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| Marco Bevolo |
| Area: Communication, trend research and cultural studies. |
| Occupation: Design Director, Philips Design |
| Base: Eindhoven, Holland |
| Marco Bevolo is Design Director at Philips Design. He worked since 1999 on the set up and launch [read more...] |
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| Mary Boone Wellington |
| Area: Art, Design and Interiors |
| Occupation: Artist, CEO and Founder, M.B. Wellington Studio, Inc. |
| Base: Nashua, USA |
| In 1971, she received her degree in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Ark (NKA The University of the Arts) [read more...] |
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| Jeff DeBoer |
| Area: Product Strategy and Innovation Consulting, Consumer Products |
| Occupation: Vice President, Principal, Sundberg-Ferar, Inc. |
| Base: Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Jeff joined Sundberg-Ferar, a 70 year old U.S. design consultancy, in 1985 [read more...] |
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| Kaz Ichikawa |
| Area: Product Design |
| Occupation: Director, Sony Design Centre Europe |
| Base: London, UK |
| With over 19 years of experience working at Sony, Kaz has run Design studios in the USA, the Personal Audio team in [read more...] |
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| Edwina Ings-Chambers |
| Area: Fashion |
| Occupation: Fashion Editor, Financial Times |
| Base: London, UK |
| Edwina Ings-Chambers has worked on the Financial Times How To Spend It and Style pages for seven years. [read more...] |
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| Joe Ferry |
| Area: Airline industry |
| Occupation: Head of Design, Virgin Atlantic Airways |
| Base: London, UK |
| Joe Ferry is Head of Design for Virgin Atlantic Airway's and one of the patented inventors of their new Upper Class Suite. He graduated from the Royal College of Art [read more...] |
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| Joy Lampe Ganvik |
| Area: Telecommunications |
| Occupation: Director of Consumer Insights & Intelligence, Motorola |
| Base: Chicago, USA |
| Joy Ganvik leads the Global Consumer Insights team for Motorola. Joy and her team are working to drive [read more...] |
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| Stoyan Kamburow |
| Area: Automotive Market & Trend Research |
| Occupation: General Manager, Automotive, TNS Infratest Holding GmbH |
| Base: Bielefeld, Germany |
| Stoyan Kamburow joined TNS in 1995 and built up the Automotive Market Research Division in Germany which [read more...] |
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| Andrew Klemmer |
| Area: Project Management |
| Occupation: CEO, Paratus Group |
| Base: New York, USA |
| Mr. Klemmer has been engaged in activities surrounding real estate use and development for almost 20 years. In 1991 Mr. Klemmer was chosen to oversee [read more...] |
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| Jeffrey McCall |
| Area: Retail consultancy |
| Occupation: Brand Strategy Director |
| Base: London, UK |
| Jeffrey McCall joined Gensler in July 2004 as Retail and Brand Strategy Director. For 20 years, Jeffrey has been an international retail consultant, working [read more...] |
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| Ron Pompei |
| Area: Interiors, Commerce, Culture and Community |
| Occupation: Creative Director & Co-founder, Pompei A.D. |
| Base: New York, USA |
| As Creative Director and co-founder in 1990 of the multidisciplinary [read more...] |
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| Britta Redecker |
| Area: Communication, advertising |
| Occupation: Founder, Maria Werbeagentur |
| Base: Hamburg, Germany |
Britta Redecker established her own advertising agency, maria, in 2000.
maria manages a wide variety of international advertising [read more...] |
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| Tim Sefton |
| Area: Mobile Telecommunications |
| Occupation: Head of Brand Strategy, O2 UK |
| Base: London, UK |
| As head of brand strategy at the UK mobile operator O2, Tim is responsible for defining what the company stands for [read more...] |
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| Roberto Giovanni Selva |
| Area: Luxury Fabrics |
| Occupation: Director of Interior Division, Alcantara |
| Base: Milan, Italy |
| Roberto Giovanni Selva joined Alcantara in June 1999 after working for the textile firm Vulcaflex as the Sales [read more...] |
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| Shari Swan |
| Area: Brand Consultancy |
| Occupation: CEO and Founder, Streative Branding |
| Base: Amsterdam, Holland |
| STREATIVE BRANDING founder Shari Swan helps multinationals connect more authentically with their [read more...] |
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| Jody Turner |
| Area: Human Trend and Culture Consultancy |
| Occupation: CEO and Founder, Culture of Future, Inc. |
| Base: Los Angeles, USA |
| Jody Turner of CultureofFuture.com is a human trend and culture [read more...] |
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| Anand Vengurlekar |
| Area: Consumer Branding |
| Occupation: Projects in Future Branding & Trends-consumer, luxury and hi-tech |
| Base: New-York, USA |
| Anand is working on holistic future trends and emerging branding [read more...] |
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| Peter Walde |
| Area: Future Research & Trend Transfer |
| Occupation: Future Research, VOLKSWAGEN Group Research |
| Base: Wolfsburg, Germany |
| Peter Walde studied media at the University of Leipzig, focusing on [read more...] |
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| Dr. Christine Ahrend |
| Area: Trend Research |
| Occupation: Future Affairs Research Group, VOLKSWAGEN |
| Base: Wolfsburg, Germany |
| Christine Ahrend leads Target Group Research Projects and Future Research Projects in [read more...] | |
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| Michelle Alfandari |
| Area: Senior level business development and marketing |
| Occupation: President, MODA International Marketing |
| Base: New York, USA |
| Michelle Alfandari is owner and president of MODA International [read more...] |
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| Nicole Contencin |
| Area: Luxury Goods |
| Occupation: Copywriter & Consultant |
| Base: Paris, France |
| After graduating in literature & linguistics, Nicole joined the word of communication as a copywriter. She worked in several international agencies such as Publicis & J.Walter Thompson, before [read more...] |
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| Tanja Fisher |
| Area: Telecommunications |
| Occupation: Senior Design Manager, Nokia |
| Base: Farnborough, UK |
| As Senior Design Manager for the Focused Appeal Business Line Tanja heads a multi-disciplinary team of designers. Their responsibility is to [read more...] |
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| Michel A Galopin |
| Area: Deluxe Hotel Industry |
| Occupation: General Manager, Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat |
| Base: Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, French Riviera, France |
| After a degree in Management from Cornell University in the USA, [read more...] | |
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| William Higham |
| Area: Trend forecasting Consultancy |
| Occupation: Founder, NBT, Next Big Thing |
| Base: London, UK |
| William began his career in the music industry. At Sony he ran the press office, looking after acts ranging from Michael Jackson to Motorhead. [read more...] | |
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| Bruno Monte Jorge |
| Area: Fast Moving Consumer Goods - Laundry Detergents - Unilever Brasil |
| Occupation: Product Design Manager - Laundry Global Technology Centre |
| Base: São Paulo, Brasil |
| Bruno is an Industrial Pharmacist with a postgraduate in Business [read more...] | |
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| Mikkel Max Hansen |
| Area: Strategic Communication Planning |
| Occupation: Founding partner of Silentio Kommunikation |
| Base: Copenhagen, Denmark |
| With a Masters in History and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Copenhagen [read more...] | |
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| Michael Hokenson |
| Area: Investment |
| Occupation: Founder & Managing Director, Minlam Asset Management |
| Base: New York, USA |
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Michael Hokenson is Managing Director and co-founder of Minlam Asset Management, an investment platform that [read more...] |
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| Kent Martinussen |
| Area: Innovation and mediation of architecture |
| Occupation: CEO of DAC|The Danish Architecture Centre |
| Base: Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Kent Martinussen is an architect MAA and CEO at DAC|The Danish [read more...] | |
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| Liisa Puolakka |
| Area: Senior Design Manager, NOKIA |
| Occupation: Senior Design Manager, Insight & Innovation, Nokia Design |
| Base: Farnborough, UK |
| Liisa Puolakka joined Nokia in 1998 on a Masters Thesis assignment. The thesis was part [read more...] |
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| Shaheen Sadeghi |
| Area: Retail |
| Occupation: CEO, The LAB, The CAMP |
| Base: Costa Mesa, USA |
| Seeing first hand the need for unpredictable and fresh retail presentations for the disillusioned youth market, Shaheen Sadeghi brought his 25 years [read more...] |
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| Shannaz Schopfer de Villarreal |
| Area: Cosmetics and Beauty Products |
| Occupation: Founder - President - Advanced Beauty Technologies, LLC. |
| Base: Calabasas, USA |
| Experienced in international business, Shannaz Schopfer de Villarreal has held a number of executive [read more...] |
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| Luciana Stein |
| Area: Consumer Trends for Fashion and Design |
| Occupation: Journalist |
| Base: São Paulo – Brazil |
| Luciana is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil where she has spent the last ten years writing, researching and lecturing on [read more...] |
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| Roger Tredre |
| Area: Fashion |
| Occupation: Editor in Chief, Worth Global Style Network (WGSN) |
| Base: London, UK |
| Roger Tredre is a leading British writer and commentator on fashion. He has written extensively [read more...] |
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| Brechje Vissers |
| Area: Communication, trend research and cultural studies |
| Occupation: Content Director of the Philips Design CultureScan Trend Research Program |
| Base: Eindhoven, Holland |
| Brechje Vissers is a Content Director of the Philips Design CultureScan [read more...] |
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| Sohrab Vossoughi |
| Area: Design Consultancy |
| Occupation: Founder and President of ZIBA Design |
| Base: Portland, USA |
| Sohrab Vossoughi is the founder and president of ZIBA Design. [read more...] |
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