The Leading Speakers Bureau

Marketing, Communications and High-Tech Product Positioning Specialist

Marcus Bicknell is a highly successful entrepreneur and marketing executive in the television, leisure, internet and consumer products fields. Since 2005 he has been a non-executive director of SES (Astra) in Luxembourg, the world’s biggest operator of television satellites. He continues to work with start-up companies in high tech consumer products.

“Do not undertake anything unless its important and no-one else is doing it”

[expand title=”In detail”] Marcus formerly managed rock band Genesis and worked for CBS and A&M Records in the ’70’s. He established Vision Industries SA in France and was the founder commercial director of Luxembourg-based SES Astra satellite operator. Marcus was also MD of BBC World and BBC Prime TV channels in London, and was subsequently ran European ops for Boston-based CMGI.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Marcus knows classic and digital consumer marketing and has extensive experience in European markets. His particular speciality is in product positioning and the communication needed in the start-up phase of ambitious and complex consumer products.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]His style is dynamic, affirmative and oriented towards the listener. By drawing conclusions which are not always the perceived wisdom he challenges and stimulates audiences with his highly enjoyable presentations.[/expand]
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Management Guru

Jamie Anderson is a Management Guru and an award winning author. He is currently Professor of Strategic Management at Antwerp Management School in Belgium and the Lorange Institute in Zurich. He brings together the theories and frameworks of business strategy, innovation and creativity. In addition to his work on innovation and creativity, Jamie is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on the telecommunications sector.

“Jamie’s wit and humour have seen him described as a ‘stand-up strategist”

[expand title=”In detail”] Jamie has been named as a “management guru” by the Financial Times, and as one of the world’s top 25 management thinkers by the journal Business Strategy Review. He has held positions at Antwerp Management School, TiasNimbas Business School, Lorange Institute, the European School of Management and Technology, London Business School, and the Melbourne Business School, Australia.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Jamie addresses very real business issues such as how to sustain competitive advantage, how to innovate, how to boost individual and collective creativity and how to achieve organisational change and transformation.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Jamie is a superb story teller, and he believes that the discussion of important business concepts should always be fun. His presentations are rich in multimedia; he focuses on interaction and audience participation, whether for a small after-dinner talk or for a keynote presentation to a conference of hundreds of attendees.[/expand]
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