Keld Jensen

Keld Jensen has more than 20 years experience in international management, negotiation, and communication from his post as managing director of a listed Scandinavian company. As Chairman of the Centre for Negotiation at the Copenhagen Business School, one of the top business schools in the world, he teaches Business Administration, Management, and International Negotiation. He also teaches at other prominent Executive MBA schools worldwide as a guest lecturer.

A prolific author, Keld's internationally-acclaimed book Negotiating Partnership has been translated into four languages and published in more than 28 countries. He also writes feature articles for the national and international media and appears in the broadcast media as a highly-regarded commentator on international business issues. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and has worked with numerous global businesses in a training and consulting capacity. He is the founder and CEO of MarketWatch Centre for Negotiation A/S, a consulting and training organization that has worked with private industry and governmental bodies in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. His company has subsidiaries in Singapore and the U.K.

Irene Rosberg

Irene holds the position of the Director of Executive MBA in Shipping and Logistics (The Blue MBA) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Europe’s leading institutions of its kind and a member of top 1% business schools in the world. She is responsible for the design, development and co-ordination of The Blue MBA. She has a fundamental role in building global relationships and networks within the maritime industry. She also promotes research identifying challenges and future issues for the maritime industry as a whole. She is a member of many international boards and committees. Based on her extensive international network and experience, she has been entrusted with major roles in varied maritime-related activities, and speaks at leading maritime events. In 2009 a survey showed that she was amongst the top 20 most influential women in the shipping industry in Denmark. She is also involved in various maritime related research and served as the chairman of the Scientific Papers Review Committee for the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME 2010), and has been appointed as a member of the steering board of the IAME 2012, a post in which she draws on expertise from her wide maritime connections, both in terms of academic and industry input. In 2010 she was appointed a judge for the Lloyds List Global Awards. As a member of judging panel Irene was called in to give her opinion and comments on all the award submissions which Lloyds List receives for their Annual Global Awards. Most recently she was appointed the chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 2012 International Research Conference on Short Sea Shipping.

Tim Cummins

In his role as President/CEO of IACCM, Tim works with leading corporations, public and academic bodies, supporting executive awareness and understanding of the role that procurement, contracting and relationship management increasingly play in 21st century business performance and public policy.

Prior to IACCM, Tim's business career included executive roles at IBM and a period on the Chairman's staff, leading studies on the impacts of globalization and the reengineering of IBM's global contracting processes. His earlier career involved the banking, automotive and aerospace industries, initially in Corporate Finance and later in commercial and business development. He led negotiations up to $1.5bn in value and his work has taken him to over 40 countries.

Tim's writing is extensively published and he has acted in an advisory capacity to government bodies in countries that include the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Japan, as well as regular briefings to senior managers at many of the world's largest companies.