Keynote Speakers

Helen Alexander
Chief Executive, The Economist Group

Helen Alexander was appointed Chief Executive of The Economist Group in January 1997. She joined the company in 1984. She was Managing Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit from 1993 until the end of 1996. She is a non-executive director of Centrica plc, a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford and member of the advisory board of the School of Geography and the Environment at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. Helen was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, London, Hertford College, Oxford, and INSEAD (MBA). The Economist Group publications and services delivered under The Economist brand are The Economist newspaper, Economist.com, Economist Intelligence Unit and Economist Conferences. The Group's other global brands include CFO (CFO, CFO Europe, CFO Asia, CFO China, CFO.com), Roll Call and European Voice (aimed at decision-makers in Capitol Hill and Brussels respectively).

Ruud Bakker
Chief Executive Officer, VNU Business Media Europe

Mr Bakker serves as Chief Executive Officer of VNU Business Media Europe and interim UK Managing Director, VNU Business Publications Ltd. In this role, he is responsible for driving international business development across BME's seven European territories together with launching publishing and exhibitions businesses in China and Hong Kong. His particular focus is the growth of European online activities and exploiting opportunities presented by the convergence of events, print and online media. Mr Bakker has worked for VNU on two occasions. Firstly, from 1985 to 1989 when he was Deputy Managing Director of VNU Business Publications Holland, which publishes Intermediar, the largest circulation publication in VNU's portfolio. From 1990 to 1996, Mr Bakker held a variety of leadership positions for several international media houses in technology and medical publishing. He rejoined VNU in 1996 as Managing Director of VNU Business Publications UK before his appointment as Chairman and CEO of VNU Business Media Europe in 1999.

Dr. John M. Lervik
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST)

John M. Lervik serves as the Chief Executive Officer and is a co-founder of Fast Search & Transfer (FAST). Dr Lervik served as the company's Chief Technology Officer from 1997 to September 2001 overlooking all of the company research and product development activities. Dr Lervik holds a PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and was awarded the best overall PhD at NTNU in 1996/97. John has also recently been honored as one of eight members named to the 2005 Forbes Magazine list of world technology innovators. The EGang-Masters of Information-are those entrepreneurs and companies figuring out how to separate the gold from the gravel on the Web.

Stefan von Holtzbrinck
Chairman, Holtzbrinck Publishing

Stefan von Holtzbrinck has been President and Chairman of the Executive Board of Directors of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH since 2001. From 1992 until 1996 he founded and led the New Media Department within the group and served as Managing Director of Systhema Verlag (CD-ROM publishing) in Munich. From 1997 until 1998 he was Director Electronic Publishing, then Managing Director of Nature Publishing Group as well as Director of Macmillan Ltd. in London. Stefan holds a Master of Law and PhD in Media Law (education at the Universities of Tuebingen and Munich). Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH is a decentralised international media group active in book, journal and newspaper publishing in education, science, business Information and for the general reader. The group encompasses publishing houses such as S. Fischer, Rowohlt, Handelsblatt, Die Zeit, Saarbrucker Zeitung, Macmillan, Scientific American, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin's Press, W.H.Freeman and many others.

Moderators & Panelists

Simon Alterman
Vice President, Content, Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company

As Vice President, Content, Simon is responsible for all aspects of the content in Factiva products, including the acquisition of rights from publishers and the global content management operations. The Content group is also responsible for developing and applying Factiva Intelligent Indexing™, the company's proprietary coding scheme, and for the consultancy work of the Taxonomy Services Group. A member of the Leadership Team since the formation of Factiva, he has also held responsibility at different times for product development, business development and consultancy operations. Simon began his career at Reuters in 1980 as a graduate trainee journalist in London after earning a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at Clare College, Cambridge. Following a one-year assignment in the United States he served as a correspondent in Mexico before moving to Chile, where he became the first resident English-language correspondent for Reuters since the country's 1973 military coup. In 1986 he transferred to Spain and a year later was appointed Chief Correspondent for Belgium and Luxembourg, taking charge of reporting on the (then) European Community. In 1990 he added responsibility for the Netherlands and in 1993 became Bureau Chief, News and Television, for Benelux. During his time in Brussels, Simon was instrumental in setting up Reuters European Community Report, European Union Briefing and Belgian Financial Report services and for developing the Reuters media business.

Bruce Antelman
President, Reviews.com

Bruce Antelman has been active in scientific publishing for over 20 years. His first company, Information Express developed a commercial Web presence in 1994 and continues to be a leader in fulfilling requests for scientific and technical documents, supporting corporate and academic institutions worldwide. In response to IE's customers, and the amount of scientific and academic information being published, Reviews.com was formed to help readers gain access to the best literature in a particular field. Computing Reviews is Reviews.com's first offering and was developed in partnership with the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).

Adriana Acosta
Sales Director Databases Americas, Elsevier

Adriana Acosta graduated in computer science from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM-CEM). Adriana has worked as Sales Director for SilverPlatter, Ovid Technologies and Elsevier. She has lead distributors and sales teams in Latin American, Europe and North America. Under her leadership SilverPlatter, Ovid Technologies experienced significant sales growth in the Latin American and European markets. Adriana joined Elsevier in 2001 as Regional Sales Director and she currently leads the Americas Bibliographic Database sales team at Elsevier.

Wlodzimierz Albin
Managing Director, Wolters Kluwer Polska Ltd.

Wlodzimierz Albin, 48, lawyer; In 1982 - 1987 had been working In Polish Academy of Science, Institute of State and Law, from 1997 till 1991 active as a practicing lawyer. In 1989 cofounder of Publishing House ABC - publishing company specialize in legal and business information, which was a biggest Polish legal publisher in 1993 - 1999. In 1999 Wolters Kluwer BV acquired Publishing House ABC and merge all their Polish acquisitions. Wlodzimierz Albin is a Managing Director of Wolters Kluwer Polska Ltd, which is Polish biggest legal and business publisher, specialize mostly in electronic publishing. Wolters Kluwer Polska owned such trademarks as Lex, ABC, Zakamycze, KiK and Oficyna Ekonomiczna.

Joachim Bartels
Managing Director, Business Information Industry Association (BIIA)

Joachim C. Bartels is an information specialist with over 40 years of global business experience (operations, planning, M&A, divestitures, market & key account development); of which 35 years were in business-to-business, direct marketing and business information services environments. He pioneered new information concepts, new business models and set up businesses in emerging markets with continually changing political and economic environments. Bartels held line and staff management positions at the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B) in the USA and Europe. As senior vice president, Bartels managed D&B's business development program that spanned the globe with a particular emphasis on China, Eastern Europe, India and South East Asia. Bartels debates on a regular basis with political and industry leaders around the world about the role of information content in national economies and business decisions. He is a regular participant in information and credit management forums working on issues concerned with the value of information in trade credit decisions.

George Beckerman
Partner, Marlin & Associates

George Beckerman began his information industry career in 1981, providing strategic consulting and investment banking services to information, media and communications companies and to related technology and services companies. He joined Marlin & Associates in 2004. The firm's investment banking advisory and strategy consulting clientele in the digital information economy is world-wide, including North America, Europe, Asia/Oceana and Africa. George is also a company founder and a former operating executive. He is a co-founder of MarketResearch.com, Inc., a leading publisher and distributor of market research reports, and has held senior executive positions in the Washington Post Company's legislative information service business and in Thomson Financial. Earlier, he co-founded DIDS-co, one of the first geo-spatial software developers, was a partner in International Trade Advisory Services, an export promotion collaboration with Deloitte and the National Bank of Washington, and an executive co-founder of Federal Marketing Services, a research service.

Rémi Bilbault
Consultant, Groupement Francais de l'Industrie de l'Information

Rémi BILBAULT served five years as Managing Director, Swets Information Services of the France, French Speaking Switzerland and Africa region. In his role, he strengthened and developed the subscription management business with key customers in the corporate and public sectors and build a solid partnership with publishers. As Secrétaire Général of Groupement Français de l'Industrie de l'Information, he chaired a working group on information purchasing and was a member of the Editorial Committee of the white book on serial subscription management. Prior to 2001, Rémi Bilbault held several positions within the industrial sector (Dow Chemical, Aplix) as Business Development Manager and Commercial and Marketing Director with responsibilities in different geographies (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe). He started his career with a three-year assignment in the United States where he was in charge of the Invest in France Agency office in Houston. Rémi received his MBA from ESSEC and graduated from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, where he was also a lecturer on international business development.

Richard Charkin
Chief Executive, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Richard Charkin is Chief Executive of Macmillan, one of the world's leading educational, scholarly and general publishing companies and includes companies throughout the world including Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, Spain, USA and India. He began his career in 1972 as an editor of schoolbooks for Harrap and in 1974 moved on to work at Pergamon Press on scientific journals and books. He moved to Oxford University Press (1975) as medical editor and successively head of science and medicine, journals, reference (including dictionaries) and eventually Managing Director of the Academic and General Divisions. He left OUP in order to set up a mass market paperback list for Paul Hamlyn's Octopus Publishing Group and thereafter became Chief Executive of Reed International Books, whose imprints included Heinemann, Ginn, Secker & Warburg, Methuen, Mitchell Beazley etc.

Karen Christensen
Chief Executive Officer, Berkshire Publishing Group

A solo traveler since age fourteen, Karen Christensen is an author and publisher specializing in global issues. For over a decade she worked in academic and literary publishing in the United Kingdom. She is CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group, which she cofounded in 1998, and publisher of Berkshire's new Guanxi: The China Letter, which helps businesspeople and professionals become 21st-century China hands. Berkshire is launching its first co-venture with a Chinese publishing company in 2007. She is the co-editor of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport and of the forthcoming Global Perspectives on the United States, and launched the website www.LoveUSHateUS.com on Valentine's Day 2006. Karen is also the author of a number of popular environmental books, including The Armchair Environmentalist, translated into French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai. She writes for major U.K. newspapers from time to time.

Corilee Christou
Vice President, Online & New Media Licensing, Reed Business Information

Corilee Christou, Vice President, Licensing Operations, Reed Business Information, has been directly involved in the information industry for close to twenty years. Prior to working at RBI, Corilee spent seventeen years at Lexis-Nexis, where she held positions in the Content Acquisition area for both United States and Non-US markets. She also directed the product and marketing support for the corporate library sector and was responsible for establishing the Information Professional Support Team for the Nexis division.

Edward Colleran
Senior Director Rightsholder Relations, Copyright Clearance Center

Ed Colleran serves as the Senior Director of Rightsholder Relations at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world's premier provider of copyright licensing and compliance solutions. He oversees strategic initiatives focused on CCC's publisher constituency and manages the development of content licensing solutions and new revenue-generating initiatives for CCC's participating publishers. Ed also provides the vision for the advancement of CCC's digital rights management services and is a key contributor on other long-term strategic issues facing the information industry. An industry veteran, Ed served two-terms as a member the board of Content Division of SIIA. Ed is currently on the Society of Scholarly Publishers (SSP) board of directors. He is a featured speaker and editorial contributor on issues such as navigating copyright requirements and the challenges and opportunities of managing content in a digital environment. A regular speaker at industry events, Ed has recently presented at the annual conferences of SSP, Association of American Publishers (AAP) and SIIA as well as London Online.

Debra Curtis
Chief Executive Officer, Snapdata

After training as a graphic designer Debra's career has encompassed the insurance and IT conference sectors and management roles in the logistics and textile printing industries. She entered the information industry with a remit to develop the offer to the professional services sector for Datamonitor, in which role she first encountered Snapshots. This specialist position enabled her to comprehend the gaps in the market from the client perspective. Having moved on to a Scandinavian office furniture supplier, attracted by their ethical business stance, the management of Snapshots International, recognising her abilities, wide industry knowledge and familiarity with the Snapshots concept, invited her back. After six months researching the market, she could see that the need for top-line industry overviews with the broadest possible scope had not gone away; and recognising the necessity for a fully independent, ethical market research company, took over as CEO, leading the management takeover. Since then, Snapshots International has gone from strength to strength. In 2005, Snapshots opened a New York office and rebranded as the Snapdata International Group with the Snapshots name retained as its primary product range.

Al Furst
President, Asian Projects Inc.

Allen Furst is President of Asian Projects Inc. (www.asian-projects.com). Founded in 1992, Asian Projects Inc. provides business consulting services to media companies in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm assists clients with licensing, international partnering, planning and implementation for print and online magazines, conferences and expos in Asia, Europe and the United States. Asian Projects is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and works closely with affiliate consulting firms in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Paris. Past and present clients include CMP Technology, Dun & Bradstreet, International Data Group (IDG) China, MIT Sloan Management Review, MIT Technology Review, Nikkei Business Publications Inc., Reed-Elsevier, PennWell Corp. and TechTarget.

Dr. Lucie Guibault
Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam

Lucie Guibault is senior researcher at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (IViR). Born and raised in Canada, she studied law at the Université de Montréal and received her doctorate in 2002 from the University of Amsterdam, where she defended her thesis on copyright limitations and contracts, which addressed the question of the contractual overridability of limitations on copyright. Ms. Guibault specializes in international and comparative copyright and intellectual property law, and takes part in national and international conferences. Her interests further include database protection, computer software and Internet issues, as well as contractual matters relating to information. Together with Ot van Daalen, she recently published a book on open source licenses entitled "Unravelling the Myth Around Open Source Licences - An Analysis from a Dutch and European Perspective" (The Hague, T.M.C. Asser Press 2006). Together with Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, she co-edited a book on The Future of the Public Domain, (The Hague, London, Boston, Kluwer Law International 2006, Information Law Series No. 16) in which she wrote a contribution entitled ‘Wrapping Information in Contract: How Does it Affect the Public Domain?’.

Marcus Hartmann
Managing Director Information Management, Arvato Infoscore GmbH

Marcus Hartmann finished his studies in International Business Administration at the International Southern California University and the International Management School in 2000. In February 2002, he joined the InFoScore Group, where he was initially responsible for corporate development. From 2003-2005, he was Chairman of the Board of the newly founded InFoScore companies in Poland. Since mid-2005, Marcus Hartmann has been managing director within the Information Management Division at arvato infoscore GmbH; in particular, he is responsible for constructive and international risk management services.

Claudia Juech
Vice President Information Research, Deutsche Bank AG

As Vice President, Information Research, Claudia Juech has managed the Central Information Service of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt since 1995. She is responsible for the provision of business and competitive information to Deutsche's employees in Germany. Reporting to Dr. Norbert Walter, Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank Group, she has been instrumental in setting up several international information solutions, among them the first globally available Knowledge database. She is committed to the integration of business information into banking processes and to the development of a reliable partnership between information provider, information intermediary and the end user. She also is currently Chair of an Association of Information Services in the Financial Industry in German speaking Europe. Claudia has published several articles and is a regular speaker at national events mostly on topics such as marketing and branding or strategic issues and future trends for corporate information services. She holds an LIS degree from Cologne University of Applied Sciences and an MBA in Business Administration from University of Cologne.

Ed Keating
Vice President, Content Division, SIIA

Ed Keating is Vice President of the Content Division for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Keating has over 15 years of experience in the information industry as both an internal manager and a consultant. He has led marketing, product management and sales organizations at both startup and established information companies. His work to enhance product processes and organizational effectiveness has helped numerous companies enter unfamiliar markets and launch new products.

Rick Kravitz
Executive Vice President, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Rick Kravitz is Executive Vice President of Business Development for Wolters Kluwer Law & Business U.S. He has management responsibility over Kluwer Law International, the largest English language legal information publisher and Aspen Legal Education; the number one imprint in law school markets. Rick is responsible for senior management, and business development. Under his direction over the past ten years, Wolters Kluwer Legal U.S. has grown exponentially with the acquisition of businesses including Little Brown & Co.'s professional publishing division, Prentice Hall's legal and business unit, and professional publishing line, John Wiley's legal and construction line, Elsevier's environmental science line, Simon and Schuster/Bureau of Business Practice's legal, business and tax lines, Loislaw, Bowne's publication division, Arthur Andersen's Accounting Research Manager, TeachingLaw.com, FlashLaw.com and others. During that time, Wolters Kluwer U.S. has become one of the largest expert authored/content providers in legal and accounting publishing.

David Lennon
Principal, Rookdean Consulting

David Lennon is Principal of Rookdean Consulting, the media advisory service. An electronic publisher for over 20 years, David gained his experience with Thomson, the Financial Times, the German business newspaper Handelsblatt in Frankfurt, and LexisNexis, part of the Reed-Elsevier group. Latterly his work has mainly been in M&A advisory, international market entry and penetration strategy and business process optimisation. David is committed to information enablement, particularly to the integration of actionable information into workflow processes, and to the development and implementation of commercially viable publishing strategies via the internet. An active participant in many industry forums and events in a variety of languages, he is also founding member of the Pub Club, a group of senior publishers and new media players, which addresses trends and developments in an informal setting.

Martin Malliet
Finance Director, Institut Géographique National

I'm almost 50 years old (born 1956), have a background in social sciences and economics (studies in Belgium and France), and worked for most of my career, i.e. since 1986, as a civil servant for the Institut Géographique National (the Belgian national mapping agency), and since 1992 in the position of financial director.

Randy Marcinko
Chief Executive Officer, Marcinko Enterprises

Randall Marcinko is the CEO of MEI (Marcinko Enterprises, Inc.), a California-based information consultancy that he founded in 1996. MEI assists publishers with the monetization of their electronic content, providing professional services in support of content licensing, sales, distribution, creation and indexing. Skilled negotiators design and establish content licensing strategy and execute deals on behalf of primary and secondary publishers with aggregators, syndicators, redistributors and specialty vendors within the information industry. Marcinko joined Nstein Technologies Inc. as its President and Chief Operating Officer in January 2002 and in January 2004 he became its President Emeritus. Nstein develops and markets innovative content management software solutions based on linguistic artificial intelligence. Randy s a founding partner of Digital Learning Space, a company that educates publishers and endusers about digital technology and of Culinarius, a web-based company involved with the provision of food-related information.

Eileen Markowitz
President, Thomas Industrial Network

Eileen G. Markowitz, President, Thomas Industrial Network, Inc., (a division of Thomas Publishing Co. Ltd.), is responsible for the overall direction and profitability of ThomasNet, its 150 employees and 375 independent national sales contractors, located throughout the United States. In 1989, Markowitz joined Thomas Regional Directory Company, Ltd., as President and was appointed President of Thomas Industrial Network, in 2004. ThomasNet helps industrial sellers reach the most qualified industrial buyers online and convert them into customers, helping create websites that incorporate online catalogs, CAD drawings and e-commerce capabilities. ThomasNet also gives industrial buyers immediate access to detailed information they need to make purchasing or specifying decisions, including detailed product or service information, catalogs, CAD drawings, and more. ThomasNet is part of Thomas Industrial Network, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC.

John McCaffrey
Director, International Business Development for EMEA and India, CMP

John McCaffrey is the Director of International Business Development - Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. John has worked in Publishing for over 25 years and has been a Publishing Director with VNU Business Publications Ltd. and Miller Freeman Ltd. managing product portfolios which included print, online and events. He has studied business management at New University of Ulster; INSEAD and he received his MBA from Henley Management College. John has a broad spectrum of management experience and he has launched new products in print and electronic format in a variety of markets. He has worked as a member of multicultural project teams in France and Russia, and has experience as a management consultant and trainer.

Duncan McCampbell
Director, Thomson Legal & Regulatory International Online

Duncan is Director of the International Online division of The Thomson Corporation's Legal and Regulatory International group. The Thomson Corporation, with 2005 revenues of $8.5 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. In 1997 Duncan held responsibility for the international product line of Thomson's leading legal online service, Westlaw. In 1998 he was transferred to London to lead content development for Westlaw's first non-US product extension--Westlaw UK. Later, as Director of Online Development he worked on company acquisitions and Westlaw development projects in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia. He is now responsible for leading Westlaw's chief international product extension, Westlaw International, and for the partnered development of new work-flow products for the cross-border M&A practices of global law firms. Recent work includes the implementation of global account management programs targeted at the unique challenges of the world's largest law firms and corporations.

Erik Mikisch
Vice President - Business Development, ThomasNet

Erik Mikisch, Vice President - Business Development, Thomas Industrial Network, Inc., a division of Thomas Publishing Co. Ltd. (ThomasNet), is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with Fortune 1000 accounts and the reseller and systems integrator channel. In addition, Mikisch manages ThomasNet's CAD publishing solutions and develops partnerships with technology companies. Mikisch joined Thomas in 2001, as Vice President of Business Development, Thomas Integrated Marketing Group, Inc. He was appointed Vice President of Business Development for ThomasNet in 2003. ThomasNet helps industrial sellers reach the most qualified industrial buyers online and convert them into customers, helping create websites that incorporate online catalogs, CAD drawings and e-commerce capabilities. ThomasNet also gives industrial buyers immediate access to detailed information they need to make purchasing or specifying decisions, including detailed product or service information, catalogs, CAD drawings, and more.

Kate Noerr
Chief Executive Officer, MuseGlobal, Inc.

Ms. Noerr has extensive experience in the library automation marketplace, as well as broad business experience in bringing new technology products to market. Ms. Noerr has spent more than 25 years in the information industry. She has taught in the library schools of the University of Maryland and University of California Los Angeles and spent several years running a European information network prior to co-founding the library automation company, IME Ltd, in 1980. Based in London, IME Ltd. was highly successful, with offices throughout Europe, in Boston and in Singapore. Ms. Noerr was CEO of IME for 16 years and was responsible for its successful global expansion. After the sale of IME to the Dawsons Group in 1996, Ms. Noerr spent some time as a consultant and is now CEO of MuseGlobal, Inc.

Jan Palmen
Vice President Sales Engineering, Innodata Isogen

Mr. Palmen was elected Vice President of the Company in February 1999. Mr. Palmen was chief operating officer at SPI Technologies, Inc., a leading competitor of the Company, from 1995 through 1998. Prior to SPI, he was general manager, production for Reed Elsevier from 1991 through 1995. He was also a member of the steering committee for global SGML implementation. Before that, he spent three years with United Dutch Publishers as head of sales and production and two years with a global management consultancy company as a strategic consultant.

Brad Pickar
Senior Industry Manager Print & Publishing, Infosys Technologies Limited

Brad Pickar is Senior Industry Manager for Print and Publishing at Infosys Technologies, the Indian technology solutions and services company. In that capacity, Brad is responsible for bringing Infosys's capabilities to client companies in the book, magazine, newspaper and information markets. Brad joined Infosys in April of 2006. Prior to that, he was the Director of Research and Development at Institute of Management and Administration, a newsletter and book publisher focusing on the management best practices market, and was part of the ScienceDirect team at Elsevier Science. Before he joined Elsevier, Brad had a previous stint in management consulting, having spent six years in the Information, Communication and Entertainment practice at KPMG Consulting, now known as BearingPoint, where he was a Senior Manager focused on publishing and information clients in both the US and the UK.

Wouter Pors
Partner, Bird & Bird

Wouter is head of the IP group in The Hague. Before studying law, he studied architecture and building construction for several years. After having done research at the Tilburg University Law Faculty from 1986 until 1989, he was admitted to the bar in 1989, specialising in IP. His main focus is on patent litigation, which allows for a blend of legal and technological innovations. He handles a wide range of patent disputes, varying from mechanical issues through software and business method patents to biotech disputes. Wouter has represented major electronics, biotech and pharmaceutical companies in international patent litigation. Wouter is also involved in trade mark and copyright litigation. He is also a Dutch Supreme Court litigator and has handled cases before Benelux Court of Justice. In Supreme Court, Wouter amongst others successfully represented KaZaA, a developer of peer-to-peer software, against claims for copyright infringement.

Andrea Ramsden-Cooke
Director Business Development, LexisNexis Group

Andrea Ramsden-Cooke is Director of Business Development for the US Corporate & Public Markets division of LexisNexis. In this role she is responsible for developing and managing alliance and partner relationships across corporate markets. She began her career with Reed Elsevier in 1994, working across various traditional publishing and online content divisions both in the UK and the US. Prior to that Andrea worked in the Legal Division of the BBC for 6 years in London advising on rights acquisition and copyright issues.

Jim Ryan
Senior Vice President & General Manager EMEA, Macrovision Corporation

As senior vice president and general manager, EMEA, Jim Ryan is chartered with leading Macrovision's EMEA organization and aligning its revenues with Macrovision's vision and expectations for the global sales team. Prior to his current role, Ryan led Macrovision's services organization as well as its support, operations and pre-sales teams. Prior to joining Macrovision, Ryan was senior vice president of international sales and operations for InstallShield Software Corporation. He joined InstallShield from Reliant Data Systems, now Compuware Corporation, where he was a regional sales director with responsibilities for both traditional direct sales channels as well as OEM sales.

Lars Save
CEO, Bonnier Business Information

Lars Save, CEO Bisnode AB, Sweden. Since 1980 active with digital business information as a database builder and information provider. Resulting in the creation of a pan European publishing group with 67 operating companies in 19 European countries with an annualized turn over of USD 460 million. Engineering background with previous job experiences from technology management and from media industry within the Bonnier AB publishing group.

Mark Schlageter
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Research & Guidance, Thomson Tax & Accounting

Schlageter directly manages Thomson Tax & Accounting's information solutions business, which includes the PPC, WG&L and RIA brands. Under his leadership, the business has experienced significant growth with the market-leading Checkpoint platform providing information and workflow solutions to tax and accounting professionals.

Steve Sieck
Managing Partner, Electronic Publishing Services Ltd.

Steve Sieck is Managing Partner for the U.S. operations of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd. (EPS), a London-based consultancy providing strategic assistance to premium content providers. He advises EPS' global information industry clients, leads strategy consulting engagements, and contributes regularly to the firm's ongoing analysis of information markets and industry trends. He also serves as program director for the EPS Market Monitor research program providing quantitative analysis and forecasting of the global information content industry. For over twenty years, he has helped content and enabling-technology providers develop new products, enter new markets, make strategic investment decisions and align organizational resources with strategic and financial objectives. Prior to joining EPS in 2002, Steve held senior positions at digital consultancy iXL/Scient, PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Services, and IDC/LINK Resources.

Marcus Strenger
Senior Analyst, Deloitte Belastingadviseurs B.V. Marcus Strenger was born in July, 23rd, 1977 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has studied in a German school from 1982 to 1996 in Sao Paulo. In 2002 he has graduated in social and political science by the Catholic University, and in 2004 in a law school Mackenzie University, both located in Sao Paulo. In 2005, he has participated in the Deloitte's in company MBA and has specialized as a finance manager. Marcus has learned English, German, Spanish and he is native speaker of Portuguese. Currently he is learning Dutch. Marcus has entered in Arthur Andersen in 2001 and joined Deloitte as analyst in 2002. In June, 2006, he was designated to develop the first Tax Brazilian desk in Amsterdam. Although started as a Tax Brazilian desk, Deloitte intend expanding its desk network to a Tax South American desk in Europe in order to better advise European investors in South America.

Sander Visser 't Hooft
Principal, Visser 't Hooft Consulting

Sander Visser 't Hooft worked and lived in Brazil during six years. In that period he was responsible as General Manager for the Brazilian operation of the Banque Européenne pour l'Amérique Latine (BEAL) S.A. After returning to The Netherlands he was appointed to Marketing manager International Business of the ABN AMRO Bank N.V. After his retirement in 2002 he continued his involvement with Latin America and especially with Brazil by serving on the Board of several foundations, all of them with a Brazilian link. As President of the Advisory Board of the Dutch Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, he is very much involved in promoting to do business with Brazil. He appeared on several seminars as a speaker on issues like doing business with Brazil and the Brazilian business culture.

Ammy Vogtlander
Director of Search, Elsevier

Ammy Vogtlander joined the Elsevier corporate strategy group in 2005 as Director of Search, and is responsible for identifying new opportunities to maximise the dissemination of Elsevier's content, building strong relationships with search partners as well as for developing and executing Elsevier's search plans. Previously, Ammy was Head of Scirus, Elsevier's free Web search engine. Ammy lead the development of Scirus into its current position as the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet, having won multiple industry awards, including Web Awards for Best Directory of Search Engine and Search Engine Watch Awards. Before joining Elsevier, Ammy worked as a senior strategy consultant at a Dutch consulting firm, NeXtrategy - Boer & Croon, where she assisted clients in developing and executing Internet strategies. Ammy started her career at AMS, an American IT consultancy. Ammy holds a MSc in Physics from the University of Groningen.

Frank Vrancken Peeters
Managing Director, Academic & Government Markets, Elsevier Americas

Frank Vrancken Peeters, Managing Director Academic & Government, is responsible for product development, marketing, sales and customer service of Elsevier products and services for Academic and Government customers globally. Prior positions at Elsevier include sales, product management and strategy. Before joining Elsevier, Frank worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton in the media and entertainment practice and at Shell in oil trading. Frank was educated in business administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is married and has two daughters.

Gerhard Wagner
Director Content, ISPA

Since 1992, Gerhard has worked as an information professional, public affairs consultant supporting SMEs and IT industry and as a senior advisor to NGOs and various business associations. He has served as Secretary General of the Austrian Federation for the Information Industry and is currently working with the ISP and content association ISPA. Gerhard is an expert in EU projects such as BC-NET, PACT, ePSInet, MEPSIR, ePSIplus. He has been a University lecturer in Austria, Italy and Serbia on e-business, international business law, standardisation, terminology, cultural affairs, content-industries, CEE-management. Lectures and keynotes delivered in nearly all CEE-countries on e-government, content and creative industries.

Rosalyn Wilton
Chief Executive Officer, Hemscott

Rosalyn Wilton joined Hemscott as Chief Executive Officer in 1999, after a distinguished City career which included the roles of Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1984 to 1990, member of the Executive committee of Reuters and Managing Director of Reuters Transaction Services Limited from 1992 to 1998. Her non-executive director positions have included LIFFE and Scottish Widows. Rosalyn was short-listed for Business Woman of the Year in 1996.

Bill Woishnis
Co-founder, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Knovel Corporation

Bill Woishnis is the co-founder, chairman and editor-in-chief of Knovel Corporation and founder, chairman and CEO of William Andrew Publishing, the scientific technical publisher that gave birth to Knovel. Prior to founding William Andrew Publishing, Mr. Woishnis traveled North America from 1985 to 1989, selling electronic information to end-users as director of sales for an on-line information service launched by Plastics Technology magazine. Before Plastics Technology, Mr. Woishnis' experience in research and development at Hewlett-Packard Company paved the way for his interest in publishing and facilitating different engineering tasks. He worked for Hewlett-Packard from 1980 until 1985 in California and Pennsylvania locations. His area of technical expertise was plastics processing and design. Mr. Woishnis holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with honors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

David Worlock
Chairman and Founder, Electronic Publishing Services (EPS Ltd.)s

David Worlock is a Cambridge History graduate who joined Thomson Corporation as a trainee in 1967, and subsequently worked in educational and academic publishing before managing Thomson's school-based publishing as Group Executive Publisher in the late 1970s. Between 1980-85 he was CEO of the pioneer development of EUROLEX, the UK's first online service for lawyers, subsequently acquired by Reed Elsevier in 1985. In that year he founded Electronic Publishing Services Ltd, a research and consultancy company based in London and New York which has worked alongside the digital content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors. David Worlock is currently chairman of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd.

Paul Woodward
Principal, Business Strategies Group Ltd.

Paul Woodward is the Principal of Business Strategies Group, a business intelligence and strategy consulting firm which specialises in business and speciality media and information service. A graduate of London University, Paul has been based in Hong Kong and involved in the development of business media in Asia since 1985.BSG's work involves market entry studies, competitive intelligence, product launch planning, mergers and acquisitions advisory work as well as feasibility studies for new events venues. It also acts as an advisor to the Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau in Asia and manages in Hong Kong the Asia/Pacific office of UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry.

Zsolt Zodi
Publishing Director, Wolters Kluwer Hungary

Zsolt was graduated in law, than worked in University of Miskolc, Faculty of Law as an assistant professor. Joined Wolters Kluwer in 1995 as an editor. From 1998 he was a publisher (social, and labour publishing business unit). Between 1999-2000 he was responsible for product development (electronic products), as well as for the development of the company information business within CompLex. At 2001 he became a publishing director. His fields of responsibility are tax publishing, (ADÓ - the biggest Hungarian tax journal family), company infromation publishing (online and offline company information databases), and for online product developments. Zsolt is an author of more than 20 articles (in Hungarian), comprising the fields of legal theory, questions of information society and law, computers in legal practice.

Kim Zwollo
Global Director Special Licensing, Springer

In 2002 Kim Zwollo joined Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer) as Sales Director for Licensing and corporate libraries to explore the possibility of growth in third party licensing and the corporate library market. After the merger with Springer he was appointed Global Director for the Licensing sales team and the Pharma Sales team and moved to New York beginning of this year. His licensing sales responsibilities include all third party distribution and licensing arrangements for Springer globally, the traditional rights sales activities as well as all US based Pharma Sponsored Sales. Before Springer he was VP Sales Publishing for DMDsecure, a Digital Rights Management service provider in Amsterdam offering Digital Rights management solutions to Publishers in Europe. Until 2001 he worked for Elsevier Science in Amsterdam in different sales roles for ScienceDirect products serving the European Academic and Corporate library environment. Kim has a MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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