Apih Jure
Jure Apih, b. 1941, first gained recognition in the early 70's as creative director of Studio Marketing Delo, the first real advertising agency in the former Yugoslavia. Later he worked as editor in chief of Telex, a progressive weekly news magazine. After political intervention he was forced to resign, and in the early 80's he rebuild his career with the very first specialist marketing magazine in Yugoslavia, the Media Marketing (later renamed MM - Marketing Magazine). After the introduction of democracy and the independence of Slovenia in early 90's he became a member of the Board of the nation's largest Newspaper and Publishing House Delo, since June 2001 to August 2004, when he retired, he was the Chairman of the Board. He was involved in advertising and marketing trade-organizations from the 70's, and in 1993 he initiated the Golden Drum, the advertising festival of the New Europe, of which he is still the President. Founding member and CEO of ICAC – Intercontinental Advertising Cup.
 
Arapović Nataša
Nataša Arapović was born in 1965. She started her career in market research in 1997 at the AMER Nielsen Research agency (today known as ACNielsen), where she was the director of the Croatia Office in 1998. She was awarded as one of the best CSS Executives at ACNielsen’s Central & Eastern Europe for her contribution in selling research services. She joined LURA d.d. in 2000 as a market research coordinator, in charge of planning and organizing market research and analyses for the then one of the major Croatian food companies. She successfully set up market research as one of the key service areas, and participated in strategic planning as an associate team member. Her primary task is to elevate market research to the strategic level in the company, i.e. to integrate the knowledge gained from the research into the process of making business decisions and establish the business intelligence system. She joined EPH in 2006, where she holds the position of the business research manager and a member of the EPH Media Management Board, with a purpose of establishing and integrating research into the key strategic functions in developing business operations. She is a member of ESOMAR.
 
Coupal Shahriar
Shahriar Coupal is the Code Policy Manager at the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), the self-regulatory body that writes the UK’s advertising Codes. His team assists CAP to maintain the Codes, for example by ensuring the Codes don't undermine the law and that they address public policy concerns. Shahriar’s team has recently introduced new rules on food ads directed at children and gambling ads. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the independent body that administers the CAP Codes. When it considers if an advertisement has breached the CAP Code, the ASA may seek clarification about a Code issue from Shahriar's team. Previously, Shahriar has worked at Ofcom, the UK's Communications Regulator.
   
Haas Mike
Mike Haas founder and a senior partner (1984) of bci – the broadcast partner, a media and research cooperative based in Nuremberg, Germany. Mike was exposed to the explosive American media landscape of the 60’s and 70’s at a local, regional and national level before graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in radio, TV and film. He came to Europe as a broadcast operations officer for an American network and stayed on to build and consult Europe’s new commercial media markets. In addition to founding bci in 1985 he was programme director of Antenne Bayern in Munich as well as vice president of SAT.1 Television in Berlin and has been consulting and working with numerous radio and TV brands, as well as consumer brands, across Europe. From strategic research / brand analysis to programme strategy operations to talent coaching, Mike feels at home in many formats, cultures and countries: "We are communication facilitators ... we help brands talk to their users."
   
Herman Dan
Dr. Dan Herman is an Advantagizer, a globally renowned expert in identifying growth opportunities and creating competitive advantages and even private monopolies for companies and brands. He integrates winning competitive strategies with profitable business models and psychologically powerful branding. Dr. Herman is the CEO of Competitive Advantages, an international firm specializing in strategic consulting and the development and marketing of knowledge-based products. Together with his highly trained team, he creates Unique Success Formulas, Electrifying Marketing triumphs, Emotionally Significant Brands, and Short Term Brand Hits for his worldwide clients ranging from local mid-sized companies to Fortune Global 500 corporations. Among the many organizations and brands Dr. Herman has worked with are: Coca-Cola, IBM, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Motorola, Comverse, The Olympic Committee, Europcar, H. Stern and Starkist Tuna.
   
Jurković Ozana
Ozana Jurković is a generic marketing manager at the international media company Styria International. She cooperates with foreign and local experts in the spheres of media communications, and works on the strategy of developing media advertising. She began her career at Henkel as an assistant commercial manager. She moved to the Client Executive position at ACNielsen, soon taking over business operations in Croatia and Slovenia. At the same time she intensively cooperated with a range of FMCG companies, providing support to marketing and sales teams. She was born in 1971 in Osijek, and graduated in 1996 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, and spent an academic year in Cologne. She has completed postgraduate studies and currently participates in numerous professional training programmes in her parent country and abroad.
   
Korkošová Monika
Korkošová Monika is the Executive Directore of RPR, the Advertising Standards Council /Rada pre reklamu RPR/, which is the self-regulatory body in Slovakia. Mrs Korkošova studied Education of Adults and Slovak Language and Literature at Prešov University and worked in Slovak television and Slovak Radio before moving to London where she worked as a language tutor for the Diplomatic Staff Language Centre/The British Foreign Office/, Ministry of Defense, National Crime Intelligence Service, Visa International, Linklaters, London School of Slavonic and East European Studies UCL, she cooperated with BBC World Service and Visiontext London. During her stay in London she worked as news corresponded for the Slovak news TV station TA3. In 2006 she moved back to Slovakia and since then works as the ED of RPR.
   
Pober Arthur
Artur I. Pober is the President of the The Entertainment Software Rating Board. It is an International organization that is the self-regulatory entity for the interactive entertainment software industry. Responsible for an operating budget of approximately 6 million dollars; the creation, development, design, and overall organization and its four units; the Rating Board, the Internet Rating Unit, the Privacy-On-Line Program and the Advertising Review Council. Pober has a doctorate in Educational Administration and Supervision with a concentration in Educational Psychology and Organizational Development at Yeshiva University, Ferkauf Graduate School, N.Y. Since 1980 Pober acquired great working experience mainly in media regulation. From 1990 until 1994 Pober was the Vice president of the The Children's Advertising Review Unit which is a national organization that serves as a self regulatory arm for the industries that advertise to children. Overall responsibilities included fundraising/ sponsorship monitoring children's advertising, acting as spokesperson, interfacing with the FCC, FTC and other government agencies, consulting with broadcasters and other high level management individuals including the toy and food industries regarding children's programming. With his present engagements he also works as a consultant or a part of the management for Center for Digital Future, Viacom, Xengu, Baby first television, ABC Television, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Child Magazine. He worked also as a consultant for Cartoon Network, Sesame Workshop, Orion pictures (Little Man Tate)...
   
Rotzler Andreas
Andreas Rotzler is Chief Creative Officer of Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux and responsible for the Design and for Creative Directions. The experienced brand and design specialist works for a number of prominent clients, including Deutsche Telekom, LUCERNE FESTIVAL, Roche, Schindler, and manages destination branding projects, such as graubünden. Andreas Rotzler, who joined Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux in 1996, was previously employed as a designer by various design agencies, including RuediRüegg / Designalltag in Zurich, Rucker Huggins in California, and leibundgutdesign in Bern. He studied design at The Basel School of Design and initially worked as a freelance artist, illustrator and auto mechanic.
   
Tech Wolfram
Wolfram Tech, senior consultant of bci – the broadcast partner, lives for the media, especially for radio. He is a specialist in developing program strategies and marketing and promotion activities and is a talent coach for program directors and moderators. He has a fine sense for upcoming technologies and their implementation into general strategies. In 1989 he graduated from the LAB (Los Angeles School of Broadcasters) in Los Angeles as a TV and radio broadcast operations manager and worked in several positions as a program director, promotion director, head of moderators and coach. Today he advises international communication companies in strategic planning, consults radio stations in many European countries and coaches program directors in implementing the right strategy into the program.
   
Wright Alex
Alex Wright Is the Deputy Managing Director of Agency.com’s London office. He launched his career as a very early Agency.com employee way back in 1957 (or something like that) and has worked at Agency.com for twelve years. In his time there he’s been Managing Director, Head of Creative, Head of the interactive TV department, Client Partner and Head of Client Services, giving him a varied and well-rounded experience of the industry. He is digital through and through – rumour has it that if you cut him, he bleeds zeros and ones. He is respected and admired throughout the industry and is passionate in every sense of the word. Alex has 13 years digital marketing experience and had built 37 websites by the end of summer 1995. He was Creative Director of the London office of Agency.com nine months after graduating from university. In the past, Alex has led strategy, creative development and online marketing for many of the world’s leading brands, including: Boots the Chemist, General Motors, Unilever, British Airways, BT, T-Mobile, Sainsbury’s Bank, Dulux, National Grid, DTi, Prudential, Decca Records, BMG, Ministry of Sound, The Economist, John Lewis, Ladbrokes, Christian Aid and Channel 4. In addition to his career at Agency.com, Alex has worked in a variety of digital roles at Virgin.com, Upmystreet.com and VNU.com.