With over 23 years experience in the communication industry in a wide range of roles Dave has amassed an extensive knowledge in communications services from a technical, market and commercial perspective. 

Joel Bernstein, partner,  Halprin Temple, USA

Joel Bernstein is a partner with the Washington, DC law telecommunications law firm Halprin Temple, practicing legislative and communications law.  He provides counsel on telecommunications legislation pending before the U.S. Congress and represents clients interested in the legislative process.  He also represents clients before the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. 

Joel has served as the Yellow Pages Association (YPA) Washington counsel for the past twelve years.  Joel and Halprin Temple represent a wide range of U.S. and international telecommunications clients, including local exchange carriers, wireless carriers, directory publishers, telecommunications manufacturers, and Internet companies.

Prior to working at Halprin Temple, Joel worked in the U.S. Congress and interned at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.  He received his law degree in Communications Law from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1988 and his undergraduate degree from Colgate University in 1985.

Professor Bouchet, a French-born economics graduate from the Sorbonne, has held his present post in Denmark since 1992, a rather significant point in his career. That same year he was awarded the Danish Business Association’s prize for marketing research and just four months later the French Prime Minister nominated him Chevalier in the "Ordre des Palmes Académiques".

Professor Bouchet’s main research interest is in social change and cultural differences and he relates this to the cultural dimension in international marketing and management. An acknowledged expert in this field, he has lectured in universities across the world, from the USA to China, Japan and Brazil, from Scandinavia to Spain, and from Belgium to the Sorbonne and Grenoble in France.

He is the author of books in seven languages and is the book review editor of the international, interdisciplinary journal Consumption, Markets & Culture (CMC), published by Routledge.

Andrew Day, CEO, World Directories

Andrew Day has been the CEO of World Directories since January 2005.
World Directories has a strong portfolio of Yellow Pages companies in seven countries and was acquired by Private Equity Companies Apax and Cinven in November 2004.

Prior to this appointment, Andrew was the CEO of Sensis, Australia's predominant directories business, where he spent the last five years shaping and implementing a new strategy for Sensis which has transformed Sensis into a high growth and diversified local advertising company.

Prior to joining Sensis, Andrew had over 20 years experience with Telstra, Australia's leading Telecommunications company most recently as Managing Director Sales and Customer Service, targeting both the consumer and SME sectors.

Mr Dommermuth has been the Head of Department in the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts since April 2001. In this capacity, he is responsible for basic economic principles; cost analyses and tariff comparisons; market observation, delimitation and dominance issues; consumer protection; numbering; and basic Internet economy issues.

He graduated as an economist and first entered government employment in 1986, first with the Federal Ministry of Economics, later with the Federal Republic’s Permanent Representation at the OECD and finally, in January 1991, at the Federal Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, before he moved to the Regulatory Authority in 1998.

In his successive posts at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Mr Dommermuth was responsible for tariff, cost and discrimination issues at Deutsche Telekom; then for the regulation of monopoly and mandatory services in the postal sector; and finally for special network access and interconnections.

Trevor Fenwick, Managing Director of Euromonitor plc, GB

Euromonitor plc is the leading international publisher of marketing information and statistical databases with operating subsidiaries based in London, Chicago, Singapore, Shanghai and Vilnius.

As ex-president of the EADP, Trevor Fenwick is closely involved with public affairs activities affecting directory and database publishers in Europe and is a member of the UK Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information.

Mr Franzén was appointed President and CEO in June 2004. He is also President of Eniro Sverige AB and a board member of companies engaged in a variety of fields. They include BTS AB, management consultants; Trust2You AB, consultants in information security; and OEM International AB, automation specialists with units throughout Scandinavia, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and the UK. He is also Chairman of Grin AB, a computer games company.

After graduating with a Master of Science education degree from the Technical University of Linköping, Mr Franzén began his business career with Nokia Data AB in 1989 and later moved to ICL Data AB, first as Business Manager and later as Director of Sales. Prior to his appointment at Eniro he was the President an CEO of two companies which were subsequently sold: AU-System AB, which was sold to Teleca and Song Networks Holding AB, which was sold to TDC .

Michael Kakuschky, CIO of Nikotel Inc. and CEO of Econo Deutschland, DE

Mr Kakuschky is the founder and CEO of Econo Deutschland GmbH, a telecommunications service provider operating the European facilities of Nikotel inc. which has its headquarters in San Diego, USA.   He has been active with Nikotel since 2001.  Nikotel, a pioneer in the VoIP market, is developing SIP-based VoIP solutions for retail and business customers.

Five years earlier, Mr Kakuschky was the founder of Elbe Net, an Internet service provider offering network, database and application programming, as well as other ISP services and consultancy.

Laurie Kaye, lawyer specialising in media, intellectual property,technology and e-business law, GB

Laurence was one of the first lawyers in the UK to specialise in Internet law and is recognised in “Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession, 2005” as a leader in the fields of Media & Entertainment & Information Technology law.


In addition to his transaction-based work, Laurence also advises a number of media industry bodies on digital media and e-commerce legal issues, including the European Publishers Council, the Publishers Association and the Directory Publishers Association. His recent work in this area has covered:

• The Copyright Directive
• The E-Commerce Directive
• The new Legal Deposit Libraries Act.

Laurence is joint chairman of the Society for Computer & Law's Internet Interest Group and is also a member of Creative Industries Forum on Intellectual Property: Piracy & File Sharing Working Group.

Allan Pease, International Body Language & Communication Guru

Allan has been known internationally as "Mr Body Language" since his definitive book with that title became a multi-million seller and the communication bible for organisations worldwide.  A born achiever, he began his career in Australia at the tender age of 10 selling household sponges door-to-door, and was an award winning direct salesman as a teenager.  By 21, he was the youngest person in Australia ever to sell one million dollars of life insurance and qualify for the elite Million Dollar Round table. 
For over three decades he has shown others how to succeed. Allan passes on his skills and techniques in a way that participants never forget.
His keynote addresses, books, video and audio programs, TV shows and advice on personal image are sought after by everyone from business executives and Prime Ministers, to TV presenters, Royalty and rockstars.  His sales and communications systems have expanded companies from one man bands to multinationals.

Australian by birth, with offices in Australia and the United Kingdom, Allan divides his time between the two hemispheres fulfilling business commitments in over 30 countries.  He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the Australian Institue of Management and a Fellow of the Life Writers Association.

Leo Reif, Vice President, Credit Suisse First Boston, Media & Telecom Group

Leo Reif is a Vice President of Credit Suisse First Boston in the Media & Telecom Group, based in London. He has been focused on the media and telecom sectors for the past 6 years and has worked on a broad range of assignments for European clients. Mr Reif has specific coverage responsibility for the directory sector.

Mr Reif previously worked at Morgan Stanley and Rothschild.He is a Chartered Accountant with degrees in business and law from the Universities of Pretoria and South Africa respectively. Mr Reif holds an MBA from INSEAD. 

Michel Sasportes, Partner, OC&C Strategy Consultants, FR

Mr Sasportes provides consultancy chiefly in the technology, media and telecom sectors.  He has assisted clients on internet strategy, introduction of new products, mergers and acquisitions and post merger management.  He has been a consultant to leading European directory publishers, helping them with strategy issues, organization, sales, BtoB and direct marketing.  He has also helped Private Equity firms to acquire European directory operations.

Mr Sasportes started his career with France Telecom, first in New York and later as a regional sales manager in France.  He spent four years with McKinsey & Company and then for three years managed the French direct marketing services and BtoB directory group Sysmark-Bottin.  He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Robert Schischka has been joint managing director of nic.at since September 2003 and is responsible for the techincal operation of the business.  He is also managing director of enum.at at the Austrian ENUM-Registry. 

Within the general information technology area, his professional focus is on IT strategy, IT architecture and infrastructre and, not least, on IT security.  In this latter filed he gained many years with the international IT consultancy, CSC.
In his business studies at the University of Vienna, Mr. Schischka had already specialised in commercial information technology and controlling.