Speakers

Chris is current Chairman of The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). He has held a number of executive roles previously at the CIM, including that of Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Managing Director (CIM Holdings) and Group Finance Director and Secretary. Chris also works as the senior partner in a business consultancy practice he formed with five colleagues and is a non-executive director in four other companies.

David leads both the Institute's Research and Information, and Learning and Development divisions. He is responsible for thought-leadership and dissemination, continuous professional development and training. He has almost thirty years experience in the development, delivery, marketing and management of training and is a qualified executive coach. Before joining The Chartered Institute of Marketing David ran his own training consultancy specialising in the marketing of distance and open learning materials in the UK and Far East.

Marketing innovation for a changing market: innovative ideas into strategy.

Stephen is a management consultant who works with large international organisations developing new strategies, people and teams. He has lived and worked in the UK, Scandinavia, Saudi Arabia and Dubai. Stephen has a solid prior track record of running successful operations to managing director level. Stephen is the author of two books, How to Think and High Performance Thinking Skills.

Change of thinking - Selling time in the air, not on the ground!

Robert Nuttall joined Rolls-Royce in 1979 after completing an honours degree in Physics and subsequently gained an MBA. After a series of initial positions in Rolls-Royce engineering he moved to join the marketing function.

In 2006 Robert was appointed VP Strategic Marketing with responsibility for developing Rolls-Royce's understanding of future opportunities and in developing the company position on environmental issues as they pertain to civil aerospace. Throughout his career he has been closely involved in the marketing of Rolls-Royce and its civil products being based both in the UK and the US.

More from less –getting your data to work for you.

Nick Baggott is an experienced digital relationship marketing consultant and trainer. He set up and helped grow 'Chemistry' into one of the UK's largest agencies, and now delivers digital marketing training for global companies around the world. Nick delivers the CRM and digital marketing courses for The Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is consistently rated as one of our most popular course directors and brings a wealth of practical experience to the learning environment.

Tara is Head of Marketing & Communications at leading health informatics company, Dr Foster Intelligence, where she is responsible for overseeing the full marketing programme, from product marketing and lead generation, to thought leadership and political affairs. Prior to that, Tara led the marketing team for a leading e-government project called NLIS, which focused on helping local authorities promote their services and build market share. Tara has also run her own marketing and PR agency, working with clients such as Microsoft, SchlumbergerSema and iSOFT. She has a degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.

Creating a new niche: spot new product ideas and develop them.

Paul was a top salesman at IBM and he was part of the team that launched the IBM PC in the UK. He went on to be Marketing Director and then Managing Director of the database leaders, Ashton-Tate. He became VP International for MathSoft Inc. and CEO of the software tools company, Monactive Ltd. He is the author of 17 books on lateral puzzles which have sold over 2 million copies and he was described in the Independent as the 'King of Lateral Thinking Puzzles.' He is also the author of the popular management book, The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills. He is the founder of Destination-Innovation, a consultancy that helps organisations improve innovation.

Damien leads Enterprise and Public Sector Marketing for Cisco Europe. In addition, he has responsibility for Cisco Europe’s Innovation Programme and Market and Business Intelligence.

Prior to joining the Cisco Marketing team, Damien headed the Innovation team of Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). His team was responsible for developing new methods, architectures and business cases to help the region’s leading companies and governments to become more effective through changed business processes and intelligent technology deployment.

Before joining Cisco as European Treasurer, Damien started his career in the Finance industry in Ireland. He graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and from Dublin City University with an MSc in Investment and Treasury.

Gaining ROI from digital channels: exploit the unique characteristics of digital media

Daniel has been working in Digital Marketing for the past 14 years, with extensive experience working both client side and within the agency environment. He is a course director for The Chartered Institute of Marketing and was awarded DPA trainer of the year 2008/09.

Daniel’s training sessions are backed up with research done as host of the Digital Marketing Podcast, an iTunes top 20 Podcast and case studies from real clients. Daniel prides himself on his practical and hands on training content, and brings best practice from many years working for a broad range of international clients across the full range of digital marketing techniques.

Shuvo heads Google's UK team working with FMCG Companies. He also spearheads Google's 'Brand Marketing in a Digital World' programme – working with advertisers and agencies on better use of digital from insight to ideas to implementation & measuring impact. He has 15 years experience in brand management, interactive media and marketing consulting.

Annabel is Marketing Director at Hiscox UK, and is a member of the UK Leadership team, reporting into Managing Director, Hiscox UK and Ireland, Steve Langan. In this role Annabel is responsible for all aspects of marketing across the Direct and Broker business, for both household and business insurance. Hiscox recently won two eConsultancy Marketing Innovation Awards and the Marketing Initiative of the Year at the British Insurance Awards.

Previous to her time at Hiscox, Annabel was at Coca-Cola for nine years working across a number of brands including; Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero, Powerade and Oasis, and on both GB and European projects. Annabel holds a chemistry degree from the University of Bristol and is a member of the Marketing Society and Financial Services Forum.