Aftonbladet and as Creative Director at the Miami based Advertisement agency; Precision Media.

Scandinavia's leading financial newspaper, Dagens Industri, listed Dan Sehlberg as one of the ten most wanted speakers in Sweden. Mr. Sehlberg talks about marketing strategies, competitive advantage, change management and business development. Mr Sehlberg is frequently invited to strategic discussions and management development for companies such as SEB, Ericsson, Aftonbladet, PWC, KPMG, ICA, Hewlett Packard, Xerox, The Swedish Government and various business schools in the Nordic region.

Dr. Sprenger resides alternately in Essen and Santa Fe and lectures at the Universities of Berlin, Bochum, Essen and Cologne. He is a scientific adviser to the Minister of Culture of the state of North Rhine Westphalia and is, above all, a management consultant with a very wide range of top German companies in his client portfolio. His particular field is personnel development and training and his thinking is radical.

His thesis: nothing is changing as it should, because too many merely pay lip service to modern ideas of management and leadership. He studied Philospohy, Psychology, Economics and History at the Ruhr University of Bochum and the Free University, Berlin.

Dr. Steinmüller is scientific director and partner of "Z_punkt GmbH - The Foresight Company" (www.z-punkt.de) in Essen and Berlin. As project manager he is engaged in futures studies for public administrations and large enterprises. His special fields of expertise include technological foresight and technology assessment and futures studies in the fields of information and communication technologies. He is a frequent speaker on these and other related topics.

Dr. Steinmüller has, besides, published many books, research reports and papers on futures studies methodology, the prospects for cyberspace and even, together with his wife, three science fiction novels and other stories, which earned them the "Prix Européen de la Science Fiction".

In the late eighties Dr. Steinmüller was a member of the board of the East German Writers' Association. Earlier, he was a scientific officer at the Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes, a part of the East German Academy of Sciences, where he was engaged in mathematical modelling, as well as computer simulation and control of ecosystems.

  David Worlock, Chairman, Electronic Publishing Services (EPS), UK

David Worlock is a Cambridge History graduate who joined Thomson Corporation as a trainee in 1967, and subsequently worked in educational and academic publishing before managing Thomson's school-based publishing as Group Executive Publisher in the late 1970s.  Between 1980-85 he was CEO of the pioneer development of EUROLEX, the UK's first online service for lawyers, subsequently acquired by Reed Elsevier in 1985.  In that year he founded Electronic Publishing Services Ltd, a research and consultancy company based in London and New York which has worked alongside the digital content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors. David Worlock is currently chairman of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd.

David Worlock has served as a non-executive director of Dorling Kindersley plc, and Book Data Ltd, which he co-founded. He has also held a variety of other non-executive posts in the publishing and digital content industries. David Worlock  is also Chairman of the Digital Content Forum and a member of the Advisory Panel on Crown Copyright (Cabinet Office) and the independent commercial representative on the Content Advisory Board (Department for Education and Skills).  In 2004 he acted as Special Advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology's enquiry on Science publishing.