Eileen Naughton is Managing Director for Google UK & Ireland, responsible for revenue and business operations in Google’s second-largest market. Most recently, as Vice President of Global Sales, she was Google’s senior relationship manager with its largest advertising and agency clients. She earlier led sales and operations for YouTube and Google’s display business in the US and Americas, and led Google’s post-acquisition integration of DoubleClick ad tech platforms and ad exchange business. Prior to joining Google in 2006, Eileen held a number of executive positions at Time Warner Inc. as president of TIME magazine, general manager of Fortune magazine, VP of investor relations and president of Time Inc. Interactive, responsible for the digital assets of Time Warner’s publishing division.

John Neal is a psycho-physiologist who consults at Ashridge Business School. John teaches a range of topics including leadership, team dynamics, coaching, change and personal performance. He is a performance coach who works with the potential of mind, body and spirit. He is also an exercise physiologist and performance psychologist and works throughout the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia, US and Australia and is currently working with a number of professional sports organizations and blue chip corporates ranging from UKSport and British Olympic Association to the NHS, Tetra Pak and Orange.

Professional racing driver and motoring journalist. Former Formula 1, sportscar and touring car driver. Third place at Le Mans in 1990. Voiceover artist for 'TOCA Touring Car series’, 'Ferrari Challenge' and 'Le Mans 24 Hours' video games. Former co-host of Top Gear, current host of Driven, contributor to evo.

Ed Needham is editor of Coach magazine, a freemium health and fitness weekly which he developed and launched with Dennis Publishing in October 2015.
He joined Dennis from the creative agency Grand Parade Ltd, a technology and content firm specialising in the betting industry, and which he set up with a partner in 2006.
Prior to that Ed lived and worked in New York, moving there in 1999 to launch FHM magazine for EMAP, then serving as managing editor for Rolling Stone for two years, and editing the US version of Maxim for two years. Before moving to the US, he was editor of FHM magazine in London. He has previously won the PPA Editor of the Year and BSME Men's Magazine Editor of the Year awards, PPA Magazine of the Year for FHM, and Rolling Stone won a National Magazine Award for Reporting under his editorship.

Jez is the founder and CEO of Somethin’ Else. He started his media life broadcasting from dodgy flats in South London as a pirate radio DJ. Some decades later he’s still getting away with it. Jez launched the company in 1991 with £500 and a cash box. Since then he’s overseen Somethin’ Else’s growth to become one of the UK's biggest content agencies working with the likes of the BBC, Sky, Red Bull, The BRIT Awards and The Economist. His day job is to oversee the company’s overall vision and strategy for further growth. By night he remains a pirate at heart as the presenter of BBC Radio 3′s Jazz On 3.

Alex is the MD for mobile across EMEA, and as such leads our approach to ‘mobility’ across the organisation. He has developed our level of expertise and ensured we are now able to deliver a full service offering to our clients spanning the areas of mobile specific strategy, media planing and buying, programatic trading, UX/UI design, and product development. Alex’s team describes itself as a bunch of creative technologists who work with clients to solve their business issues from a technology first perspective. His team spans the region and is able to deliver a consistent level of service across the markets that make up the EMEA region.

Alex first launched OMDUK’s mobile operation in June 2006, and during that period oversaw the departments rapid growth in terms of the number of client projects and revenues generated. During Alex’s tenure the high quality of output was widely recognised and was marked by various award wins, including a Valencia Festival Of Media award for the best use of mobile, a Cannes Lion for best use of technology and an IAB creative showcase award.

In 2011 Alex was promoted to his current cross group and internationally focussed role. Subsequently, Alex has been shaping and developing all OMG companies approach to mobility, helping develop a product set that ensures we are able to lead the conversation and advise our multi-national clients on how to maximize new business opportunities offered by today’s rapidly developing mobile technologies.

Alex is a recognised industry figure speaking at events such as the GSMA Mobile world congress, Doubleclick’s CAB event, various IAB, MMA and DMA events. Alex also sits on Microsoft’s mobile advisory committee, and the IAB’s mobile leadership council.

Richard is a Sunday Times #1 best-selling author and is the British Society of Magazine Editors’ "business columnist of the year." His most recent book, “The End of Nice - how to be human in a world run by robots” considers life at the receiving of disruption and proposes what to do about it. He also writes for the FT and the Guardian and on his blog www.richard-newton.com. He is the co-founder and non-exec director of tech startups in London, Cork and Austin.

Nik is one of the founding partners of Code d'Azur, a creative agency with offices in Amsterdam and Barcelona. Code d'Azur combines strategy, creativity and technology, connecting brands with people through campaigns that inspire, services that people want to use and content people want to watch and not skip. In 2014 Nik was judge of the Eurobest awards.

Marc Nohr is CEO of Fold7, one of the fastest growing creative agencies in London with clients including Hilton, Carlsberg, Samsung and Gumtree. Marc started in the industry as a suit, before becoming a creative and then an MD. In 2001 he co-founded Kitcatt Nohr which went on to win 5 Agency of the Year titles and over 100 creative awards and was acquired by Publicis in 2011. During that period Marc also had a column in the Financial Times, was Chairman of the DMA Awards and a member of the IPA Council.

Caroline Norbury MBE is the founding Chief Executive of Creative England. Creative England invests in and supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media.

Prior to establishing Creative England Caroline was the Chief Executive of regional screen agency South West Screen; the public body responsible for the leading the strategic development and promotion of the film, TV and digital content industries in the South West of England. She has extensive experience of the media industry as a producer, director and commissioning executive and was previously an independent producer and Chief Executive of First Take Films.

Caroline is a member of BAFTA, the Royal Society of Arts, the UK Trade & Investment Creative Industries Sector Advisory Group and leads on the work of the Creative Industries Council Access to Finance working group. She was awarded an MBE in 2012 for services to the film industry.

Caroline Norbury MBE is the founding Chief Executive of Creative England. Creative England invests in and supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media.

Prior to establishing Creative England Caroline was the Chief Executive of regional screen agency South West Screen; the public body responsible for the leading the strategic development and promotion of the film, TV and digital content industries in the South West of England. She has extensive experience of the media industry as a producer, director and commissioning executive and was previously an independent producer and Chief Executive of First Take Films.

Caroline is a member of BAFTA, the Royal Society of Arts, the UK Trade & Investment Creative Industries Sector Advisory Group and leads on the work of the Creative Industries Council Access to Finance working group. She was awarded an MBE in 2012 for services to the film industry.

As CMO she will continue to drive the adoption of a unified platform for advertising across all screens, devices and formats. Leveraging her relationships across the industry, she will ensure that buyers as well as sellers realize the power of Rubicon Project’s automated platform to execute against all levels of the marketing funnel.

Prior to her role as CMO, Mari Kim was SVP of Global Advertising Solutions where she was responsible for new business initiatives and key strategic relationships with buyers on the Advertising Automation Butt.

For over 17 years, Mari Kim has worked for many participants in the advertiser and buyer community, including 9 years at Microsoft as its Global Head of Marketing for Microsoft Advertising based in NYC and responsible for Microsoft’s global marketing budget, industry outreach and sales enablement programs supporting brands including MSN, XBOX, SKYPE and Bing.