Micky graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Human Geography.

He began as a graduate trainee in London at Ogilvy and Mather before moving on to spend 8 years at GGT, progressing to become Client Service Director. During his time there he was responsible for many of GGT’s blue chip clients including Cadbury, KP, Mazda and Taunton Cider as well as being a Campaign “Face to Watch”.

Peter John studied Economics and Law and co-founded a law firm in Hamburg. His agency life started 1993 at Jung von Matt in Hamburg where he established the Planning department. He worked with Audi as a client and built an international Planning Group working on European Launches.

In 1997 he left the agency and became founding Partner of Pentagon Network Marketing, working on strategic and creative developments for clients and agencies. He left Germany in 1998 to work with DDB International in London as International Senior Account Planner. He was heading and coordinating planning on Volkswagen Accounts for the DDB Network worldwide. His responsibilities included the coordination of pan-European campaign development for launch and major lifecycle campaigns. Together with Volkswagen’s Management, Peter John developed a multibrand strategy for the Volkswagen Group that was awarded with the Deutscher Marketingpreis.

Clark Parsons is the Managing Director of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, a not-for profit institution that offers executive education to those leading creative enterprises in advertising, media, entertainment, journalism, marketing and design. The school's core activity is its innovative, part-time executive MBA in Creative Leadership, a global program that can be completed in 5 modules spread over 1-2 years.

In the past year, agencies led by recent Berlin School graduates have won dozens of top communications industry awards, including multiple Lions at Cannes, runner-up for Media Agency of the Year as well as Agency of the Year at Cannes, Agency of the Year at the Golden Drum Festival, plus a host of other national awards for Agency of the Year, PR Agency of the Year and Multicultural Agency of the Year.

A native of Alabama in the U.S., Clark began his career as a newspaper journalist (Daily Variety, The Tennessean, Nashville Banner, Nashville Scene) and later editor-in-chief of a city magazine (Nashville Life). He was awarded a Robert Bosch Fellowship in 1997 and moved to Germany for a year of work in the Film & TV Division of the the German state of North Rhine-Westfalia’s Ministry of Post & Telecom. He then had a Bosch Fellowship stage at the Berliner newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.

After deciding to extend his year long stay in Germany (for 13 years and counting), Clark worked as a Media Project Manager for the Industrial Investment Council of the New German States, advising foreign Internet companies and broadcasters locating in Berlin such as eBay and the Einstein Channel. After further stints as a broadcast media consultant at KPMG/BearingPoint and as Country Manager for an IT business development network, he co-founded Vortel GmbH, an Internet telephone company that was later sold to Inter.Net Germany.

Clark holds a B.A. in English from Vanderbilt University and an M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism, where he was elected graduation speaker. He lives in Berlin-Zehlendorf with his wife, two children and a vinyl record collection still waiting to be re-alphabetized.

Jean-Claude Hamilius graduated from the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach in Germany. Over the years, he has been Artistic and Creative Director at Young&Rubicam, Leo Burnett, Saatchi, DMB&B and McCann Erickson in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, in charge of the creation and/or creativity locally and at European level.

He is the founder and Creative Director of Consumers (Ges.f.gute Werbung mbH) in Düsseldorf and in October 2007 he was named Professor of "Kommunikationsdesign" at the faculty "für Gestaltung" of the Hochschule Mannheim.

Frances is the Global Recruitment Director for WPP. WPP is the second largest marketing and communications company in the world with approximately 97,000 employees in 64 operating companies in more than 100 countries. She is responsible for executive recruiting for WPP’s operating companies globally. Additionally, Frances is responsible for talent management, retentions strategies and graduate recruitment which includes the gold standard WPP Fellows Programme.

Frances began her career in marketing at Spillers Foods after reading History at Manchester University. After four years on the client side, Frances moved to the agency world joining Bates, Lintas and Leo Burnett. She was responsible for managing major multinational clients, including Procter and Gamble, Nestle and Unilever.

Richard is the Regional Business Director for Europe, Middle East & Africa at Publicis where he leads all Communications for P&G's Oral Care and Health Care brands

Richard's career has spanned multiple countries and marketing disciplines, as well as time spent agency & client side. He has significant working experience internationally and has worked for McDonald's, The Coca-Cola Company, Carlson Marketing Group in addition to Publicis. His brand experience includes Orange, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, PepsiCo, Scottish & Newcastle Breweries, UDV, Pernod Ricard and P&G.

Ulrich is responsible for the TBWA\ brand across Europe, managing all aspects of how the brand behaves in the marketplace including marketing and PR.

He runs the Brand Ring Europe with Brand Managers in almost 30 countries to create a consistent brand footprint for TBWA\ and all related agency brands. He and his team work hand in hand with the new business and talent management teams within TBWA\. Ulrich is a member of the European Executive Committee.

It is still a question: is Eriks Stendzenieks a copywriter with a feel for art direction or an art director with the ability to write. In any case, he has created some of the most cornerstone visuals in the history of Latvian advertising and has written some of the best copy as well.

"I was interested in words. I was interested in pictures. I was interested in people. And I somehow discovered that they all merge in advertising", he says.

Sebastiaan is 42 years old and studied Communications & Business. He is the Managing Director of Qi (www.qi-ideas.com) a digital agency based in Amsterdam. He has been playing a pivotal role within the Dutch association of communications agencies (VEA www.vea.nl) since 1999. He has set up the Digital Council ECOM/Evolve, launched the Day of Interactive Talent (DIT) and is part of the Talent Council.

She joined from leading WPP brand consultancy and design agency network Landor, where over the past ten years she created and headed up HR across Europe and Middle-East, and organisational development worldwide.

Anderson Mair started her career at Data General Europe, moving to insurers GAN in 1984 where she spent four years as HR manager of the Industrial Risk division and IT and was previously HR Consultant in charge of Recruitment. From 1995-1998 and prior to joining Landor Associates, Anderson Mair was HR Director at record label BMG. During her tenure, she was instrumental in conducting a full internal change management program including the board of directors.

She is married to a true Scott and has two teenage daughters.

Cliff Van Wyk has an important experience in the marketing communications industry. He worked with and for Unilever, IBM, Dell, Dulux, Nestle, Coca-Cola and HSBC. He has been Partner at BrandSmart Consulting, Director & Head of Regional Advertising Centre - Africa at Lowe Worldwide, Managing Director at Column Communications and Marketing Manager at 3M South Africa.

His areas of specializations are creativity in communications, advertising to subcultures and multinational audiences. He has presented papers at several international conferences on various aspects of consumer behaviours and communications.

He is currently Senior Lecturer at the Advertising and Marketing Communications Media School of the Bournemouth University.

Jeroen Konings studied Media and Entertainment Management at NHTV in Breda, Netherlands. Following a first exciting internship at the Communication Company in Antwerp, Jeroen decided to study at the Northern Arizona University in the United-States as it offered a major in advertising.

He then returned to the Netherlands, completed a Masters in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam and worked part time in the strategic department of TBWA\NEBOKO. He now works at TBWA\NEBOKO full time as a Brand Manager.