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WELCOME TO THE2015 DIGITAL HALL OF FAME

I’m delighted to offer my congratulations on behalf of BIMA and the wider industry to Andrew Fisher, the 2015 inductee to the Digital Hall of Fame. We’re delighted to be recognising an individual who has had such an impactful career, not least in his helmsmanship of Shazam – an early and ongoing torchbearer for British digital innovation.The success of our sector in creating opportunities and driving economic growth rests to a large extent on the shoulders of people like Andrew and his fellow Hall of Fame members. By their example we seek to inspire young talent to enter the industry and keep British digital leading the world. Andrew joins the likes of Helen Milner, Dame

Martha Lane Fox, Justin Cooke and Rory Sutherland, along with twenty-five other industry heavyweights – biographies of whom are set out in the pages that follow. Indeed, entry into the Hall of Fame is by invitation of its incumbent members, making this a peer-to-peer accolade of the first rank. BIMA is pleased to facilitate this process, and to create the opportunity for British digital to honour the lifetime contributions of its leading lights. We are supported in this initiative by a company leading the way in its own field. It is my pleasure to acknowledge the contribution of all at Workfront and thank them for their support for BIMA and the Digital Hall of Fame.

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Ajaz Ahmed

Alan Rusbridger

Andrew Walmsley

Andy Hobsbawm

Brent Hoberman

Catriona Campbell

Helen Milner

Joanna Shields

Jonathan Ive

Justin Cooke

Kate Burns

Luke Taylor

Mark Cridge

Martha Lane Fox

Martin Sorrell

Matt Brittin

Michael Lynch

Nick Hynes

Nicolas Roope

Nigel Vaz

Pete Cashmore

Phil Jones

Robin Klein

Rory Sutherland

Stephen Fry

Tim Berners-Lee

Tom Roope

Warren East

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InfoSpace Inc where he was European Managing Director. At InfoSpace Andrew led the company’s significant European growth focusing on music and entertainment services for mobile operators and portal solutions for many leading online service providers. Over the past 20 years, Andrew has led the successful growth of a number of technology-focused enterprises. He founded and was Managing Director of TDLI.com which was acquired by InfoSpace Inc with an enterprise value of $400m, and was General Manager of Thomson Directories Business Ventures. Andrew is a Non Executive Director of Moneysupermarket Group PLC.

I’m where I am today because … of the people I have had the privilege to team with.

Doing business in the UK is … immensely rewarding but not as fulfilling as building a global business from the UK.

The trait that’s served me the best is …continuing to work on innovative digital products when my friends tell me no one will ever use them.

Executive Chairman Shazam

Andrew joined Shazam in 2005, serving as Chief Executive Officer until 2013 when he became Executive Chairman. Shazam launched its music recognition service in the UK in 2002 and during Andrew’s tenure it has become one of the world’s Top Ten most downloaded apps, connecting more than 600 million people to music, television shows and adverts. Shazam is used more than 20 million times each day and accounts for over 10 per cent of worldwide digital music sales. In 2013, Shazam was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and selected for The Future Fifty, the UK government’s programme to acknowledge the fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. Andrew joined Shazam from

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AJAZ AHMED

Ajaz is the CEO of AKQA. AKQA employs 2,000 people in 10 countries and 14 offices. The world’s most awarded digital agency, AKQA’s clients include Nike, Audi, Red Bull. Ajaz co-authored Velocity, the No. 1 best-selling business book, alongside Nike’s head of digital sport Stefan Olander. Velocity has been translated into six languages and features an introduction by Sir Richard Branson. All Ajaz’s proceeds from Velocity are donated to youth homeless, education, global healthcare and environment causes. Ajaz’s second book Limitless will be published in 2015.

Founder & CEOAKQA

@Ajaz


ALAN RUSBRIDGER

Alan Rusbridger’s career began on the Cambridge Evening News, where he trained as a reporter before first joining the Guardian in 1979. He worked as a general reporter, feature writer and diary columnist before leaving to succeed Clive James and Julian Barnes as the Observer’s TV critic. He became editor of the Guardian in 1995 and oversaw the integration of the paper and digital operations. The Guardian is now the third largest English-speaking newspaper website in the world with over 90 million monthly unique visitors (ABC figures, February 2014).The Guardian was recently named “Independent Voice of the Year” for its articles about mass surveillance at Liberty’s annual awards. During his editorship the paper has fought a number of

high-profile battles over libel and press freedom, including cases involving Neil Hamilton, Jonathan Aitken, the Police Federation, Trafigura, freedom of information and Wikileaks. The paper was nominated newspaper of the year five times between 1996 and 2006. Rusbridger has been named editor of the year three times. Rusbridger and reporter Nick Davies received the UK’s Media Society Award for their revelations and coverage of the phone hacking story in the Guardian. In 2012, Rusbridger was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism by Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Centre. In the same year, in New York, he also received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in the cause of press freedom from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Editor-in-Chief Guardian

@arusbridger

ANDREW WALMSLEY

He is now an active investor in early stage internet ventures, sitting on the board of several companies, as well as the Eden Project in Cornwall. Most recently, as chairman of Fetch, he helped the founders structure and grow the business to a reported £30m exit to the global media group Dentsu Aegis.

Andrew co-founded i-level, the digital media agency that revolutionised the UK’s internet advertising market. Starting the business in 1999, he built it to over £100m turnover, winning over 50 awards including agency of the year eight times and a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. He was named London Media Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young in 2006, and given the Chairman’s award by the Association of Online Publishers for outstanding contribution to the industry in 2007, selling the business to private equity in 2008 before moving on to develop interests in other ventures. For five years until 2011, he wrote a popular weekly column in Marketing magazine, appearing on the Today Programme as well as numerous other TV and radio programmes.

Digital Pluralist Various organisations

@awalmsley


ANDY HOBSBAWM

the Future and sits on advisory boards for Tate Britain and Rapha Racing Ltd. He has yet to receive any royalties from obscure pop songs released by a minor independent record label in Europe.

Andy established the first international Internet agency in 1994 which merged with pioneering digital services firm Agency.com in 1997 where he was European MD then Chairman until 2009. Andy co-founded the award-winning online community Do The Green Thing in 2007. He has been listed among the 100 top digital influencers by Wired UK, and was named among the 20 inaugural inductees of the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame. He has been a weekly columnist about the new economy for the Financial Times, a member of GartnerG2’s first advisory board on online advertising and spoken at numerous conferences including TED. Andy is also a trustee of sustainability non-profit Forum for

Founder & CMOEVRYTHNG

BRENT HOBERMAN

Brent is on the ICA Council and a Non-Executive Board Director of Guardian Media Group, TalkTalk PLC & Shazam. Brent also sits on the UK Government Digital Advisory Board, is a Senior Advisor to Lepe Partners, a YGL, a UK Business Trade Ambassador and a Fellow (Governor) of Eton College. Brent also co-founded Founders Forum in 2005, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow which currently take place in Rio, London, LA, NYC, Brazil, Hong Kong & Mumbai.

Brent co-founded PROfounders Capital in 2009 — an early stage fund backed by entrepreneurs for digital entrepreneurs. He is Chairman/Co-Founder of made.com, a direct-from-factory consumer crowd-sourced homewares retailer in the UK. Most recently alongside PROfounders Capital he joined the board of easyCar.com (person-to-person car sharing). Brent co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998. He was CEO from its inception and the team took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. lastminute.com acquired 14 businesses after the IPO to supplement the annual growth of the core brand which was over 100% from 1998 – 2004. In 2005 lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.

Co-FounderMade.com / PROfounders Capital / Founders Forum

@brenthoberman


CATRIONA CAMPBELL

customer research techniques to understand how customers feel and interact with brands and businesses.By understanding every rational, emotional and subconscious interaction, Seren then architects every moment of the customer’s experience. From interface design to the organisation and services that sit behind that interface. Seren measures everything. Customer analytics data, performance tracking and optimisation are its daily bread and butter. The result? Amazing experiences, inspired by people, valued by clients and their customers, every day.

Voted into the Digital Hall of Fame (September 2012) for achievements in digital media over the last 20 years. She was instrumental in setting the UK standards for Usability andAccessibility across digital media as set by the UK government. She was voted into the Top 100 people in the Internet 2002 – Int. Mag. And selected as one of the Top 50 people in digital – by Econsultancy. Catriona is a Founder and Director at Seren, Customer Experiences. Working for 43 of the Top 100 FTSE, as well as numerous global clients such as Dell, Nokia and Microsoft. Seren’s customer experience designs are influenced by insights gained from its scientific research and insights programme. It has in-house laboratories, and is a pioneer in the science of using advanced

Director Seren (Formerly Foviance)

@catrionacampbel

HELEN MILNER

and schools. She worked in online education in Australia and Japan in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and Helen ran the ippr and University of Sunderland ‘university for industry’ pilot in the late 90s. She joined Ufi in 1999 as part of the core leadership that created learndirect – the national online learning network. Helen’s ambition is to ensure that everybody in the UK (and the rest of the world), no matter what their income or background, has the skills and resources to use and participate in the web.

Helen is the Chief Executive of Tinder Foundation, a social enterprise and staff-owned mutual. She is passionate about the benefits to individuals that digital technologies bring. Her priorities are to make good things happen through digital technologies. She works in partnership to build capacity in local communities so people get the capability they need to enjoy all the wonders of the web and ‘digital by default’ service delivery, and in the four years 2010 - 2014 her organisation and hyper-local partners have helped over 1.2 million people to do just that. Helen has almost 30 years experience of working on the internet, starting in 1985 in the private sector with TTNS, developing internet education content and services for children

Chief ExecutiveTinder Foundation

@helenmilner


JOANNA SHIELDS

of children. In May 2014, she launched the “WeProtect” forum to encourage the technology industry to develop innovative solutions to the problems of online abuse and exploitation.She serves on the Board of Trustees for the American School in London and formerly was a Trustee of Save the Children UK, NSPCC’s There4Me, the Prince’s Trust Internet and Media Leadership Group and the Home Secretary Theresa May’s Women’s Business Council.In 2014, Joanna Shields was recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours for services to the digital industries and voluntary service to young people. She became a Life peer in the House of Lords on September 16, 2014.

Baroness Shields (Joanna Shields) is a leading technology industry executive and entrepreneur. She spent over 25 years building some of the world’s best-known technology companies, including Electronics for Imaging, RealNetworks, Google, Aol and Facebook, as well as leading several start-ups to successful acquisitions, including Bebo, Decru and Veon. Most recently, she was Vice President and Managing Director of Facebook Europe, Middle East and Africa leading the company’s international growth to over 1 billion users. Working on behalf of the Home Office and the US Department of Justice, Baroness Shields is leading industry engagement for the UK/US Taskforce to combat online sexual exploitation

Advisor, Chair & Non-ExecPrime Minister’s Digital Advisor / Chair, TechCityUK / Non Exec, London Stock Exchange Group

@joannashields

JONATHAN IVE

Year by the Design Museum London and awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry by The Royal Society of Arts.

London-born designer Sir Jonathan Ive is Apple’s senior vice president of Design, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Since 1996, he has been responsible for leading a design team widely regarded as one of the world’s best. As the driving force behind the look and feel of Apple’s innovative products, Jony also provides leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) software teams across the company. Recognized with numerous design awards, Apple products are featured in the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including MoMA in New York and the Pompidou in Paris.Jony holds a Bachelor of Arts and an honorary doctorate from Newcastle Polytechnic. In 2003, he was named Designer of the

Senior Vice President of DesignApple Inc


JUSTIN COOKE

In September 2012 he was invited onto the Digital Advisory Board of the British Museum and was recently appointed by the British Government as a Digital Capabilities Reviewer. Wired Magazine listed Justin in its Top 100 survey of Britain’s experienced digital power-brokers and in June 2013 Econsultancy ranked him the second most influential person in UK digital. To cap an amazing 12 months in September 2013 he was inducted into the British Digital Hall of Fame.

Justin is the Founder of POSSIBLE UK, WPP Digital’s largest global agency, a Non-Executive Director of FutureLearn, one of the world’s largest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Platforms and a Member of the No. 10 Downing Street Digital Advisory Board for the GREAT Campaign. He is also the former Chair and now an Ambassador of BIMA. Justin discovered digital media while studying at the University of Manchester. After graduating with honours he worked for the BBC, Universal Music and United News and Media before Co-founding global digital agency Fortune Cookie in 1997. Justin secured venture capital funding, grew the business to 200 people and $25m of revenue before selling to WPP in 2012.

FounderPOSSIBLE

@justincooke

KATE BURNS

competes show jumping and eventing at a national level.

Kate Burns is the General Manager for Europe, BuzzFeed and is responsible for developing and scaling business and growth for BuzzFeed in Europe. Kate is a well-respected Internet advertising veteran and was the first international hire at Google as Director of Google UK. Prior to BuzzFeed, Kate was Vice President & MD Europe at Bebo and then CEO of AOL Europe, where she oversaw the day-to-day operations of AOL’s UK and Ireland business. During her time at AOL, she successfully reset the strategy and rebuilt the business into a profitable model. Kate is a regular fixture in the digital marketing and advertising scene as she frequently speaks on future trends on digital and social advertising. Kate is also a keen horsewoman and regularly

General Manager, Europe BuzzFeed

@KateBurnsie


LUKE TAYLOR

of bigmouthmedia in 2010 and MRY in 2011, as well as LBi’s recent $540m integration into Publicis Groupe and the subsequent merger with Digitas to form DigitasLBi. Luke holds a Masters Degree in English from Oxford University.

Luke Taylor is Global Chief Executive of DigitasLBi, the world’s most complete marketing and technology agency with 6,800 best-in-class digital experts across 25 countries. Prior to taking up this role at the start of 2013, Taylor was Global Chief Executive of publicly listed LBi, where he implemented a series of successive strategic transformations to ensure that the agency thrived in the rapidly evolving digital ecosystem. Following his appointment as LBi Chief Executive in 2008, Taylor installed a new global management team and implemented a single vision, single brand, consistent service model and shared organisational design across LBi’s global footprint. He also oversaw the acquisition

CEODigitasLBi

MARK CRIDGE

Aegis’s 3,000 strong creative network operating in 34 countries globally.Mark is a regular speaker at industry events, chair of many awards and was for a time a columnist in Campaign Magazine. In 2010 he was made a Fellow of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.Originally Mark studied Architecture, which is where he learned how to shape and communicate ideas, before getting the digital bug early on in 1995.

Mark is a 19-year veteran of the digital communications industry and founded the UK’s first digital advertising agency. As of June 2014 he has taken up a new role as a Senior Advisor to Blue State Digital in London.Blue State is the agency responsible for much of the digital strategy and implementation for the two Obama Presidential Campaigns and works with organisations and brands to build communities and create change.In 1999 Mark founded glue London, which under his leadership became one of the world’s most awarded and respected creative agencies. In 2005, Mark negotiated the sale of the agency to Aegis Media and subsequently became Global Managing Director of Isobar,

Senior AdvisorBlue State Digital

@markcridge


MARTHA LANE FOX

In 2007 Martha founded her own charitable foundation Antigone.org.uk and also serves as a Patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law. In 2013 Martha was awarded a CBE.

Dame Martha Lane Fox co-founded Europe’s largest travel and leisure website lastminute.com with Brent Hoberman in 1998, they took it public in 2000 and sold it in 2005. Martha was appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords in March 2013. She is currently chair of Go On UK, a coalition of public and private sector partners that are helping millions more people and organisations online. In March 2014 she was appointed Chancellor of the Open University. Martha co- founded and chairs LuckyVoice, revolutionising the karaoke industry. She chairs MakieLab and Founders Forum for Good. She is a Non-Executive Director at Marks & Spencer and the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Crossbench peerHouse of Lords

@Marthalanefox

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MARTIN SORRELL

companies include J Walter Thompson, Ogilvy & Mather, Y&R, Grey, MEC, MediaCom, Hill+Knowlton Strategies and AKQA. Clients include 355 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 71 of the NASDAQ 100. In 2014, WPP had revenues of $19 billion and billings of $76 billion.Sir Martin supports the advancement of international business schools, advising Harvard, IESE, the London Business School, the Indian School of business, the China Europe International Business School and Fundação Dom Cabral Business School in Brazil. He was awarded the 2014 Hugo Shong Lifetime Achievement Award in Communication by Boston University’s College of Communications.

Sir Martin Sorrell is the entrepreneurial founder/CEO of WPP plc, the world’s largest provider of advertising and marketing communications services. A FTSE 100 company, WPP currently has a market capitalisation of over £21 billion.WPP companies, which include some of the most eminent agencies in the business, provide clients with advertising; media investment management; data investment management; public relations & public affairs; branding & identity, healthcare; direct, digital, promotional & relationship marketing and specialist communications.Collectively, WPP employs over 188,000 people (including associates and investments) in over 3,000 offices in 111 countries. The Group’s worldwide

CEOWPP


MATT BRITTIN

He has an MBA from London Business School, an MA from Cambridge and won silver medals for Cambridge in several Boat Races. He was also a member of the British rowing team and has won medals in eights and fours at the World Rowing Championships and represented Great Britain at the Olympics. In 2014, he was appointed a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta and he still rows regularly, though more slowly.Matt lives in London, near the Thames, with his wife, teenage sons and small dog.

Matt heads up Google’s business and operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa - helping consumers and businesses make the most of the digital opportunity.Joining Google in 2007 to help build its business in the UK, he became MD of Google UK two years later. In 2011, he was promoted to VP of Northern and Central Europe, before taking over as President of Business and Operations in EMEA in 2014. Matt is a non-executive director of Sainsbury’s, and a Trustee of charities The Climate Group and The Media Trust. Matt has had a long career in media and marketing, joining Google from the newspaper industry, where he led commercial and digital operations at the biggest UK publisher. He previously worked at management consultancy McKinsey.

President, EMEA Business and OperationsGoogle

@MattBrittin

MICHAEL LYNCH

Featurespace, and has also advised venture capital and private equity groups such as Apax Partners and the Carlyle Group. Dr Lynch is a non-executive director of the BBC, the British Library, and Cambridge Enterprise. He is a council member of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Foundation for Science and Technology. In 2011 he received the Outstanding Contribution award in the UKIT Industry awards and was named Most Influential Person in UK IT by Computer Weekly.

Dr Mike Lynch, OBE, FREng is the founder of Autonomy and is regarded as a visionary figure within the technology world, described by the Financial Times as “the doyen of Europeansoftware” and by the Sunday Times as “Britain’s Bill Gates”. He advises the Prime Minister on matters of science policy through the Council on Science and Technology. Dr Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996, the UK’s largest and fastest growing software company, with a market capitalisation of $11bn, and was its CEO for fifteen years. In addition to Autonomy, Dr Lynch has founded or advised a number of companies ranging from Neurodynamics to Blinkx. He has invested in a number of startups, most recently

Co-FounderAutonomy Corporation


NICK HYNES

was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003 for $1.63bn. He was CEO and founder of The Search Works, Europe’s largest search engine marketing company, which was sold to Tradedoubler AB in 2007 for $115m. He is also an investor and non-executive director at TouchType Ltd, owner of SwiftKey, one of the bestselling Android apps in the world, Chairman of customer insight and loyalty firm Reward and Chairman of online review site Reviewcentre.

A true business visionary, Nick has established some of the most successful fast-growth digital companies of the last two decades. Nick founded Somo in 2009 to help companies make sense of the huge opportunities and the disruptive potential of mobile technology. Somo, now the world’s largest independent mobile solutions firm, has six international offices delivering custom mobile development, performance and brand marketing, enterprise platforms, and mobile advertising technology to brands across the world. Nick was formerly founder, CEO and President of Overture Europe. Here he launched the paid search industry in Europe, building Overture from a startup to an established business which

CEOSomo

NICOLAS ROOPE

the Lovie Awards, the pan-European award for outstanding achievement in internet endeavours.Nicolas has many awards to his name including Webbys. Cannes Lions, One Shows, a D&AD Black Pencil and a Design of the Year award (overall winner). His designs are in the MoMA, V&A and Cooper-Hewitt permanent design collections. He was included in the 2011 Adage Creative 50 and UK Wired 100 in 2011 and was inducted into the BIMA Hall Of Fame in 2012. He also sits on the UK Superbrands Council. In 2014 Nicolas received the London Design Entrepreneur medal, presented by the London Design Festival.

Nicolas has always looked beyond industry rhetoric to the inspiring truths of networked media and design; this passion driving his career in the business spanning the last eighteen years. Nicolas founded Antirom, Poke, Hulger and Plumen, all companies of note,all influential and innovative in their respective fields and all with digital at their hearts. These endeavours have each been recognised by international industry awards and critical acclaim. Nicolas is on the MUBI advisory board and the Tech City Advisory Board to Number 10 as well as being contributing editor to Wallpaper* Nicolas was appointed member of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2006. He is co-founder and jury chair of

Executive Creative Director / FounderPOKE

@nikroope


NIGEL VAZ

strongly through Vaz’s life.Today, that philosophy can be found in the work that SapientNitro does to engage connected consumers through the creation of integrated, immersive stories and experiences that live across brand communications, digital engagement and omni-channel commerce.Acknowledged as the UK’s leading agency for most of the last decade, SapientNitro boasts a digital fee income in excess of £145m and an array of international awards in 2014.

Nigel Vaz helped to take SapientNitro from a startup a decade ago to become the largest digital agency in the UK. He made his entrance into the digital industry in 1995 at a young age, co-founding a public company that delivered telecoms, consulting and connectivity solutions. Among its achievements were technological advances in vertical blanking interval (VBI) technology to encrypt data and broadcast to remote areas that lacked connectivity – sub-Saharan Africa for one, where local schools benefitted from a curriculum broadcast to them digitally.The theme of enhancing the capabilities and experiences of consumers and of business by imagining and creating new ways to harness technology runs

Senior Vice President, Managing Director EuropeSapientNitro

@vaznigel

PETE CASHMORE

Forbes magazine web celeb 25. He was also named a Briton of the year by the Telegraph in 2010. Pete is a World Economic Forum 2011 Young Global Leader. Pete is based in New York and frequently visits San Francisco.

Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, an award-winning site and one of the largest and most popular destinations for digital, social media, and technology news and information with more than 20 million unique visitors per month. Mashable has been named a must-read site by both Fast Company and PC Magazine and is ranked as the most influential media outlet by Klout. Pete founded Mashable in 2005 as a blog focused on up-to-the-minute news on social networks and digital trends. Since then, Mashable quickly grew to be one of the top 10 and most profitable blogs in the world. Pete was named one of Ad Age’s 2011 influencers, a Time Magazine 100 in 2010, and a

CEOMashable Inc

@petecashmore


PHIL JONES

first Premier League and Sport England websites, and the launch of England Fans for the Football Association. Creating the identities for UK Sport, UK Athletics and the FA’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup along the way. Phil formed www.realtime.co.uk in 2004 to act as an advisor and mentor for creative, sports and digital businesses. In 1994 Phil founded and organises the famous podge lunches: digitalpodge.co.uk, podgelunch.com, sportspodge.co.uk and musicpodge launched in 2014. As a Mancunian he couldn’t resist the challenge of launching www.stodgepodge.com for northern agencies.

The digital world couldn’t be further away from Phil’s 5-year apprenticeship as a hot-metal compositor and his founding of typography specialists APT, which he grew to 100 staff during the 80’s before successfully selling the business to a top ad agency. Phil became MD of Real Time Studio in 1991 and grew the team to 100, becoming one of the leading digital agencies in the UK before successfully merging with DM agencies EHS and Brann, where Phil became Vice Chairman of what became EHS Brann. Amongst his digital highlights was a ten year relationship with www.Diesel.com, and creating the first ever website for Canon UK and Europe and the online launches of the new MINI, the

FounderPodge Events & Real Time Consultancy

@denislaw

ROBIN KLEIN

in earnest in 1998, co-founding The Accelerator Group (TAG) with his son, Saul. Some of TAG’s exits include Agent Provocateur (3i) where Robin was Chairman for five years, Lastminute (IPO), Last.fm (CBS), Dopplr (Nokia), Lovefilm (Amazon), Fizzback (Nice Systems), Slideshare (Linkedin), Tweetdeck (Twitter) and Mashery (Intel). Robin is passionate about helping to build the European technology startup ecosystem. He has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Industrial Engineering.

Robin joined the London office of Index Ventures in April 2010 as a Venture Partner. He is a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, and is currently Chairman of Quickbridge (Wonga), Moo and MyBuilder, sitting on the boards of EDITD, Farfetch, FreeAgent, OneFineStay, Skimlinks and Zoopla. Robin is a governor of Rhyl primary school and a past Chairman of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s funding company. Robin has 20 years experience as an entrepreneur and 14 years of investing experience. In his last operating role as Chairman and CEO of Innovations, he conducted the very first UK ecommerce transaction in May 1995. He started his investment career

PartnerThe Accelerator Group & Index Ventures

@robinklein


RORY_ SUTHERLAND

Rory was President of the Direct Jury at Cannes in 2007, and was President of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising for two years. Rory is a visiting professor of Warwick University and holds an honorary doctorate (D. Litt) from Brunel. Rory is the Technology Correspondent of the Spectator, the world’s oldest English-language magazine. You can visit his blog at snipr.com/da9bq

Rory read Classics at Christ’s College, Cambridge, before joining Ogilvy as a Graduate Trainee in 1988. After 18 months as the world’s worst account handler, he became a copywriter in June 1990. He was appointed Creative Director of OgilvyOne in 1997 and ECD in 1998. In 2005 he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Ogilvy Group in the UK in recognition of his improved timekeeping. Rory first used the Internet in 1987. Hence he had the advantage in 1994 of knowing what it was. Most people would have combined this knowledge of marketing and technology to make a fortune; not Rory. Instead he became the first Briton to have his credit card details stolen online, thereby losing £22.45.

Vice ChairmanOgilvy Group UK

@rorysutherland

STEPHEN FRY

and America Online in the late 80s and then the internet proper through Demon, the UK’s first ISP. I was instantly struck amidships by the possibilities of this astounding new way of communicating around the globe. I had an email address but none of my friends did; only fellow geeks around the world with whom one would share interslip and PPP scripts. Then Tim Berners-Lee wrote his protocols and Mosaic and the first web browsers arrived. Within what seemed a blink of the eye nothing was the same again.”

Stephen Fry is ‘king of first adopters’ and an infectiously enthusiastic champion of the near limitless possibilities of digital. He also finds time to be an actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and all round national treasure. On the occasion of his induction into the Digital Hall of Fame, Stephen Fry wrote: “To be voted, or ‘inducted’ which I believe is correct, into the Digital Hall of Fame, is a great honour that touches me deeply. I have always been fascinated by the power, reach, creativity of the digital world and its social implications, both for good and ill… “I first joined commercial online services like Prestel, Compuserve

Actor / Screenwriter / Author

@stephenfry


TIM BERNERS-LEE

distributing information not just within a company, but globally. He named it the World Wide Web. He also created the first web browser and editor. The world’s first website, http://info.cern.ch, was launched on 6 August 1991. It explained the World Wide Web concept and gave users an introduction to getting started with their own websites. In 1994, Berners Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at the Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He has served as director of the consortium since then. He also works as a senior research scientist at LCS which has now become the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Sir Tim Berners Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. Timothy John Berners Lee was born on 8 June 1955 and grew up in London. He studied physics at Oxford University and became a software engineer. In 1980, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, he first described the concept of a global system, based on the concept of ‘hypertext’, that would allow researchers anywhere to share information. He also built a prototype called ‘Enquire’. In 1989, Berners Lee published a paper called ‘Information Management: A Proposal’ in which he married up hypertext with the Internet, to create a system for sharing and

Co-founder and DirectorWorld Wide Web Consortium and the World Wide Web Foundation

@timberners_lee

TOM ROOPE

the Royal Society of Arts, in recognition of his “Innovative work in taking computer interactions beyond the desktop and into communities and shared spaces” — Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA. The Rumpus Room was founded in 2007 to harness the power of people building experiences together and align this activity with brand communication. Tom’s work at The Rumpus Room has been integral in the company being recognised with some of the highest accolades, by award bodies including D&AD, Cannes, One Show, Brit Insurance Design of the Year and Campaign Media Awards.

Creative Director and co-founder of The Rumpus Room, Tomas Roope has been a leading digital practitioner since 1994. In 1995 he co-founded Anitrom, a company which was awarded “The most Outstanding Contribution to Digital Culture” during Internet Week’sDigital Archaeology 2010 (EU) and 2011 (US). Antirom continued until 1999 when Tom went on to co-found the also highly acclaimed ‘Tomato Interactive’. He has taught at several universities including product design at the Royal College of Art, and produced installations for several exhibitions internationally. In 2012 Tom was presented the award of Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by

Founder / DirectorThe Rumpus Room

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WARREN EAST

an Honorary Doctorate from Cranfield University. He is senior non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of De La Rue plc, and a non executive director of Micron inc, Dyson Limited, BT plc and Rolls Royce plc. He chairs the ESCO (Electronic Systems Community) Council and Leadership Forum and is on the board of the Connected Digital Economy Catapult. He is a member of several advisory boards. He was awarded a CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours list.

Warren East was chief executive officer for ARM Holdings plc from October 2001 to July 2013. ARM, a constituent of the FTSE 100, is the world’s leading Semiconductor IP licensing company with over 360 licencees worldwide collectively shipping over 10 billion ARM chips per year. He served with Texas Instruments for 11 years before joining ARM in 1994. Warren is a Chartered Engineer, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. Warren holds a master’s degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, and

Former CEOARM

WAYNE ARNOLD

in the region demonstrating Profero’s global intent and commitment to the region.Recently Profero joined the Lowe & Partners family to become Lowe Profero with the aim of being the first truly global marketing communication business with digital at the core.Other recent achievements include being voted as:•Chairman of the IPA Digital committee•The UK’s most influential digital Briton•Top 100 most influential people for the Y generation across any industry sector •One of the 1,000 most influential people in London•Observer’s Future 500 ones to watch

Having co-founded Profero with his brother in 1998, Wayne is regarded as one of the industry’s most respected and experienced practitioners.He has successfully supervised local and global campaigns for an enviable client list including Apple, Diageo, Unilever and Western Union. Wayne expanded the Profero client and geographical base by carefully positioning Profero as the only global independent digital agency of its kind, covering media, creative and technology, with offices across 10 cities in US, Europe and Asia.In 2010 he assumed the role of Global CEO where he was based out of the US for the last 3 years. In 2013 he moved to APAC in a forward thinking move to be one of the only global CEO’s based

Global CEO Lowe Profero

@waynejarnold

digital hall of fame 2015

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