Biographies
- Jim Goodnight
- Jim Davis
- Mikael Hagström
- Lord Stern of Brentford
- Don Tapscott
- Andrew Winston
- Dennis Turner
- Clara Gaymard
- Joseph Quinlan
- Solomon “Sol” Trujillo
- Pierluigi Collina
- Gerard Lyons
Since he co-founded SAS in 1976, Jim Goodnight has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. A worldwide leader in enterprise intelligence solutions and services, SAS has more than 10,000 employees in 53 countries. In 2007, the company’s revenue was $2.1 billion, its 32nd consecutive year of growth and profitability. In 2004, Harvard Business School named him as one of the "20th Century’s Great American Business Leaders," citing his impact on "the way people have lived, worked and interacted in the 20th century." Jim has a PhD in statistics and speaks internationally on leadership, education and innovation.
Jim Davis
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
SAS
As Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Jim Davis provides worldwide marketing direction for SAS solutions and services. He is responsible for managing product direction, professional services, education, advertising and communications.
A respected thought leader, Davis co-authored the book Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow Your Business.
Since joining SAS in 1994, Davis has pioneered many key initiatives, including global projects that incorporate customer feedback in the development process. Today, he continues to refine the model for continuous collaboration and innovation among engineers, marketers and customers, enabling SAS to meet the global demand for enterprise intelligence.
Mikael Hagström
Executive Vice President
SAS Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific
As the Executive Vice President of EMEA and Asia Pacific for SAS, Mikael Hagström is passionate about providing a culture where innovation can flourish, resulting in market leadership both for the organisation and its customers.
Hagström is responsible for optimising business performance, delivering revenue and managing operations in more than 50 countries with individual Profit and Loss centres. He has extensive executive sales management experience with a successful record of growing business and fostering strong leadership in local geographies.
As a member of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) Executive Council, Hagström is a frequent speaker on the multinational business climate.
Lord Stern of Brentford
Climate-change economics expert and author of the Stern Review
Lord Stern of Brentford made headline news around the world and became an instant household name when he published his long-awaited, groundbreaking, 700-page Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change to critical acclaim. A former Chief Economic Advisor to the UK government, he was also the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003. Stern also played a key role in Europe's economic development as the Chief Economist and Senior Advisor to the Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Stern outlines building an economic climate that facilitates investment and growth, and empowering companies and individuals to participate in that growth. He also examines in depth the far-reaching economic implications of climate change and offers organisations his valuable insights into the short- and long-term effects of global warming on the business world. In short, he clarifies complex economic issues and looks not only at the factors affecting today’s global markets but also at the factors which will affect organisations and global markets in the long term.
Don Tapscott
Chief Executive of New Paradigm and co-author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott is an internationally renowned authority on the strategic value and impact of information technology. He consistently predicts the next business imperatives and defines the business models and strategies that the new imperatives require. He has authored or co-authored 11 widely read books on technology and business, and his most recent book was named one of the best books on innovation of 2006 by BusinessWeek.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything explains how businesses can tap the full potential of the emerging networked economy and its self-organised, mass-participatory communities. Wikinomics is based on the largest investigation of strategic IT in business ever conducted, a project entitled Information Technology and Competitive Advantage.
Tapscott is Chief Executive of New Paradigm and an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Andrew Winston
Co-author of Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
Andrew Winston is founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and works with leading companies to use environmental thinking to drive growth. He has consulted with startups and FORTUNE 500 companies such as Bank of America, Reuters, Coca-Cola and IKEA. He is co-author of the bestseller Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, which highlights what works – and what doesn't – when companies "go green." Winston, a nationally recognised expert on green business, has written for Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The New York Times and The Washington Post, and appeared on ABC News, National Public Radio and CNBC.
Winston is a sought-after and engaging speaker, providing audiences with a timely and dynamic view on how companies turn green to gold. He gives keynote addresses and also moderates Q&A and panel discussions at events of all sizes and venues – from small meetings to large conferences, from world-class universities to corporate campuses.
Winston bases his work on significant on-the-ground, in-company business experience, including executive positions and P&L responsibility at global companies, startups and dotcoms. With the Boston Consulting Group, he helped Fortune 500 companies grow and prosper. He also served as Marketing and Development Director for Time Magazine, Director of Business Development for MTV and VH1, and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for the online arm of a national retailer.
Winston also served as the Director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale’s renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and he is currently a Fellow of the Center for Environment and Business at Yale. He received a BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia and a master's degree in environmental management from Yale. Andrew lives in Riverside, Connecticut, with his wife and two sons.
Dennis Turner
Chief Economist
HSBC
Dennis Turner is the Chief Economist of HSBC Bank plc in London. His role involves advising lending bankers on economic trends not only at national level, but also on industries and regions.
Before joining Midland Bank in 1978, he worked for four years in Whitehall, for the National Economic Development Office. This was during the Labour government’s Industrial Strategy Initiative, which was an attempt to improve the performance of the UK’s manufacturing sector.
His first job on leaving university (Swansea and University College, London) was as an economist for a national trade union. Here he was responsible for the preparation of pay claims, arbitration cases and the union's submission to various statutory bodies set up under Edward Heath’s Industrial Relations Act.
Clara Gaymard
National Executive
GE France
From February 2003 and until her nomination as GE’s National Executive for France, Clara Gaymard was Ambassador, President of Invest in France Agency.
Prior to her appointment, Gaymard served for seven years as Deputy Director at the Foreign Economic Relations Department of the French Finance Ministry. In 1999, she became Head of the Small and Mid-Cap Businesses Division. From 1991 to 1993, she was an Economic and Commercial Advisor at the French Trade Office in Cairo, Egypt.
Gaymard is a graduate of the French National School of Administration (ENA) and the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Law and History.
Joseph Quinlan
Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist
Investment Strategies Group
Global Wealth and Investment Management
As Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, Joseph Quinlan oversees the development and implementation of investment strategies and solutions for the various channels of global wealth and investment management. In this role, he is in charge of developing, communicating and executing the firm's overall investment strategy, both domestically and globally. His research is frequently cited in such media venues as Barron's, The Wall Street, The New York Times and the Financial Times.
With nearly 20 years of financial services experience, Quinlan most recently served as a Senior Global Economist/Strategist for Morgan Stanley. Quinlan lectures on finance and global economics at New York University, where he has been a faculty member since 1992, and he regularly lectures at various universities around the world.
In 2007, he was a recipient of the European-American Business Council Leadership award for his research on the transatlantic partnership and global economy. In 2006, the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union awarded him with the 2006 Transatlantic Business Award for his research on US-Europe economic ties.
Solomon "Sol" Trujillo
CEO
Telstra Corporation Limited
Trujillo joined Australia’s leading telecommunications company, Telstra Corporation Limited, as its Chief Executive Officer in July 2005. He is one of the world’s few CEOs with executive experience spanning three continents.
Prior to Telstra, he led the deployment of a series of innovative telecommunications products at US West Inc., including a number of firsts: the “plug and play” DSL for businesses and consumers; the “one number” voice mail for home, mobile and office lines; and digital video over copper wires. Innovation was the byword for the company amongst its 30 million customers.
These combined achievements led to the former US Presidential Science Advisor, Jay Keyworth, to term him “the nation’s first digital telecom CEO.”
Pierluigi Collina
The World’s Greatest Football Referee
One of the most recognised celebrities on the planet, Collina has refereed at the highest level including the 2002 World Cup Final and the 1999 Champions League Final plus countless World Cup and international matches, as well as in Serie A in his native Italy. He is uniquely respected by the players, managers and fans for his calm authority and sense of fair play under great pressure, which made him the best referee in the world’s most popular sport.
Pierluigi was educated in Bologna, Italy, where he attained his degree in economics and worked as a financial consultant. He was voted the best referee in the world by the International Football Federation of History and Statistics (IFFHS) every year from 1998-2003.
Gerard Lyons, PhD
Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research
Standard Chartered
Gerard Lyons is an expert on the world economy, international financial system, macroeconomic policy and global markets in his role as Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research at Standard Chartered. Lyons is also an Economic Advisor to the Board and is a member of the Bank’s Executive Forum.
Lyons has twenty years of experience in senior roles with some of the world's leading financial institutions and as a highly regarded city and international economist with an excellent forecasting record. Previous positions include Chief Economist at DKB International and consultant to the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Chief UK Economist at Swiss Bank Corporation, beginning his career with Chase Manhattan. He holds a PhD from the University of London, where he researched testing the efficiency of financial futures markets.
Currently, Lyons is a committee member of the Hong Kong Association, a council member of the University of Warwick, a member of the International Committee of the Bretton Woods Committee, a council member of the No Campaign, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and heavily involved with Asia House and the Japan Society.
