• Gregory Troussov is the leading Russian marketing consultant and trainer.
• Voted “Best Marketing Trainer” (“Marketing Management” magazine, 2007).
• Over 350 marketing projects completed over the course of 15 years.
• Consulting projects in 12 countries: Russia, USA, UK, Germany, France, China, Japan, Korea, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Israel, Arab Emirates.
• Over 300 articles in the business press.
• Has been speaker at Best Marketing organized events in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 2008-2009.
David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, seminar leader and the author of the number one best selling PR and marketing book The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to use news releases, blogs, viral marketing and online media to reach buyers directly which is being published in 22 languages. He has been keynote speaker at marketing conferences organized by Best Marketing in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Croatia in 2009.
Martin Lindstrom, born 1970, founded his own advertising agency at the age of 12. Needless to say, Lindstrom has a highly unusual background. According to the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the rapid rise of his career has made him one of today's most respected branding gurus in the world. He sits on several boards globally, and his clients include Disney, Mars, Pepsi, American Express, Mercedes-Benz, Reuters, McDonald's, Kellogg's, Yellow Pages and Microsoft.
Author of the best-selling book “Marketing Genius”, founder of The Genius Works, former CEO of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He is an inspirational speaker and author, consultant and coach - recently described as
"one of the most interesting new business thinkers" by Business Strategy Review. He has been keynote speaker at several events organized by Best Marketing.
Will Whitehorn has been a lynchpin in Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin empire for almost 20 years. As Virgin Group’s Brand Development and Corporate Affairs Director it’s his job to steer the entertainment, media and travel giant through times of turbulence and calm. But he also holds the title of President of Virgin Galactic – Virgin’s rapidly developing commercial space travel division – and as such should be one of the first ‘civilians’ to take a ride into space in a craft currently under development.
Bob Garfield is a columnist, critic, essayist, pundit, international lecturer and obscure broadcast personality. Garfield’s “Ad Review” is a prominent feature of Advertising Age, where each week he singles out an ad for praise or ridicule and thus has become among the more pitifully groveled-before figures in trade-magazine history. Bob Garfield was keynote speaker at the Marketing and Advertising Week WAZZAP? 2008 organized by Best Marketing, held in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in October 2007.
Patrick Barwise is Professor of Marketing and Management at London Business School and author of the book “Simply Better”. He is also a frequent conference speaker and an experienced expert witness who has been involved in commercial and competition cases in London, Washington, Brussels, Paris, and Milan.
British journalist and author based in Paris. Specialist subjects: media, branding, travel, lifestyle trends.
Publications include "Adland: A Global History of Advertising", "Fashion Brands", "Fifty: The Amazing World of Renzo Rosso and Diesel" and "The Epica Book". Copywriting clients have included Coca-Cola, MTV, Diesel and Initiative Media. Speaks regularly at conferences around the world.
Regular TV appearances. Was speaker at the annual marketing conference "Password" organized by Best Marketing in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in March 2008.
Andrea Learned is a marketing dot-connector with a focus on gender and a longterm view on coming trends. Her mission these days is to make the whole idea of “marketing to women” obsolete - NOT to work herself out of a career, but to point out how it should be more about serving feminine brain traits in everybody than about figuring out how to better serve solely women. She is author of the book "Don't Think Pink".
