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European Congress speakers named


Apply to serve on IHRSA board of directors


Those serving on the IHRSA board of directors work closely with a prestigious group of business leaders to set the strategic course for the association and the industry for years to come. Each year, two to four board


positions need to be filled as existing board members complete their terms of service. This ensures that seasoned board members sit side-by-side with new ones, providing a balance of ideas that can propel the global association to new heights of success. Visit www.ihrsa.org/governance to


download the application for the 2015– 2019 term. The deadline is 31 July.


Free webinar on reducing attrition


Keynotes: Media entrepreneur Annemarie van Gaal and Skype creator Jonas Kjellberg


The general sessions speakers for the 14th Annual IHRSA European Congress have been announced: Jonas Kjellberg, one of the creators of Skype, and Annemarie van Gaal, a financial columnist in the Netherlands. Kjellberg will speak on entrepreneurship


and creating a winning sales culture. In addition to being one of the creators of Skype, Kjellberg was the founder of Player.io, which was sold to Yahoo, and chair of iCloud, sold to Apple. He lectures on entrepreneurship and creating a winning sales culture at Stanford University and the Stockholm School of Economics. He is also an avid investor and coaches entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, van Gaal will speak in a session


entitled ‘Doing Unconventional Business’. In 1990, van Gaal co-founded the media company Independent Media in Russia. Due


This year’s European Congress will be held in the lively Dutch city of Amsterdam


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to its unconventional approach to the market, Independent Media rapidly grew from a company with a turnover of US$1.5m and 15 employees in 1992, to become the leading publishing house in Russia by 1998, with a turnover of $80m and 700 employees. Since 1998, Independent Media has been the leading publishing house in Russia and the Ukraine in the field of consumer magazines, newspapers and trade publications. Consumer titles include the Russian editions of Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar and Men’s Health, as well as a number of newspapers including English language daily The Moscow Times, The St Petersburg Times and Vedomosti – a Russian language daily produced in a joint venture with Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. In 2001, Independent Media was sold to Finnish company Sanoma Media and van Gaal left Russia for the Netherlands, where she now manages her own companies, is active as a private equity investor and is a columnist for the leading financial newspaper Financieel Dagblad. She’s also the author of several bestsellers on financial subjects and was one of the ‘dragons’ in the Dutch version of Dragons’ Den. Many of her activities and much of her time and profits go towards projects that help eliminate poverty in the Netherlands. The European Congress is set for 16–19 October at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Visit www.ihrsa.org/congress for more information and to register.


IHRSA publishes dozens of research reports every year, and many are free to IHRSA members. Also free to members is ‘Reduce Attrition Using IHRSA Research’, a recent webinar presented by Melissa Rodriguez, senior research manager for IHRSA. In this webinar, Rodriguez explains how to use IHRSA’s reports to improve your member retention rate. To access the recording of this webinar


(free for IHRSA members, US$79 for non-members), log on to www.ihrsa.org/ webinars and click on ‘recent webinars’.


Events diary Visit www.ihrsa.org/calendar


28–30 August 2014 15th Annual IHRSA / Fitness Brasil Latin American Conference & Trade Show – São Paulo, Brazil


16–19 October 2014 14th Annual IHRSA European Congress – Amsterdam, The Netherlands


21–23 October 2014 IHRSA / Mercado Fitness Mexico City Conference & Trade Show – Santa Fe, Mexico


18–21 November 2014 ChinaFit / IHRSA China Management Forum – Guangzhou, China


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