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Aad Weening, IMRWorld – Guy Hipwell, Liberty – Michael Austin -- Diane Canady The Savile Row Company - Hitwise –  Robin Goad - Paul Simms, MD The Third Man -Katy Howell, Immediate Futures -Awaiting - House of Fraser, Liberty, White Company, ASOS, ShopDirect, Wickes, Laura Ashley  eBay, iKEA further up-dates will be announced in due course

mydeco.com

David Kelly

CEO of mydeco.com

Chief Executive Officer mydeco (2007-)
European Chief Operating Officer, eBay (2003-2007)
Chief Operating Officer, lastminute.com (2000-2003)
Operations Director, Amazon (1998-2000)V

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Screwfix Direct

Simon OMahony

Head of Marketing - Screwfix Direct

Simon has been active in the direct marketing & catalogue industry for over 10 years. 

Prior to joining Screwfix, he worked for 4 years within Staples European Mail Order Group as Marketing Manager for Neat Ideas a UK based office products supplier.

Simon has been with Screwfix Direct for 3 years.  He is responsible for all aspects of marketing from acquisition to retention across three channels, managing a spend of over £20m and a team of 60+.  During his tenure, sales have grown by an average of 15% per annum, e-commerce sales have grown to over 40% of total sales and the new Trade Counter channel has been launched.

Screwfix are part of the Kingfisher group and the UK’s leading supplier of screws, fixings and tools to the Trade & DIY with a turnover in excess of £340m. A 950 page catalogue containing 15,000+ skus, an award winning website & trade counter estate of 50 sites (& growing) are all managed in-house and contribute to the sustained year on year growth experienced by this multichannel retailer

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Hermes Europe

Mike Antwoon

Development Manager – UK & Europe

Mike is a 15 year veteran of the UK B2C parcel industry. He has a wealth of knowledge of the residential delivery market having held positions in marketing and business development for several large organisations, and has been NSM for Parcelnet/Hermes now for almost two years. He has an enviable track record of new business acquisition, growth and retention – and is a firm believer in the benefits a courier-based final mile solution offers.

Robin Goad

Head of Research

Robin analyses the trends affecting businesses online and works with Hitwise clients to identify opportunities and threats to online business growth. Robin writes regular Insight Reports on a range of industries, covering affiliate marketing, search, and audience profiling. Robin is a regular speaker at industry events in Europe, North America and Asia, and has been widely quoted in the media, including the Financial Times, the BBC, DM Review and Information Age.

Prior to joining Hitwise, Robin worked at the Corporate Executive Board and as a Lead Technology Analyst with Datamonitor, where he authored research reports on a wide variety of topics including eCommerce, direct marketing and customer relationship management

Diane Canady

Ecommerce Director

Diane has over 9 years digital experience - including 5 years at AOL. She is a Global E-Commerce & Marketing Director for The Savile Row Company with over 20 years blue-chip marketing experience at 3 top ad agencies launching world famous brands. And has solid understanding of mail order retailing

Paul Simms, MD

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Steve Robinson

CEO

07-09   Chief executive, M and M Direct
2005   Chief executive, Tesco Direct
2001   Finance director, Argos 
1998   Group chief analyst and head of strategy for general merchandise, Kingfisher
1997   Medicines buyer, Superdrug
1995   Financial analyst, Superdrug
1992   Trainee accountant, Ernst & Young

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Andrew Campbell

Managing Director

Andrew has worked on a range of successful CRM solutions for blue chip retailers such as : Lakeland; Early Learning Centre; Interflora and Tesco Direct. These involved analysing complex business and distribution models and designing effective technology-enabled marketing solutions. As technology advances exciting new opportunities are opening up in the areas such as : content management; Web 2.0; social networking; user generated content; mobile marketing; Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and  desk top widgets.

Andrew has 25 years experience in leveraging technology in pursuit of marketing goals. A mix of client and supply-side experience covering both business and technology roles.

Currently Managing Director of ClickSquared Europe. Previously : Managing Director – Identex; Planning Director – JDA; Planning Director - WWAV Leeds;  Adult Customer Segment Manager – HSBC and Marketing Systems Manager – Zurich Financial Service

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Katy Howell

Director

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Ian Simpson

Managing Director

Ian Simpson is co-founder of specialist catalogue design and marketing agency Catalogues 4 Business. With over 20 years catalogue experience behind him, Ian, along with Catalogues 4 Business, has built a reputation for creating some of the hardest working catalogues in the industry.

Ian is also a regular contributor to the catalogue press, undertakes training on catalogue design and production and has acted as a consultant to several major catalogue launches.

Home Delivery Network Limited

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Chris Penfold

Director of Sales Europe

Chris and has been involved in the IT/E-Commerce industry for the last 15 years. Having spent many years with hardware manufacturers such as Toshiba and IBM, his focus moved onto the Research and Consulting Sector spending years at Garter helping multi-national companies develop their strategies both in internal IT and external facing media.

Seeing the growth and potential of Web based retail and E-Commerce, he recognised that SLI Systems were a company with a huge future and joined them as Director of Sales Europe in 2007