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Adam is the Managing Director of Chalk, a boutique communications consultancy that helps businesses to understand and engage with customers, partners, prospects and peers to improve the reputation and value of their brand. With over ten years experience, Adam specialises in the financial services, technology and renewable energy space. Developing and implementing campaigns that are directly aligned with long commercial strategy Adam believes that to be truly successful, businesses must encourage an emotional and not just rational response. Recent client experience includes work with BT, Logica, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Cafédirect, VocaLink, Sage Pay and First Direct.

Andy is a founding partner and Managing Director of Clearleft. He also goes by the title of User Experience Director depending what mood he’s in. Andy is the author of CSS Mastery, curates the dConstruct and UX London events and is responsible for Silverbackapp, the low cost usability testing application for the Mac.

Bryan Richter is the UK Country Manager for Mamut Software, a provider of integrated software solutions and internet services for SMEs. As UK Country Manager, Bryan oversees Mamut’s Software-Plus-Services strategy in the UK and is responsible for launching the company’s new flagship product, Mamut One. Bryan has over 25 years experience in the software industry. Prior to Mamut, Bryan worked as the Vice President of Sales in Northern Europe for Chordiant Software. Before Chordiant, Bryan was Vice President for Trillium Software in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Bryan has also worked as EMEA Vice President for Stellent, and as Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Manager for Remedy Corporation. Mamut are an active member of BASDA and Bryan participates in the Cloud Computing Special Interest Group.

Chris Barling, CEO, co-founded ecommerce and EPOS systems vendor, Actinic in 1996. He has some 30 years experience in the IT industry and prior to founding Actinic he held senior positions in Reuters and Cable and Wireless and spent time on the board of GLS (the UK's largest educational supplier). He is a prolific writer of articles and blogs for a large range of small business media. Actinic software is used in over 12,000 live UK sites and is more popular than any other packaged solution. Better known customers include the Royal Opera House, Standard Fireworks, the Scout Shops and the Royal Navy.

Dan advises on Corporate Responsibility, Technology and Business Strategy. He founded CleanAnalysis after the successful growth of Greenbang.com, a multiple-award-winning news website he established before the green and cleantech boom. As a journalist, he wrote for the Financial Times, covering technology, environment and business. He has written and researched for the Economist Group, The Daily Telegraph, BusinessWeek, the New York Times and a variety of magazines. He advised a lot of indexed firms, but is proud to be an advisor to the University of Bath’s Innovation Centre.

David (profile) has specialised in e-commerce and online marketing for over 10 years. Launching many successful online stores and advising big names such as Filofax and Carluccios he has a strong and experience built knowledge of e-commerce and how to do it right. Now the founder of e-commerceglu and the CTO of Greenbang.com, David spends his time consulting and educating others on how to succeed in online business.

Dominic is the Managing Director of PEER 1's UK operations. Dominic has spent 14 years working in sales, marketing and business management within the IT sector. Dominic is responsible for sales, marketing and service delivery across the UK business and ultimately ensuring excellent customer satisfaction. Prior to joining PEER 1, he held senior positions at IT Lab and Rackspace. Dominic has a BSc in Agricultural and Food Marketing from Newcastle and a MBA from Sheffield Business School. Dominic is also a regular public speaker on creating great places to work and achieving continuous client satisfaction and an assessor on the Sunday Times Customer Experience Awards.

Mark Astbury is General Manager at Commercial, Collect+. Originally a marketing professional who started his career at Bank of Scotland finance House NWS, Mark then joined the direct marketing agency BMP YCC as an Account Director responsible for a number of accounts including Friends Provident and Marks & Spencer Financial Services. This was followed by three years as Marketing Director of BBC Subscription Television. Mark then spent five years as Sales & Marketing Director of Next plc subsidiary Ventura, the customer service outsourcing specialist. Immediately prior to joining Collect+ Mark spent ten years as Sales & Marketing Director of PayPoint plc.

Raymond Bentinck serves as Managing Director at Exalead in the UK and Ireland. Responsible for the development and direction of the company's overall business in this region, he has over 15 years of senior management experience in leading software companies including Verity, Computer Associates and IBM. Mr. Bentinck has an Honours degree in Computer Science from Aberdeen University.

Richard (profile) has over 20 years experience in design and marketing has allowed Richard to now focus attention on making clients websites work for them utilising techniques in SEO, SEM and PPC. His hands on consultancy methods often involve negotiating with developers, designers, marketers' and business owners to ensure their websites are best set to gain traffic and most importantly to convert this traffic into leads or sales.