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Mattias Berg
UK Country Manager, PriceRunner.co.uk
Mattias joined PriceRunner, the price comparison company, in May 2004 as Chief Financial Office, based in Sweden. In September 2005, Mattias joined PriceRunner in the UK as Country Manager. Tasked with driving growth and development for the business, he works closely with the management team to grow the user and retailer base and develop the PriceRunner offering to achieve the goal of becoming the number one price comparison service in the UK.
In his role as CFO, Mattias was responsible for driving all aspects of the financial function from financial control, business analysis and human resources to managing the accounting department in Sweden and the external accountancy firms in UK and France.
Prior to joining PriceRunner, Mattias worked for five years for the Swedish investment bank, Öhman Fondkommission, advising clients in sectors such as Internet, Telecommunications, Oil & Gas and Private Equity with respect to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, initial public offerings and private placements of equity.
Richard Burn, Web Marketing & Affiliate Manager, The Jessop Group Ltd
Richard Burn is Web Marketing and Affiliate Manager for The Jessop Group Ltd, a position he has held since October 2005. Richard joined Jessops to lead Affiliate and Online Marketing. He has been integral to the coordination of shopping portal activity, media buying and online partnerships. Previous web marketing roles include 5 years at Hartwell plc, driving online vehicle sales.
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Richard Burn
Web Marketing & Affiliate manager, The Jessop Group Ltd
Richard Burn, Web Marketing & Affiliate Manager, The Jessop Group Ltd
Richard Burn is Web Marketing and Affiliate Manager for The Jessop Group Ltd, a position he has held since October 2005. Richard joined Jessops to lead Affiliate and Online Marketing. He has been integral to the coordination of shopping portal activity, media buying and online partnerships. Previous web marketing roles include 5 years at Hartwell plc, driving online vehicle sales.
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David Llamas
Director of Information Technology, Harrods
David Llamas is the Director of Information Technology for London retail giant, Harrods. After 10 years of working as a consultant and ERP project manager in retail and other industries, Mr. Llamas joined Harrods in February 2003 as Enterprise Applications Controller. In April 2005, he was promoted to the position of IT Director in charge of Technology, Applications, Business Intelligence, e-Commerce and Telecoms. As of January 2006, Mr. Llamas was promoted to CIO for Harrods. Mr. Llamas is also chairman of the Retail Technology Summit conference series. Mr. Llamas earned his Executive MBA at the London Business School in 2005. Harrods has been London's premier retail outlet for over 155 years.
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Andy Morrey
Since leaving Argos Retail Group Andy has worked with a number of the leading retailers in the UK, as well as smaller niche retailers, developing their multi channel strategies.
Prior to working with Conchango, Andy was the former head of new channel development for Argos Retail Group and prior to that the Head of E-commerce for Argos. Andy was responsible for developing the Argos multi-channel strategy, which Forrester rated as the number one European multi-channel retailer. Andy was also responsible for developing the award winning ‘Click and Collect’ innovation, and the leading mobile-commerce service, ‘Text and Take Home’, using digital channels to increase sales in stores. In addition Andy negotiated and oversaw the first high street Fixed Virtual Network Operation in the UK. Andy developed the first retail Over The Air Transfer for all Vodafone handsets sold through Argos. He also has leading experience in developing Digital TV Channels, where he launched 4 shopping channels and business to business web and mobile based services and developed the world’s leading and most profitable retail mobile shopping service.
Prior to Argos, Andy was Head of E-commerce at Marks and Spencer, where he developed the e-commerce strategy, recruited the team and developed a number of prototypes, including an on-line business to business food service, M&S Direct online, a BT wide Intranet shopping service and M&S Microsoft TV. Andy also re launched the Marks and Spencer website, taking visitors from 20,000 a month to 250,000 a month in just 1 year.
As Head of E-commerce at Norwich Union, Andy was responsible for launching several international websites for each country, along with the first insurance company to offer on-line car quotes linked to the Norwich Union back end systems. Andy also developed the UK’s first IFA and Insurance Broker on-line network.
Andy holds an MBA, majoring in the role of brand in the on-line world and has recently been voted one of the top 100 people who have influenced the development of the Internet in the UK over the last 10 years. Andy’s work has won the Innovation of the Year in 2002, 2003 and 2005 and Multi-Channel Retailer of the year in 2002 and 2003 at the Retail Week awards.
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