Spectrum Executive Breakfast Seminar: ‘Building World Class Sales Organisations’ with Dr Steve Garnett, Chairman EMEA, Salesforce.com, April 29th 2008, London

The theme of Spectrum’s executive seminar on April 29th is ‘Building World Class Sales Organisations’ and our speaker is Dr Steve Garnett. Steve Garnett has had one of the most distinguished careers of any European executive in the software industry, having been a member of the executive management team of three software start-ups that have each turned into some of the most successful software companies in history.

Steve started his career joining Oracle Corporation prior to its IPO in 1986. He held various technical and sales positions including Director of UK sales, Vice President European Marketing & Alliances and was the youngest member of the European management team. He was at Oracle Corporation for 12 years as the company grew to become the world’s 2nd largest software company.

Steve joined Siebel Systems in 1996 as Vice President of Europe and a member of the founders circle. From 100 employees the company grew in eight years to become the world’s 5th largest software company with 8,000 employees and a $60b market capitalization at its peak.

In 2004 Steve joined his former Oracle executive colleague Marc Benioff to head Europe operations and be part of the executive team at salesforce.com. He helped take salesforce.com public in 2004 and it now stands with a market capitalization of $7b and has been lauded as one of BusinessWeek’s Top 100 Most Innovative Companies, named No. 7 on The WIRED 40, and selected as a Top Ten Disrupter by Forbes

Throughout his career, Steve has been committed to using his resources to produce positive social change for underserved children. He is an advisory board member at Teach First an organization focused on eradication of educational disadvantage in inner city schools in the UK.

He has a degree in mathematics and a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, and holds a number of professional affiliations and board positions.

Spectrum Breakfast Seminar ‘The Future of Advertising’, November 15th 2007, London

The theme of Spectrum’s executive seminar on November 15th is ‘The Future of Advertising’ and our keynote speakers are:

• Peter Cowie, Managing Director at FitchLive
• Alastair Simpson, Founder at Icom
• Matthew Mayes, Group Creative Director, MRM Worldwide

The event will be expertly moderated by Spectrum Advisory Board Member, Steve Callaghan, the former CEO of Framfab AB, Europe’s largest interactive marketing and digital design business, during which time he led the acquisition of Oyster Partners and LB ICON.

The audience will engage in facilitated Q&A and be made up of C level executives from across the communications, media and technology value chain. This is not a pure-play advertising audience, but rather one in which the ad-funded business model, and new ways of engaging customers, is of critical importance.

Spectrum Breakfast Seminar ‘The Future of TV’ 19th June, London

This event was a very entertaining and provocative thought leadership forum. Spectrum’s guests enjoyed an exchange of viewpoints, access to industry expertise and stimulating new ideas. Attended by 60+ senior executives from the entertainment, media and technology sectors our three guest speakers first offered their unique perspectives on ‘The Future of TV’, which then prompted enthusiastic discussion.

Feedback post-event included:

‘very well presented and good content’, ‘an entertaining session’, ‘high quality’, and that the event could have gone on for longer!

“Great seminar. Incredibly professional. Brilliant content. Linda Summers is a great speaker” Jasmine Montgomery, Managing Director, FutureBrand

“I really enjoyed the seminar this week. I thought the event really well organised, the guest list diverse and interesting and the quality of the Q&A was particularly good”. Linda Summers, Strategic Development, RedBee Media

The event agenda and all slide material is now available.

Download presentations here:

Spectrum and SparrowHawk Media
Red Bee Media
D2see

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Event Moderator
• Graham Lovelace, Lovelace Consulting, Managing Director and Founder & MD LovelaceMedia which was acquired by the Press Association, www.lovelace.co.uk.

Guest Speakers
• David Hulbert, Chief Executive Officer Sparrowhawk Media, and former President Walt Disney Television International www.sparrowhawkmedia.com.
• Linda Summers, Head of Strategic Development RedBee Media, and former VP Group Strategy & Performance Management O2 www.redbeemedia.com.
• Jeremy Flynn, CEO D2see, and awarded “Greatest individual contribution to New Media” in the NMA 2006 Awards www.d2see.com.

The Spectrum Seminar Series provide intimate though leadership and discussion events for selected executive guests.
If you are interested in attending a future event please contact us.

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Spectrum Breakfast Seminar ‘Commercial Models in a Digital World’, March 8th 2007, London

This event was a very entertaining and provocative thought leadership forum. Spectrum’s guests enjoyed an exchange of viewpoints, access to industry expertise and stimulating new ideas. Attended by 60+ senior executives from the entertainment, media and technology sectors our three guest speakers first offered their unique perspectives on ‘Commercial Models in a Digital World’, which then prompted enthusiastic discussion.

Feedback post-event included:

“Excellent choice of topics and range of speakers” Manish Madhvani, Co-Founder & Partner, GP Bullhound

“Excellent seminar” Adam Chappell, Darlow Smithson (IMG)

“ A very interesting and topical discussion” Janice Hughes, CEO, Spectrum Strategy Consultants

“You did a great job getting all the attendees to your breakfast seminar. It was great to be at an event that I did not know half the audience!” Jeremy Flynn, CEO, D2See

The event agenda and all slide material is now available.

Download presentations here:

EMTCA
ITN Source
RealTime Content
iO Global

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Event Moderator
• Steve Callaghan, former CEO of FRAMFAB

Guest Speakers
• Kevin Newport, Managing Partner, EMTCA
• Sue Thexton, Managing Director, ITN Source
• Ian Cameron, CTO, RealTime Content
• Martin Knestrick, CEO, iO Global

The Spectrum Seminar Series provide intimate though leadership and discussion events for selected executive guests. If you are interested in attending a future event please contact us.

CEO Dinner ‘Doing business with BT’, November 29th 2005, London

Spectrum’s Managing Partner Daniel Osmer, and Spectrum Advisory Board member Stewart Davies played host to ten CEO’s on the evening of the 29 November at The Lansdowne Club in London.

The theme of the evening was ‘Doing business with BT’ and was led by Stewart Davies. Stewart’s 35+ year career with BT culminated in him being CEO of BT Exact, BT’s £900m R&D organisation. During this time he also founded ‘Brightstar’, the corporate incubator. Stewart is now a senior advisor to Coller Capital, the largest secondaries buyout fund in the world.

The format was that of an informal roundtable. Chatham House rules applied. Our guests were typically from young software businesses and seeking to either develop a commercial relationship with BT, or to begin one. Following an initial address with plenty of advice from Stewart Davies, a lively debate continued over dinner amongst our ten guests.

Spectrum Evening Seminar ‘The Tools of Disruption: Emerging technology trends and consumer behaviour’, October 4th 2005, London

This event was held at The Arts Club in Mayfair, London. Over 80 executive guests enjoyed an evening of conversation and canapés, interspersed with a keynote address from Dr Norman Lewis.

Dr Norman Lewis, Head of Consumer Research at France Telecom’s Home Division delivered a highly passionate and debate-generating presentation identifying the paradigm shift in consumer behaviour from that of passive receiver and viewer of information, to what is termed the ‘Prosumer’ and the power of user generated content.

Utilising extensive front line research as well as an analysis of fast emerging enterprises such as You Tube and Flickr, Dr Lewis painted an exciting picture of the future…but one that would pose very real and significant challenges to the traditional telecommunications service providers worldwide.

Dr Lewis’ presentation is available to download here:

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