Speakers

	Peter Darpö, President and CEO, Findexa Group, N Mr. Darpö has held the position of President and CEO of Findexa Group AS ( former Telenor Media ), for the past 6 years. Mr. Darpö joined the company in 1994, first as Division Director, responsible for the directory operations, prior to be appointed to his present position in 1996. Before joining Findexa , Mr. Darpö was at ITT World Directories for 14 years, where he held sales- and general management positions in Sweden, Puerto Rico and the Netherlands. Mr. Darpö received his B.A. degree from the Gotenburg School of Business Administration in Sweden.
	Jeremy Duckworth, Executive Director, Global Media Group, UBS Warburg, UK Mr Duckworth, an accountant by training, has been in banking for the past 12 years. He has been involved with a range of media industries, including TV and radio, cinema, outdoor advertising and publishing. His introduction to the directory sector came in 1997 with the MBO of Thomson Directories. Since then he has been involved in very many of the larger transactions in the industry, including the IPOs of TPI and Eniro, and during this period has been an adviser to a number of directory companies engaged in mergers or acquisitions. He was also involved in the disposal process embarked upon by KPN Telemedia. Mr Duckworth is already known to directory audiences, having spoken twice at Simba's European conference and, last year in Oslo, at the conference of the Scandinavian Association of Directory and Database Publishers.
	Brian Earle, Chief Executive Officer, Envisional Solutions PLC, UK Mr Earle has been with Envisional since December 2000. Envisional's business is to provide solutions for the protection of intellectual property on the internet. These fully automated solutions identify trademark and brand name infringements online. Before joining Envisional, Mr Earle had a high-level career with leading international publishers. He was Managing Director of ICC Group in London, a leading provider of B2B information, and followed this with four to five years as CEO and President of SilverPlatter, a content and software developer engaged in the integration of database collections of academic reference information. Just before moving to Envisional, he was Vice President of Global Business Development at Thomson Corporation, the major Canadian professional publisher.
	Mark Gallagher, Director of Marketing, Jordan Formula 1, UK Mark Gallagher is one Europe’s leading speakers on the subject of motivation, team work, communication and the use of technology to gain competitive advantage. As Director of Marketing for the race-winning Jordan-Honda Formula One team, and having worked in the high-profile world of Formula One World Championship motor racing for 19 years, he is well versed in what it takes to be a winner on the world-stage. His speaking style is relaxed and humourous, peppered with anecdotes which use Formula One to demonstrate key messages.
	Rolf Jensen, Chief Imagination Officer, Dream Company A/S, DK Mr Jensen is a consultant to companies in Denmark and abroad. After 15 years as director of research at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS), he launched his own enterprise in April last year, the Dream Company A/S. This follows the successful publication two years earlier of his first book "The Dream Society" which has been reprinted several times and translated into 7 languages. After graduating from Aarhus University in 1970, Mr Jensen first spent 14 years in government service, mainly at the Ministry of Defence.
	Stig Boegh Karlsen, Chairman and ceo, NOKA Holding AS, DK Since last year, Mr Karlsen has been head of NOKA, a venture company engaged in shaping venture development in Denmark. In the early part of his career, Mr Karlsen was for a long time the CEO of Magasin du Nord, a leading Scandinavian Department Store Group. He joined the AEGIS Group in 1992 and developed the activities of CARAT in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, so that it became the leading media buying and planning company in the area. In 1996 he moved to New York as head of strategy to build up Carat in North America. In the course of his time there Carat acquired 7 regional companies in USA and Canada to form Carat North America, which is now one of the leading media-buying and planning companies in the region. He handed over to a US management team before returning to Denmark in 2001.
	Paul Marzouk, Chairman and Managing Director, Grand Public, F Paul Marzouk has been with the Grand Public agency for 25 years and has been its Chairman and Managing Director since 1986. Grand Public has two fields of activity: on the one hand communication and strategic consultancy, and on the other the press. Mr Marzouk is personally and closely involved in the three branches of Grand Public's press activity. The first is publishing consultancy, whereby the agency totally revamps existing magazines which have come into the doldrums. As the second branch of its press activity, the agency designs, executes and produces press products, which are delivered ready-made to the publisher. An example is a special issue of EXPRESS devoted to watches, which was designed as a one-off, but has become a regular publication. The third branch is the design and total management of periodical publications, example: A NOUS PARIS, the 56-page weekly tabloid of which 430,000 copies are distributed free on the Paris Métro. Mr Marzouk had an early career with leading advertising agencies, including Publicis Conseil and the Havas Group.
	Danny Meadows-Klue, Consultant, Digital Strategy Consulting. Mr Meadows-Klue is the founder of Digital Strategy Consulting which specializes in developing interactive media strategies. His consultancy is based on a solid career in both traditional and electronic publishing. After graduating from Bristol University, Mr Meadows-Klue trained in publishing and busines management with United News and Media. This was followed by a four-year involvement in the publishing of the "Electronic Telegraph", the Daily Telegraph's pioneering and award-winning internet service, and he later became a director of Hollinger Telegraph New Media. The last stop on his career path, before setting up his own consultancy, was with NBC's European internet division. Mr Meadows-Klue is currently chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and also participates in a range of think tanks and policy groups including the British Internet Publishers'Alliance and the government's Digital Content Forum.
	Professor Heribert Meffert, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, D Professor Meffert's distinguished career in the field of business economics covers some forty years. He graduated from Munich University, did research there for a further seven years and got the chair of business economics at Münster University in 1969. He became Director of the Institute of Marketing there, the first German university to set up such an institute. In the 90s, parallel to his activity in Münster, Professor Meffert was appointed Rector of the re-created private commercial university in Leipzig and became Visiting Research Professor at the Marketing Science Institute in Cambridge, Mass., USA. He is the co-founder of the Marketing Centrum Münster (MCM) and sits on the supervisory boards of several international companies. He is the author of many books and hundreds of articles on marketing.
	Dr. Kim H. Veltman, Scientific Director, Maastricht McLuhan Institute, NL For the past decade, Dr. Veltman has been working on a System for Universal Media Searching (SUMS), a Canadian project displayed at the G7 exhibition in Brussels (February 1995) and the World Summit in Halifax (June 1995). In 1996, the project was chosen as part of G7 pilot project 5: Multimedia Access to World Cultural Heritage. Dr. Veltman has done considerable research in the field of new media, including projects as a consultant to companies such as Bell Media Linx and Nortel. He has published widely and his latest book, "Understanding New Media" is at the press. He has taught in universities in North America and Europe and lectured all over the world. He is a member of the Internet Society (Reston), the International Institute of Communications (London), the International Society for Knowledge Organization (Amsterdam) and the Wolfenbütteler Kreis für Renaissance Forschung (Wolfenbüttel).