Prof. Valérie Ballereau. Professor for Entrepreneurship, Project Management and Strategy, Groupe ESC Dijon Bourgogne / Burgundy School of Business

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1 Speakers Prof. Valérie Ballereau Professor for Entrepreneurship, Project Management and Strategy, Groupe ESC Dijon Bourgogne / Burgundy School of Business MEMBER of AIRPME (Assocation Internationale de Recherche sur la PME), AFITEP (Assocation Francophone de Management de Projet)and Arborus (Promotion des femmes dans la prise de décision) Sharon Bamford Sharon Bamford took up position as Founding CEO of the recently rebranded UK India Business Council, formerly Indo British Partnership Network IBPN, in August Prior to this, she has started five companies, lived and worked in countries as diverse as Nigeria, Italy, Australia and Indonesia. Most recently she has spent time in academia as CEO of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise, Director of the Edinburgh Technopole, managing academic spin-outs and developing the University of Edinburgh's science park. Her emerging markets experience includes Africa, China, South America, Russia and Vietnam. Howard Hunt, MA Howard Hunt has taught at the Prague School of Economics and presently teaches at the Prague Institute of Finance and Management. He is the author of four books and is presently completing a PhD at Charles University.

2 Hildegard Klär (Conference Moderator) Former member of Parliament of Hesse and of Committee of European Affairs Former employee of the Government of Rhineland Palatinate, Department of European Affairs Secretary General of Union of European Federalists in Hesse Joachim Böttcher, MBA Author of the business guide in German called "Business Tools für kreative Querköpfe - Selbsterkenntnis und Geistesblitze mit System" Heads the Business Development department of Luxembourg based investment funds boutique BISA S.A. This subsidiary enterprise of Danish BankInvest Group is specialised in institutional asset management. Expert in market introduction of so called socially responsible investments in Germany. Bert Christmann Member of the Board - JCI Europe Member of the commission for foreign trade and payments (DIHK Berlin). Member of "Bürger für Europa" reprsentant of the European Commission, Germany. Member of the German - Ukrainian association for economics and science. Diplom Betriebswirt (BA) Prof. Dr. Matthias Eickhoff Project Director & Conference Chair Professor for Business Administration, Marketing and Innovation- Management/Entrepreneurship at the University of Applied Science Mainz (Germany)

3 Tiago Forjaz Partner at Jason Associates Tiago Forjaz is the Partner and Co-Founder of Jason Associates, an expert talent advisory firm that was established in 2004 and is currently expanding internationally. Furthermore, Tiago is also a founding member ot The Star Tracker A social network that focuses on bringing together the community of Portuguese Global Talent. Currently Tiago is working on the set-up of a talent fund that focuses on assisting teaching and assisting young talents to choose adequate partners before they become entrepreneurs. Sabine General, Dipl. Psych. Research Assistant at the center of didactics at TU Darmstadt (Germany) Facilitator and coach in the field of creative working. Member of the the German Association for Creativity e.v. Gudrun Lantelme, Dipl. Psych. Research Assistant at the endowed chair of entrepreneurship at TU Darmstadt (Germany) Facilitator and coach in the field of creative working Member of German Association for Creativity e.v.

4 Prof. Dr. Paula Kyrö Professor for Entrepreneurship Education at Helsinki School of Economics. Professor for Management and Intrapreneurship at the University Jyväskylä and Lappeenranta University of Technology. SME consultant for strategic planning, organisational development and small business collaboration. PhD. Educ. and PhD. Econ. Sabine Müller, MA Educ. Project Coordinator of the European Union funded university project 'COEUR - Business Creativity Module (BCM)' Research Assistant at Charles Skene Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen (Scotland) Member of the German Association for Creativity (GfürK) Dr. Marzena Starnawska Lecturer of Charles P Skene Centre for Entrepreneruship at Aberdeen Business School, the Robert Gordon University. Involved in teaching entrepreneurship modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Involved in business planning and consultancy projects in SMEs. PhD, MA Hons Econ. Prof. Virginia Trigo Assistant Professor at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, where she coordinates and teaches Entrepreneurship at both graduate and undergraduate levels. She is the director of the Asiânia Centre for Asian Studies at the ISCTE Business School and is involved in the COEUR project since its inception.

5 Andrew Turnbull, MA Hons. Econ. Professor and Corporate Programmes Director at Robert Gordon Business School. Member of the Higher Education Academy, the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Marketing Society, and chair of the Academy of Marketing in Scotland for several blue chip companies, including Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd. and Grants of St. James, latterly heading up the marketing function of Wm. Low & Co. plc supermarkets. Marketing trainer for a variety of commercial organisations, including British Airways, Imerys, the Abbey Bank, NATS, Shell, Total, SAIC, Grampian Enterprise, Univation, Remedios, NE Group and Grampian Region's Education Department.