Matt Bailey is the newly appointed Chair of the IAB Affilliate Council, responsible for setting the Council’s objectives for developing best practice initiatives and guidelines within the Affiliate industry.
Matt has been working in online marketing since 2004, initially as a recruitment consultant specialising in the online field. He ...
Andy Barr is the co-managing director of 10 Yetis Public Relations Ltd. Having worked for a number of global brands in senior communications and marketing roles Andy set up 10 Yetis Public Relations with co-founder Jilly Tovey.
Andy's experience in raising the profile of consumer, technology, start-up and financial ...
Gary Beal, MD of Vanguard SEO and a specialist in the Gaming Market, will be covering new developments at Google that can strengthen your international saturation. Gary will be giving tips that will allow you to target languages and regionally based search queries and explain how you can take advantage ...
Henk Jan Bijmolt has been the CEO of travel-affiliate network Cleafs.nl since april 2007 and has a wide experience in the field of internet and the online travel branch. Besides affiliate marketing Henk Jan has a lot of experience with affairs like Search Engine Optimization and Adwords advertisement. His primary ...
Thomas Bindl is the founder and CEO of Refined Labs, the company behind Refined Ads. Refined Ads is a leading PPC management software which targets direct advertisers and agencies to help them increase the ROI of their paid search campaigns.
Prior to founding Refined Labs, “his best idea ever”, Thomas ...
Karl is a former rocket scientist, with a PhD from Cambridge University, England. He co-founded Conversion Rate Experts to show businesses how they can profit by applying scientific techniques to web marketing.
Conversion Rate Experts is an international consultancy that inspires and helps website owners compete in highly competitive markets ...
Since launching the affilinet business in the Netherlands in March 2008. Auke Boersma has been responsible for establishing the leading European Network within the Dutch Affiliate market and developing the business to position it amongst the top Affiliate Networks in the territory.
Auke has significant experience and knowledge of ...
Steve was one of the founders of buy.at and was both COO and CEO at the business. During this time the foundations for buy.at’s continuing technical and commercial innovations were set and in 2006 the company’s success and growth was acknowledged when it was recognised as the UK’s largest fast-growing ...
Christoph C. Cemper has been building links and affiliate sites since 2003 and is a well respected guru in the SEO industry, especially when it comes to getting real juicy links on trusted domains.
Before starting his own business CEMPER.COM in the online marketing industry he’s been building large ...
Al quit the 9 to 5 rat race in January of 2007, before then he was a software engineer and systems architect of financial system.
Nowadays Al spends the day managing blogs, finding new niches to generate income, creating new sites and looking for cool shows to loaf around at.
Hugo has been working in online media for the last 8 years primarily focused on ROI in a variety of roles from running ecommerce partnership deals at orange to affiliate marketing in the gaming and mobile industries. This has given him a clear view of the importance and value that ...
Ewan is Affiliate Director at Neo@Ogilvy and works with Kodak across Europe and British Airways globally where his team manages programmes on 8 networks in ten markets including UK, Germany, France, China and Australia.
Ewan has been working the media and research industries since 1988 and was previously at Affiliate ...
As Managing Director of LinkShare UK, Liane is responsible for the growth and development of the LinkShare UK Network and for overall day-to-day operations. She joined LinkShare in 2003 as a director in the Shared Services Division. Promoted to Vice President of Advertiser Services in 2005, Liane managed LinkShare’s best-in-class ...
Marko Dobroschelski is one of the managing directors of Daisycon; the largest performance based online marketing network of the Netherlands. When his job as a consultant did not bring enough adventure Marko decided to start Daisycon together with two co-workers from CSC (Computer Science Corporation). They started the company on ...
Kevin's background originated in journalism, working within local press and moving online to provide editorial content for a financial communications company. This led to writing for a human edited online directory for US search company LookSmart and progression into a commercial position creating and optimising search campaigns within MSN.
The ...
Mr. Thomas Eisinger is co-founder of explido WebMarketing, a leading Performance Marketing agency in Germany. explido offers international services in affiliate marketing, SEM, SEO, display campaigns, conversion optimisation and online marketing consulting. Numerous big players such as Quelle, lastminute.de, notebooksbilliger.de, Mercedes Benz Bank and BASF rely on explido's ability to ...
Peter Ellen started working in the music industry at the age of 17 as a recording artist and went on to be a producer, club runner, radio presenter, label owner and latterly worked for the music retailer Fopp.
At Fopp Peter rose from the shop floor to become MD in ...
Pascal had his first email address in 1992 and his first (and ugliest) homepage in 1993. Actually, he is living with his wife and four children in his house in Munich, which was entirely built with affiliate commissions.
Pascal is an Internet Marketing Consultant and the founder of Cogito Ergo ...
Sebastien Galina has been working in the affiliate business since 2000 at Packard Bell / NEC Computers on a Pan-European level where he was looking after increasing the online services toward the customers of Packard Bell units.
He then joined Apple Inc. where he was in charge of setting ...
<p>Prior to Newtonmore, Pamir co-founded Flytxt and pioneered the development of mobile marketing technology and services in Asia, Europe and the US. At Flytxt, Pamir drove the company's marketing and business development effort. Prior to Flytxt, Pamir worked at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in London, where he analysed and structured ...
Joris is Director and Owner of Conversive BV. Conversive focuses entirely on the professional management of multi-network affiliate marketing for its customers.
Dominik Grollmann is editor in Chief of INTERNET WORLD Business, the leading german business-paper for Internet-Professionals.
Felix is CEO of amiando, Europe's leading online service for on-demand event organization and event ticketing. He founded his first venture, an international website network, during his schooldays. As a student he co-founded several organizations and spent more than two years in Silicon Valley, including working at the BMW Technology ...
Dave Harding is the Online Customer Acquisition Manager for Argos.co.uk and has been with the Argos Multi-Channel/ecommerce team since 2006.
Dave’s current role involves developing Argos’ online customer acquisition strategy and promoting Argos’ multi-channel offering through various acquisition channel including affiliates, search engine marketing, online advertising and shopping ...
Ralf Hein is a longtime affiliate and performance marketing consultant. With his experience dating back more than 9 years, he is one of the most acknowledged experts for affiliate marketing in Germany. Since 2006 Ralf Hein is chairman of the affiliate marketing interest group of the German industy association BVDW. ...
Lori Helms Geoffroy is the head of Acquisition and Partner Marketing for Kodak Gallery – EAMER, which offers a leading online photo site in 8 European locales. Based in Amsterdam since June 2008, her responsibilities include developing high performance acquisition programs in the Search, Affiliate, and Display Advertising channels, in ...
Alain Heureux is President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe), the trade association responsible for promoting the growth of the interactive advertising markets in Europe. IAB Europe represents the interests of more than 5000 members including the regions major media groups, advertisers, agencies, portals, technology and service providers. ...
Alexander is the newly appointed deputy chairman of the performance marketing group of the German industry association BVDW. With his new company 121WATT (http://www.121WATT.de ) he shares knowledge to experienced Online Marketers on all relevant performance marketing topics with a focus on search marketing, affiliate marketing and analytics.
Prior ...
Chris leads eBay’s European Publisher Development Team. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, this team is responsible for the growth of all eBay’s Affiliate programmes across Europe. Prior to joining the Publisher Development team, Chris led eBay’s Paid Search team in the UK since joining the company in 2003.
Lena Huang is eCommerce Manager at Marriott International, Inc., a leading lodging company with more than 3,100 lodging properties in 66 countries and territories. Based in Washington D.C., Lena is responsible for the growth and expansion of Marriott’s global affiliate programs and online partnerships.
Lena was born and raised in ...
Roy is a senior SEO consultant for Onetomarket and has been working in the search industry since 2003. He started out as and graphic web designer, but soon realized that sites need traffic before they can get results. Therefore he started to look out for traffic sources that converted well ...
As one of the UK affiliate marketing industry’s most experienced and well-connected professionals, Nicky Iapino is currently an Online Marketing Consultant working with a number of leading digital businesses on a global scale. She was previously UK Managing Director of AdLINK Group, Europe’s leading provider of Online Marketing solutions, and ...
s UK Client Development Director, Commission Junction, Cheryl is responsible for all new business and existing business, both advertiser and affiliate focused in the UK. She works closely with the European management team as well as the sales and the account management teams in France, UK, Germany and the Nordic ...
A veteran internet marketing specialist, and speaker at web conferences, Ben has generated tens of millions of dollars for clients in the US, UK and Japan.
Ben co-founded Conversion Rate Experts after implementing almost every web marketing strategy, and concluding that conversion rate optimization is by far the biggest opportunity ...
Menker joined Outrider (a GroupM company) 2 years ago. His mission was to establish an affiliate marketing unit for the GroupM traditional media agencies, which now exists for over a year. Outrider works with unique (inhouse developed) tools which give deep insights in affiliate marketing campaigns. Working with the largest ...
Dixon set up his first affiliate program for his .com start-up - Murder Mystery Games LTD - in 1998 and Receptional Internet Marketing in 1999 which is one of the leading consultancies in the UK on Search Marketing.
Dixon Jones is a regular speaker on the world stage, including last ...
Shak is co-founder and managing director at CardSmart, prior to this he has started and sold a number of companies including Lightstate Ltd to buy.at / AOL
A familiar face on the UK online marketing scene having been 1 of the pioneers of paid search back in 2000 and also ...
Wiep Knol is link marketing specialist at the Dutch search engine marketing firm Tribal Internet Marketing. After finishing his Marketing Management study in 2005 and building links part time, Wiep decided to take his hobby to a full time level.
At Tribal Internet Marketing, Wiep is responsible for managing link ...
Michael Kruse closed his first major online advertising deal in summer 1999 whilst expanding a students’ campus guide into this digital universe called then The Interweb or so.
From 99 to 08, he was responsible for handling online advertising budgets for clients, looking for online research surveys and managing performance ...
Axel Landschoof founded the raba.tt gmbh 2000 together with a friend and a Venture Capital Company. Since 2001 www.raba.tt is online and distributing vouchers, rebates and promoting sales. Since 2003 Axel runs raba.tt by himself and uses only online marketing for promotion. Besides running his business he is a student ...
Judith Lewis is search director at i-level, which is one of Europe’s largest SEM agencies. She works across multiple large brands creating integrated strategies involving paid and natural search combined with social media marketing.
Outside of her work, Judith is director of Seshet Consulting, which works with small businesses on ...
James’ background was as a web developer for One.Tel where he spent 5 years before moving into an online marketing manager role. As someone who has been an affiliate, merchant, agency and finally network James has a pretty unique view on the affiliate landscape and always tries to fight for ...
Denis Maibaum is Global Product Manager at zanox, a world market leader in performance-based online marketing. Based in Berlin, Germany, he is responsible for pushing innovative ideas and product concepts across international markets. With a wide range of professional experience on both, the agency’s and the network’s side, as well ...
Ben is Director for TradeDoubler’s affiliate product and is responsible for product development, financial performance and staff best practice across 18 markets.
He was the 5th member of the UK TradeDoubler team when he joined in 2000 and was part of the management team that grew the business from ...
Kier Marston is a Senior Account Manager at Webgains. Having graduated in philosophy from King's College London he started off his career in affiliate marketing by working in affiliate management for both EBTM and The Dog House before being recruited to work at Webgains in 2006.
Kier currently manages ...
Will Martin-Gill, Director, Internet Marketing, started with eBay in 2004 and manages the North America and Asia Pacific affiliate programs on eBay Partner Network. Before joining eBay, Will worked for the Boston Consulting Group where his projects included an engagement on the start-up team that created and launched Orbitz.com. Will ...
Maureen McDonagh heads up the affiliate channel and strategic commercial partnerships on Nectar.com
Currently works closely with key partners to deliver high conversion and frequency levels across Nectar.com. Key areas of the site include voucher codes and the comparison shopping engine, Maureen has a passion for embracing new technologies and ...
Alicia Navarro is one of the few female tech entrepreneurs, having launched Skimbit.com in Australia before heading over to Europe to immerse herself in the world of tech startups, where she adapted her business quickly to launch Skimlinks.com.
Skimlinks is a simplified affiliate marketing service for publishers. It helps ...
David Naylor, more commonly known as DaveN, started working in the SEO industry over 12 years ago.
David's main motivational driving force is the belief that there is no point having a site if it doesn't rank No 1. His dedication to giving clients great ROI has lead to ...
Alistair Nichols is Head of Agency Development for Webgains. He is responsible for developing the agency sales strategy and managing the agency sales team and their relationships with UK and European agencies.
Alistair Nichols joined Webgains, (a division of adpepper media International N.V and one of the fastest growing affiliate ...
Started working for Google in 2005 as an Adwords Account Strategist to help strategic clients attract qualified traffic to their website. Changed to Web Analytics Specialist in January 2007 to help these same customers work with Google Analytics to analyze that traffic and optimize their web presence. Currently at Google ...
<p>Ciaran has been working online since taking a job in a Sydney internet cafe in 1999. He's worked in online marketing since 2000; firstly at two of the UK's biggest business publishers, covering everything from online PR to subscriptions. He took up the role of SEO & Social Media Director ...
As UK Performance Marketing Manager for Intercontinental Hotels Group, Peter is responsible for managing search activity, online partnerships & ROI campaigns, as well as the European affiliate programme. Working closely with his counterparts in France, Italy, Germany and Spain, Peter has coordinated a publisher recruitment drive and placement optimisation which, ...
Remko Nugteren (1972) is Managing Director of TradeDoubler Netherlands. TradeDoubler (founded in 1999) is a pan European online company, focused on performance based marketing, such as affiliate marketing, search marketing and campaigns. Remko Nugteren started his online career in 1998 at VNU Media and was part of the success of ...
Stephen is a Conversion Rate Expert, helping to grow web businesses in many highly competitive industries. Working as a CRO™ Consultant with companies such as Google, Vodafone, Foxy Bingo, SEO Book and SEOmoz—plus some fantastic small businesses—he has generated multimillion pound increases within hours of getting started with a new ...
Daniel joined the UK office as Account Development Manager in 2005 and in May 2007 he progressed to Head of Account Management.
In this role, he leads the Account Development Team along with the Head of Account Development. Daniel oversees the development and the growth of clients' accounts in the ...
Sascha Preisegger, also known as the MontiMan, is half merchant, half affiliate. In his function as affiliate-manger of two online-stores he has daily contact to other affiliates, merchants and affiliate-networks. At the same time, he's been an affiliate for more than 10 years. This combination inspires for ideas every day. ...
Simon is the Network Development Manager for TradeTracker UK. Previously, Simon worked for his own digital media company (established in 1997) where he negotiated exclusive publishing deals with SONY and MICROSOFT. Simon spent many years working in advertising and development at one of Europe’s largest specialist magazine publishers, before starting ...
Mark is a well known member of the Affiliate Community and has built up such a highly regarded reputation by his hard work, dedication and love of the job he does. Mark has been in the industry since 2003. In 2006 he set up Existem Affiliate Management with the aim ...
Speaker biography to follow
Paul Schoenmakers is well known in the Dutch industry as the Founder of AffiliateBlog.nl, the leading blog about Affiliate Marketing in The Netherlands. Founder of the AffiliateBorrel, a monthly drink for Affiliates, and one of the co-Founder's of AffiliateDag (yearly Dutch Affiliate Marketing event) He has developed different huge concepts ...
Sri Sharma is the Founder and Managing Director of Net Media Planet, an award winning Paid Search Marketing agency. Working on a performance based model across 27 countries and 17 languages, Net Media Planet generates client revenues of over EUR90 million annually.
Since launching in 2004, Net Media ...
Barry Smith is Director of Business Development and co-founder of flight search site Skyscanner.
Skyscanner started off as an underground success story and is now Europe’s leading flight search engine, with more than 50 million flight searches taking place each month on the Skyscanner site. The site is available ...
Since 2005 Marc Stilke is part of the AdLINK Group board and responsible for the group specialists affilinet and sedo as well as for product development and M&A. Before joining the board of AdLINK Group Marc Stilke was responsible for the Online Marketing Segment of United Internet AG, the main ...
John Straw has 30 years commercial experience in the advertising and IT sectors. A serial entrepreneur, his past 12 years have been spent in the Internet sector:
Interse Corporation, San Francisco, VP European Operations. Interse specialised in software products that measured a users path through a web site and was ...
Hannah is the Senior Account Manager at the triple award winning Existem Affiliate Management. Having been in the industry since 2006 Hannah is passionate about it and the people in it. She strives to make the relations between Affiliates, Networks and Merchants an easy and friendly one by keeping communications ...
Marcus Tandler, more commonly known as the Mediadonis, is the CEO of German-based SEO company Creativity in Action, which has a strong focus on SEO services for large companies and websites looking to improve their rankings within the Google guidelines. He started working in the SEO industry over nine years ...
Mike has been involved in Affiliate marketing now for over 7 years. He and his business partner were amongst the first in the industry to develop comparison websites for the travel sector, shortly followed by product based comparison services.
In 2005 he and his business partner founded ...
Joris Toonders (Yonego B.V.) started his carreer on the age of thirteen with affiliate marketing activities for third parties like international corporates. During last years Yonego (www.yonego.nl) was involved in setting up the search engine marketing campaigns for several medium sized and large international companies generating millions of revenue for ...
Joost de Valk is an internet strategist at OrangeValley, where he helps companies to maximize their revenues from the online channel. His main expertise is in search, affiliate and social media marketing, as well as web development.
His blog Yoast.com is considered one of the leading blogs on blogging ...
Bas van den Beld is a web/search consultant and the (part-)owner and Chief Editor of Searchcowboys.com, one of the leading websites on search marketing subjects in Europe. As Chief Editor he is responsible for the content of the website and one of the most active writers. Bas is well informed ...
Tim is responsible for the company’s business in the Netherlands which includes Advertising.com, AOL properties, ADTECH and the soon to be launched affiliate platform buy.at.
Tim has been working in the online industry since 2005, after working in the telecommunications industry fulfilling several roles at BT. Tim started at the ...
Irfon Watkins is the ceo of coull. The interactive video affiliate platform. Irfon will share coull’s experiences of working on affiliate projects and outline coull’s vision for the use of video within the affiliate product mix.
Ton Wesseling (1974) is one of the managing partners of online revenue optimization firm OrangeValley. He is an internet strategist and conversion rate expert with 10 years of online revenue experience.
As a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau board in the Netherlands and a member of the Web Analytics ...
Peter Wilson, European Product Manager, leads the expansion of Platform-A’s buy.at affiliate network into Europe. His key roles include increasing market share and developing Platform-A’s buy.at in line with market demands. Peter has worked for Platform-A’s buy.at for over two years and has over ten years of experience in online ...
Matthew graduated from Bristol in 2001 and after travelling through Asia opted out of the corporate .com world and incorporated Existem Ltd, of which he remains Managing Director.
Matthew has built a strong team of talented developers, designers and marketing professionals based at the Paintworks in Bristol who wireframe, develop ...
