Founder and CEO, Digital Strategy Consulting, www.DigitalStrategyConsulting.com

Danny is an internet visionary. He has been at the heart of the European web media industry for 15 years and is recognized a world authority on digital marketing and online media. In the 90s he was the publisher of one of the world’s first online newspapers, Telegraph.co.uk which he ran until 2000 - repeatedly winning Newspaper of the Year. For Hollinger Media he ran online magazines, email services, and consumer social media services. He is best known for co-founding the UK and European Internet Advertising Bureaux www.iabuk.net which each elected him president many times and appointed him as their first chief executive. As a European Vice President for NBC’s internet businesses he ran product development for one of the world’s largest portal owners. He helped launch more than 20 digital trade associations around the world and was recently appointed as one of the first UK government endorsed regulators for digital marketing and commerce. Among numerous awards he is recognized by the UK government as one of the 100 founders of the internet industry, and has been acknowledged many times by trade magazines as one of the most influential figures. He has advised numerous boards of directors and many governments, as well as universities and young entrepreneurs, with over 45,000 people attending his talks and workshops. That’s why he set up the Digital Strategy Consulting group www.DigitalStrategyConsulting.com, and then its sister www.DigitalTrainingAcademy.com: to help agencies, brands and digital media share in this expertise and get their strategies right, first time. He writes on www.DigitalStrategyConsulting.com/articles and is the publisher of www.Netimperative.com, the UK’s longest running online news service.