Dinis Guarda is co-founder and CEO of intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil part of Ztudium Group. He is also founder of openbusinesscouncil.org and tradingfloor.com (Saxo Bank). Dinis Guarda’s background experience is in international management, marketing / communications, web, publishing and content working in initiatives with UN, governments, financial companies, Reuters, MasterCard, P&G, Philips, Vodafone, Nike amongst other. On a business, creative and entrepreneurial level, Dinis has worked / collaborated with people such as David Bowie, Patti Smith, Andy Fletcher (Depeche Mode), Michel Gondry, Steen Jakobsen, Brian Solis and many others.
During 2008 and 2011, he co-managed Saxo Bank’s web / online marketing global plan of action, its localization, video and tech related subjects. He defined & managed social media strategy for the organization. He created tradingfloor.com and co-developed the business web platform of the Chinese website chinese.tradingfloor.com and Spanish / Latin America websites saladeinversion.es and saladeinversion.com. He is a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School and an active speaker in conferences and other educational events and workshops. With an Master in New Media, he writes regularly in fool.com, dinisguarda.com, industry websites, magazines and has been publishing books and magazines.
Pedro Santos is the Executive Director of IntelligentHQ.com and Ztudium Group.
With an economics academic formation and a management background, Pedro has been working in various industries, such as arts, technology and internet as an executive director, event manager, musical curator, marketing coordinator and artist manager. He worked in both public and private sectors with a considerable experience coordinating projects and teams and producing events worldwide in countries such as Portugal, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brasil and Russia. Along his career he has worked directly with influential personalities such as Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, David Sylvian, Robert Fripp, Steve Reich, Tony Allen or Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Hayden Richards is the Associate Publisher, Chief Operations Officer and Co-founder of IntelligentHQ. He specialises in finance, trading, investment, and technology, with expertise in both buy-side, sell-side. Contributing and advising various global corporations, Hayden is a thought leader, researching on global regulatory subjects, digital, social media strategies and new trends for Businesses, Capital Markets and Financial Services.
Aside from the articles, interviews and content he writes for IntelligentHQ, Hayden is also a content curator for capital markets, analytic platforms and business industry emerging trends. An avid new media explorer Hayden is driven by a passion for business development, innovation, social business, Tech Trading, payments and eCommerce. A native Trinidadian, Hayden is also a veteran, having served with the Royal Air Force Reserves for the past 10 years.
Follow Hayden on Twitter @HaydenARichards, linkedin.com/haydenhrichards and http://www.scoop.it/u/hayden-richards
Alexander Aranda, search engine specialist, SEO and online strategy. Alex started his online career shortly after graduating from University College London by setting up a company developing, marketing and selling brands online. His passion, knowledge and understanding of the online sector brought him into contact with some of the biggest online brands and in some of the most competitive sectors, including travel, finance and online betting.
Alexander has worked closely with his own team as well as with big brands on a creative and technical level, giving him an exceptional insight into the inner workings of companies as well as gaining an unrivaled edge over his peers. Such experiences have given Alex the opportunity to become one of the top search engine optimisers in the UK.
With a passion for learning and education Alexander has started to work closely with educational institutions with a view to becoming a speaker and educator on web related topics, entrepreneurship and business.
One of Alex’s key areas of interest is social media and the use of social media for business, in particular Twitter which has become one of his specialist areas of knowledge. Follow Alexander on his twitter account @ThinkBusiness.
Fidan Aliyeva - Associate Publisher and Editor.
Fidan Aliyeva’s background experience is in senior level leadership and international Oil and Gas industry, working in big energy Multinationals close to CEOs and Boards project managing global projects. With a MBA in Oil and Gas Management from the University of Dundee, Scotland, Fidan moved from her home country Azerbaijan to the UK.
In the last years she has been working, researching and writing about micro and macro trends in energy, oil and gas industry and sector. She has a passion for oil and gas industry, its challenges, geopolitical, environmental, IT and tech other global concerns that affect lifestyle of nations. She also writes and researches about management and leadership. Fidan is the founder the website petroleumanalytics.com.
Follow her in twitter @petro_analytics or http://uk.linkedin.com/in/fidanaliyeva
A developer passionate about what he does. Experienced in developing web applications and websites. Has worked on large projects as Saladeinversion.com and IntelligentHQ.com the last 3 years. Experienced in developing applications through technologies like C#.Net, PHP, jQuery, Javascript, XML and CSS. Integration with databases like MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle.
Heather Turner is a writer based in London who has worked in the fields of print and broadcast journalism, PR and film. Turner moved to London in 2009 from the rural Ozark Mountain region of Missouri to pursue a B.A. in Mass Communications and to gain more hands-on experience in film and marketing. She currently writes about trends in digital media and maintains a blog in her spare time on subjects including politics and media criticism.
