World Lithuanian Economic Forum 2012
Speaker
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Mr. Andrius Kubilius, See Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius on BBC HARDtalk
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Ms. Susan Haird |
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Mr. Spiros J. Teleoglou Spiros is a Business Executive of Intellectual Property Business Development in IBM's Corporate Intellectual Property organization, with a current focus on fostering Research partnerships. He has 30 years experience in a variety of business and technical domains and holds the highest level of IBM PM certification. Spiros has served in executive and management roles in intellectual property licensing, enabling country and university Research partnerships and a wide array of technology commercialization, services, chip design, networking systems, and software development. Prior to his involvement in IP licensing Spiros led development, and deployment at all levels of the ICT hierarchy from chip technology to network architectures to software development processes to asset-based services. Managed development activities at European labs with staffs consisting of US, French and Italian professionals. Responsibilities included the design, development and manufacturing of high-speed communication switch products. Spiros's years in engineering and technical management included product development, component development and services. Spiros holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK. Recognized expert in high bandwidth / high-speed communication designs including wide area network and ATM adapters. Extensive world wide patent portfolio containing several filings and disclosures. |
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prof. Vladas Bumelis Sicor Biotech is a biopharmaceutical company with more than 20 years' experience in high-end biotechnology. In 2004, the company joined Teva Group, the world's largest manufacturer of generic pharmaceutical products. Sicor Biotech is the only company in Central and Eastern Europe that develops and manufactures modern recombinant biopharmaceuticals. The company conducts research in the areas of biochemistry, molecular biology, modern genetic engineering, biosynthesis and development of biopharmaceutical products. |
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Mr. Jim Ditmore
Jim Ditmore is responsible for the UK Barclays Bank Technology Centre, which has been operating in Vilnius, Lithuania since 2009. Jim is responsible for setting and implementing IT's strategy across GRB in accordance with Barclays Groups strategy. Prior to joining Barclays in 2008, Jim was the Chief Technology Officer for Wachovia, one of the largest financial services organisations in the United States and now part of Wells Fargo. He led a ten-fold improvement in production, availability and quality whilst significantly reducing costs. He has more than 25 years' experience in IT, including executive roles with Bank ONE Corporation (now part of JP Morgan Chase) and MCI Corporation. Jim has a Bachelor of Science in Maths & Computer Science and was educated at the College of William & Mary, Virginia. |
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Ms. Cynthia J. Pasky Cynthia J. Pasky is the founder, president and CEO of Detroit-based Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3), a provider of information technology consulting services, customized solutions, vendor management programs and an executive search program. Established in 1990 the company has posted 19 consecutive years of growth, with 2008 revenues of $160 million. Ms. Pasky is a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of Detroit Renaissance, is immediate past chair of the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce and continues to serve as a member of the Chamber board. Pasky also has been named one of Detroit's Most Influential Women by Crain's Detroit Business. S3 recently was named one of the top 25 WBE's in the country by Women's Enterprise USA Magazine. Ms. Pasky also serves on the Board of Detroit Downtown Partnership, Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, United Way of Southeastern Michigan, U. S. Baltic Foundation, Detroit Economic Club, Detroit Youth Foundation and the Detroit Institute of Arts. S3 operates 25 branches in the United States and two European offices – one in Vilnius, another in London. |
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Mr. Tomas Milaknis Tomas Milaknis is the founder and chairman of BPO House and CEO of Alna Group, one of the largest IT groups in Baltic States. His visionary leadership significantly contributed to the IT sector development in Lithuanian market by attracting foreign investments and building solid foundations of future partnerships among key stakeholders in IT sector. His vast experience with more than 20 years spent in technology industry, drive for an international expansion and authentic management style makes him a leader that many aspires to follow and a guest speaker that is highly desired in different symposiums and conferences. |
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Mr. Dainius Kreivys Serving as a Minister of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania since December 2008, Dainius Kreivys is a thirty eight year-old graduate in Radio Engineering at Kaunas Technical College. He also holds a diploma in History Science at Vilnius Pedagogical University and did an Executive MBA at the Baltic Management Institute. Previously Mr. Kreivys was working as a Director and Member of the Board of SC Specializuota komplektavimo valdyba as well as Chairman of the Board at SC Silikatas, SC Saldo partneriai, and SC Baldenis. Recently Mr. Kreivys has been focused on his activities as an independent financial expert as well as his work at the Institute of New Public Management. He has also published a number of articles in macroeconomics and political economics. |
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Mr. Bill Morrow Serial entrepreneur Bill Morrow has been creating, building and selling businesses for the past 25 years. He is founder and CEO of Angels Den, Europe's largest equity funding facilitators, bringing business Angels and entrepreneurs together. |
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Mr. Henrik Albertsen Henrik has extensive experience in the IT industry and internationalisation, having held management positions within software companies and having spent the last 12 years within the Venture Capital industry. He began his career in 1987 in R&D and project management at Simcorp, followed by a sales and business development role at Damgaard Group. He has been Managing Partner at Nordic Venture Partners for the past 12 years. Henrik has invested in numerous companies and recently, in his role as Chairman of the board, facllitated the sale of Essnet to Scientific Games, Essnet Interactive to Aristocrat, Netgiro to Digital River, and Zyb to Vodafone. Henrik holds an M.Sc. in Engineering, Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark and an E*MBA from SiMi. Nordic Venture Partners is a venture capital firm, managing more than €320 million, with a portfolio of investments in the ICT sector. Our objective is to identify and develop unique young companies focusing in the following areas: enterprise software and hardware, communications software and hardware and internet applications and infrastructure. |
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Mr. Vidmantas Janulevičius Baltic Solar Energy and Baltic Solar Solutions are members of the BOD Group and focus their activities in the solar energy sector: c-Si cells production and application in solar energy, silicon photovoltaic cells development and solar element module manufacturing. Baltic Solar Energy, Baltic Solar Solutions and BOD Group are members of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA). Baltic Solar Energy has launched a project whereby the company plans to acquire solar cell manufacturing technologies in order to make innovative products in Lithuania. This will enable Lithuania to make its first steps in the photovoltaic energy market. There will be 35 new jobs created in addition to the promotion of exports and high-tech development. Successful implementation of the project will enable active development of company’s activities in Lithuania and beyond. The export of the production is expected to reach 95% by 2015. |
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Mr. Darius Lebedzinskas Mr. Darius Lebedzinskas is a co-owner and the general manager of Net Frequency JSC (NFQ), working for this company for over 8 years. Previously he worked in German, Canadian and Swiss companies, where he started his career as an Internet business professional and ecommerce consultant. Darius has been working within the IT and ecommerce projects development industry for over 10 years. He has proved his skills in the successful implementation of online projects for many market leaders. Mr. Lebedzinskas helped to establish the development departments for business startups, such as Swoodoo AG, OXID eSales AG, Medical Intelligence GmbH and other. In 2006 Darius was awarded a "Achievements in Business, Contribution to Innovations and High Technologies" award, presented by the Ministry of Economy of Lithuania. Net Frequency started with a team of 5 in 2002. Today the company employs over 50 ecommerce and IT professionals. NFQ is the leading ecommerce solutions provider in Lithuania and is awarded as best new media agency in Germany several times. Company has the largest web development department in Lithuania, whose certified and experienced professionals are highly valued in the local and international markets. NFQ, being the shareholder and strategic partner of many business startups, is always open for business opportunities and partnership. |
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Mr. Patrick Mork Patrick joined GetJar in 2008 as chief marketing officer and member of the executive team. His primary role at GetJar is to develop the company’s overall marketing, branding, content and communications strategy. Patrick has been in the mobile content space since 2004 first at mobile games publisher I-play then subsequently at glu mobile. Prior to joining GetJar, Patrick was Marketing Director Europe at glu where he built up the company’s marketing team and was a key part of the European management team that helped take the company public on the NASDAQ in March 2007. With 15 years of marketing experience at leading companies such as PepsiCo and Diamondcluster, Patrick has worked in large multinationals and venture-backed start-ups in marketing, sales and general management. Patrick holds on MBA from INSEAD and a BS from Georgetown University. |
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