Committee - Forum 2011

Alexander Anisimov is CEO of Top Communication. Previously he worked with top officials in different government departments and led the GR in major energy and mining companies. He participated in the creation of various regional development programs. As a Professor he led a course of political communication for university students. He is a GR-Communications and International Relations specialist. He graduated from the Pedagogical Institute and the Diplomatic Academy in Moscow and completed a postgraduate qualification course at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna.
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Andrew Izmailov graduated with honours from the University of Toronto with a specialization in economics and statistics. He was involved in numerous clubs and sport teams while at University. In his spare time Andrew is very interested in historical literature and international politics. Currently Andrew is working in the area of Risk Management for the Bank of Montreal, specializing in the areas of credit risk and portfolio management. Being an entrepreneur by nature, Andrew is currently involved in numerous endeavours. He is in charge of the process of launching OrganizedNews.com – an online news aggregator specializing in presenting the most important and thought-provoking content in an easy to use format (www.organizednews.com). Additionally, he is involved in founding the On-Target Education, a non-profit charity corporation focused on teaching youths in Canada about money management (www.ontargeteducation.org).
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Denise Stillman is an 18-year veteran marketer and strategist with expertise in branding, marketing, strategic planning, sales and business development. She is the principal and founder of Clear Directions (with a company blog), a business advisement firm whose team brings business owners marketing strategy, profit planning, and business coaching services to help them innovate and plan their way to a more profitable future. She is a member of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches, the recipient of several Publicity Club of Chicago Silver and Gold Trumpets and the Public Relations Society of America MacEachern Award, and she holds an MBA from North-western University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
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Dr. Daniel Höltgen has been Communications & External Relations at the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) since 2004. He previously worked as spokesperson and head of press for the German government and as an adviser to the European Commission. Daniel is British and German. Daniel is a trained journalist and holds a Ph.D. in economic geography from the University of Cambridge.
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Jolyon Kimble is Director of Middle East, Africa and Asia for Sovereign Strategy, based in Kuwait. He consults widely across the GCC region, and has recently worked in Jordan and the Lebanon. A corporate communications expert, Jolyon has particular experience in conceiving and implementing strategic communications plans for leading public and private sector companies. He also provides specialised political communications counsel. Jolyon was previously Editor of Public Affairs News magazine, the global government relations and public affairs magazine, from 2004 until 2006. Before that he was Chief Political Correspondent for the political website ePolitix.com, covering the political stories of the day. He began his career on The House Magazine, the respected journal for MPs and peers, in 1998. Soon after joining he took over the “Committee Corridor” column on The House Magazine, and later began interviewing MPs and peers for the weekly “Profile” feature. He has interviewed over 100 parliamentarians, and written in detail on the full range of subjects across the political spectrum.
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Maxim Behar is a world known Public Relations expert and marketing professional, Chair of the Bulgarian PR Association and also Chair or Board member of tens of local and International communities. He is considered as one of the most influential non political opinion makers in Bulgaria. His whole life experience has been connected with communications. He started his career as a journalist in Prague, Czech Republic. Later he was one of the founders of the “Standart Daily” (1992) and also its Managing Editor. In 1999, he became the first Bulgarian member of the International Public Relations Association, and since 2005 he has been the only Bulgarian member of the American Public Relations Society. Behar served as a Chair of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum, which is part of the International Forum of the Prince of Wales, for two terms (2001-2007). He is an Honorary Consul of the Republic of Seychelles in Bulgaria, and in 2005 he became an Honorary Citizen of his native city of Shumen. Maxim Behar left the journalism field in 1995 remembering Winston Churchill’s words that a person can achieve a lot of things with journalism but should know exactly when to quit. At first, he had no idea he would be working in the PR field but he decided to take advantage of the experience he had gathered, and his of business knowledge. He set up a private firm with a small office and two employees, which today has become the largest PR Company in Bulgaria – M3 Communications Group, Inc. Today the agency services over 60 international and local companies. M3 Communications Group, Inc. is the only Bulgarian company which has reached the final of the international business awards, the Stevie Awards (the “business Oscars”) in 2007, where it won the prestigious World Award for Best PR Agency. M3 Communications Group, Inc. is a part of Hill & Knowlton Associates Group since 2000. In addition to being a prominent PR expert, Maxim Behar is a cosmopolitan personality. He has travelled around the world many times at least. He has met with some of the most influential and emblematic personalities of our time. He is enthusiastic about the opportunities that the modern world, the hi-tech, and the new media are creating. Internet is an inseparable part of the world of communications - that is why he spends 18 hours a day online! His greatest passions are technological innovations, which help him keep abreast of the dynamic time in business and communications.
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Roland Binz is one of the leading and most experienced professionals in crisis communications in Switzerland. He is vice president of the Swiss Crisis Communication Association. Following his studies in law at the University of Berne he worked for 8 years as a court reporter and political editor for a well-known daily newspaper. He was subsequently nominated Public and Press Officer for the Swiss Army within KFOR after the Kosovo war in the year 2000. From 2001 till mid 2009 Binz garnered broad experience in crisis management, corporate communication and public affairs as the corporate spokesperson and Deputy Head of the Press Office at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). In June 2009 Roland Binz established his eponymous business consultancy for crisis, litigation and reputation communication (www.rolandbinz.com). He is also co-founder of the international Crisis and Litigation Communicators' Alliance (www.clc-alliance.com), a group of prominent consulting firms providing clients with seamless crisis and litigation communications support around the globe.
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Rui Martins is the Corporate Communication and Public Affairs Director at Dianova Portugal since 2003. He is working on corporate reputation, corporate relations, social marketing communications, alliances & sponsorship programs, corporate & online communications, media relations, new media and social relations, health communications and social health marketing. He is a pre-lector at many Universities on post graduation/masters seminars on Corporate Reputation, Social Marketing, Social media marketing and Health Communications. Rui is also the Regional Coordinator for Portugal at the European Association of Communications Directors. Rui speaks 5 languages. He is involved in proactive Social Media networking:
     

Stephen Davies is an online communications consultant based out of the UK. He is the founder and managing director of 3WPR – an online communications consultancy. He has worked on a number of online PR and social media campaigns for national and multinational companies and currently consults with a broad scope of clients ranging from a B2B FTSE 100 to a number of well-known consumer brands. Stephen currently acts as a consultant with Action Global Communications, the only global PR network to focus specifically in the emerging markets and has worked on a number of initiatives in Eastern Europe, Russia and the UAE. His professional blog – www.stedavies.com - has been recognised by industry professionals around the world and was named ‘Europe’s number one PR blog’ according to the rankings given by US publication, Adage. In 2009 he was added to the PR Week Power Book – which claims to include the top 1% most “powerful and inspirational” UK PR people. Previously he worked for the world’s largest independent PR firm, Edelman, in London and European online distribution company, RealWire.
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Svetlana Kananykhina is a Deputy Director at Top Communication GmbH, responsible for Partnerships and Public Relations and Communications. She is also the Founder and CEO of Event Live Communication agency, Moscow, where she has been leading the department for Marketing and Advertising, being responsible for the thorough event organization and actual holding of presentations, press-conferences advertising campaigns, and corporate celebrations, with key clients: “OGK1” JSK, “Otkrytie” Financial Corporation, “Lenovo”, Russian Bank of Development, and “Rosevrobank”. From 2004 to 2006 Svetlana was the CEO of “Shpinel” Ltd., a company specializing in the luxury and beauty industry, where she directed the development strategy and product diversity policy of the company. She was also dealing with human recruitment and training, new clients search, and expansion of the available groups of clients. In the past Svetlana used to be CEO of “Solaris” Centre for Beauty and Medical Aesthetics, Press-secretary for the Petanque Russian Spots Federation, Manager of the PR department at the Design studio of Olga Brovkina – Moscow, PR specialist at Stroioptimal Ltd., and Regional Coordinator for an election campaign at the Russian Parliament held by “Image Contact”. She expects a diploma in Marketing issued by the Moscow International Higher School for Business, and she also holds a diploma in Advertising Journalism from the Moscow State University. She has graduated Trade Economy and Management at the Novosibirsk Institute foe Economics and Law.
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Thomas Missong is the President of the European Association of Credit Rating Agencies (EACRA), registered in Paris, France. He has been working as an independent consultant since December 2008 with a specific focus on Rating Analysis and Financial Advice. He also conducts Corporate Credit Risk Seminars with several partners. Prior to that Thomas was Executive Director of Triple A Corporate and Rating Advisory, a 100% subsidiary of UniCredit Bank Austria in Vienna, acting as communication channel between the bank, the bank clients and the international rating agencies. Previously, he worked as a project manager in Bank Austria Creditanstalt in the Energy and Utilities team in Vienna and as project Manager for Lyonnaise des Eaux, the leading global water utility, in Paris. Thomas Missong has a Master's degree in European Political Affairs from the College of Europe in Bruges and holds a Magister in Business Administration from Wirtschaftsuniversitat in Vienna (with focus on Capital Markets). At present Thomas Missong is working on projects to improve the collaboration of rating agencies across Europe and assists clients in their relations with external rating agencies.
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Yana Dubeykovskaya - Corporate, Media and Political Communications Manager. She has led the campaign for presidential elections in Russia. During the period of the Russian energy industry privatization she was the head of the PR & IR Departments of the largest energy company in Russia. Yana is a specialist in the field of branding and corporate media. Yana is an expert in the field of corporate and political psychology, social psychoanalysis, author of books and publications. Yana was nominated for Russia's prize “Media Manager of the year”. She holds a PHD and MBA in marketing. She works in Bulgaria, Austria and Russia.
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Yannis Freris leads the communication and corporate responsibility department of GEFYRA S.A. (Concessionaire of the Rion – Antirion “Harilaos Trikoupis” Bridge), from the beginning of the epopee of this European mega-structure, as well as during its operation started in 2004. Spokesperson, corporate communication strategist, and an expert responsible for sustainable development policies, he has been coordinating a team which was distinguished more than 10 times on the national and the European level during the last two years, in the fields of Communication & CSR. Yannis Freris is an IEMA-approved CSR practitioner and a board-member of the Corporate Responsibility Institute (CRI). In November 2009 he was elected Head of the CSR Working Group of the European Association of Communication Directors (EACD), being at the same time Regional Coordinator of the association for Greece. He is also a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA). His past experience in the public and private sector, counts research as Scientific Director of the Institute for Research & Policy Strategy (INERPOST), communication and event management of the Greek action plan of the European Year Against Racism (1997) appointed by the Minister of Labour & Social Affairs and consultancy inside PLANET S.A.
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