Prior to his recent Senior Innovation Manager role at Lloyds TSB, one of the major banks in the UK, Christophe worked in business development, in both telecommunications and banking. In these roles he helped drive significant new business in both the payments straight through processing, and anti-money laundering space.
Christophe is an active blogger and business networker. His main blog, Visible-Banking.com, is the leading independent blog 100% focused on social media in banking and financial services.
In 2007 Christophe founded Visible-Banking.com and in 2008 he set up Visible Media Ltd - both to help financial institutions better understand and leverage social media.
Kiruba Shankar
CEO, Business Blogging
Kiruba Shankar is CEO of Business Blogging and Founder Director of F5ive Technologies. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha.com.
Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BlogCamp, India’s Biggest Unconference on Blogging, Proto.in, premiere event showcasing startups.
Kiruba loves teaching and teaches at Madras Advertising Club and Asian College of Journalism. He has lectured at IIT Madras, IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode.
He is a professional podcaster and hosts a show called ‘The Kiruba Show’ where he interviews CEOs of Indian IT companies. BusinessWorld Magazine ranks his blog Kiruba.com as one of India’s top blogs.
Kiruba is a rowing champion and has captained the Sify Rowing Team to four championship titles. He has participated in Chennai and Bangalore marathons
Simon Bartolo
MD, SiteCore UK
Simon Bartolo is the Managing Director of Sitecore UK, a world leader in providing .NET Web Content Management System (CMS) software. Formally the Managing Director of Direct Developments Ltd., a leading marketing consultancy, Simon later spent almost ten years on an extended sabbatical running ‘not-for-profit’ projects around the world. Before joining Sitecore, he returned to the private sector with ICIS Plc directing their global business development strategy.
Simon believes that coming in to the IT industry as an outsider gives him a distinct advantage of seeing the benefits of content management systems from a non-technical perspective, and his address on the ‘Seven habits of highly successful Web 2.0 websites’ – based on Steven Covey’s ‘Seven habits of highly successful people’ – focuses precisely on the common sense and attitudinal changes a non-technical user of any semi-decent content management technology should adopt to harness the full potential of an organisation’s website.
Bruce Eidsvik
VP Strategic Solutions, EMEA, Genesys
Bruce Eidsvik, Vice President Strategic Solutions EMEA, Genesys Telecommunications Labs
Currently, Bruce manages the Strategic Solutions for Genesys across EMEA. Prior to Genesys, Bruce was a co-founder of VoiceGenie Technologies and ran the global sales force. Bruce is a pioneer in the VoiceXML marketspace, having worked with AT&T since 1996 in the development of the original VoiceXML phoneweb product. Bruce was also instrumental in securing VoiceGenie’s early lead in the marketplace and devising the focused product strategy that led to early profitability for the company.
Prior to VoiceGenie, Bruce worked for several years as VP of Sales and Marketing for Array and as Director of Engineering and Director of Business Development for Sparton of Canada. He received his BSc. with Honours in Engineering Physics in 1985.
