INNOVATION
Raimundo Illanes
★ President
Adobe Evangelist
Adobe
Chile
Raimundo has participated as a graphic and web evangelist in almost all Adobe Creative Suite and Creative Cloud launches in Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Peru. He has also conducted technical trainings to final clients such as television channels, newspapers, among others in countries like Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Chile.
Bernhard Herzig
Bernhard studied medicine for a couple of years, then business administration and economics at the University of Bern. In 1996, while studying, he co-founded Maxomedia – one of the first crossmedia agencies in Switzerland. For the past 20 years Bernhard has held various positions in the agency: head of the development team, creative director or client service director. Today, he heads the agency as CEO. Bernhard lives with his wife and his two children in a quiet suburb of Berne.
Hussein M. Dajani
General Manager Digital Marketing
Nissan
Africa, Middle East, and India.
Hussein has over 16 years of solid Marketing Communication experience leading and building integrated marketing practices within multinational agencies (JWT, Leo Burnett, and TBWA\) and client side (Fortune 500 companies: Virgin Mobile and Red Bull), across the Middle East and Africa region.
Hussein was among the first batch of WPP MENA employees to receive the renowned WPP Young High Potential Leaders award from Sir Martin Sorrell (Chairman and Worldwide President of WPP) and Bob Jeffrey (ex Chairman and Worldwide President of JWT).Recently, by nomination from the Global Chairman and Patron of the World Marketing Congress,
Hussein has been featured in the 50 most influential digital marketing leaders listing for 2016. Furthermore, Hussein has been voted by the Huffington Post as among the 10 people changing the marcomm landscape in the MENA region.
At present, Hussein is working as a Chief Operating Officer of Hug Digital and as a Mentor at Turn8, Arabreneur, and Flat6Labs. Furthermore, Hussein plays an active role in the advisory council of the World Marketing Congress.
Hussein is also a speaker at various conferences throughout the EMEA region, a weekly guest speaker on numerous TV and Radio stations discussing about the latest innovations and trends in Telecom, Digital, Tech, Marketing, and Communication, and a jury member in renowned global festivals.
Stephen Maher
Stephen is the founder and CEO of the digital marketing agency MBA ‘Where Digital and Direct Interconnect’
MBA is an independent agency whose clients include Accor Hotels, Cambridge University, Everest, Google, Investec Bank, O2, RSM and Sage by Heston Blumenthal. MBA has featured 3 years running in Campaign magazine as one of the ‘World’s Leading Independent Agencies’ and is a member of the UK Government Creative Industries Taskforce. MBA has been awarded 4th place in the Elite rankings in The Drum Digital Census and has been awarded IPA CPD Platinum for winning Gold 4 years’ running.
After graduating with an MA in Modern History from Balliol College Oxford in 1983, Stephen entered agency account management working at ABM, AMVBBDO and Simons Palmer before founding MBA in 1994.
Stephen is also the Chairman of The Marketing Society, an IPA Fellow and Council Member, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, features in Debrett’s ‘People of Today, is a Tech London and E2E Advocate, is involved in the UK government’s Creative Industries programme and sits on the Commercial Board of BAFTA.
Stephen is also founder and Chair of #IPASocialWorks – the world’s first cross marketing industry group to help establish best practice and guidelines in social media measurement.
A keen Chelsea fan and failed rock guitarist, Stephen lives in South London with his wife and four children.
