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Speakers

We are in the process of confirming our Speakers for a4uexpo Europe 2010 and they will be added to this page as they are confirmed. We expect to have many International speakers from the Online Marketing sphere providing thought leadership, best practice advice and practical strategies to help you get the most from your affiliate marketing activity.

Andre Alpar

Online Marketing Consultant Rocket Internet

Andre Alpar has a double masters degree in computer science and management as well as a bachelor in psychology - both from the University of Technology in Darmstadt. He has active in the internet business since 1996, gathers SEO experience since 1998 and is active in affiliate marketing in different ...

Matt Bailey is Head of Performance at i-level, Europe’s largest independent digital agency. Here he is responsible for managing the CPA acquisition based marketing strategies for large blue chip clients such as Next, Orange, LOVEFiLM, WWF, P&G and News International. Until recently Matt was chair of the IABs Affiliate Marketing ...

Andy Barr

Head Yeti 10 Yetis

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 ...

Johannes Beus

Managing Director SISTRIX

Johannes Beus, Managing Director of SISTRIX GmbH, has been involved in the optimisation of Websites for search engines for more than nine years now. He has been publishing regular summaries of his own evaluations and assessments of the SEO market on one of the longest-running German-language SEO blogs since 2003. ...

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 ...

Lee co-founded FusePump to help e-commerce companies grow revenues through the application of high quality product feeds.

Lee has been working in online marketing since 1999 in sales, product development, business development and strategic roles at Dennis Publishing, Reed Business Information and Vibrant Media.

FusePump has grown its customer base ...

Matt heads up the digital business consultancy Hatmatic. They offer performance & affiliate marketing solutions, and co-ordinated media strategy focused on delivering ROI across digital marketing channels.

In addition Matt has set up a number of complementary business solutions giving Hatmatic the status of full service provider:

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Christoph has been building links for his clients and affiliate sites since 2003 and is a well known and respected guru in the online marketing industry. This is especially true when it comes to getting really strong and juicy links on trusted domains. His company CEMPER.COM has delivered long term ...

Bruce Clayton

Operations Director Optimus PM

Bruce Clayton is a director and co-founder of the triple award winning Existem Affiliate Management – the one of the UK's foremost Affiliate Management providers. Bruce began his career in commercial television, dealing with media agencies and after a stint in the world of commercial radio (not behind the microphone) ...

Jane Copland

SEO Consultant Ayima Search Marketing

Jane Copland works as an SEO consultant at Ayima Search Marketing in London, England. Having joined the Ayima team in January 2009, she focuses almost entirely on organic SEO projects, managing on-page consulting and link development for clients in gambling, finance, property, sports, news and entertainment. Prior to working for ...

Tom Critchlow

Head of Search Marketing Distilled

Tom Critchlow is Head of Search Marketing for Distilled and can be found either working hands on or project managing a team of search marketers. Tom is responsible for the overall success of several projects, as well as defining best practices and SEO processes for his team. Tom has worked ...

Ewan Darby

Business Partner Neo@Ogilvy

Ewan is Business Partner at Neo@Ogilvy running an affiliate team of six people for British Airways globally, American Express in the UK and Sony and Kodak across Europe. Neo@Ogilvy is a fully integrated division of OgilvyOne Worldwide providing its clients with competent, comprehensive marketing services for the digital age. With ...

Liane Dietrich

Managing Director LinkShare Ltd

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. Her organization provides both Advertiser Client Services and UK Publisher Support. With a strong background in product management, Six Sigma quality, e-commerce and corporate finance, Liane ...

Niels Dorje

Partner, Tandler Doerje Partner and VP Business Development Insider Group AG Insider Group

1991 – 1994 Niels Dörje studied Business Management in Heidenheim/Brenz. At the same time he also was trainee and assistant at WMF, Geislingen. 1994 – 1996 Marketing Consultant at the Media Markt-Saturn Administration. 1996 – 1997 Key Account Manager and Teamleader, For Sale advertising agency in Munich. Niels then was ...

Robert co-founded FusePump with the aim of helping merchants improve data distribution for the affiliate channel, through intelligent use of data feeds. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University (England), where he specialised in web data extraction and price comparison technology.

Robert has been developing web applications ...

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.

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Thomas Eisinger is co-founder of explido WebMarketing, a leading Performance Marketing Agency based in Germany. Meanwhile explido is a full service supplier for international affiliate marketing, SEM, SEO, display campaigns, conversion optimisation and online marketing consulting. A lot of big players such as Quelle, lastminute.de, notebooksbilliger.de, Mercedes Benz Bank or ...

Albrecht Fischer

Director Performance Marketing Kupona GmbH

Albrecht Fischer has been part of ValueClick`s management team since March 2008. In his position as Client Development Director, he is responsible for the advertiser and publisher development teams at Commission Junction. Prior to joining CJ Albrecht worked as Head of Key Accounting at Pangora, a leading European shopping search ...

Urban Gillström combines strong leadership skills and industry vision with more than 15 years experience in senior management roles in both the IT and consumer markets. Before joining TradeDoubler at the beginning of 2010, Mr Gillström was Group President, Global Sales for Comverse, one of the world’s leading providers of ...

Robert Glasgow

Managing Director Webgains

Robert co-founded Webgains with Peter Dunham, Webgains Technical Director, in 2004. Robert’s primary responsibilities include the day-to-day management of Webgains in the UK, and the strategic direction of the Webgains business across Europe and North America.

In addition, Robert is responsible for developing Webgains into a sizeable international media ...

Alan Goldstein

General Manager North America Loylogic

Alan brings over 21 years of experience managing and developing diverse businesses. In his current role as General Manager of North America he will be responsible for operations and account management for Loylogic’s North American Clients. Alan will also play a key role in developing and managing Loylogic’s global Affiliate ...

Sabine Haase

Director Marketing & Performance Technology affilinet GmbH

As Director of Marketing & Performance Technology at affilinet, Sabine Haase is responsible for the development and innovation of new performance technology products, such as tracking solutions and applications.

Sabine has been with affilinet since 2005 and during that time she led the Marketing department with a focus on internationalisation ...

Ralf Hein

Managing Director nonstopConsulting

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. ...

Chris Howard

Senior Manager, European Affiliate Marketing eBay Partner Network

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.

Nicky Iapino

Managing Director R.O.EYE

As one of the UK affiliate marketing industrys 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, Europes leading provider of Online Marketing solutions, and ...

Dixon is the Marketing Director of MajesticSEO – who have a link building tool which has spidered well over a trillion backlinks to analyze factors like anchor text and attributes. He is also a founding Director of Receptional, a leading UK Internet Marketing Consultancy. Dixon has been involved in running ...

Ricki Jones

Business Development Director Impact Radius

From both an affiliate network and digital agency perspective, Ricki Jones has worked on some of the UK’s largest and most progressive digital advertising campaigns and has developed his experience alongside the growth of performance advertising in the country. Prior to Impact Radius, he led account development as client services ...

Tina Judic

Managing Director Found

Known for her boundless energy and inspirational leadership, as a CJ and Valueclick veteran, Tina has both Affiliate & Search running through her veins. Winner of 2009 a4uAward for top Travel & Leisure Affiliate, Tina's Artemis 8 team are fast becoming recognised for their sharp and fresh delivery of innovative ...

Philipp Justus

CEO of Zanox Zanox

Philipp Justus is CEO of zanox, a global market leader for performance-based online marketing. From 2000 to 2004, Justus was the general manager of eBay Germany, which grew to be the largest subsidiary outside of the USA under his leadership. Afterwards, as the general manager of eBay Europe until 2006, ...

Frank Kemper

Deputy Editor in Chief INTERNET WORLD Business

Frank Kemper is Deputy Editor in Chief of INTERNET WORLD Business, the leading bi-weekly magazine for online marketing and e-commerce professionals in Germany. Kemper has been working as editor for several print magazines over the past two decades after having graduated from the renowned German School of Journalists (DJS) in ...

Michael Kruse is founder and CEO of ad:C media, a company specialized on performance media services. ad:C media focuses on large scale display campaigns and is currently working for 35 clients in 6 countries. Michael founded ad:C media in 2008.

From 1999 to 2008, he was responsible for handling online ...

Heike Lindner

Head of Mediaplex DACH, a ValueClick company Mediaplex

Heike Lindner has been responsible for the Mediaplex business in Germany, Switzerland and Austria since January 2010. This unit represents the global adserving and tracking solution of ValueClick, a leading international provider of performance-based online marketing services. In 2007 she started at ValueClick as senior sales manager for Commission Junction. ...

James Little

Partnership Director Top Cashback

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 ...

Jim Mansfield, CEO, of Intela, is a digital media entrepreneur and founder of Intela. Intela is a global perfomance marketing company. After a brief career as a management consultant, Jim started in online marketing in 2001. Jim, along with partners, founded Vayan Marketing Group in Florida. Vayan focused on email ...

Jj Mccarthy

Senior Manager US Affiliate Marketing, ebay Partner Network

Based in San Jose, California, JJ is responsible for the growth and performance of eBay’s Affiliate Channel in the United States. Prior to joining eBay Partner Network, JJ was the founder and CEO of Second Floor Systems, a product data exchange for retailer, and gumshoe.com, an online children’s shoe store.

Maureen Mcdonagh

Head of E-Commerce nectar.com

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 ...

Gillian Muessig

President & Co-Founder SEOMOZ

Gillian Muessig is the President and Co-Founder of SEOmoz, the web's most popular provider of SEO software. Known as SEOmom throughout the industry, Gillian travels the world evangelizing for both the company and the search marketing industry. Gillian is known to have hand on the pulse of the profession and ...

David Naylor

Managing Director Bronco

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 ...

Walter Palma

Strategic Partner Manager Google Germany

Walter, a native Austrian, has a degree in International Business and Economics Studies from the University of Innsbruck. Walter joined Google in its European Headquarters in Dublin in July 2004, where he stayed until September 2008. His main accomplishment there was to hire, train and manage the AdSense Account Management ...

Lina Patel

Europe Head of Affiliate and Distributed Partnerships lastminute.com

With over seven years experience in the market, Lina is an affiliate advocate, having developed and launched campaigns across a range of markets including mobile, finance, entertainment and travel. As Lastminute.com's European Head, she is now responsible for growing its affiliate business across all of its brands, specifically liaising with ...

Ronald Paul

Director Marketing QUISMA GmbH

Business economist Ronald Paul, born in 1977, started his online-career in marketing at United Domains AG in Starnberg. He founded QUISMA GmbH together with Norman Nötzold where, in the capacity of CEO, he is responsible for the strategic (further) development of the business areas and the further internationalization of the ...

Stephen Pavlovich is the director of Conversion Factory, a UK-agency specialising in conversion rate optimisation for highly competitive niches. Conversion Factory maximises the conversion rates of clients, whether they're a small ecommerce company or one of the world's largest gaming sites. Conversion Factory's proven approach to CRO means they’re always ...

Francois Planque

Managing Director SEO Francois

François comes from a technical & engineering background, although he always regarded everything you could do with computers and networks more like an art!
François started building web pages in 1993 at the University of Pennsylvania. The first company he founded in 1997, provided web development services to big media ...

Duncan began working in online in 2000, after occupying director level positions at both a search engine marketing company and at Affiliate Network DGM he moved to become a full-time affiliate. Three years ago he started Total Search Solutions, a digital acquisition agency focusing on Affiliate Management and Search Engine ...

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Dush Ramachandran joined ClickBank as VP of Sales & Business Development in 2005 and is responsible for ClickBank's sales activities and alliances with affiliate and publisher organizations worldwide.

Prior to ClickBank, Ramachandran worked at Requisite Technology where he was VP of International, Global Alliances and Business Development. In this position ...

Dr Christoph Rock is the Managing Director of affilinet Germany.

He was formerly Product manager at Lycos and from 2001 – 2007 and Managing Director at Pangora GmbH.

Sri Sharma

Founder & Managing Director Net Media Planet

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 28 countries and 19 languages, Net Media Planet generates client revenues of over EUR90 million annually. Sri is considered an online marketing thought leader, ...

Martin Sinner

Founder & Managing Director Idealo Internet GmbH

Martin is founder and managing director of Idealo Internet GmbH, a Berlin-based company that runs product and flight price comparison websites within Germany, France, and the U.K. Idealo.de is among the top players in Germany and within the top 50 of all German websites. Idealo was acquired in 2006 by ...

Marcus Tandler is the CEO of German-based Online-Marketing company CIA | 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 ten years ago. Tandler started ...

Ralph Tegtmeier (fantomaster) graduated as master of arts from the University of Bonn, Germany, in 1981. He has gained website development and web marketing experience since the fall of 1994. He is the co-founder and principal of fantomaster.com GmbH (Belgium), a company specializing in webmaster software development, industrial-strength cloaking, and ...

Bas Van Den Beld

Owner / Chief Editor Stateofsearch.com

Bas van den Beld is a Web/search strategist, international search specialist, trainer, and well-respected blogger. Bas is well informed about what’s going on in the world of Internet and search marketing worldwide and especially Europe.

Bas is the founder and owner of Stateofsearch.com. He is also the owner of NetTraject, ...

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.

After working for Google's Search Quality Team in Dublin, Ireland until the beginning of 2009, Jonas Weber co-founded webhelps! Online Marketing GmbH (http://www.webhelps.de). While at Google, Jonas was responsible for the Natural Search of the German Market in order to provide the best search results for Google's users.
In addition ...

Brad Wiskirchen

Cheif Executive Office of Keynetics Clickbank

Bradley J. Wiskirchen is the CEO of Keynetics and its subsidiaries ClickBank and Kount.

Wiskirchen joined Keynetics in 2005. His skills and experience in business, technology, and law give Keynetics an edge in strategic planning and negotiation in the Internet sector. Under his guidance Keynetics has become one of the ...

Matthew Wood

Founder of A4u / Head of M-Commerce & Performance Marketing A4u / vouchercloud

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 ...

Kimon Zorbas

Vice President IAB Europe

Kimon is Vice President of IAB Europe and a qualified lawyer. He leads the public policy programme engaging with the EU and other European institutions, international bodies and the media to promote the Bureau’s policies and interests.

Key platform topics for IAB Europe include Data Protection, Advertising, e-Commerce and Consumer ...