 | Aneta Bogdan, Managing Partner
Brandient - http://www.brandient.comExpertise: Buildling Equity for Brands Through Strategy, Naming, Design, Packaging and Internal & External Brand Communication
Aneta Bogdan is the Managing Partner of Brandient, the leading branding and design consultancy in Romania. She pioneered the brand consultancy in Romania by founding Brandient in 2002, following an accomplished career of over 10 years in marketing, most notably as Marketing Communication Director for Connex (Vodafone), where she contributed to building one of the most admired Romanian brands.
Besides writing in professional and business magazines, she is a highly-regarded conference and seminar speaker and was invited to the jury of the international competition REBRAND 2006 in the US. She is consistently ranked among the most influential people in communication industry and as the best branding specialist in Romania. Read more...
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 | Cary Jehl Broussard, President
Broussard Communications - http://cinderellaceo.com/Expertise: Communications, leadership and brand management business issues affecting
women and diverse populations.
Cary is well known for the ground-breaking program she created in the
hospitality industry, Women On Their Way for Wyndham International, which
Dow Jones called the “gold standard for wormen’s marketing on Wall
Street.” Leading the hotel industry to rethink the pivotal importance of
the growing women’s market, she developed brand partnerships and high
profile public relations and marketing campaigns that translated into
multi-million dollar year over year revenue growth and to this day
inspires women everywhere.
Cary’s international business book, From Cinderella to CEO and her website
www.cinderellaceo.com feature advice on a myriad of issues important to
today’s multi-generational work force. Her book is published in ten
languages. Corporations, colleges and universities as well as non-profit
organizations have all rated Cary very highly in motivating and
entertaining audiences. Read more…..
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 | Marc Cloosterman, CEO
VIM Group - http://www.vim-group.comExpertise: Brand Implementation Strategy and Delivery for Global Businesses
Marc Cloosterman is CEO of VIM Group, the independent global network of companies specialised in
brand implementation. Marc is passionate about the impact that is achieved by consistently
implemented and managed brands, thus contributing to thorough reputation management. The
company has developed the discipline of brand implementation to become a fully-fledged business
segment in the communication world.
The group’s members have executed over 1,200 brand
implementations, they operate from out of Europe, North America, The Middle East and the
Asian Pacific. Marc regularly speaks for both practitioners and academics and has written a number of
articles on brand implementation. Besides his role for VIM Group, Marc founded Brand Finance
(Netherlands) in 2004, a joint venture between VIM Group and Brand Finance Plc in London.
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 | Bill Hill, President Bill Hill Design
Founder, MetaDesign USExpertise: Marketplace Repositioning of Global, Nonprofit, and Destination Brands Through Business Strategy, Experience Design, and Internal Team Realignment
Bill Hill founded MetaDesign with a mission to create value for clients through the integration of design and engineering. As a leader, problem-solver, and integrator, he built MetaDesign into an influential company that solved a range of information design and strategic service problems through award-winning identities, customer-centered interfaces and environmental graphics for some of the world’s most identifiable brands, since 1992. That list includes Adobe, Apple, Audi, Samsung, San Francisco Ballet, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, and Ernst & Young.
Bill continues to provide industry leadership through his teaching and speaking engagements at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), the American University of Beirut, and Design Management Institute.
Through the recently established Bill Hill Design, he is able to focus on solving design and business challenges for clients with a small, targeted, senior team of experienced professionals. Bill is a graduate of Stanford University with degrees in graphic design and journalism. Read more...
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 | Anaezi Modu, Founder and CEO
REBRAND - http://www.rebrand.comExpertise: Breaking from the Status Quo Brand; Training, Case Studies, and Guidance on Achieving Effective Brand Transformations for the Marketplace
REBRAND™ is the world's leading source for case studies and programs on effective brand transformations. Its renowned program, the REBRAND 100® Global Awards, juried by an esteemed panel of international design and business leaders, is the highest recognition for brand rebuilding and redesign in business, and is the first and only global program of its kind. Small businesses, regional, non-profit, and multinational entities are eligible for recognition.
Anaezi continues to work to further learning in integrating design and business to achieve organizational goals. She accomplishes this via programs and businesses she initiates, writings, presentations, teaching opportunities at Harvard Graduate School of Design's Executive Education Program, Rhode Island School of Design, and through various professional organizations and board positions.
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 | Chi Modu, CEO DiverseInsights and DiDigital http://diverseinsights.com - http://didigital.netExpertise: Smart Mobile Strategy Integration for Brands and Customer Research from Culture-Based Insight-Mining
Chi Modu is a renowned photojournalist, cultural observer and strategist. He is a sought-after speaker and advisor to companies and brands who must leverage the impact culture has on their business strategy in our digital age. DiverseInsights is a research and strategy consultancy skilled at uncovering game-changing insights and ideas critical for marketplace success.
Through DiDigital.net, a subsidiary of DiverseInsights, he works closely with organizations like General Mills and the Bowery Mission of New York City to harness the power of mobile to extend their reach, build brand awareness, and more deeply engage customers and supporters. DiverseInsights also recruited for, designed, and carried out General Mills' research on kids behaviors and thoughts about specific brand lines. In addition, the integrated mobile campaign that DiDigital created for General Mills’ Wheaties Fuel, through a strategic alliance with Saatchi New York and DotGo, was chosen as one of the top ten mobile campaigns of last summer by Mobile Marketer. Read more...
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 | Errol Saldanha, Brand Developer, Saldanha Inc.
http://www.saldanha.comExpertise: Branding and Communication Design
Errol Saldanha is an entrepreneur and brand designer who has helped develop
numerous brands throughout his 20-year career.
In 1993, he established Saldanha Inc., a Toronto-based branding agency
focused on growing brands for entrepreneurial and non-profit organizations.
He is a 1990 graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design (now OCAD
University) where he returned in 2002 to teach. In 2005, he initiated and
helped develop the University's first branding courses and in 2010, he
became an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design.
When not working with clients or students, Errol is working to advance the
field of branding and the discipline of communication design via two global
professional organizations he founded: International Branding Association (IBA) in 2005 and Communication Designers Association (CDA) in 2007.
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