The Leading Speakers Bureau

Founder of Wikipedia.org

Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia project, and Wikia.com, which extends the social concepts of Wikipedia into new areas. Jimmy was formerly a futures and options trader in Chicago, and currently travels the world evangelizing the success of Wikipedia and the importance of free culture

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.”

[expand title=”In detail”] In mid-2003, James set up the Wikimedia Foundation, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based non-profit organization, to support Wikipedia and its younger sibling projects. Wales has become increasingly involved with promoting and speaking about its projects, and to this end, he travels to conferences and Wikimedia functions, such as “Wikimeets” and Wikimania.
Inspired by the success of Wikipedia, Wales has founded the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. (separate from Wikimedia), which hosts various wikis and manages the Wikia project[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In his presentations Jimmy discusses the philosophical underpinnings of Wikipedia, his support for the Free Culture movement, and the difficulties the Wikimedia Foundation may confront as it grows in size.[/expand]
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Director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Paris

Jean-Marie Chevalier is currently professor of Economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine, Director of the ‘Centre de Géopolitique de l’Energie et des Matières Premières’. He is also a Director at CERA. He has worked, as an economist for Elf Aquitaine and the energy department of the World Bank. For several years, he was a member of the board of directors of the Banque Nationale de Paris.

The world’s leading expert on current global energy trends
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Founder of easyJet

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is a Monaco based entrepreneur of Greek-Cypriot origin. He stepped back from the board of EasyJet in 2010, now concentrating fully on the role of shareholder. True to his beliefs in serial entrepreneurship, Stelios consolidated the ownership of the easy brand into his private company, easyGroup, comprising several easy-branded businesses – all dedicated to offering consumers more value for less.

“A Serial Entrepreneur”

[expand title=”In detail”] Prior to founding the low-cost airline that revolutionized European air travel, Stelios created Stelmar, a shipping company which was floated on the New York Stock Exchange in 2001 and subsequently sold to a rival in 2005. Stelios received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for services to entrepreneurship. More recently, through the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, he has expanded his dedication to making a difference to society by launching a number of philanthropic initiatives supporting entrepreneurship, higher education and environmental sustainability. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Few are better qualified to talk about the power of the internet and how to make a successful on line enterprise than Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Talking candidly about the easyJet phenomenon, his presentations are filled with wonderful insights and inspirational ideas for budding entrepreneurs.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Stelios is a compelling and dynamic speaker – both in front of large audiences as well as smaller, targeted groups. [/expand]
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International Business Consultant, Author & Lecturer

Dr Jonas Ridderstråle is at the forefront of the new generation of European-based business gurus. He cuts through the madness and hyperbole surrounding the global economy and his appeal is truly global. Jonas has attained tremendous media coverage throughout the world. The 2005 Thinkers 50, the bi-annual global ranking of management thinkers, ranked him (and his colleague Nordström) at number nine internationally and as the leading European business guru.

“Rebel with a cause”

Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale has been ranked among the top 50 most influential business thinkers

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Former Chairman and Chief Executive of GE

John Francis “Jack” Welch Jr.’s twenty years as CEO of General Electric created history. He is now recognized as one of the greatest business leaders. During his leadership the company’s market value increased an incredible $387 billion, with his innovations and ideas making him their most influential CEO. Jack retired from General Electric in 2001 and now serves as a consultant to a small group of Fortune 500 business CEOs.

“Manager of the Century”
– Fortune magazine (1999)

[expand title=”In detail”] After 10 years with GE Jack was elected the company’s youngest Vice President and was named Vice Chairman in 1979. He became the eighth Chairman and CEO in 1981. Upon publication in 2001 his autobiography lead the bestseller lists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, USA Today Non-Fiction and the Association of Independent Booksellers. In 2006 Jack Welch gave his name to Sacred Heart University’s College of Business.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Jack’s genius is his natural capacity to communicate with people and is acclaimed for his insights on how businesses and people can achieve excellence. His tremendous leadership and inspirational skills made him into one of the most successful business leaders of all time.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humour, Jack Welch delivers his message in interviews with a fire and pragmatism honed through his vast experience as the leader of the world’s biggest business. His down to earth, direct and powerful style make him highly sought after at events worldwide.[/expand]
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Leading Expert on Capital Markets

Patrick Young is a leading thinker on capital market structure. He specialises in understanding the impact of new technology and market process on financial markets. He is a unique independent analyst of the prospects for market structure ranging from exchanges through to lending institutions. He was the first person to analyse the prospects of exchange mergers and has accurately predicted the upcoming birth of Trans Atlantic exchanges, as well as growth in many new product areas including emissions and weather trading.

“A passionate innovator”

[expand title=”In detail”] He has consulted to many leading financial and governmental organisations throughout the world in relation to the development of global capital markets. He serves as a director of the Swiss Futures & Options Association and has presided over the SFOA’s blue riband “Crossfire” panel at their international Burgenstock meeting for the past 5 years. He is a regular guest on CNBC Europe and a media commentator in leading financial journals and digital media, including the FT, Wall Street Journal and Australian Financial Review, having broadcast on BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, ITV and Reuters as well as networks in all over the world.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A passionate innovator, he has been in the vanguard of introducing new products such as Single Stock Futures and Sports / Entertainment exchanges as well as various commodities. He is currently working on a series of new market applications.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]He uses his considerable expertise to advise decision makers from the finance industry on future trends in an entertaining and informative way. His thought provoking speeches are presented with insight and humour. He has keynoted world-wide and is known for an ability to deliver key concepts clearly for financial professionals and non professionals alike.[/expand]

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World’s Leading Futurist, a proven and powerful forecaster on the global economy

John Naisbitt is widely acknowledged as the World’s Leading Futurist. John is currently professor at Nankai University, Yunnan University, Yunnan Normal University and Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. He is also the Chairman of the Naisbitt China Institute. Based on the research of the institute, John is currently working on an analysis of China’s key economic, cultural and political transformations and their impact on the global business landscape.

A proven and powerful forecaster on the global economy

[expand title=”In detail”] He has become the global philosopher among futurists, as much in the limelight with worldwide corporations as he is a calming influence among leading politicians. He served as a presidential appointee in the John F. Kennedy administration and as a special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson. Since the global success of Megatrends and the 12 books that followed, he has travelled around the globe several times a year and has spoken to almost all the major corporations of the world. He is the recipient of 17 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With his articulate and inspiring message, John has become the global philosopher among futurists. John Naisbitt’s goal is to help his audience to step back from short term disruptions, alternating favoured business theories and practices and create a picture of the fundamental restructuring that is taking place in the world today. A sense of the near future allows us to create and communicate a vision, based on the demands and needs to come.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]John Naisbitt is a highly thought-provoking speaker, who delivers far sighted and accurate predictions and offers a concentrated picture of what the future holds.[/expand]
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Professor of Information Management & Strategy , IMD, Switzerland

Dr. Donald Marchand is a world authority on demonstrating the business value of using information technology. His special research and teaching interests include how organizations and leaders use information and knowledge to collaborate and compete, how companies develop business models to leverage standardization and flexibility in processes and information systems locally, regionally and globally, and how leaders create organizations where people can fully share and act on what they know and discover what they do not know to learn and change closer to real time.

Champion of the formula for competitive advantage and superior business performance.

[expand title=”In detail”] A former Dean and Professor of Information Management at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University; before that, he founded and directed the Institute for Information Management, Technology and Policy in the College of Business Administration at the University of South Carolina. From 1997 – 2000, while Director of the IMD / Accenture Navigating Business Success research project, the largest externally funded Partnership Research Project at IMD, a new business performance predictor was discovered namely, ‘Information Orientation’, IO. He is Founder, Chairman and President of enterpriseIQ®, a leading business analytics company.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Donald Marchand is an international expert and popular speaker on the centrality of information management and technology to the competitive strategies of industries, companies and managers. He has been in the unique position of taking his ideas from research directly to management practice. He is a frequent and acclaimed speaker on a variety of compelling business topics at corporate seminars and conferences worldwide. Over the years, he has been an advisor and consultant to over 100 companies as well as public and not-for- profit organizations globally.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]With over 30 years experience gained in research, teaching and executive program development at IMD, he speaks in a clear and concise manner using real case studies to demonstrate the business value of using IT. [/expand]
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One of the Greatest Music Producers of All Time

Tony Visconti has worked with some of the most dynamic and influential names in pop history producing as well as occasionally performing on many of the world’s most respected albums.
With decades of working to the highest levels in this truly innovative field, Tony Visconti is an expert on successful talent management and channeling creativity to produce outstanding results.

“My policy is to interfere as little as possible, but to draw out the best in the artists”

[expand title=”In detail”] Since the late 1960s, Tony has worked with such names as Paul McCartney, Brian Eno, Thin Lizzy, U2, The Boomtown Rats, Manic Street Preachers, Mercury Rev and Morrissey.
He is most celebrated, however, for his remarkable and longstanding working relationships with David Bowie and T.Rex. He has worked with David Bowie on eleven albums to-date.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Tony Visconti shares his invaluable experiences of working with top creative minds in often pressurized conditions to achieve astoundingly innovative results. He offers first hand insights into the creative process and how to get the best from talented individuals and how to stay at the top.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Armed with an abundance of incredible stories and anecdotes and an enthralling presenting style, Tony captures the imaginations of audiences with his highly entertaining and fascinating talks.[/expand]
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Founder & CEO of Cobra Beer and keynote speaker

Karan (Karan Bilimoria Speaker)started his career at Ernst & Young in 1982, where he spent four years working in audit, tax, training and accounting. In 1989 he founded Cobra Beer, realising his ambition to develop a premium lager to complement Indian cuisine. He then extended into other markets with the launch of General Bilimoria Wines in 1999, and by founding Tandoori Magazine of which he remains Publishing Director. He has also founded curryzone.com and is the Founder and Chairman of Cobrabyte Technologies.

An entrepreneur with the Midas touch

[expand title=”In detail”] Additionally, Karan is a member of the Government’s National Employment Panel, and is Chairman of The Panel’s Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Board. He is also Vice Chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Asian Business Association.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Karan Bilimoria shows audiences the secret behind his success and reveals how to be straightforward in business. He believes that the product always comes first and by striving to be different and better it is possible to change the marketplace and become a brand leader.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An entertaining lecturer and brilliant speaker, Karan is able to draw upon his own experiences to offer decision makers invaluable lessons in designing effective business strategies to increase product sales. He is also part of our Top Indian keynote speakers.[/expand]
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