Jamal Al Mawed

Gambit Communications, UAE

Founder and Managing Director

Emirati/British/Palestinian hybrid with over 13 years’ experience handling the PR and Communications of multinational brands overseeing more than thirty countries, Jamal’s career before founding Gambit Communications took him to senior roles at leading brands such as Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and the Dubai Properties Group.

Pioneer in Social Influencer Engagement, Almawed has spoken at over 20 PR and Marketing summits across the world and is a university guest lecturer, senior judge for industry panels, magazine columnist and guest radio speaker for literary book reviews.

Selected by The Holmes Report in the prestigious EMEA ‘Innovator 25’ list for 2019 alongside names such as Greta Thunberg, and in the PR Week Power Book 2019, while in 2016 he was named by The Huffington Post as one of ‘Ten to Watch’ in the Middle East MarComms Industry. Early in his career he was the recipient of the MEPRA ‘Young Communicator of the Year Award’.

Patricia Yates

Visit Britain

Director of Strategy and Communications

Patricia Yates leads Visit Britains strategy and communications division which delivers on the organizations statutory duty to advise Government on tourism matters in particular those that affect Britain, including global competitiveness, research, insights and analytics, communication with stakeholders, media and staff and leading the industry in times of crisis.

Daniel Tisch

Argyle Public Relationships

President & CEO

Daniel Tisch is widely known as an international public relations professional, speaker, writer and industry leader. He is the CEO of Argyle Public Relationships, one of Canada’s largest independent PR firms, a Fellow of the Canadian Public Relations Society, and the 2011-2013 chair of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management, the confederation of the world’s major PR and communication professional associations.

Since Daniel became Argyle’s CEO and owner in 2003, the firm has grown from 10 employees in Toronto to more than 120 across eight major North American cities today. Argyle has earned more than 300 awards in that period, including twice being named IABC Global Mid-Sized Agency of the Year (2017 and 2018), and two Canadian Agency of the Year honours (PRovoke Media in 2020, Canadian Public Relations Society in 2021). Since 2015, Argyle has appeared six times on lists of Canada's fastest-growing companies in the Globe & Mail and Canadian Business magazine.

As a consultant, Daniel has advised a long list of Global 500/Fortune 500 companies as well as both Canadian and international government leaders. He is particularly well-known for expertise in reputation, issues and crisis management, serving in 2009 as the lead communications advisor to an industry affected by the largest food recall in North American history. Daniel’s other areas of practice include reputation management strategy, stakeholder engagement, governance and executive leadership communications.

As Global Alliance chair, Daniel led the organization to unprecedented growth, chaired a process to develop an international consensus on the roles and responsibilities of twenty-first century public relations, co-chaired the two largest World Public Relations Forums in history, launched a “best-of-the-best” global awards program and an international research study on the state of public relations with the University of Southern California, and represented the profession on the International Integrated Reporting Council.

Earlier in his career, Daniel held senior communications roles in the Canadian government, including serving as Senior Policy Advisor and Acting Chief of Staff to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. In the latter role he was a member of the Canadian delegation to the G7 Economic Summit.

Daniel has spoken at conferences on every continent, lectured on public relations at Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada) since 1996, and contributed to leading PR and marketing textbooks. He appears regularly in broadcast, print and online media, including recent comments in the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, Reuters, CBC Television, Global News, PR Week and Strategy. He is a member of CPRS, the IABC and the Arthur W. Page Society.

Born in Madrid, Spain, and raised in Toronto, Daniel speaks English, French and Spanish. He holds two degrees from Queen’s University — a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and a Master of Business Administration. Daniel is the Vice Chair of the Queen’s University Board of Trustees, a leader in the international Scouting movement and a board member of Social Venture Partners International.

Maliha Aqeel, PMP

Director of Global Communications, Fix Network World

Director of Global Communications

Maliha Aqeel is an award-winning senior communication professional. She is currently a Director of Global Communications at Fix Network World . She serves on IABC’s international executive board and is a past president of IABC/Toronto. 

Her accomplishments include developing ICD’s new brand and revamping ICD’s Director Journal magazine, which earned IABC Gold Quill awards of merit and IABC Canada Silver Leaf awards of excellence. She also led EY’s Tax Canada Bot-a-thon campaign, which won several awards in internal communication and employee engagement including a Gold Quill “Best of the Best”, which represents the very best entries seen from around the globe.   

Previously, she spent several years in agency and led the financial communication practice for APCO Worldwide’s Dubai office. She is a Strategic Communication Management Professional (SCMP) and a Project Management Professional (PMP).

Jon Meakin

Clarity PR

President, North America

Jon has 25 years’ public relations and communications experience, encompassing consumer, corporate, business-to-business and crisis and issues management.  He is currently President, North America at Clarity PR, responsible for the strategic direction and growth of Clarity's North American business.

Previously, Jon ran Grayling’s global Strategic Services team, which encompassed research, insights and evaluation; creative and content solutions through the agency’s GMint offer; and Grayling’s proprietary online reputation management tool, GCore. He also overseed the firm’s global marketing efforts and consults on key international clients.

Jon’s career has seen him develop and run successful international campaigns for clients including PayPal and Shell, and UK programs for clients in food and drink, travel and tourism, publishing, property and other sectors.

Jon is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK and has previously judged several PR industry awards, including the CIPR Excellence Awards, PRCA Awards, the PRWeek Awards and the Romanian PR Awards. British born, Jon is currently resident in San Francisco.

Anna Lingeris

The Hershey Company

Earned Media & Brand Publicity Lead

Anna is responsible for developing & executing strategic, results-driven public relations, social media and consumer engagement campaigns for The Hershey Company brand portfolio including iconic brands such as Hershey's, Reese's, Hershey's Kisses, Kit Kat, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.
Lingeris graduated from Allegheny College with a dual Bachelor's Degree in Political Science & Communications and spent six years in Washington, DC before relocating to Hershey, PA in January 2009.  
In 2011, Lingeris was named one of PRWeek’s 40 Under 40 and PR News' 15-to-Watch. Her leadership also led to numerous industry awards, including the S'mores Snacktivity Suite execution from BlogHer '10 and '11. 
A Pittsburgh native, Anna is an avid Steelers fan and spends her free time (what free time?!) at the gym, and on Skype dates with her niece and nephew!

Martin Riecken

TUI Group

Head of Corporate Communications, Group Corporate and External Affairs

Katie Delahaye Paine

PAINE Publishing

Publisher & CEO

Katie Delahaye Paine, aka The Measurement Queen (@queenofmetrics), has been a pioneer in the field of measurement for three decades. She has founded two measurement companies, KDPaine & Partners Inc., and The Delahaye Group.  Her books, Measure What Matters (Wiley, March 2011) and Measuring Public Relationships (KDPaine & Partners, 2007) are considered must-reads for anyone tasked with measuring public relations and social media. Her latest book, written with Beth Kanter, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit:Using Data to Change the World, is the 2013 winner of the Terry McAdam Book Award.

Her latest company, Paine Publishing is the first educational publishing firm entirely dedicated to making more Measurement Mavens. Its newsletter, The Measurement Advisor, is the industry’s most comprehensive source of information about best practices in communications measurement. In her consulting practices, she designs measurement dashboards for some of today’s most admired companies. Katie has also been a leading promoter of standards in the PR and social media measurement field, most recently as the initial organizer of The Conclave that released social media measurement standards.

She started the first blog and first newsletter devoted exclusively to communications measurement. In 2013, she was inducted into PRNews’ Measurement Hall of Fame. She was named the Society of New Communications Research “Fellow of the Year” for her work in support of social media research.

More recently, Katie was named one of “25 women who rock social media” by Lee Odden’s prestigious Online Marketing Blog. In 2008, she was named one of PR Week’s Power Players for her advocacy of PR measurement. Her firm won both the 2009 and 2010 New Communications Award of Excellence for its breakthrough work in social media research.

Nicole Moreo

Ketchum

SVP- Senior Vice President, Analytics

Nicole Moreo has a proven track record of looking beyond metrics and developing analytics programs that have a direct impact on strategy and business outcomes for her clients. Nicole’s expertise and focus lies in being able to tell a holistic data story for all Ketchum clients. To do this, she looks at a clients’ data across the paid, owned and earned spectrum. She integrates data points from traditional media, social media, web analytics, search engine optimization, primary research, digital ads and CRM to identify the trends and insights that lead to smart and sophisticated strategies.

Prior to joining Ketchum, Nicole built the Analytics practice at Peppercomm, a digital communications agency based in New York with offices in San Francisco and London. Nicole oversaw a team of data scientists, analysts and researchers that worked to connect strategy, tactics, audience and results for clients across a variety of industries. Using the latest ideas in digital, statistical, analytical and market research, Nicole is known for finding the answer of “what does success mean to you”.

Nicole is Vice-Chair of AMEC North America and was named as one of the top 25 innovators in America by the Holmes Reports in 2016. She attended Washington and Lee University with a focus in Economics.

Kieran Fagan

CVS Health

VP, Communications - Content + Experiences

Kieran is Vice President, Communications at CVS Health, where he leads the teams responsible for the company’s corporate story, content strategy, digital and social media, and communications insights.

Kieran joined CVS Health in January 2019 through CVS’s acquisition of Aetna, where he led the communications centers of excellence for content, digital and internal communications. Before joining Aetna, Kieran was a managing director in the corporate strategy and healthcare practices of W2O Group, counseling Fortune 100 companies on communications strategy, reputation management, and using digital media analytics to modernize and reshape their communications and media strategies.

He’s held prior communications leadership roles in the financial services and healthcare sectors, including at BNY Mellon and for more than a decade at Novartis, where he led corporate communications teams in the U.S. and Europe through mergers and acquisitions, crisis communications, product launches and change management programs. 

Colleen Marshall Delaney

Massachusetts General Hospital

Director of Internal Communication, Publications and Operations

Cam Gordon

Twitter Canada

Head of Communications

An experienced communications practitioner with 15+ years working in Canadian and global markets. A confident, well-spoken media relations expert with a deep knowledge of the Canadian print, broadcast and online media landscapes. A senior project lead with vast experience managing colleagues and agency teams. An issues management expert with experience working with top brands and top executives on reputational management, product recalls, user safety issues and other crisis situations. A veteran of policy communications, working with government officials at federal, provincial and municipal levels on a variety of campaigns and support programs.