Dr. Rainer Hillebrand

Vice Chairman Otto Group

Rainer Hillebrand has been a member of the Executive Board of the Otto Group since 1999 and was appointed Vice Chairman in 2007. He is responsible for the company's major fields of Corporate Strategy, E-Commerce, BI, and Knowledge Management. He is Advisor and Chairman of the Advisory Board of e.ventures Capital Partners and Project A Ventures as well as several Multichannel retailers and online pure players.

Alastair Bruce

Former Senior Director, Google

Alastair Bruce has over 25 years of international management experience in FMCG, consulting, e-commerce and digital. He held senior leadership roles at Unilever and Mars in Europe and West Africa and is former Managing Director of Mercateo and Senior Director at Google. He is a member of the advisory board at EHI Retail Institute and Hamburg School of Business Administration.

Prof. Dr. Gerrit Heinemann

Director eWeb Research Center Niederrhein University

Gerrit Heinemann is Director of the eWeb Research Center at Niederrhein University, Germany. Prior to this, he occupied different top management positions in the retail sector as well as in international consulting. He is author of several best-selling books on multichannel and online-retailing, and a member of the Supervisory Board of buch.de internetstores AG.

Dietmar Dahmen

Creative Consultant and Enricher of Brands

Dietmar Dahmen is a highly decorated creative. He was Creative Director with DDB, Executive Creative Director with Ogilvy, and Chief Creative Officer with BBDO. As a creative consultant he emphasizes on up to date marketing, digital trends and solutions. Dahmen lectures modern brand success, change and digital transformation with the European Association of Communication Agencies.

Fred Seibert

Founder Frederator Studios and Next New Networks

Fred Seibert, a serial media entrepreneur, was MTV’s first creative director and shaped its unique voice. In 2007 he co-founded Next New Networks, the leading online television company, attracting over 200 million views per month on YouTube. When acquired by YouTube, he concentrated again on his own company, Frederator Studios, and launched in 2012 the YouTube Channel “Cartoon Hangover”.