Worldcom EMEA Board Members

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.

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.

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.