Anne Bartlett-Bragg

Managing Director

Ripple Effect Group

Anne specializes in the creation of innovative communication and learning networks with social technologies where her designs have been winning awards since 2006.

She is also a founding member of the Digital Disruption Research Group at Sydney University Business School where she uses her research into the communication aspects of social networks to provide an informed backdrop to understanding how people are using new tools and changing traditional models of communication. She constantly challenges organisations to reframe their models of communication, service design, and workforce engagement.

Her current research is investigating the digital capabilities of the future workplace and the intersection between people and technology. Anne’s PhD explored the experiences of developing social networks through self-publishing technologies such as blogs.

Derek DeMoro

VP, Solution Architecture

Aurea

With 26 years of experience on both development and sales teams, including 16+ years working on Social Collaboration (Jive), Derek focuses on the future of collaboration and communication. His goal is to steer the future of what makes companies more productive and what it takes to get there by working closely with customers, both current and future.

Augustin Derigny

Digital Communication Manager

Guerbet

Augustin joined Guerbet in 2016 to design and launch their new collaborative intranet, Guerbet Inside, whose aim was to support the cultural and digital transformation of the company. He works on developing internal communications and collaborative practices between the group’s 2,850 employees.

Erik Draijer

Program Director, Professional Services

Aurea

Erik is a Director of Professional Services Aurea CRM and he has been with Aurea for almost 5 years. With more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Erik has a broad IT background from (pre-) selling, managing projects and rolling out enterprise software to being responsible for software development, application management and system administration teams. Prior to Aurea, Erik was a Business Solution Manager for Update Software AG.

Kim England

Global Community Director

Pearson

Naturally curious, mother of boys and explorer of the world.

Problem solving, tech geek with a passion for creating outstanding employee experiences through technology, community, storytelling and advocacy.

Katrin Fischer

Project Manager Corporate Communications, Marketing & Branding

Schaeffler

Katrin holds a degree in Business Information Systems and has many years of experience in implementing enterprise portals, intranet and collaboration platforms mostly for manufacturing companies, including 7 years for consultancies. She joined Schaeffler, a global integrated automotive and industrial supplier, in 2014 to take over the project manager role for the rollout of a social collaboration intranet completely based on Jive. As part of the Digital Channels team within the Communications, Marketing & Branding unit, she is a social media geek and is passionate to guide stakeholders through the transformation process for digitalization programs.

Andrew Gilleran

Intranet Community Manager

Fenergo

Andrew sees intranets as being an essential element of providing a valuable online employee experience in a more diverse and challenging digital workspace. He has over 20 years’ experience in designing, building and managing intranets and web sites across multiple industry sectors. He is the Intranet Community Manager for a leading Irish-based global regtech company, Fenergo. Based in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew has never drunk Guinness.

Adam Jukes

User Experience Manager

Virgin Media

Collaboration Team User Experience Manager for Digital Workplace at Virgin Media with over 18 years experience ensuring the customer is at the heart of all decisions.

Currently manages Jive in Liberty Global across multiple operating countries for circa 35k employees, and has a rich background in the SharePoint arena.

Have transitioned from SharePoint to Jive for Internal Corporate Home/News through extensive internal tile development.

Joey Levi

VP, Solution Architecture

Aurea

With 25 years of experience from software development to consulting to sales, Joey Levi leads the Solution Architect team at Aurea. Joey is an 11-year veteran in the collaboration and communication space. Having been in front of customers for 20 years, Joey’s primary focus is supporting pre- and post-sales efforts and helping prospects and customers understand the value of software solutions and how they can improve business outcomes and increase revenue.

Colonel Chris MacGregor

Directorate of Engagement & Communications

Ministry of Defence

Colonel Christopher Stuart MacGregor (late KRH / RWxY) was educated at Brighton College and the Universities of Birmingham, Cranfield and Reading, where he has read Psychology (BSc), Business Administration (MBA/Defence) and International Relations and Strategy (MA).

In September 2018, Colonel MacGregor assumed as Colonel, Army Media and Communications. He is a futurist, passionate about internal communications, knowledge management, engagement, trusted networks, IoT, blockchain and professionalising the Army’s approach to communications.

Dr. Angela Molterer

Head of Digital Workplace Strategy

Rehau

Angela is a leader with more than 20 years of experience in different companies and signs responsible for the future digital workplace, and the collaboration & social media strategy at REHAU Group worldwide that is mostly cloud based and includes tool concepts and rollouts, roadmaps and driving the cultural change.

Philippe Van Nieuwenborgh

Principal Consultant

Dialog Groep

Philippe is since 1999 passionate about customer communications and extended that passion in 2014 with employee engagement. Today he combines these fields of expertise to help enterprises achieve business objectives that result in sustainable growth. One of Philippe’s visions is that adoption is an ongoing, continuous process and to achieve meaningful adoption (new) technology must be attached to core business objectives and processes.

Together with his colleagues he is on a mission to make digital interaction easy for companies.

Dave Nixon

Solution Architect

Aurea

Michael Obermaier

VP, Solution Architecture

Aurea

As Vice President Solution Architecture, Michael Obermaier leads a team of product experts who work closely with prospects and clients to understand their strategic and tactical challenges and to propose solutions based on Aurea’s constantly growing product portfolio. Prior to his engagement with Aurea, Michael served in different roles in sales, marketing, consulting, and training within the CRM industry, helping hundreds of clients across various industries to successfully implement their projects. Apart from his professional interests in CRM & CX, Michael also works with universities and schools to get students excited about this topic.

Svitlana Pylypenko

Project Manager

ANROM Social Business

Svitlana Pylypenko is a project manager at ANROM Social Business. Over the course of her work here, she’s been leading large and IT-heavy community launches and development initiatives. Svitlana is experienced in turning Jive-powered intranets into true digital workplaces by various integrations and creative use of Jive’s out-of-the-box features to automate business processes. Community UI/UX is another passion Svitlana shares with the whole ANROM team. Sveta has a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and adores math.

Natalia Scherbina

Project Manager

ANROM Social Business

For years, Natalia has been leading and driving various community projects all over the world for industries like Telecom, Retail, FMCG, Finance, and Insurance. She has extensive experience in developing cultural and digital transformation, and gamification projects with the power of Jive tools and analytics.

Also, Natalia has a master’s degree in philosophy and plays the violin.

Alexander Schuster

Director of Professional Services, DACH

Aurea

Alexander is the Director of Professional Services DACH and has been with Aurea (and previously Jive) for more than 5 years. He is also the product owner of the Jive Extension Pack. With more than 11 years of experience in the IT industry, Alexander has a deep IT background from managing complex enterprise projects to solution design and development.

Lisa Schwiersch

Corporate Communications

Rehau

Lisa started as Online-Marketing Manager at REHAU in 2010 and switched to corporate communications in 2018.

Together with Angela, they got the project lead (PO) to introduce a new social intranet and collaboration platform at REHAU in an agile framework.

Developed by a cross-divisional and international team, this tool supports REHAU in its employee communication and they are confident that this tool makes a major contribution to the corporate culture.

Christian Stadlmann

SVP Europe Sales and General Manager of ACRM, AEM and Jive

Aurea

Christian Stadlmann is General Manager Europe and SVP Global Sales at Aurea Software. He serves more than 500 customers as well as business activities with annual sales in excess of $60 million. With nearly 20 years of experience in the field of enterprise solutions and business software, the native Austrian has a wealth of experience and knowledge in this area.

Before joining Aurea, Stadlmann worked for various leading CRM-, Knowledge Management- and software manufacturers and was responsible for areas such as general management and international sales in Central- and Eastern Europe.

Christian holds a Master of Science in Telematics and lives with his family in Vienna.

Dina Vekaria-Patel

Global Community Manager

Pearson

Experienced Global Community Manager for Pearson, the world’s leading learning company. In addition to working with and helping over 24,000 colleagues in 70 countries, I’ve created the People of Pearson (PoP) Vlog, an immensely popular and influential video series. I’m a self-taught digital maven that keeps my community – and my team! – looking on-brand and fabulous. My passions are digital communication, employee engagement and collaboration.