 Luis Cantarell, Executive Vice President Zone Europe Nestlé S.A.. Born in 1952. After receiving an Economics and Finance Degree at the University of Barcelona Mr. Cantarell entered Nestlé Spain in the Information System Unit in 1976. In 1982 he moved to product management in different categories (e.g. culinary, Nescafé). In 1987 he was appointed Head of Coffee Marketing and later Head of the Nutrition Division of Nestlé Spain. In 1994 he was transferred to the headquarters in Switzerland where he took the responsibility of the global Coffee Marketing. In 1996 he returned to Spain to run the Coffee, Culinary & Foodservices Division as a member of the Nestlé Spain Management Committee. Two years later in 1998 he was appointed Managing Director of Nestlé Portugal. In 2001 he returned to the headquarters to become Senior Vice President of the Nutrition Strategic Business Division. In 2003 he was appointed Deputy Executive Vice President and Member of the Executive Board of Nestlé S.A.. In 2005, Mr. Cantarell was appointed Executive Vice President in charge of Zone Europe. |
 Mag. Christian-André Weinberger, Corporate Senior Vice President, Henkel KgaA, Global Strategic Business Unit, Laundry Care. Graduating from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with multi-continental MBA exchange program education in the USA and Australia, Christian-André
Weinberger joined Procter&Gamble in Austria and the European Headquarter in Switzerland as Brand Manager later as Marketing Manager. From 2000 to 2003 in Caracas, Venezuela, he headed in the Latin American
headquarter as Marketing Director the Global Business Unit for Baby Care (Pampers) with an outstanding successful track record of "results-driven disciplined and passionate business leadership" including business
turnarounds and organizational restructuring. After 12 years of international leading line-management positions with significantly accelerated career moves and global work experience in both developed and developing regions, he took a sabbatical leave as married father of four children. Since 2005, he runs as a Corporate Senior Vice President and member of the board the biggest Global Strategic Business Unit, Laundry Care, for Henkel KGgA, a worldwide leader with international consumer and industrial
technologies brands at the Global Head Quarter in Düsseldorf/Germany. Presentation Slides |
Mag. Ronald Tremmel, General Manager, Apple Austria. While studying at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Ronald Tremmel started his career in 1993 at Minolta Austria where his fields of responsibility were sales and marketing of the Camera Devision as well as development and organisation of subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2003 he became General Manager of Nikon Austria. In June 2005, Ronald Tremmel joined Apple Austria. While his professional career Ronald Tremmel completed a postgraduate MBA programme in Vienna and California. |
 o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Björn Ambos is CEMS Academic Director and full professor of International Management and Marketing at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. He is a member of the Academy of International Business, the Strategic Management Society, the European International Business Academy and the Academy of Management. Previously he held positions at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Hamburg, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. His teaching experience includes classes in international marketing, global marketing research, transnational management, global strategic management, corporate strategy, and cross-cultural management. Professor Ambos studied Business Administration at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the Florida State University (USA). He holds a Dipl.-Kfm. and a PhD in International Management from the University of Hamburg and received his ‘Habilitation’ from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in 2006. |
 o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration since September 2001. His research areas are user innovation, toolkits for user innovation, horizontal innovation networks, and more generally entrepreneurship, innovation management, and marketing. His research puts a strong emphasis on empirical methods. Presentation Slides |
Steve Chaid, Radio and Television Anchor - Media Coach. Since beginning his media career in 1992, Steve Chaid has worked as a Radio News Presenter for the ORF's nationwide network FM4, as a television Business News Anchor for Deutsche Welle Television, and compiled reports for CNN, NPR, and the BBC. He also works as a Media Trainer at intoMedia, where he helps coach individuals preparing for radio and television appearances. Steve Chaid earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and completed a postgraduate MBA program in Vienna.