June 7 - Corporate Communication International
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Conference on <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong> 2011<br />
Steve Dishart is the President of Dishart <strong>Communication</strong>s and Crisis Management Consultants in New<br />
York, underwriter of the Conference on <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong> 2011 Proceedings. He is also a member<br />
of the Adjunct Faculty of Baruch College, CUNY, and is a frequent speaker on communications issues.<br />
Dishart CCMC, LLC, directs and executes strategic reputation management, marketing, media and crisis<br />
communications consulting to its clients. Previously, Dishart was Executive Director of Blue Ocean<br />
Institute, and from 2000-2009, he was a managing director of <strong>Communication</strong>s and Human Resources for<br />
Zurich-based Swiss Re, a leading and diversified reinsurer with offices in 25 countries. Before joining<br />
Swiss Re in 2000, he was the director of <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s for Pittsburgh-based Mellon Bank,<br />
now BNY Mellon. Dishart began his career as a broadcast journalist. He has served as President of the<br />
Board of Trustees of Arts Westchester and currently serves on the board of Green Chimneys Children’s<br />
Services. He is active in the New York League of Conservation Voters and is a board member of Bridges<br />
to Community, which builds homes in the poorest regions of Nicaragua. An accredited member of the<br />
Public Relations Society of America, Dishart is also a trustee of the Institute for Public Relations, a<br />
member of the Board of Advisors of <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s <strong>International</strong> and a member of the Arthur<br />
W. Page Society. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dishart is a graduate of the <strong>International</strong> Executive<br />
Programme at INSEAD in Fountainbleau, France. He holds a Master’s degree from Duquesne University in<br />
Pittsburgh and a Bachelor’s from West Virginia University. He also earned certificates through additional<br />
studies with Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and the Thunderbird School of Global<br />
Management.<br />
Marianne Grove Ditlevsen, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Aarhus School of Business, Department of<br />
Language and Business <strong>Communication</strong>. She teaches Investor Relations and <strong>Corporate</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>s as<br />
well as LSP translation and academic writing. She is affiliated with the Research Group Knowledge<br />
<strong>Communication</strong>, and her current research interests are primarily centred on the Annual Report - both from a<br />
genre perspective and from an Investor Relations perspective.<br />
Graeme Domm is Director of <strong>Communication</strong>s for RMIT <strong>International</strong> University Vietnam, a campus of<br />
RMIT University, one of Australia’s major universities - headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. RMIT<br />
Vietnam is RMIT University’s major centre of Asian operations, offering study programs in both Ho Chi<br />
Minh City and Hanoi. Graeme traveled to Vietnam in 2008 to introduce the country’s first English<br />
language academic program in public relations and advertising studies, and has watched a rapidly emerging<br />
industry take shape. Prior to academia, Graeme spent more than 25 years in journalism, government and<br />
corporate public relations practice. He holds a B.A. in Journalism, an M.A. in Technology and Social<br />
Change, and is currently completing a Doctorate in <strong>Communication</strong>s.<br />
Jacqueline Dong received her Bachelor of Science in integrated marketing communications and a minor in<br />
communication management and design from Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of <strong>Communication</strong>s in<br />
May 2011. In fall 2010, Jacqueline attended Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee School of<br />
<strong>Communication</strong> and Information in Singapore, where she pursued her major studies as an exchange<br />
student. As a member of the American Advertising Federation’s Alpha Delta Sigma Honor Society,<br />
Jacqueline is recognized for superior scholastic performance as a student of advertising at the collegiate<br />
level. Additionally, she has been awarded with the Alyssa M. Schoenberg ’09 Award for Integrated<br />
Marketing <strong>Communication</strong>s (2010), the Outstanding Award for Academic Achievement (2010), and the<br />
Peggy R. Williams Award for Academic and Community Leadership (2009), an annual award given to<br />
students who demonstrate excellent academic accomplishments and an exemplary level of service to both<br />
the college and the Ithaca community.<br />
Fatma El Goully has eighteen years of professional experience in the fields of corporate communications,<br />
sales & marketing, and training, and since 2006 has held the position of General Manager, <strong>Corporate</strong><br />
<strong>Communication</strong>s at BANQUE MISR, Egypt’s second state owned bank with a total number of 12,000<br />
employees. During the course of her career, El Goully has held several managerial positions in different<br />
industries, such as pharmaceuticals (Bristol Myers Squibb and Novartis); banking (Citibank and Societe<br />
Generale); and telecommunications. El Goully has been exposed to diverse training and personal<br />
development programs. She received a Marketing Management Diploma in 2002, followed by an MBA in<br />
Marketing Management (MSM, Maastricht School of Management), a Master of Philosophy in <strong>Corporate</strong><br />
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