Profiting from the New Web

Lesley Cowley

philipsheldrake — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:21:06 +0000

Lesley has been Managing Director / Chief Executive of Nominet since 2002. She is responsible for leading Nominet and for the development and implementation of strategy. She leads relationship building and liaison with Nominet members and stakeholders and international representation and leadership in the Internet field.

In 2007, she won the CBI First Women Award for Technology. In 2006, she was a top five finalist in Britain’s Best Boss awards and received a special commendation.

Lesley is an elected Council Member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, The Institute of Credit Management and The Chartered Management Institute.

Lesley is a Trustee of the Nominet Trust and the Jenner Hall charity. She has an MBA, with distinction.

Andrew Stott

philipsheldrake — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:15:44 +0000

Member of the Public Sector Transparency advising UK Government on Transparency and Open Data. Previously, Director for Digital Engagement, and Deputy Government CIO at the Cabinet Office.

Noshir Contractor

philipsheldrake — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:07:21 +0000

Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences and the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University, USA. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks. His research program has been funded continuously for 15 years by major grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation with additional current funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Air Force Research Lab, Army Research Institute, Army Research Lab and the MacArthur Foundation.

Professor Contractor’s book titled Theories of Communication Networks (co-authored with Professor Peter Monge, published by Oxford University Press, and translated into Chinese in 2010) received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association. He is the lead developer of C-IKNOW (Cyberinfrastructure for Inquiring Knowledge Networks On the Web), a socio-technical environment to understand and enable networks among communities, as well as Blanche, a software environment to simulate the dynamics of social networks. Professor Contractor has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a PhD from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.

Paul Taylor

philipsheldrake — Wed, 04 May 2011 07:08:19 +0000

As Vice President of Marketing & Community for Radian6 in the UK, Paul uses innovative monitoring and engagement techniques as well as traditional marketing methods to strengthen the international Radian6 brand. Previously co-founder of 6Consulting Ltd (acquired by Radian6 March 2011) he is a successful entrepreneur with a process improvement consultancy background and has experience in enterprise-wide software deployment for leading brands such as Kellogg’s, ASDA and Sophos.

Paul is recognised for innovation via the use of social media monitoring across British police forces as well as specialist groups including the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Serious & Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). You can follow Paul on Twitter at @Paul_TaylorUK.

Hector Arthur

Administrator — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:51:39 +0000

Hector has trained as an economist, worked on four national newspapers as a staff features journalist, led a web development consultancy advising RBS and BA, put together an MBO, and helped steer the digital transformation at News International.

Alongside his work with Meanwhile, Hector heads up digital development at The Times, recently relaunching thetimes.co.uk and shaping the editorial and product strategy to deliver subscription revenue alongside transactional revenue via the first paid-for mainstream newspaper app in the world.

As the senior editorial partner for the commercial teams at The Times, Hector has conceived and overseen delivery of numerous cross-platform branded content partnerships for clients including BMW, Accenture, Lloyds Bank, Volkswagen, IBM, Cisco and Microsoft.

Sudarshan Murthy

Administrator — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:29:30 +0000

Dr. Sudarshan Murthy is the Director of The Else Institute, a non-profit institute to foster, conduct, and apply scientific research and research education.

Prior to joining The Else Institute, Dr. Murthy was the Director of Applied Research at Wipro Technologies. Before that, he founded and operated a software-engineering business in Portland, Oregon, and prior to that, architected software for international trade finance.

Dr. Murthy has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in data management at the Oregon Health & Science University; and software engineering at the Oregon Institute of Technology.

Dr. Murthy has a PhD from the Portland State University and a Masters from the Oregon Graduate Institute. His current research interests include database systems, programming languages, software engineering, web science, and service science.

Jonny Bentwood

Administrator — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:11:00 +0000

Jonny joined Edelman as head of Analyst Relations and Strategy in 2006. He has led a range of campaigns for technology vendors covering both consumer and enterprise segments. His experience on clients include Intel, Xbox 360, HP, Orange, Motorola, Microsoft, Adobe, HDS, Reuters, FileNet, BT, Misys, ACI and Siebel. Prior to this, he worked at Informa, the telecoms analyst house, and as an IT consultant.

An advocate and evangelist of social media, Jonny has the highest ranked analyst relations blog (Technobabble 2.0), created TweetLevel, BlogLevel and the Social Media Index and is the author of a white paper focusing on online influence. His work has featured on CNN, Sky News, the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, Mashable and ReadWriteWeb.

Understanding how analyst relations has evolved over the past ten years, Jonny monitors analysts use of social media and publishes a league table of analyst bloggers and tweeters every quarter.

Jonny is a director and founding member of the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) and is a regular speaker on analyst relations and social media, including Forrester’s IT Forum, Oxford University and Social Media Week. Jonny is a Leeds Metropolitan University graduate.

Victor Henning

Administrator — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:05:12 +0000

Dr. Victor Henning is the co-founder and CEO of Mendeley, a London- and New York-based technology startup. Since its launch in 2009, Mendeley has grown into the world’s largest research collaboration platform with more than 900,000 users, and the world’s largest crowdsourced research database with more than 80 million uploaded documents. For his work on Mendeley, Victor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He holds a Ph.D. from the Bauhaus-University of Weimar, where he researched the role of emotion in consumer decision making.

Ian Davis

Administrator — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:33:28 +0000

Ian joined Talis in June 2005 having worked as an independent technology consultant since 1995. During that time as well as consulting for multi-national corporations including Sony and Worldcom he founded three technology start-ups in the areas of large scale search, syndication and semantic web architectures. Ian is responsible for Talis’ Platform division, engagement with the developer community and coordinates involvement with standards bodies. Ian holds a BSc in Theoretical Physics, from the University of London.

Mike Galvin

Administrator — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:32:23 +0000

Mike Galvin is one of the UK’s internet pioneers. For 10 years from the mid 90s, Mike was Internet Operations manager for BT; during this period BT became the largest UK ISP. He believes passionately in the internet as a tool to make people’s lives better and as an instrument to break down barriers, attack inequality of opportunity and drive economic growth.

Mike has been responsible for a number of initiatives including BT’s contribution to the formation of the Internet Watch Foundation, and the subsequent development of industry wide policies for dealing with internet abuses and crime as well as BT Vision, BT’s internet television solution. He has a drive to protect internet users and is particularly well known for proposing and implementing BT’s Cleanfeed initiative in 2004.

Mike presently heads the ‘Right First Time Initiative‘ covering customer experience and leads on Research and Innovation. These responsbilities cover the experience customers receive from BT globally, information technology and platform security, BT’s Voice strategy and process architecture. Mike is a director for sustainability and additionally is the company lead on child protection on the internet.