Thibaut Behaghel, European Director of eStara, FR

Mr Behaghel began his career in the IT business, by setting up the European subsidiary of APC, quoted on the Nasdaq exchange as APCC. He was the European operations director.

He joined another Nasdaq company, ITXC, as European director in 1994 and helped to make it a leading telecom bringing voice to the internet. ITXC's value added services were bought by eStara in 2001 and Thibaut joined the eStara team as regional director for Europe. The company provides voice services for ecommerce sites and has major customers such as Dell, Apple, HSBC, Continental Airlines and Club Med. 
More recently, eStara has focused on directory services, demonstrating that voice added to online directories is a revenue generator.  Customers include Verizon's Superpages.

Pedro first joined the company in 1997, as yellow pages Product Manager, helping to develop the paper product for three years. TPI is the leading YP publisher in Spanish-Portuguese language markets.

Prior to TPI, Pedro worked for over four years in Andersen Consulting, in projects related to Sales & Marketing.  
Pedro has a degree in Telecom engineering from ETSIT,  Madrid, Spain, and he is CPIM from the American Production and Inventory Control Society.  

Brian Gallagher, commercial director, Kellysearch, UK

Brian Gallagher joined Reed Business Information as a junior sales exec in 1984. By 1993 he had worked his way up through the ranks to publisher of the industrial companies' directory - Kelly's. Since then, he has taken the Kelly's portfolio online and turned its fortunes around. Within a year of launching www.kellysearch.com, revenues increased by 35%. 120 people worldwide are now working on Kellysearch and it is one of RBI's leading online products. In addition to his UK responsibilities Brian is currently heading up the US division of kellysearch and is working out of Boston. Since taking the database global in 2003 kellysearch has over 1.2 million companies worldwide and actions three million searches a week.

Cecilia Geijer-Haeggström

Cecilia Geijer-Haeggström assumed her position in Eniro Sverige in 2003. Over the past 20 years, she has held a number of executive positions in the Swedish media industry, including President of TV1000, Vice President and Advertising and Marketing Manager of DN and President of Telia InfoMedia Interactive. Most recently, Cecilia Geijer-Haeggström worked with investments in unlisted Nordic companies, primarily in media and entertainment, and with several other assignments within Bonnier. Mrs Geijer-Haeggström has a B.Sc. (econ) degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Karsten Marquardsen, managing director, “DasÖrtliche Service- und Marketinggesellschaft mbH”, Germany

 Karsten Marquardsen is managing director of “DasÖrtliche Service- und Marketinggesellschaft mbH” in Essen, Germany, where his special attention is directed towards controlling and managing advertisements and commercials for “DasÖrtliche”, as well as brand development, research and marketing studies and the development and testing of new products. Prior to his position at “DasÖrtliche”, Mr Marquardsen held various positions at A. Sutter Telefonbuchverlag in Essen, the most recent of which was that of head of the online marketing division, where his responsibilities included the development of new online products, online training measures for sales representatives, cooperation with other websites and directories and conducting market studies. Mr Marquardsen, who was born in 1971, is a graduate in economics of the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg, Germany.

 

Harry Michels, a graduate in mass communications at the University of Nijmegen, is currently Director Business Development at Gouden Gids Netherlands, which is part of VNU World Directories. One of his responsibilities is to shape Gouden Gids’ Internet strategy in the face of the emerging search- and pay for performance markets. In 2003 he was responsible for the launch of Gouden Gids’ own white pages product. Before that Harry fulfilled the position of Director Internet with Gouden Gids and was responsible for reorganizing the sales and marketing departments.

Mr Michels joined Gouden Gids in January 2000 from VNU, where he was for four years as Senior Advisor to the Executive Board of VNU, focusing on the development of VNU’s Internet Strategy. He joined VNU in February 1995. Before joining VNU Mr Michels was among other things, responsible for creating the first electronic newspapers for visually handicapped people in the Netherlands.  

 

Per Palmkvist Knudsen, MSc, is Director of the division for Customer Solutions of Krak and a member of Krak's Management Group.  He is the main architect in Krak's cooperation with leading IT-vendors - including Microsoft.

Krak is the leading publisher of classified directories in Denmark. Through Krak's 233 years of business, Krak has provided updated directory information about and to the Danish business community.

Before joining Krak, Mr. Knudsen worked more than 15 years in the IT industry. He was partner in the independent consultancy company Devoteam Fischer & Lorenz. "

Alessandro Pegoraro, Managing Director, Yahoo! Southern Europe

Alessandro Pegoraro, a native of Bergamo in northern Italy and graduate of the University of Venice, has held the post of managing director of Yahoo! Southern Europe since January 2003. Prior to that he was a leading member of the management of Yahoo! Italia. Mr Pegoraro has spent most of his professional life in the publishing industry, starting as a junior editor of the Italian edition of Reader’s Digest and moving through editorial, marketing and management posts at Ipsoa Editore, Italia Oggi and finally, for eleven years, before joining Yahoo!, at the newspaper publisher Il Sole 24 Ore. Here he was among others, director of the book division, director of the multimedia division and project leader for Il Sole 24 Ore On-line.

Sukhinder Singh is responsible for growing Google’s local search business globally.

Prior to joining Yodlee, Sukhinder worked in strategy and business development in Silicon Valley for leading e-commerce providers Amazon.com, and Junglee Corporation, and interactive television provider OpenTV . In her previous life, Sukhinder worked in strategy and corporate development for News Corp’s British Sky Broadcasting, Inc, in London, and started her career in investment banking for the financial services sector with Merrill Lynch, in both New York and London.

Mr Speer has been with Dumrath and Fassnacht for nearly twenty years and has held various positions in the company during that time. Currently, he is the company's CIO and is also active in several organizations of the German telephone directory publishing sector. He has worked on Dumrath & Fassnacht's software projects in Canada and India.

  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.