Cat Leaver Director Brand Scotland

With a remit to establish a team and infrastructure of cross-agency talent, Cat heads up Brand Scotland and leads the #ScotlandIsNow campaign, looking to deliver a strong nation brand that positions Scotland for sustainable growth, resilience and future prosperity. With talent from across VisitScotland, Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise, Brand Scotland aims to activate partnerships across the public and private sectors to drive reputational value and awareness of our progressive nation. Formerly, Cat ran the strategy and marketing teams for a multi award-winning digital agency, After Digital, for seven years and outside of her day job she is one of five who lead on TEDxGlasgow, one of the world's most established TEDx organisations.

Claus Lønborg CEO Copenhagen Capacity

Claus Lønborg has been managing director for Copenhagen Capacity since 2011. Copenhagen Capacity is the official inward investment agency for the “Greater Copenhagen” metropolitan region. They advise foreign companies and investors on establishing, expanding and retaining their activities in the region. Further to this consultancy role, Copenhagen Capacity is also active in developing the regional attractiveness for foreign investors through a number of projects and activities ranging from cluster development to talent attraction.

Prior to his job with Copenhagen Capacity, Claus spent 4½ years in Shanghai, setting up and leading an innovation center to advice Danish companies on research and high tech collaboration with Chinese companies, organisations and universities and to provide general establishment services for knowledge based Danish enterprises.

Most of Claus’ career is however from the private sector, where he had held international sales and marketing positions Rockwool, Arla Foods, Maersk and IBM. Through these jobs, Claus has built his international experience from activities and responsibility areas spanning across America, Europa and Asia.

Claus holds a masters degree in International marketing and has supplemented his education with training programs from IMD, INSEAD. He is married and has 4 children.

Daniela Montiel Strategic Planning & Partnership Development Marca Chile

Daniela Montiel is a Strategy and Partnerships Coordinator at Marca Chile, a public-private foundation that manages Chile’s country brand. She proposes strategy and establishes partnerships which aim to position Chile’s nation brand internationally and provide support for international efforts carried out by members of the public and private sectors. Prior to this she spent six years developing communication strategy for economic development projects at the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. She holds a master’s degree in public diplomacy from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in literature from Loyola Marymount University. Originally from California, she is currently based in Santiago de Chile.

Martin Reeves CEO Coventry City Council

Martin has been Chief Executive of Coventry City Council since April 2009.  He was the Chief Executive and the Head of Paid Service of the West Midlands Combined Authority from March 2016 to September 2017.  He had previously been with Bedfordshire County Council for three and a half years as Assistant Chief Executive and Chief Executive.  

Martin spent much of his early career as a lecturer and researcher, and has a PhD in applied economics.

In 2018 Martin was once again included in the top 50 of the Local Government Chronicle’s list of most influential people in local government.

Consol Vancells Casanovas City Branding Project Coordinator City Promotion Department, Barcelona City Council

As Barcelona City Branding Coordinator, Consol is responsible for the definition of the strategy, planning, implementation and follow-up of the City Branding project within the City Promotion Department of the Barcelona City Council, working closely with all local and metropolitan, public and private stakeholders.

Prior to joining Barcelona City Council, Consol was the Communication and Marketing Director of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (Catalonia National Theatre), the public theatre of the Government of Catalonia for 14 years. In that role, she was in charge of a multidisciplinary team of 21 people, responsible for communication, marketing, public relations, rental of spaces, ticket sales and relationship with the public.

Consol has developed her career in the field of public, non-governmental, marketing and communication institutions. He was the founding creator and director for 5 years of the Enriqueta Villavecchia Foundation for children with cancer and was also responsible for advertising and sponsorship of the Turisme de Barcelona Consortium for 3 years.

Consol Vancells is a professional with more than 20 years’ experience in executive and strategic management in the field of branding, corporate communication, and digital marketing.

Expert project manager in online and offline communication projects and in designing client-acquisition and customer-loyalty strategies focused on improving the brand's positioning and its engagement.

Consol was Born in Barcelona and speaks Catalan, Spanish, English and French. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a graduate degree in Administration and Management from Harvard University and a master’s degree in Social Media, Branding and Strategies from Ramon Llull University – La Salle.

Edith Wong Chief Marketing Officer Invest Hong Kong

Edith Wong is Chief Marketing Officer at Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), a government department tasked to attract, facilitate and retain foreign direct investment into Hong Kong. The department works with companies of all sizes, from startups and SMEs to multinationals, and supports them in every stage from planning, setting up to promotion and expansion. 

She joined InvestHK in 2005 and took up the CMO position in 2015. Her division oversees content marketing, events, public relations, social media, market intelligence and strategic research. Her teams work closely with 31 offices in key markets worldwide to reach out to potential investors and to strengthen and promote Hong Kong’s status as Asia’s premier business location. Recent campaigns launched and spearheaded by InvestHK include the StartmeupHK Festival and Hong Kong Fintech Week.

Prior to joining InvestHK, Edith worked with the Airport Authority Hong Kong and Hong Kong Productivity Council.