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Duri Al Ajrami – Group Media Director, NEO@OgilvyOne

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Holds a Masters degree in M.I.S. and a B.A in Economics, and a key speaker in many digital media events in the MENA region (GITEX, Click 08, Web Quality Workshop, LG Regional Digital Conference)

Started out early in the digital media market, when he established the first Online Ad Sales� unit under Arabia.com, the Arab World’s first media website in 1998, and later became Sales & Marketing Director for Arabia.com in 2002 based in Dubai.

Established Net Advantage in 2003, the first Arab Internet Media House, currently exclusive reseller of Aljazeera.net, Kooora.com, hawaaworld.com (www.netad-vantage.net)

Established and managed the Arab Internet Standards Organization in 2005, a Non-Profit industry initiative between Dubai Internet City & British Standards Institute (BSI) for creating quality certificates for websites (www.interstandards.org)

Established IGENCY in 2005 – a leading Interactive Agency which handled big regional clients like Air Arabia, IBM, Starwood International, Saudi British Bank. IGENCY was later acquired by MindShare to form MindShare Interaction. (www.i-gency.com)

Duri ran MindShare Interaction MENA, the digital media arm for MindShare – a WPP multinational media agency for 2 years. Under his management, MindShare Interaction MENA established offices in Dubai, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia and acquired over 35% market share in the MENA region (Middle East & North Africa). (www.msinteraction.com)