The Leading Speakers Bureau

International Drummer, Motivator, Educator

Born in L.A, Mark Schulman has developed a career as a successful and multi-faceted musician performing as a drummer for rock, pop and jazz at numerous concerts and for a huge variety of internationally celebrated artistes. His work as a first class motivator is outstanding as he communicates with audiences across the globe who are stunned by his incredible life changing seminars. Mark has gained a reputation as an outstanding keynote speaker and motivator working with a huge variety of top clients including Cisco Systems.

“A unique motivator with a unique style”

[expand title=”In detail”] Mark Schulman is a trained audio engineer and an active educator, teaching at the Los Angeles Music Academy as well as holding drumming clinics around the world. Mark is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Create Now!. An organization founded in 1996 created to help troubled children change their lives through creative arts mentoring.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Mark delivers powerful, fun and massively entertaining models for success, leadership and ‘stress busting’ drawing on his wealth of experiences and work with world-class artists. Mark draws on the most unique and effective motivational methods to inspire teamwork, increase productivity, reduce stress and stimulate productivity.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Incorporating interactive drumming, live video and remarkably unique concepts, Mark captures the audience with his non-stop entertainment and anecdotal stories from being on the road.[/expand]
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Professor of Economics & Co-Director LSE Global Governance, LSE

Danny T. Quah is a highly respected figure in the world of economics. He is a Council Member on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Abu Dhabi Economics Research Agency (ADERA) and the Editorial Boards of East Asian Policy, Journal of Economic Growth, and the Journal of Global Policy and is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances. At LSE he is also Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and Chair of the China Summer School Board for the LSE-PKU Summer School.

Danny Quah continues to make a significant contribution to the field of Monetary Economics

[expand title=”In detail”] Danny Quah obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his A.B. from Princeton University. He joined LSE in 1991 after having taught as an assistant professor in MIT’s Economics Department. In 2001 he was named one of ten heroes of dissemination by the ESRC. As a regular contributor to major economic journals, he also found a place in Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Economics (1997). When not at work, Danny, a second dan blackbelt holder, competes in regional and national taekwon-do tournaments.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In economics, Danny Quah has made huge contributions across a very wide range of areas, ranging from time-series econometrics, business cycles, inflation, and international income inequality to, most recently, technology and economic growth. His experience includes working as a consultant for the World Bank, governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, and consultant to the Bank of England among his credentials. He regularly speaks at seminars around the world on his focus subjects, including inequality in economic growth and policies that affect societies such as international property rights issues.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Exceedingly passionate about economics and other important issues, Danny introduces his audience to new thinking in a fluid and relaxed style, being both articulate and soft-spoken; he regularly presents to groups from over 120 different nationalities and cultures on a weekly basis.[/expand]
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Founder and CEO of Blogosfere

Marco is the founder and CEO of Blogosfere, Italy’s biggest web log network. He is currently assistant professor at the Cattolica University, Milan and teaches theories and techniques of online communication at the faculty of Arts and Philosophy. Marco also  hosts his own TV show on SkyTG24 Television channel, Reporter Diffuso, which deals with the Internet, blogs and news.

“Italy’s leading blogger and website developer”

[expand title=”In detail”] Marco is a leading expert on internet laws specifically those related to copyright and file sharing and has consulted on these issues to a variety of top private organisations as well as the Italian Government. In addition to his own television show he appears regularly in the media and is a highly respected voice in Italy in the world of IT and the internet. During the last 10 years he has created some of Italy’s most successful websites.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With a wealth of experience in designing and developing websites, Marco is ideally qualified to advise organisations on how to reap the benefits of the internet.  He offers useful actionable information specifically designed to raise a company’s web profile and increase their turnover and profits. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Marco tailors each presentation to precisely fit each event and follows each of his high content presentations with a lively and invaluable interactive Q&A session with audience members.[/expand]
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One of the World’s Leading Wine Authors and Oeonologists

Hugh Johnson is considered worldwide as the leading wine author. The two exceptional successes of his amazing career are ‘The World Atlas of Wine’ which is celebrating its quarter century and the annually updated ‘Pocket Encyclopedia of Wine’ now in its second decade.

With his extensive knowledge and his outstanding talent Hugh’s strength is taking the incredibly complex subject of wine and making it accessible to any audience.

International Wine & Spirit Competition 1998 Communicator of the Year.

[expand title=”In detail”] Hugh Johnson began acquiring his knowledge of wine as a member of the Wine and Food Society at Cambridge University. In 1963 he succeeded André Simon as editor of ‘Wine and Food’. With the publication of his first book ‘Wine’ he established himself, at the age of 27, as one of the subject’s foremost writers. Hugh regularly publishes articles in the most prestigious magazines worldwide. He was feature writer for Condé Nast Magazines, Editor of the Wine and Food Magazine, Wine Correspondent for the Sunday Times and Wine Editor of the New York Cuisine Magazine. Currently Hugh is President of The Sunday Times Wine Club and The Hugh Johnson Collection Ltd.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]A highly respected author, editor and broadcaster, Hugh is a brilliant communicator and experienced speaker who inspires his audiences with his sensibility and expertise.

He has appeared in several TV series including ‘Wine – A User’s Guide’. ‘Vintage – A History of Wine’ and ‘Return Voyage’.

Acknowledged as a leading authority he won numerous awards including the contested Literature prize from the Academy of Bordeaux, 1987, in 1998 he won the highest decoration from the German Gastronomic Academy (GAD) and 1998 he was chosen as the Communicator of the Year from the International Wine and Spirit Competition.[/expand]
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Fund Management Guru

Nicola Horlick is a senior fund manager and the CEO of Bramdean Asset Management LLP. Nicola has worked in the fund management industry for over twenty-five years and has participated in the growth of some of the UK’s premier asset management businesses.

“A leading fund management guru”

[expand title=”In detail”] Nicola joined SG Warburg as a graduate trainee in 1983, which became Mercury Asset Management. In 1991, she joined Morgan Grenfell Asset Management as Director and became Managing Director of the fund management division of the UK business in 1992. Over the next four years, funds under her management rose from £4 billion to £22 billion. After leaving Morgan Grenfell, Nicola took six weeks out to write her autobiographical account of her daughter’s traumatic treatment for leukaemia, revealing the real woman behind the headlines. The book was called ‘Can You Have It All?’ and the proceeds went to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1997, Nicola co-founded the UK arm of Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM), pulled in £7 billion worth of investments for SGAM and also took time off to have her sixth child.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Nicola is highly respected for having survived an extensive array of challenging experiences in her life both personally and professionally and under the intense gaze of the national media. Drawing from these experiences, Nicola provides her audiences with practical insights into the drive and energy needed to succeed in today’s world. She shares invaluable advice on leadership and the work-life balance and is immensely popular with a variety of audiences.[/expand]
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A Commentator on Climate Change and Europe’s Leading Futurist

The hottest topic around continues to be Global Warming and the challenges climate change will bring to the Global Population. Ray Hammond’s 2005 published novel ‘Extinction’ focused on these issues and confirmed his amazing ability to take his readers forward to a world which we are now accepting may one day become reality. Through ‘Extinction’ Ray has been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007.Living in the future is a way of life for Ray and as the environment continues to be threatened few commentators are better equipped to communicate how the future will look.

“I listened with great interest to Ray Hammond earlier and I made a note of the seven key drivers of the future he has identified.I am speaking in New York tomorrow and I intend to steal all seven of Ray’s drivers for that speech – and for all the speeches I make after that.”

– Jack Welch, ex CEO and Executive Chairman of General Electric

[expand title=”In detail”] Based in London, Ray is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.), a contributing editor to the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, U.S.A. and a visiting lecturer at the London Business School. In February 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (F.W.I.F.), a Swiss-registered charity which counts 91 Nobel-laureate scientists among its 3,000 strong fellowship. The W.I.F.’s mission is to provide advice to national democratic governments about the application of science for the benefit of future society. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]As an inspirational keynote and motivational speaker, Ray Hammond is in worldwide demand by business, government and non-government organizations keen to hear his accurate predictions about how climate changes will affect the way we do business and the far reaching implications both socially, economically and politically around the globe.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Ray is a stunningly gifted free-form speaker who requires no slides, notes or AV props to enthral an audience! He projects real warmth and dynamism and, using plain language he cuts through complex technical issues, new innovations and business concepts. A natural inspirational orator, Ray steps down into his audiences around the world to motivate and personally inspire them.[/expand]
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