upn retreat
BARCELONA

With over 27 years of experience in the communications industry, Maria is the owner and CEO of United Partners, a leading PR and marketing agency in EMEA. Maria is also the co-founder of United Partners Public Affairs, a division that provides strategic counsel and advocacy services to clients across various sectors and markets. In addition, Maria is the founder of UPN, an international network of PR and marketing agencies united for effortless growth and delivering multi-national PR and marketing solutions.

Aline Badr is a Global Executive Coach and Reputation Advisor with clients in the EU, Africa, Asia and North America. She helps C-level and high-potential executives gain lasting influence and impact. Aline developed a leadership coaching model that delivers clarity, confidence, and credibility for her executive clients, and combines her 25 years of brand, reputation management and executive coaching experience.

Jenny Plant is the owner of Account Management Skills Ltd, a training company helping client-centric agency owners make client retention and account growth more predictable. Jenny’s training programmes are aimed at those responsible for agency account growth - including Client Services Directors looking to hardwire repeatable account growth processes into the business.

Juha is the founder and CEO of Netprofile, Finland’s leading PR and Content Marketing agency focused on B2B technology. Juha brings in 20+ years of experience in crafting business-boosting marketing and communications strategies and leading award-winning campaigns in Finland and internationally.

Public Relations & Communications Analyst, Global PR Speaker Svetlana Stavreva is the IPRA President 2019-2020, IPRA Board Member, member of Forbes Communications Council and a long-term Public Relation & Communication Professional at IBM.

Entrepreneur and expert in public relations and communications. Passionate about helping tech businesses grow their brand. Co founder and Partner at Cloudberry.

Richard Fogg is a PR and marketing consultant who thrives on tackling complex technology B2B PR and marketing challenges. Each day, he is driven by a passion for assisting outstanding companies with innovative technologies and bold ideas in gaining the recognition, reputation, and rewards they deserve.

Patryk Nowak, the Head of Sales at Prowly, a tool designed for PR specialists. He excels in helping professionals build personalized, long-term relationships with journalists. Patryk emphasizes the use of technology to provide insightful data, validating the impact of PR efforts with concrete numbers.

Pedro Janela is the Chairman and founder of WYgroup, currently with a portfolio of 7 companies and more than 450 employees. Founded in 2002, WYgroup is now the largest Technology Marketing group operating in Portugal with billings in excess of 28M Euros.

Raina Lazarova is the Co-Founder and COO of Ruepoint – a global media intelligence provider, helping PR & Communications professionals demonstrate the value of their work through data-driven media insights, and an outcome-based approach to media measurement and evaluation.

Managing Director and Business Development specialist with an outstanding track record in the communications, creative and health innovation industries. Bronwen has been responsible for winning and growing some of the world's most ambitious brands and businesses.

Natalya is a founder of Life by Design Academy who developed a transformational holistic coaching and training model that boosts energy and performance, optimises health and wellbeing for leaders and their teams. She combines executive coaching with clients in India, Europe, USA and Latin America with her 20 years’ experience in business development, sales & marketing and international management.

Jeff Berkowitz is the founder and CEO of Delve, Washington’s preeminent competitive intelligence and risk advisory firm. Delve helps heavily regulated and highly scrutinized sectors − including energy and utilities, life sciences, financial services and beyond − anticipate and mitigate public affairs challenges.

25+ experience in corporate affairs, communications, and public affairs, both in large multinational organizations and start-ups, covering a wide area of disciplines (brand PR, media relations, stakeholder management, internal communications). Have lived and worked in both developing and developed markets.