International Institute of Event Management
Muffi Ghadiali
A seasoned entrepreneur and management leader, Muffi brings over two decades of expereince in building successful businesses, products and services that delight consumers. Through his career he has managed a range of consumer products, including software, consumer devices and online services. Muffi's career spans a roster of start-up and Fortune 500 companies including OUYA (acquired by Razor Inc.), ChargePoint Inc, Lab126 (a part of Amazon.com), Hewlett-Packard Co., Synaptics Inc and IDC Research.
Muffi is a lecturer at Stanford University, California since 2012, teaching programs in Entrepreneurship, Online Businesses, Product Management and Agile Development. He brings a broad, multi-cultural experience, having lived and worked in India, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States.
Mei Lin Fung
Mei Lin Fung is chairman of the Institute for Service Organization Excellence. She was an early pioneer in CRM – Customer Relationship Management and designed and conducted the first Customer Service Apprenticeship program registered by the US Department of Labor.
Avaya and Oklahoma State University were awarded the Phillip B Crosby Medallion for Leadership and Teamwork by the American Society for Competitiveness for implementing a program designed by Mei Lin Fung and Dr. Casey McNeal. She is a member of the Federal Health Futures Group sponsored by the US Air Force Medical Service.
Mei Lin serves on the board of the National University of Singapore America Foundation and holds a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Management and B.Sc (Honors) in Mathematics from the Australian National University. Read her blog at www.meilinfung.blogspot.com. Follow her on twitter @meilinfung
Naeem Zafar
A member of the faculty of the Haas business school at the University of California Berkeley, Naeem teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the MBA program. Naeem is the founder of Concordia Ventures and focuses on educating and advising entrepreneurs on all aspects of starting and running a company. Naeem holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Brown University (magna cum laude), Rhode Island, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Naeem has been associated with some of the largest conferences in Silicon Valley including TieCon and OpenForum and has played a pivotal role in the success of these events. Naeem is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and also a charter member and former President of OPENSiliconValley.
Petra Johannsson
Petra is the founder of events company TwistedTree, and also one of the co-founders of 2Pears – specialists in events and networking for creative and start-up companies in tech, music and media.
Petra holds a MBA from Lund University in Sweden and has more than 13 years experience from the B2B events industry including event management, marketing, speaker acquisition, sponsorship, media and delegate sales at organizations including IIR Conferences (now Informa Group), Incisive Media, and Financial News.
Petra's event experience spans many B2B industry sectors including technology, media (digital and social), financial services, pharmaceutical, biotech, telecoms and creative industries.
Chip Stockman
Chip Stockman is an independent marketing professional based out of suburban Philadelphia presently providing online marketing and membership services to i-Meet.com. With over 50,000 members from around the globe, i-Meet.com is the world’s largest online community for people who plan meetings and special events and the suppliers, locations and service companies that serve them. Membership in i-Meet.com is free and offers many personal connection, knowledge sharing and industry resource search tools for meeting professionals.
As Marketing Manager, StarCite, Destination Solutions Division (2004 – 2008) facilitated the marketing of international destinations to corporate meeting planners based in the USA via websites, email campaigns, downloadable files, and traveling city-based tradeshows. From 1992 – 2004 Chip was part of Michael Type and Graphics (Now Blackhorse Graphics). As Managing Partner he helped guide the company as it solved the graphic design, visual communication and event signage needs of customers including Maritz and McGettigan Partners.
Jody Long
Jody is an event planner for a dental supply company in Denver, Colorado. She plans trade shows, meetings, customer events, and coordinates marketing for all events. She is involved in fundraising for local breast cancer awareness charities, and is on the special events committee to help raise funds for a local two-day free dental clinic to those in need. She has experience with social media and email marketing, vendor relationships, and corporate travel
Jody received her Bachelor’s in Communications from the University of Connecticut, and her MBA from the University of Hartford. She also holds a certificate in Event Management from the International Institute for Event Management.
Thomas Tolladay
Thomas is currently an Events Organizer at Chillisauce, a well known events company based in Oxford Circus, London, UK, that specializes in product launches and corporate events as well as activity weekends. Thomas has been involved with planning large car launch campaigns for well known brands such as Hyundai. Chillisauce have won the competition for best product launch at the UK Event Awards in 2010 and 2011. Thomas holds a BSc in Human Geography from the University of Reading, UK
Thomas has experience in online sports journalism from writing several articles for a well established football website on financial fair play and covering the debate over the London Olympic Stadium. Thomas also has experience in SEO, digital & social media and is currently working on optimizing and expanding the Chillisauce brand through Facebook & Twitter.