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Welcome to the 2017 BIMA Hall of Fame Greetings and welcome to this year’s commemorative book, celebrating the latest inductees and incumbent members of the Digital Hall of Fame. We are delighted to, once again, acknowledge the contribution that the people herein have made to the digital industry. This year, our two inductees are..

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Dame Stephanie Shirley arrived in Britain in 1939 as an unaccompanied Kindertransport refugee and after early experience of the ‘glass ceiling’ at work, went on to set up her own IT business. Whilst planning to start a family, Dame Stephanie pioneered new working practices that involved offering part-time employment to professional women with dependents and changed the position of professional women particularly in hi-tech. The company later known as Xansa become a global business employing 8,500 people, which was then sold to Sopra Steria Group.

Since retiring in 1993, her focus has been increasingly on philanthropy. In 200910 she served as the UK’s first ever national Ambassador for Philanthropy. Her charitable Shirley Foundation has initiated and funded various projects with a total of £68m to-date. Whilst Dame Stephanie Shirley has now given her time to charity, her fellow inductee Kathryn Parsons is equally focused on doing good. As founder of Decoded, a technology education company founded in 2011, Kathryn is a champion for women in technology and business and future skills. Decoded is now famous for teaching anyone to ‘code in a day’ with their face to face and online learning platforms and have taught boards and leadership teams in over 65 different cities worldwide. In addition to running the business, Kathryn sits on the board for a number of institutions including the

London Mayor’s Business Advisory Board and UK Government Cyber Security Skills Advisory Board. BIMA conceived the Digital Hall of Fame back in 2012 to honour and celebrate the stars of our industry, and also to hold up inspirational examples to our nation’s young people. Our two inductees are shining examples of what could come from a career in digital. We would also like to extend a sincere thank you on behalf of BIMA to the production partner AMOVEO and sponsors Cohaesus, ForrestBrown, Glug, InvestHK, Jahia, Kemp Little, Ngoar, Passion Digital, Sitecore and Wirehive. It’s with pleasure that I now invite you to read on and find out more about our 2017 Digital Hall of Fame inductees.

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Dame Stephanie Shirley

Kathryn Parsons

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Ajaz Ahmed

Dr Michael Lynch

Alan Rusbridger

Nick Hynes

Andrew Fisher

Nicolas Roope

Andrew Walmsley

Nigel Vaz

Andy Hobsbawm

Pete Cashmore

Brent Hoberman

Phil Jones

Catriona Campbell

Riccardo Zacconi

Helen Milner

Robin Klein

Baroness Joanna Shields

Rory Sutherland

Jamal Edwards

Stephen Fry

Sir Jonathan Ive

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Justin Cooke

Tom Roope

Kate Burns

Warren East

Luke Taylor

Wayne Arnold

Mark Cridge

Martha Lane Fox

Matt Brittin

Sir Martin Sorrell

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DAME STEPHANIE SHIRLEY

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Dame Stephanie Shirley (age 83) is a workplace revolutionary and successful IT entrepreneur turned ardent philanthropist. Her life story begins with her 1939 arrival in Britain as an unaccompanied Kindertransport refugee. In 1962, she founded a software house that pioneered new work practices and changed the position of professional women, especially in hi-tech. She went on to create a global business employing 8,500 people with whom she shares her personal fortune. She was a member of the Computer Systems and Electronics Requirements Board 1979-81; Director of AEA Technology plc 1992-2000; the only non-American on the Board of Tandem Computer Inc 1992-97;

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and the first woman President of the British Computer Society 1989-90. Since retiring in 1993, her focus has been increasingly on philanthropy. In 2009-10 she served as the UK’s first ever national Ambassador for Philanthropy. Her charitable Shirley Foundation has initiated and funded a number of projects that are pioneering by nature, strategic in impact, totalling £68m to-date. The focus is on IT and her late son’s disorder of autism. As a founder member in 1989, she was the major patron of the City’s IT livery company (Master 1992); and cofounded the Oxford Internet Institute as a multi-disciplinary research institute focused on the social economic, legal and ethical aspects of this network of networks in 2001.

Her memoir ‘Let IT Go’ was published in 2012. In 2013, Dame Stephanie, known as ‘Steve’, was named by Woman’s Hour as one of the 100 most powerful women in Britain. In 2014, the Science Council named her as one of the Top 100 practising scientists in the UK. In October 2015, Dame Stephanie was given the Women of the Year Special Award, and in 2015, she gave a TED Talk in Vancouver to a standing ovation from more than a thousand of the world’s most recognised technical entrepreneurs, thinkers, creators and doers. The talk has to-date received 1.9m views.

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KATHRYN PARSONS

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Decoded is a technology education company founded in London in 2011. Famous for teaching anyone “Code in a Day”, today their face-to-face and online learning experiences span data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cyber security, machine learning and beyond. There is no digital dark art they cannot decode. They have taught boards and leadership teams in over 65 different

Co-Founder & Co-CEO Decoded @KathrynParsons

cities worldwide across every industry and sector. In addition to running the business, Kathryn is non-executive on the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Chairwoman of the UK Institute of Coding, member of the London Mayor’s Business Advisory Board and UK Government Cyber Security Skills Advisory Board. She is a champion for future skills, code on the curriculum, women in technology and business.

Kathryn is passionate about languages having studied Japanese, French, Mandarin and Latin and Ancient Greek at university. For her, code is just another language, but one impacting the lives of billions.

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Ajaz founded AKQA aged 21. Today AKQA employs 2,000 people across 21 studios worldwide. The world’s most awarded digital agency, AKQA’s clients include Nike, Audi and Red Bull. Ajaz co-authored Velocity, the No. 1 best-selling business book, alongside Nike’s head of digital sport Stefan Olander. Velocity has been translated into six languages and features an

introduction by Sir Richard Branson. All Ajaz’s proceeds from Velocity are donated to youth homeless, education, global healthcare and environment causes. Ajaz’s second book Limitless was published in 2015.

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ALAN RUSBRIDGER

ANDREW FISHER Andrew joined Shazam in 2005, serving as Chief Executive Officer until 2013 when he became Executive Chairman.

Alan Rusbridger was editor of the Guardian for more than 20 years. He was editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, a member of the GNM and GMG Boards and a member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian and the Observer.

Former Editor-in-Chief Guardian @arusbridger

He stepped down as editor in the summer of 2015. In October 2015 he became Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In the autumn of 2016 he will become Chair of the Scott Trust. Alan Rusbridger’s career began on the Cambridge Evening News, where

he trained as a reporter before first joining the Guardian in 1979. He worked as a general reporter, feature writer and diary columnist before leaving to succeed Clive James and Julian Barnes as the Observer’s TV critic.

Shazam launched its music recognition service in the UK in 2002 and during Andrew’s tenure it has become one of the world’s Top Ten most downloaded apps, connecting more than 600 million people to music, television shows and adverts. Shazam is used more than 20 million times each day.

He became editor of the Guardian in 1995 and oversaw the integration of the paper and digital operations. The Guardian is now the third largest English-speaking newspaper website in the world with over 90 million monthly unique visitors (ABC figures, February 2014).

In 2013, Shazam was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and selected for The Future Fifty, the UK government’s programme to acknowledge the fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. Executive Chairman Shazam

Andrew joined Shazam from InfoSpace Inc where he was European Managing Director. At InfoSpace Andrew led the company’s significant European growth focusing on music and entertainment services for mobile operators and portal solutions for many leading online service providers. Over the past 20 years, Andrew has led the successful growth of a number of technology-focused enterprises. He founded and was Managing Director of TDLI.com which was acquired by InfoSpace Inc with an enterprise value of $400m, and was General Manager of Thomson Directories Business Ventures. Andrew is a Non-Executive Director of Marks and Spencer PLC and Moneysupermarket Group PLC.

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ANDREW WALMSLEY

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Andrew co-founded i-level, the digital media agency that revolutionised the UK’s internet advertising market. Starting the business in 1999, he built it to over £100m turnover, winning over 50 awards including agency of the year eight times and a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. He was named London Media Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young in 2006, and given the Chairman’s award by the Association of Online Publishers for outstanding contribution to the industry in 2007, selling the business to private equity in 2008 before moving on to develop interests in

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other ventures. For five years until 2011, he wrote a popular weekly column in Marketing magazine, appearing on the Today Programme as well as numerous other TV and radio programmes.

Andy established the first international Internet agency in 1994, Online Magic, which merged with pioneering digital services firm Agency.com in 1997 where he was European MD then Chairman until 2009.

He has been a weekly columnist about the new economy for the Financial Times, a member of GartnerG2’s first advisory board on online advertising and spoken at numerous conferences including TED.

He is now an active investor in early stage internet ventures, sitting on the board of several companies, as well as the Eden Project in Cornwall. Most recently, as chairman of Fetch, he helped the founders structure and grow the business to a reported £30m exit to the global media group Dentsu Aegis.

Andy co-founded the award-winning online sustainability community Do The Green Thing in 2007. He has been listed among the 100 top digital influencers by Wired UK, and was named among the 20 inaugural inductees of the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame.

Andy sits on the advisory board for Rapha Racing Ltd and makes music with his better half at Kateellis.com

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BRENT HOBERMAN Brent is Chairman and Co-Founder of Founders Factory, a corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London. Brent is Co-Founder of made. com, a direct-from-factory homewares retailer across Europe. Brent also co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998. He was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn.

Chairman and Co-Founder lastminute.com, made.com, Founders Forum & Founders Factory @brenthoberman

Brent co-founded and chairs Founders Forum; a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Founders Forum also has an innovation consultancy for top corporates (Founders Intelligence), and a recruitment company (Founders Keepers). He also championed and chairs Founders

CATRIONA CAMPBELL of the Future, a network to inspire budding entrepreneurs in the UK, France and soon Germany. He also cofounded and chairs SmartUp.io, a new business in gamified mobile learning for entrepreneurs and corporates. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund) and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist and sits on the Royal Academy Corporate Advisory Group. Brent is a YGL and Prime Minister’s Business Trade Ambassador. Brent is an angel investor and is raising a new fund. Brent was awarded a CBE in the 2015 New Year’s Honour’s List.

A renowned User-Experience expert and entrepreneur, Catriona was one of the UK’s pioneers in UX. She cofounded the London-based experience design firm Seren, which was acquired by the international management consultancy firm EY in 2015. Now EY-Seren is in several countries around the world, assisting clients create well-designed, successful brand experiences.

Advisor EY-Seren @catrionacampbel

Catriona is a global advisor to EY’s clients, a lecturer at several European institutions and tireless advocate of experience design. She has also been commissioned to write a book on experience design.

Her entry to the BIMA Hall of Fame was for her outstanding achievements for the UK in the last 20 years driving the field of UX research and design forward, employing and training hundreds of experts, and helping some of the most successful brands in the world embrace experience design. She was also recognised for her pro bono work setting the UK Government’s first Usability & Accessibility standards, ensuring UK citizens could adapt to the move to online services - leaving no-one behind.

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HELEN MILNER Helen is the Chief Executive of Tinder Foundation, a social enterprise and staff-owned mutual. She is passionate about the benefits that digital technologies bring to individuals. Her priorities are to make good things happen through digital technologies. She works in partnership to build capacity in local communities so people get the capability they need to enjoy all the wonders of the web and ‘digital by default’ service delivery, and in the four years 2010 - 2014 her organisation and hyper-local partners have helped over 1.2 million people to do just that.

Chief Executive Tinder Foundation @helenmilner

Helen has almost 30 years experience of working on the internet, starting in 1985 in the private sector with TTNS, developing internet education content and services for children and schools.

BARONESS JOANNA SHIELDS Baroness Joanna Shields is a British/ American technology industry veteran and parliamentarian currently serving as the United Kingdom’s Minister for Internet Safety & Security. Shields started working in digital technology in 1986 and has spent over 25 years between Silicon Valley & London. She has been instrumental in helping to build some of the world’s best-known technology companies including, Google, AoL and Facebook. Shields also led startups to successful acquisitions, including Bebo to AoL, Decru to NetApp and Veon to Philips. She has served on several boards including the London Stock Exchange Group and Save the Children.

She worked in online education in Australia and Japan in the late 1980s/ early 1990s, and Helen ran the ippr and University of Sunderland ‘university for industry’ pilot in the late 90s. In 2014 and 2015, she was a Commissioner for the House of Commons Speaker’s Commission for Digital Democracy. The same year Helen was awarded an OBE for Services to Digital Inclusion in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. She joined Ufi in 1999 as part of the core leadership that created learndirect – the national online learning network. Helen’s ambition is to ensure that everybody in the UK (and the rest of the world), no matter what their income or background, has the skills and resources to use and participate in the web.

Minister for Internet Safety & Security Home Office & Department for Culture, Media and Sport @joannashields

In 2012, Shields was asked by Prime Minister David Cameron to help build the UK’s digital economy as CEO & Chair of TechCityUK. She later became the Prime Minister’s Digital Advisor

and served in that post until her appointment as a Government Minister following the 2015 general election. During her tenure, Shields led the UK/ US technology task force in the fight to combat online abuse and exploitation. She started WeProtect, a global alliance that now includes over 60 countries and law enforcement agencies, NGOs, civil society organisations and technology leaders aimed at developing technology solutions, national response systems and global co-operation to eradicate child abuse and exploitation from the internet and to bring perpetrators to justice. Her current ministerial role extends to combating online extremism and fighting radicalisation and hate speech, as well as continuing the fight to curb online child abuse, exploitation and promoting safe, open access to the internet for everyone.

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JAMAL EDWARDS MBE

Jamal Edwards established SBTV, the online music platform, when he was 15 years old after he was given a camera as a present by his parents and started filming and uploading videos to YouTube of his friends rapping on the estate he grew up in Acton, West London. Since 2006, Jamal has grown his youth broadcasting channel, SBTV, from the inner confines of his bedroom into a renowned brand with global reach.

Digital Entrepreneur and Founder SBTV @jamaledwards

Having gone from working on the shop floor of Topman to being the face of a collaborative range in store, to being awarded an MBE for services to music in 2015, as well as releasing a bestselling book and fronting a Google

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Chrome Advert alongside Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, and of course his selfie with Prince William and Harry, an image that went from Jamal’s Twitter to the pages of Vanity Fair and Vogue – it’s fair to call him the millennial’s hero of DIY entrepreneurialism. Jamal was honoured when he became one of the Queen’s Young Leaders, after being called upon to run the first ever social media hub at Buckingham Palace. He’s graced the covers of Intelligent Life and Wired, and frequented the pages of publications from GQ, Dazed and Q to Forbes and Time. Not bad for a boy whose content is primarily consumed by teenagers around the world.

Chief Design Officer Apple Inc

London-born designer Jonathan Ive is Apple’s Chief Design Officer, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Since 1996, he has been responsible for leading a design team widely regarded as one of the world’s best. As the driving force behind the look and feel of Apple’s innovative products, Jony also provides leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) software teams across the company.

Recognised with numerous design awards, Apple products are featured in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including MoMA in New York and the Pompidou in Paris. Jony holds a Bachelor of Arts and an honorary doctorate from Newcastle Polytechnic. In 2003, he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum London and awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry by The Royal Society of Arts.

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JUSTIN COOKE Justin is a Venture Partner at VC investor Northzone, a Non-Executive Director of FutureLearn, Big Clever Learning, Nile, Southpaw and SportLabs and a member of the Digital Advisory Board’s for No. 10 Downing Street, AGE UK and The British Museum’s Digital Advisory Board. Prior to Northzone, he was the CEO and Founder of POSSIBLE UK, WPP Digital’s largest global agency. Justin is also the former Chair and now an Ambassador of BIMA.

Venture Partner Northzone @justincooke

Justin discovered digital media while studying Quasi-Theatrical Leisure and Computers as Theatre while studying Drama at the University of Manchester. After graduating with honours, he worked for the BBC, Universal Music and United News and

KATE BURNS Media before he co-founded global digital agency Fortune Cookie in 1997. Justin secured venture capital funding, grew the business to 200 people and $25m of revenue before selling to WPP in 2012.

Kate’s unique experience lies in building successful European operations from the ground up, for the world’s largest and most successful digital brands. With nearly two decades of experience, Kate was appointed General Manager, Europe at Buzzfeed in March 2015.

In September 2012, he was invited onto the Digital Advisory Board of the British Museum and was recently appointed by the British Government as a Digital Capabilities Reviewer. Wired Magazine listed Justin in its Top 100 survey of Britain’s experienced digital power-brokers. Econsultancy ranked him the second most influential person in UK digital and in 2013, Justin was inducted into the British Digital Hall of Fame.

General Manager, Europe Buzzfeed @KateBurnsie

Most recently, Kate was MD, UK/ Europe at SHIFT, the leading marketing software company for social advertisers. Prior to this, Kate ran AOL Europe and led her team through a swift and successful business turnaround, embarked on her own entrepreneurial venture,

Kt3 Ltd and also setup the EMEA operations for Drawbridge Inc. Kate was Vice President and Managing Director, Europe, of AOL’s social media company, Bebo. In 2001, Kate joined Google as its first international employee, building its European operation from scratch and eventually managing Region 1 as Director, UK, Ireland and Benelux. Kate is an active commentator on the digital sector across conferences, TV, Press and Radio. She is also a keen horsewoman, show jumping at a national level.

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LUKE TAYLOR

Luke Taylor is Global Chief Executive of DigitasLBi, the world’s most complete marketing and technology agency with 7,000 best-in-class digital experts across 25 countries. Prior to taking up this role at the start of 2013, Taylor was Global Chief Executive of publicly listed LBi, where he implemented a series of successive strategic transformations to ensure that the agency thrived in the rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.

Global CEO DigitasLBi

Following his appointment as LBi Chief Executive in 2008, Taylor installed a new global management team and implemented a single vision,

MARK CRIDGE

Mark has been appointed CEO of mySociety, the global pioneers of civic technology, who invent and popularise new digital tools that enable citizens to exert power over institutions and decision makers.

single brand, consistent service model and shared organisational design across LBi’s global footprint. He also oversaw the acquisition of bigmouthmedia in 2010 and MRY in 2011, as well as LBi’s recent $540m integration into Publicis Groupe and the subsequent merger with Digitas to form DigitasLBi. Luke is also the Chair of Board of Trustees for YouthNet and Getconnected, the UKs largest youth charity helping over a million per year between the ages of 15 and 25. He also holds a Masters Degree in English from Oxford University.

Prior to this, Mark was Director of Consulting at BERG, the Shoreditch based connected products company that brought the world Little Printer where he helped in the transition from design studio to funded tech startup working on BERG Cloud. Chief Executive mySociety @markcridge

He has worked in digital since 1995 when he left the world of architecture, realising that it just wasn’t his cup of tea. After stints as an art director at

agencies in Birmingham and London, he founded his own agency glue London in 1999; the UK’s original digital advertising agency. In 2010, he became Global Managing Director of Aegis Media’s global creative network Isobar, comprising 3,000 people in 34 markets, working with an enviable client list including adidas, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, P&G, The Guardian and Google. A regular speaker at industry events he has sat on numerous awards juries, was cited by Campaign Magazine as a ‘Face to Watch’ way back in 2000, featured in the FT Creative Business 50 and became an IPA Fellow in 2010.

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MARTHA LANE FOX

Martha is founder and executive chair of Doteveryone.org.uk, a charity fighting for a fairer internet. In April 2016 she was appointed as a non executive director of Twitter.

Crossbench Peer House of Lords @Marthalanefox

Martha became a crossbench peer in the UK House of Lords in March 2013. In March 2014 she was appointed Chancellor of the Open University. Martha co- founded and chairs LuckyVoice, revolutionising the karaoke industry. She is a non executive director of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the

MATT BRITTIN Matt heads up Google’s business and operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa - helping consumers and businesses make the most of the digital opportunity.

Creative industries federation, the Scale Up Institute and the Open Data Institute.

Joining Google in 2007 to help build its business in the UK, he became MD of Google UK two years later. In 2011, he was promoted to VP of Northern and Central Europe, before taking over as President of Business and Operations in EMEA in 2014.

Martha is also a Patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law. In 2013 Martha was awarded a CBE. In 1998, Martha co-founded Europe’s largest travel and leisure website, lastminute.com with Brent Hoberman. They took it public in 2000 and sold it in 2005.

President, EMEA Business and Operations Google @MattBrittin

Matt is a non-executive director of Sainsbury’s, and a Trustee of charity The Media Trust. Matt has had a long career in media and marketing, joining Google from the newspaper industry, where he led commercial and digital operations at the biggest

UK publisher. He previously worked at management consultancy McKinsey. He has an MBA from London Business School, an MA from Cambridge and won silver medals for Cambridge in several Boat Races. He was also a member of the British rowing team and has won medals in eights and fours at the World Rowing Championships and represented Great Britain at the Olympics. In 2014, he was appointed a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta and he still rows regularly, though more slowly. Matt lives in London, near the Thames, with his wife, teenage sons and small dog.

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SIR MARTIN SORRELL Sir Martin Sorrell is the entrepreneurial founder/CEO of WPP plc, the world’s largest provider of advertising and marketing communications services. A FTSE 100 company, WPP currently has a market capitalisation of £18 billion.

CEO WPP

Collectively, WPP employs nearly 190,000 people (including associates and investments) in over 3,000 offices in 112 countries. The Group’s worldwide companies include J Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, Y&R, Grey, GroupM, Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Maxus, Kantar (including Millward Brown and TNS), OgilvyOne Worldwide, Wunderman, BursonMarsteller, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Landor, Brand Union, AKQA and WPP Digital (including POSSIBLE). Clients include 352 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 77 of

DR MICHAEL LYNCH the NASDAQ 100. In 2015, WPP had revenues of $19 billion and billings of $73 billion. Sir Martin actively supports the advancement of international business schools, advising Harvard, IESE, the London Business School, the Indian School of Business, the China Europe International Business School and Fundação Dom Cabral Business School in Brazil. In 2007 he received the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award. He was awarded the 2014 Hugo Shong Lifetime Achievement Award in Communication by Boston University’s College of Communications. In October 2015, Sir Martin was named the fifth best-performing CEO in the world by Harvard Business Review.

Dr Mike Lynch, OBE, FREng FRS is the former founder of Autonomy and has a proven track record of identifying and monetising fundamental technologies. Dr Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996, the UK’s largest and fastest growing software company, with a market capitalisation of $11bn, and was its CEO for fifteen years. Autonomy was acquired by HP in 2011.

Founder, Technology Entrepreneur Invoke

In addition to Autonomy, Dr Lynch has founded or advised a number of companies ranging from Neurodynamics to Blinkx. He has invested in a number of startups, most recently Featurespace, and has also advised venture capital and private

equity groups such as Apax Partners and the Carlyle Group. Dr Lynch is a non-executive director of the BBC, the British Library, and Cambridge Enterprise. He is a council member of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Foundation for Science and Technology. He is also a scientific advisor to the UK Prime Minister and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in April 2014. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Enterprise in 2006. In 2011 he received the Outstanding Contribution award in the UKIT Industry awards and was named Most Influential Person in UK IT by Computer Weekly.

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NICK HYNES A true business visionary, Nick has established some of the most successful fast-growth digital companies of the last two decades. Nick founded Somo in 2009 to help companies make sense of the huge opportunities and the disruptive potential of mobile technology. Somo, now the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest independent mobile solutions firm, has six international offices delivering custom mobile development, performance and brand marketing, enterprise platforms, and mobile advertising technology to brands across the world. CEO Somo

Nick was formerly founder, CEO and

NICOLAS ROOPE President of Overture Europe. Here he launched the paid search industry in Europe, building Overture from a startup to an established business which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.63bn. He was CEO and founder of The Search Works, Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest search engine marketing company, which was sold to Tradedoubler AB in 2007 for $115m. He was also an investor and non-executive director of SwiftKey, Chairman of customer insight and loyalty firm Reward. Nick is also an NED, Advisor and investor in over a dozen international digital companies, Fellow of Princes Trust and Ambassador of the RAF Centenary Board.

Executive Creative Director / Co-Founder POKE @nikroope

Nicolas has always looked beyond industry rhetoric to the inspiring truths of networked media and design; this passion driving his career in the business spanning the last eighteen years. Nicolas founded Antirom, Poke, Hulger and Plumen, all companies of note, all influential and innovative in their respective fields and all with digital at their hearts. These endeavours have each been recognised by international industry awards and critical acclaim. Nicolas is on the MUBI advisory board and the Tech City Advisory Board to Number 10 as well as being contributing editor to Wallpaper. Nicolas was appointed member of the Academy of Digital Arts and

Sciences in 2006. He is co-founder and jury chair of the Lovie Awards, the pan-European award for outstanding achievement in internet endeavours. Nicolas has many awards to his name including Webbys, Cannes Lions, One Shows, a D&AD Black Pencil and a Design of the Year award (overall winner). His designs are in the MoMA, V&A and CooperHewitt permanent design collections. He was included in the 2011 Adage Creative 50 and UK Wired 100 in 2011 and was inducted into the BIMA Hall of Fame in 2012. He also sits on the UK Superbrands Council. In 2014 Nicolas received the London Design Entrepreneur medal, presented by the London Design Festival.

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NIGEL VAZ

CEO EMEA and APAC Publicis.Sapient Global President DigitasLBi @vaznigel

Nigel Vaz helped to take SapientNitro from a startup a decade ago to become the largest digital agency in the UK. He made his entrance into the digital industry in 1995 at a young age, co-founding a public company that delivered telecoms, consulting and connectivity solutions. Among its achievements were technological advances in vertical blanking interval (VBI) technology to encrypt data and broadcast to remote areas that lacked connectivity – sub-Saharan Africa for one, where local schools benefitted from a curriculum broadcast to them digitally.

PETE CASHMORE

The theme of enhancing the capabilities and experiences of consumers and of business by imagining and creating new ways to harness technology runs strongly through Vaz’s life. Today, that philosophy can be found in the work that Publicis.Sapient does to engage connected consumers through the creation of integrated, immersive stories and experiences that live across brand communications, digital engagement and omni-channel commerce.

Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, an award winning site and one of the largest and most popular destinations for digital, social media, and technology news and information with more than 20 million unique visitors per month.

CEO Mashable Inc @petecashmore

news on social networks and digital trends. Since then, Mashable quickly grew to be one of the top 10 and most profitable blogs in the world.

Mashable has been named a mustread site by both Fast Company and PC Magazine and is ranked as the most influential media outlet by Klout.

Pete was named one of Ad Age’s 2011 influencers, a Time Magazine 100 in 2010, and a Forbes magazine web celeb 25. He was also named a Briton of the year by the Telegraph in 2010. Pete is a World Economic Forum 2011 Young Global Leader.

Pete founded Mashable in 2005 as a blog focused on up-to-the minute

Pete is based in New York and frequently visits San Francisco.

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PHIL JONES

The digital world couldn’t be further away from Phil’s 5-year apprenticeship as a hot-metal compositor and his founding of typography specialists APT, which he grew to 100 staff during the 80’s before successfully selling the business to a top ad agency. Phil became MD of Real Time Studio in 1991 and grew the team to 100, becoming one of the leading digital agencies in the UK before successfully merging with DM agencies EHS and Brann, where Phil became Vice Chairman of what became EHS Brann. Founder Podge Events & Real Time Consultancy @denislaw

Amongst his digital highlights was a ten year relationship with www. Diesel.com, and creating the first ever website for Canon UK and Europe and

RICCARDO ZACCONI Riccardo Zacconi is one of Kings founders and has served on the Board of Directors and as chief executive officer since March 2003. With over 20 years of experience in strategic management, consulting and e-commerce, Riccardo brings exceptional knowledge and expertise to both the social and casual gaming domains.

the online launches of the new MINI, the first Premier League and Sport England websites, and the launch of England Fans for the Football Association. Creating the identities for UK Sport, UK Athletics and the FA’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup along the way. Phil formed www.realtime.co.uk in 2004 to act as an advisor and mentor for creative, sports and digital businesses. In 1994 Phil founded and started organising the famous podge lunches: Design, Digital, Sport & Music gatherings – now on www. podgeevents.com. As a Mancunian he couldn’t resist the challenge of launching www.stodgepodge.com for northern agencies.

Chief Executive Officer King @king_games

Previously, Riccardo served as vice president of European Sales and Marketing at uDate.com Ltd., an online dating service, and was involved in driving market penetration and partnerships until the company was acquired by InterActive Corporation in 2002. Before that, he was managing director for Spray Network GmbH, an online portal based in Hamburg with a

presence in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In this role, Riccardo demonstrated his understanding for developing solid company strategy, intelligent plans for sustainable growth and strategic partnerships, which supported the successful sale of Spray Network to Lycos for $764 million. In addition, Riccardo has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital Partners, a Qualified Case Leader at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. and a consultant at LEK Consulting LLP. He holds a B.A. in Economics from LUISS University, Italy. Riccardo’s favourite King game used to be Jungle Bubble. He’s currently deciding on his new favourite King game.

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ROBIN KLEIN

Robin is founding partner of LocalGlobe and Business Accelerator Ltd, and has invested in a number of companies including Mind Candy, Moo, MyBuilder, Skimlinks, TransferWise, Zoopla and Osper. Robin is a governor of Rhyl primary school and a past Chairman of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s funding company.

Investor and Advisor Various @robinklein

Robin has 20 years experience as an entrepreneur and 14 years of investing experience. In his last operating role as Chairman and CEO of Innovations, he conducted the very first UK ecommerce transaction in May 1995.

RORY SUTHERLAND

Rory read Classics at Christ’s College, Cambridge, before joining Ogilvy as a Graduate Trainee in 1988. After 18 months as the world’s worst account handler, he became a copywriter in June 1990.

He started his investment career in earnest in 1998, co-founding The Accelerator Group (TAG) with his son, Saul. Some of TAG’s exits include Agent Provocateur (3i) where Robin was Chairman for five years, Lastminute (IPO), Last.fm (CBS), Dopplr (Nokia), Lovefilm (Amazon), Fizzback (Nice Systems), Slideshare (Linkedin), Tweetdeck (Twitter) and Mashery (Intel). Robin is passionate about helping to build the European technology startup ecosystem. He has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Industrial Engineering.

He was appointed Creative Director of OgilvyOne in 1997 and ECD in 1998. In 2005 he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Ogilvy Group in the UK in recognition of his improved timekeeping. Vice Chairman Ogilvy Group UK @rorysutherland

Rory first used the Internet in 1987. Hence he had the advantage in 1994 of knowing what it was. Most people would have combined this knowledge

of marketing and technology to make a fortune; not Rory. Instead he became the first Briton to have his credit card details stolen online, thereby losing £22.45. Rory was President of the Direct Jury at Cannes in 2007, and was President of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising for two years. Rory is a visiting professor of Warwick University and holds an honorary doctorate (D. Litt) from Brunel. Rory is the Technology Correspondent of the Spectator, the world’s oldest English-language magazine.

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STEPHEN FRY

Stephen Fry is ‘king of first adopters’ and an infectiously enthusiastic champion of the near limitless possibilities of digital. He also finds time to be an actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all round national treasure. On the occasion of his induction into the Digital Hall of Fame, Stephen Fry wrote: “To be voted, or ‘inducted’ which I believe is correct, into the Digital Hall of Fame, is a great honour that touches me deeply. I have always been fascinated by the power, reach, creativity of the digital world and its social implications, both for good and ill… Actor / Screenwriter / Author

SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE

“I first joined commercial online services like Prestel, Compuserve and America Online in the late 80s and then the internet proper through Demon, the UK’s first ISP. I was instantly struck amidships by the possibilities of this astounding new way of communicating around the globe. I had an email address but none of my friends did; only fellow geeks around the world with whom one would share interslip and PPP scripts. Then Tim Berners-Lee wrote his protocols and Mosaic and the first web browsers arrived. Within what seemed a blink of the eye nothing was the same again.”

Berners Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. Timothy John Berners Lee was born on 8 June 1955 and grew up in London. He studied physics at Oxford University and became a software engineer. In 1980, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, he first described the concept of a global system, based on the concept of ‘hypertext’, that would allow researchers anywhere to share information. He also built a prototype called ‘Enquire’. Co-founder and Director World Wide Web Consortium and the World Wide Web Foundation @timberners_lee

In 1989, Berners Lee published a paper called ‘Information Management: A Proposal’ in which he married up hypertext with the Internet, to create a system for sharing and distributing

information not just within a company, but globally. He named it the World Wide Web. He also created the first web browser and editor. The world’s first website, http://info.cern.ch, was launched on 6 August 1991. It explained the World Wide Web concept and gave users an introduction to getting started with their own websites. In 1994, Berners Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He has served as director of the consortium since then. He also works as a senior research scientist at LCS which has now become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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TOM ROOPE

Tomas Roope has been a leading digital practitioner since 1994. In 1995 he co-founded Anitrom, a company which was awarded “The most Outstanding Contribution to Digital Culture” during Internet Week’s Digital Archaeology 2010 (EU) and 2011 (US).

Creative Lead, Creative Services EMEA ZOO Google, Google @tomas_roope

Antirom continued until 1999 when Tom went on to co-found the also highly acclaimed ‘Tomato Interactive’. He has taught at several universities including product design at the Royal College of Art, and produced installations for several exhibitions internationally.

WARREN EAST

In 2012 Tom was presented the award of Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts, in recognition of his “Innovative work in taking computer interactions beyond the desktop and into communities and shared spaces” - Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA. Prior to his role at Google, Tom was creative director and co-founder of The Rumpus Room, founded in 2007. Tom’s work at The Rumpus Room was integral in the company being recognised with some of the highest accolades, by award bodies including D&AD, Cannes, One Show, Brit Insurance Design of the Year and Campaign Media Awards.

Warren East was chief executive officer for ARM Holdings plc from October 2001 to July 2013. ARM, a constituent of the FTSE 100, is the world’s leading Semiconductor IP licensing company with over 360 licencees worldwide collectively shipping over 10 billion ARM chips per year. He served with Texas Instruments for 11 years before joining ARM in 1994.

Former CEO ARM

Warren is a Chartered Engineer, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Warren holds a master’s degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, and an Honorary Doctorate from Cranfield University. He is senior non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of De La Rue plc, and a non executive director of Micron inc, Dyson Limited, BT plc and Rolls Royce plc. He chairs the ESCO (Electronic Systems Community) Council and Leadership Forum and is on the board of the Connected Digital Economy Catapult. He is a member of several advisory boards. He was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours list.

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WAYNE ARNOLD Having co-founded Profero with his brother in 1998, Wayne is regarded as one of the industry’s most respected and experienced practitioners. He has successfully supervised local and global campaigns for an enviable client list including Apple, Diageo, Unilever and Western Union. Wayne expanded the Profero client and geographical base by carefully positioning Profero as the only global independent digital agency of its kind, covering media, creative and technology, with offices across 10 cities in US, Europe and Asia.

Global CEO MullenLowe Profero @waynejarnold

In 2010 he assumed the role of Global CEO where he was based out of the US for 3 years. In 2013 he moved to APAC in a forward thinking move to be one of the only global CEO’s based in the region demonstrating the

agency’s global intent and commitment to the region. Following acquisition and a merger, MullenLowe Profero is now the first truly global marketing communication business with digital at the core. Other recent achievements include being voted as: – Chairman of the IPA Digital committee – The UK’s most influential digital Britain – Top 100 most influential people for the Y generation across any industry sector – One of the 1,000 most influential people in London – Observer’s Future 500 ones to watch – Chairman of the Marketing Society SEA