Piers Schreiber

BT GROUP

Corporate Affairs Director, Global

Piers Schreiber is an international expert in reputation management. He currently leads corporate affairs team at BT’s Global unit. Previously he headed corporate communications for Jumeirah, the luxury hotel group, headquartered in the UAE. As an advisor on corporate affairs and crisis communications he has undertaken international assignments for many public and private sector organisations. His earlier career included leadership positions in a listed Dutch telecoms company, Ogilvy PR, The Rowland Company (Saatchi & Saatchi) across central and eastern Europe and as PR Officer for the European Commission in Prague. A Cambridge graduate, with an MBA from Strathclyde, he started his career as a university lecturer in France and the Czech Republic.

Jesse Ringham

Serpentine Galleries

Head of Content

Jesse is Head of Content for Serpentine Galleries. Serpentine is one of the world’s leading creative institutions with a global reputation for new ideas in contemporary art, a platform for pioneering artists and a place for experimentation on the intersection of art with technology.

Jesse has 18 years’ experience evolving brands and marketing to audiences across both commercial and cultural industries. Jesse will discuss a route to putting content at the heart of brand strategy, digital transformation, audience development and partnerships. Jesse was previously Director of Marketing & Digital at Sutton Communications, working with brands such as HTC VIVE, UBS, National Portrait Gallery and leading art fairs around the world.  Jesse was responsible for growing creative teams in London, New York and Hong Kong working across brand, editorial, website and media production. Jesse was also at Tate, where he transformed Tate’s approach to audiences with a major focus on digital innovation, content marketing, social media, partnerships and a key drive on developing mainstream advocacy to attract new audiences to art.

Patrick Jephson

Former Chief Of Staff To Princess Diana

International Reputation Expert, New York Times Bestselling Author & Consultant, Netflix's "The Crown"

Patrick is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times and London Sunday Times bestselling author, based in Washington DC.  His byline has appeared in every major UK newspaper and international titles as varied as TIME magazine, People, The Spectator, Paris Match, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the National Catholic Reporter.  He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the US State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. 

He also writes, presents and advises on factual and drama programs, appearing on every major US network as well as British and international platforms.  His two decades of news and current affairs assignments have included on-screen conversations with figures such as David Frost, David Dimbleby, Barbara Walters and Larry King. 

He is founding partner in JephsonBeaman, a boutique communications consultancy specializing in international high-profile, sensitive and UHNW services.  With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included Ferrari, Harrods, Beretta and Hawker Beechcraft as well as national agencies and NGOs.  He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. 

Patrick owes much of his practical communications experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff.  He served the Princess for eight years (1988-96), responsible for every aspect of her public life, worldwide humanitarian initiatives, and private organization.  Under relentless media scrutiny, his tenure covered the period of Princess Diana’s greatest popularity as well as the constitutional controversy of her separation from Prince Charles.  In recognition of his service, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed him a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Cambridge University.  As an officer in the British Royal Navy he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty.  In March 2015 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

Mary Jo Jacobi

Former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, Former Assistant US Commerce Secretary for President George H.W. Bush, British Civil Service Commissioner

Former Senior Executive, HSBC, Lehman Brothers, Royal Dutch Shell And BP America

Mary Jo Jacobi Jephson is a renowned expert in reputation, brand and crisis management drawn from her extensive experience at senior levels of the corporate, public and voluntary sectors on both sides of the Atlantic. Most recently, Mary Jo was Executive Vice President of BP America during its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Previously she led reputation management for Royal Dutch Shell, Lehman Brothers, HSBC Holdings and Drexel Burnham Lambert. She also devised and executed the award-winning global brand strategies for Lehman and HSBC, including the first-ever use of airport jetties for brand projection and thought leadership. She is a non-executive director of the Weir Group PLC, Mulvaney Capital Management and Panafsat and a member of the advisory board of Fink Africa. She is also a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University'ss Centre for Corporate Reputation. Mary Jo was the first woman to chair the board of the Ladies Professional Golf Association and subsequently served on the board of the Ladies European (Golf) Tour. She is a frequent broadcast commentator, lecturer and public speaker around the world.

Timothy White

TEVA Pharmaceutical

Vice President & Head of Global Digital Commercial

Mads Holmen

Bibblio

Founder And CEO

Hubert Grealish

Former Marketing Director, Philips, TomTom

Co-Founder; Marketing Officer; Brand Consultant At MPERA

Justin Hannemann

Global Vice President Marketing Ecommerce, WorldPay

Former Marketing Director, American Express

Sebastian Micozzi

British American Tobacco

Global Head of Marketing - Digital

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Richard Beaumont

Rolls-Royce plc

VP Central Purchasing

Kent McNeley

Azerfon

CEO

Aynur Unalan Kaplan

HP

Marketing Strategy, EMEA Enterprise Group Marketing