Advisory Board

Our International Advisory Board consists of esteemed scholars in their field of disciplines. The role of the Advisory Board is very important to us as they provide invaluable feedback and guidance to speakers and help steer speaker’s presentation content to the required standards and relevance.Aside from reviewing submitted abstracts, our Advisory Board also contributes to keynote speeches, chairing sessions, facilitating panel discussions or conduct brainstorming workshops.

Advisory Board

Liubov RuchinskayaLiubov Ruchinskaya
Colgate brand insights Manager
Colgate-Palmolive

I have spent 15 years living and working across the globe to understand people – their attitude and behavior to be a strong business advisor for the business and drive growth for the interest of the company and the society. During my journey I have studied and developed unique approaches by applying agility & operating like a start up principles, neuro economics, Ai, co-creation, design thinking, data science and art.

Insights industry is transforming now and our role is to elevate the purpose of insights collectively – clear vision and entrepreneurial constant experimentation something that make me very passion about my job today .

Jasmeet SethiJasmeet Sethi
Regional Head of ConsumerLab
Ericsson

Jasmeet Sethi is a Regional Head – Insights for Ericsson ConsumerLab, the consumer insights division within Ericsson group. He is responsible for driving and managing consumer insights function in India and has been instrumental in building and managing regional intelligence on emerging market consumers which includes identification and translation of consumer needs, insights and behaviors to guide strategy, communication, innovation and marketing initiatives across Ericsson’s various business units.

He has also been responsible for driving the Consumer Experience Measurement program at Ericsson and introducing and integrating new methodologies like social media listening and on-device metering to understand true consumer experience in the wireless industry. Jasmeet has over 11 years of experience across wide variety of industries including telecom, technology, media and financial services where has worked on a very wide range of insight, strategy and brand development projects

Massimo Cealti

Massimo Cealti
Vice President Global Consumer Knowledge
Symrise

Massimo Cealti, 25 years of experience in Market Research, Consumer Strategy and Insight is currently Vice President Global Consumer Knowledge for the Scent& Care Unit at Symrise, a global Fragrance and Flavours Company (www.symrise.com), helping clients grow their business bringing the consumer voice to fragrance development.

Previous experiences include The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé, McDonald’s and leading research agencies (IPSOS, Research International). He holds an M.S. in Business Management from Luigi Bocconi University in Milan.

Debbie Solomon
Research Professional

Debbie Solomon is a Research Professional who has worked in Senior Media and Marketing Research positions at several global companies. Most recently she was Managing Director, Media Research at Mindshare, serving as an in-house resource on a wide variety of media research and planning issues. Her work encompassed all media disciplines and she worked on all the agency’s clients.

She was also part of the agency’s Global Insights team. Previously, Debbie worked in Media Research at J. Walter Thompson and Leo Burnett and Marketing Research at Quaker Oats and Milton Bradley. She has won a number of industry honors, including ARF Great Mind Award, Creative Media Awards, Top Kid Researcher by KidScreen magazine, MediaWeekMedia Research All-Star, Esquire “Woman We Love in Advertising” and WPP Atticus Award. Debbie has also been one of a select group of people invited to meet with the International Olympic Committee to advise them on the state of media in the future.


Dan Foreman

Dan Foreman

Dan Foreman is an experienced entrepreneur and leader.

Dan brings over 20 years of business experience. He specializes in emerging technologies and developing markets, having helped organizations grow from incubation to multi-million dollar revenues (and exits).

Dan began his career at WPP before progressing to senior client, advertising and consulting roles. These days Dan operates in investment, advisory and entrepreneurial positions, currently chairing or advising the boards of several data, technology, marketing, social media and research. He also personally invests in many early-stage businesses.

Dan is the current Past President for ESOMAR (holding elected position of 100,000 professionals 2013-14, the first President under the age of 40), Founder of TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells, winner of the prestigious AMA “4 under 40” award, holder of the Disruptive Innovator MR Change Agent of the Year and a frequent guest lecturer at a number of business schools. He holds a BSc in Psychology and Mathematics from University of Leicester, UK.

Dan is able to tap into a wide network of people to help with different projects and ideas.

Sirlei Waterhouse

Baileigh Allen
Seasoned market research executive

Baileigh Allen is a seasoned market research executive. With over 20 years of experience, Baileigh specializes in strategic consultancy, driving innovation and organizational change.  Clients describe Baileigh as a “Jill of all trades in the market research industry”; finding the right solution to translate data into meaningful information to improve the organizational decision-making process.  Baileigh has spent her career nearly evenly divided across both client and vendor-side engagements.  Baileigh holds an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master’s Degree with an emphasis on Research Methodologies and Statistics.  
These days you can find Baileigh seeking to make a difference professionally and personally; either developing something new/different to share, chairing or attending industry conferences, volunteering in the classroom or striving to seek change in autism research.