Speaker Profiles

Paul Hobden

Managing Director - FutureBlue - Strategic Web Consulting

Starting in the early days of the internet, Paul worked on various projects before moving to London and taking up a position with Reed Elsevier, Europes largest publisher. Reed has a strong Travel portfolio including TravelWeekly, World Travel Market, Gazetteers.com and Travolution, and Paul had responsibility for the online travel products. During his time at Reed he lead the Gazetteers to several prestigious awards including the Association of Online Publishers Best Business Website award.

Before starting FutureBlue, Paul returned to South Africa working for a major online travel agent where he managed the relaunch of their website. Paul holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University, is an accomplished speaker and has written for a number of industry publications.

Jonathan Gluckman

Business Development - Incubeta / Clicks2Customers

Jonathan heads up business development at Clicks2Customers, a world leader in PPC campaign management. Within the travel industry Chris counts 2 of the UK's largest brands and Africa's leading hotels chain as customers, as well as 3 of the USA's top 50 online retailers.

Zachary Rozga

Executive Director - whl.travel

Zachary Rozga is the Executive Director of whl.travel and has built the business from the ground up with his partner Jodi McKeeman. Zack has a BSc in Finance and International Business from the University of Colorado at Boulder, as well as an MA in Tourism Development from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Zack loves being a tourist and believes passionately in developing the partnerships and sustainable initiatives to enable mutually beneficial travel for the tourist and communities alike. As a tourism development consultant, Zack has worked on projects all over the world, but has turned all of his energy to bringing tourism in Africa into the Internet Age. WHL Africa is the embodiment of Zack's passion and commitment to fair and equitable tourism and Zack is actively involved in all aspect s of the business from management down to running capacity building workshops for local industry.

Chris Corbet

Managing Director & Founder - Search Maestros

Chris founded Search Maestros, one of the first Search Engine Optimisation companies in South Africa in the late 90's. The company has gone onto attract some of South Africa biggest travel clients including Safarinow, as well as working with European, American and Asian companies.

Eric Edelstein

Chairman, www.TrafficSynergy.com

Eric Edelstein has been involved in Internet Start-up’s for 10 Years, and founded incuBeta.com, Clicks2Customers.com, TrafficSynergy.com, springleap.com and many other well known Internet companies. He also founded the eSquared clothing stores.

Eric spends large amounts of time testing out new Internet Marketing strategies and is passionate about all Internet marketing especially Affiliate Marketing and organic and sponsored Search Marketing.

Eric was nominated as one of the top 10 business bloggers in South Africa in the 2008 SA Blog Awards - his viewpoints can be read at www.EricEdelstein.com

He has been included in the category "Who's Who of Tomorrow" in the Who's Who of South Africa.

When not behind his laptop or Facebooking, Eric speaks @ Internet conferences, consults and trains on 2.0 and Internet Marketing strategy, and invests in Internet business’s which he believes could be the next google.

Claire Hauser

Acceleration

Leading the way in eMail marketing, Acceleration boast a wide array of international clients and counts Kulula, Safarinow and SA Airways as local travel clients.