Worldcom EMEA Board Members
The Worldcom EMEA Board is populated by consultancy leaders from right across the region. They demonstrate the powerful range of consulting skills, experience, advice and innovative services that is available to client organisations. Each member of our Board would be delighted to respond to any questions you have or any request for support that you may need.
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Corinna has more than 18 years of experience in communication in the German speaking technology market.She has headed various launch teams for reams of communication campaigns for large MNC as well as for more specialized vendors. She is an expert localizing international campaigns to the needs of the local market and has experience not only in the B2B but also in the B2C market. Over the years she has developed strong and longstanding contacts in the industry.
Since 1999 Corinna is Managing Director at HBI and since 2007 she holds parts of the company. Currently, she is the Chair of the Worldcom Group EMEA Before joining HBI Corinna has worked as account manager in a number of local agencies. She has worked as an academic assistant at the Chair of international politics at the University of Munich, and has worked on special assignments at the UNCTC, United Nations N.Y.
Corinna holds a Master of Arts of the University of Munich, and has completed a Marketing Education with the BDI
Crispin has over 25 years PR experience advising organisations from FTSE 100 companies to global brands and start-ups.
He is an industry thought-leader on how brands should use word-of-mouth techniques to drive sales and loyalty, and how Net Promoter Score can be used effectively with all audiences.
He is a former chairman of PCRA and a Fellow of the CIPR.
Paget has ten years experience in investment banking in the United Kingdom and Spain. After leaving the University of Exeter with an Honours degree in French and Arabic he worked for Samuel Montagu & Co. Limited for five years and then for Kleinwort Benson Limited. He opened the offices of Kleinwort Benson in Spain where he worked until 1991, when he founded Grupo Albión, together with Alejandra Moore Mayorga. He was Chairman of the GFC/Net (Global Financial Communications network, composed of leading independent financial PR agencies across the world) from 2002 to 2005 and is currently a Board member of Worldcom Public Relations Group (EMEA), the world’s largest and most successful public relations network, with 105 offices in 91 cities in 40 countries on five continents, more than 2,136 employees and revenue in 2008 of more than US $243 million.
Imma Folch-Lázaro, founder of LF Channel SL, is a Telecommunication Engineer with a Master in Business Administration by La Salle University, Philadelphia, and a Master in Marketing from ESADE. She also completed a General Management Program (PADE) at IESE Business School. She is specialist in Marketing and Communication for markets where technology plays a major role by its impact in society. Imma has an experience of + 20 years.
Imma started working as an engineer for IGM, Vienna, afterwards joining Philips Informática, Barcelona, as a Product Marketing Specialist. She gained expertise in the distribution channel working later as the Marketing Manager for Casio POS and being the Product Manager for Microsoft, among others, in Computer2000, Barcelona, Spain. She has worked in all positions of the distribution channel: vendor, distributor and reseller, acquiring a view of all gaps and needs to be covered and the assets to be reinforced.
Since 2009, Imma holds the EMEA Marketing Chair position in Worldcom PR Network, the largest PR network of independent agencies in the word.
In 1996, she founded LF Channel SL offering Marketing and Communication Services in Spain, and has managed the company since.
Imma is fluent in Spanish, Catalan, English and has knowledge of German and Japanese.
Thomas Schmidt Jorgensen has worked in PR, journalism and communication for the past ten years, now as managing partner and member of the management team of Danish agency PrimeTime Kommunikation A/S. He has experience as a consultant in all aspects of the profession – from close sparring with top managements of large Danish and international corporations to paving the communication roads of new businesses.
Master of Social Communication he graduated on Jan Amos Komensky University Prague and during his studies he took three semesters on University of California Irvine. He is Co-founder and Managing Director of PRAM Consulting.
He participated in the development and implementation of communication campaigns for many companies from wide range of industries, e.g. Avaya, SES Astra, D-Link, Cemex, Citrix, Motorola, Ericsson, etc.
Beside taking care of campaigns he is also publishing articles in professional publications and lecturing on University of Economics, Prague.
He is chairman of audit committee of APRA (Association of Public Relations Agencies in Czech Republic) and in Worldcom PR Group he is New Members Recruitment Chair.
Patrik started his professional career at the Computer Press (the largest publishing house specialized on IT media) as Project Manager. From 1999 he worked as Marketing Director at TravelGuide Slovenia which is sister company of Computer Press in Slovenia.
Maria Pace Medolago Albani has founded in 1979 CBO P.R. Consultancy in Milan, of which she is partner and Director. She is a specialist in Consumer Affairs.CBO has joined The Wolrdcom Public Relations Group at the time of its foundation, 20 years ago or so.
Born In Medolago (BG-Italy), Maria Pace Medolago Albani, after a humanistic education, has studied foreign languages at the Interpreters School in Milano and economics at the Ohio State University in Athens (Ohio). She has been trained in management at the ISTUD Institute and in Public Relations in the US, where she has also practiced in a consumer products global company.
Since the foundation of CBO she has been Project Leader for may huge projects, such as the VI Campaign for the promotion of olive oil in Italy for the European Commission, the exhibition “100 years of industry” for the Municipality of Milan, “The Marketing of the Future” international conference, with more than 3.000 participants and many top level speakers for Centromarca, the association of branded products manufacturers.
She has published booklets and articles on various subjects and has been a teacher in Public Relations in various training schools in Italy.
Member of FERPI, the organization of Public Relations Professionals, of ESOMAR, the organization of Market Research professionals and of SOCAP, the organization of professionals in Consumer Affairs. She has been active in Assorel, the association of Public Relations Consultancies in Italy.
She represents the Worldcom Public Relations Group in Italy for the EU Smoking Prevention Campaign “Help-For a life without tobacco”.
She is a multilingual professional, in Italian, English and French.
Andras R. Nagy – Managing Partner of Probako Communications (Budapest, Hungary)
Andras R. Nagy has more than 10 years of extensive experiences in the field of communications and media. He started his career as the media market editor of the leading Hungarian marketing communications trade magazine, Kreativ. He helped founding Probako Communications, one of the fastest growing local independent PR firms in Budapest more than 7 years ago. His company has won several local and international PR awards including a Golden Drum Award (2009) at the international Golden Drum Advertising and Communications Festival (Portoroz, Slovenia).
Andras is a Global Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR, London), a member of the European Association of Communication Directors (EACD). He co-hosts a weekly marketing/media focused radio show at a Budapest based talk radio and teaches PR at the Budapest Communication and Business College.
Paul has over 25 years experience of international capital markets having worked in the City of London since the early 1980s, initially in corporate finance and investment banking before moving into Financial PR and investor Relations. He has been involved in numerous IPOs, fund raisings and M&A transactions and latterly has specialised in international investor relations roadshows. He is Managing Director of Winningtons Financial PR Limited.
Worldcom PR Group counts with specific programs focused on young professionals, managed by the Worldcom Future Generation Group, giving them an opportunity to exchange experiences and lead initiatives related to 2.0 in their respective agencies. Recently, Eszter Szalkai from the Hungarian agency PROBAKO has been working at HBI, German agency based in Munich, for two weeks. Eszter's conclusions are the following: "The program is not only useful for learning from foreign PR specialists, getting an insight into the media landscape they are working in and exchanging ideas with them, but it is also a good opportunity for building a stronger connection with other member agencies".