Henrik Egede has a unique carreer in the Danish IT sector. In 1994, he was active in founding the Danish Ministry of Science and Information Technology. From 2000, as a Vice President, he helped build the Danish IT Industry Association to its current position. In February 2010, he established his own advisory company Egede Advantage. Henrik Egede has a clear focus on realizing business opportunities. His personal network in the local and global IT Industry is among the best.

Email: henrikegede@gmail.com

Anne-Lise has deep understanding of the IT industry as consultant and market researcher focusing on software, based on 20+ years experience. Most recently as European Vice President for IDC in software and services area.

Anne-Lise advises software and services companies for tactical and strategic market challenges, and has a long track record for providing guidance for vendors in positioning the company and products in the market to drive optimal visibility and results.

Her recent projects include consulting market positioning for a services company, building an EMEA tool for factual sales planning, researching the web 2.0 technologies and opportunities to optimize marketing efforts and developing a global practise to measure and communicate the value of software.

Email: aw@phacit.com

Claus brings almost 30 years of CIT industry insight and experience, both as an end-user and as analyst focusing on the Storage Industry. As an analyst, Claus has helped the IT industry for more than 18 years with insight and advice enabling executives to speed up their decision-making. Linking the technology providers and their customers via analysis-based insight have benefited both parties in order to refine their respective strategies.

Claus’ recent projects have explored data leakage, cloud based content, green IT, new media types, data security, disaster recovery/BC, server and storage virtualisation among others.

website: www.clausegge.com
Email: clausegge@hotmail.com
Profile and references: http://www.linkedin.com/in/clausegge

Martin is an experienced ITC market researcher and consultant. He has a long and successful track record of advising ITC industry executives, CIOs, and technology investors on the shape and direction of the market. He is currently running his own consultancy, ITCandor, having previously been Chief Research Officer at IDC.

Martin´s focus is in providing factual market guidance through accurate modelling of key company revenues and in providing insight into themes such as Cloud Computing, Digital Explosion, CSR and Preparing For The Upturn.

Martin is an expert in presenting at vendor, CIO, customer and other industry events, well-known for his many engagements across EMEA; he is a prolific writer who understands the nuances of our industry and how to position new players and markets; he also understands vendor activities at the strategic and tactical level and is able to help with competitive and market consulting activities.

Email: Martin_Hingley@yahoo.co.uk
Profile and references: www.linkedin.com/in/martinhingley
Martin Hingley’s Blog: www.martinhingley@wordpress.com

Working first as a retail and technology journalist for global magazine The Banker and later as European research analyst for TowerGroup, a US-based research and advisory firm for the financial technology sector and Financial Insights, Parveen has gained indepth insight into the drivers that result in IT decisions.

Parveen focused on covering trends in IT strategy, the payments industry and technology innovations across the financial services sector.While working with The Banker Parveen created and implemented the global The Banker Technology Innovation Awards, which continue to recognize excellence of technology innovation within the financial sector.

Since her last position with Financial Insights as Senior Analyst, where she added project management to her experience, Parveen has worked as an independent in the capacity of advisor to developing content for financial services technology events for Financial Times Business Group, as well as advising on PR and Marketing strategy for an innovative technology company based in Taiwan. Parveen is currently based in Doha, State of Qatar.

Email: parveenbansal@hotmail.com

J.L.Matu brings in more than 35 years of experience in consultancy branches from engineering to management of international projects. He has worked in India, Middle East, Germany and mainly and mostly in Denmark/ Scandinavia.

As engineering expert, his clients varied from Ministry of Greenland to USAF to multi and bilateral organisations like Danida and world famous architects to lead and execute projects in Europe, Middle East and Asia. As director of SEAG (Scandinavian Engineers and Architects Group) and Sales Director CIC (Copenhagen International Consultants) he had the overall responsibility of financial and management aspects of these international projects.

He established his own company in late 80´s and transferred technology (TOT) to mainly from Europe to Asia and other countries. He was also responsible for outsourcing from Europe to Asia.

Since early 90´s, he has worked in telecommunication industry, where he was “Regional Director” for Tele Danmark International and Country Manager for Telia International establishing Joint Venture companies in Europe and mainly in India. The mobile company “JT Mobiles” (JTM) established in the three financially lucrative states of India was owned by partners from UK, Sweden, Thailand and India and he was coordinating and managing along with teams of the partners, the process of sending technical- financial bids, getting the GSM licenses and finally starting JTM from scratch.

Myriam De Greef has over 25 years experience in European Marketing, Communication and Event organisation in the ICT sector.

As Vice President, European Marketing at IDC, she directed the strategy and built the success of IDC flagship conferences such as the European IT Forum, featuring the most prominent ICT CEOs and attracting all key stakeholders and press in Europe. She has organised events in all major countries in Europe.

After 4 years as director of an event management company in France, she joined the European Commission where she led the organisation of key Ministerial conferences in the field of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth.

Currently owner of 27+, an event management and communication agency, she undertakes projects and advises on various conference and workshop organisations in the ICT field. She can embrace any aspect of the conference organisation processes; from the design of the programme through marketing, PR and logistics handling. Her most recent project was the organisation of the successful eHealth week in Barcelona (March 2010). The event was co-organised by the Spanish Presidency of the EU, the European Commission and HIMSS Europe and attracted 3200 participants, 152 journalists and 95 exhibitors.

Email: mdegreef@27plus.com

Simone de Bruin brings together business strategy , partnering insight and research data to support channel & alliance strategies of major software and services vendors.

Currently owner of LinkedResearch, a dedicated partner research & consulting practice, Simone has built her expertise as a lead consultant at IDC, in a large variety of pan- European partnering projects. During these projects she worked with major vendors like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP etc. Her experience covers all sorts of partner research, ranging from channel selection processes to strategic alliance benchmarks.

The partner research areas she covers include market (partner) opportunity sizing, ecosystem strategies, partner benchmarks, partner portfolio reviews, partner selection processes, partner communication & marketing, partner satisfaction research and review and feedback processes.

Simone is well respected by her clients for her understanding of the partnering & alliances expertise area and associated markets. In addition she proactively generates new ideas and initiatives for her clients. Her strong business development skills combined with opportunity spotting and strong relationship building skills help her clients to create an optimally balanced partner ecosystem.

Email: sdb@linkedresearch.eu
LinkedResearch: www.linkedresearch.eu
Profile & References: http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonedebruin