Rob Beijleveld is CEO and owner of Dutch media and events firm ICT Media. He is also the initiator behind several Dutch foundations, such as CharITy, CIO Academy, CIO OTY Association, knowledge institute De Villa and networking club Double2Dutch.

Mr Beijleveld is publisher of the Dutch titles CIO Magazine, CDO Magazine, BaaS Magazine, TITM, Outsource Magazine, the tabloid BoardroomIT and it-executive.nl. With ICT Media, he organizes events that support the CDO, CIO, IT, telecoms and sourcing communities with demand-driven programs at C-level.

Previously, Mr Beijleveld held several director and senior management jobs at, among others, Hyperion Solutions, Ricoh/Nashuatec, ABDick, Holland Office Group, Infornet and United Colours.

Shane is a globally celebrated creative entrepreneur & author, whose leadership in marketing & product innovation spans across publishing, digital and entertainment. An Emmy-nominated digital producer and publisher of several top-rated apps, he has been featured in a number of publications and sites, such as Vice, Entereprenuer Magazine and Techcrunch.

In 2012, he co-founded Magic Mirror, producers of the popular ElfYourself app, which has garnered over 50 Million Downloads to date.

In 2015, he joined FactoryMade Ventures as SVP/Chief Digital Officer, where he guides the creative, digital and marketing strategy for the Hollywood incubator that partners with marquee talent to cultivate concepts to execution. Most recently, he led the group’s effort to launch a new STEAM-based kid’s television network, Nano, delivering unique IP and an innovative, multi-platform approach to learning.

Prior to FactoryMade, Shane served as the CDO for one of the country’s leading fundraising consulting firms, DSA, and pioneered the #PraytoEndEbola & #HelpEbola campaigns, garnering the highest award in the industry, The Gold Award for Fundraising Success.

Shane also led digital marketing for HarperCollins, reporting to then Chief Digital Officer, Charlie Redmayne. Guiding efforts to build a direct-to-consumer marketing strategy for high-profile authors, he pioneered the LiveStream Author Series and other notable platforms contributing to the success of a number of New York Times Best Selling titles.

He began his career at Fox Television Stations leading interactive sales and marketing. During that time, he was named to Rupert Murdoch’s Creating The Future Group and garnered an Emmy Nomination for Interactivity as the Creator/Developer of NYTrafficAuthority.

Shane is a graduate of Rhodes College with a degree in Philosophy. He is married, with three children and lives in Santa Monica, CA.

Sudhir Kulkarni is the President of Digital for Persistent Systems. Here he leads the team with a focus on the “how” of digital by bringing together data, APIs, and experiences. This growth strategy combines a technology partner ecosystem, solutions, and a unique architecture for enterprise digital transformation or the transformation to become software-driven in business.

He holds an MBA from IIM, Calcutta and a Bachelor’s Degree from Bombay University. He won the prestigious Gurukul Chevening Scholarship at the London School of Economics.

During his first stint with Persistent from 2006 to 2011, Sudhir held Sales leadership roles as Vice President and Senior Vice President of Sales and GM of an acquired product unit. On rejoining Persistent in 2013 he held Global Sales Operations and Marketing responsibilities in addition to High Tech Sales. Over his 8+ years association with Persistent, his focus on driving a disciplined sales organization has been a key to the organization’s growth.

Over a rich professional career of over 30 years in technology and other businesses, Sudhir has been associated with AF Ferguson, Coats Viyella and NIIT, founded two successful technology companies and ran two startups in the Silicon Valley as COO and Managing Partner.

Patrick Hoffstetter was Renault’s Chief Digital Officer and director of the company’s “Digital Factory” where he defined digital strategy for the Group. The Digital Factory was created at the beginning of 2011 to accelerate Renault’s evolution in all things digital.
A graduate of HEC business school, Patrick began his career in New York, where he worked for Rail Europe Group, a subsidiary of SNCF. He returned to Europe to take up a development role for Eurostar, before being promoted to International Strategy Director for SNCF.

In 2000, Patrick entered the world of high-tech, joining SFR as Director of Marketing and then of Multimedia. He subsequently joined Yahoo Europe where he was in charge of products and services from 2005 to 2007.

Patrick has also served as CEO France for Lasminute.com, which he joined in 2008, before being promoted to Vice President for Europe.
Patrick Hoffstetter is a co-founder of the eG10 club which is composed of 12 CDOs (Chief Digital Officers) from different sectors, mostly within the CAC40. The aim of the club is to provide indepth sharing and brainstorming for digital executives of big corporations.

Dr. Markus Dirr founded several startup companies. His key strength is to achieve significant growth regarding digital revenue for corporates and established companies. Apart from that, he offered his expertise in serval consulting and interim projects with leading companies in their respective markets. Previously, he held the Chief Marketing Officer position at rebuy.com, a fast growing online marketplace in Germany. Currently, he is the Chief Digital Officer and ramps up the international digital business activities for Messe München, one of the leading global trade fair companies.

As CMO and EVP Digital Commerce, Phil oversees all facets of corporate marketing, including strategic planning and business development for Marketing, Global Branding and Product Management.

Prior to joining GoDaddy in 2013, he held senior positions at big brands, including AT&T, CitiGroup, Volvo and Ford.

Phil received his M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.A. from Georgetown University.

A senior business executive, turnaround specialist, general manager, and product developer with substantial experience overseeing B2B and B2C ventures that generate in excess of $700M in revenue per year, David Palmieri is an expert in driving business transformation, digital startups, and new product launch scenarios. Mr. Palmieri was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Legal, one of America’s leading online consumer law brands. He joins Centric Digital as Chief Operating Officer with to help drive digital transformation for our clients and to establish the organization and processes to support the company’s rapid growth and development.

In three years at Lexis-Nexis before joining U.S. Legal, Mr. Palmieri led Martindale-Hubbell, a $180M legal marketing and information services company that he described as a “130-year old startup.” He re-organized all aspects of the business including product development, marketing, operations, and finance to focus on the brand’s core customer value proposition and invested in digital marketing to increase customer acquisition effectiveness. Mr. Palmieri rejuvenated employee morale at all organizational levels by promoting and supporting a “startup” culture encouraging speed, creativity, and accountability, and his efforts led to Lexis-Nexis developing and re-launching www.lawyers.com, a site that would attract three million unique visitors each month and grow 20% per year.

Prior to joining Lexis-Nexis, Mr. Palmieri served as Senior Vice President of Global Product Solutions & Strategy at Dun & Bradstreet, the $1.5B leader in business information, software and analytics, where he was part of the senior leadership team that drove the revitalization of the company. As Senior Vice President of Global Risk Management Solutions (RMS), he was General Manager of D&B’s core business globally and drove a major transformation of that business. He transitioned the business from printed reports and installed software to a cloud-based subscription model through the creation of DNBi, an innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that transformed the customer experience, doubled the rate of revenue growth and drove significant improvements in customer satisfaction in less than two years.

Earlier in his career Mr. Palmieri led Product Management and Business Development at several high-growth Internet startup companies. As Vice President of Products at Register.com, a leading provider of domain name and Internet marketing services, he launched services that have helped hundreds of thousands of consumers and small businesses establish and build their presence on the Web. Mr. Palmieri was one of the first employees at Barnes & Noble’s e-commerce division, BarnesandNoble.com, where he was a pioneer in the development of consumer e-commerce and helped grow the company from launch to over $100 million in revenue and its successful initial public offering (IPO). Earlier in his career he served as Product Manager for Broadband Services for Verizon developing the high-speed Internet and interactive video services that today make up the FiOS service and as a management consultant at Accenture (then Andersen Consulting).

Mr. Palmieri is a member of the board at Credit2B, a cloud-based credit data exchange center and a member of the advisory board at Placecodes, a mobile marketing technology company. Mr. Palmieri holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Franklin & Marshall College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.