Chris Dobson

Chris is a successful international business and marketing consultant and developer of agencies. He led the management team that built and sold the largest PR agency across the then emerging markets of Central Eastern Europe & Russia from 1999-2006. Chris has also worked for Grayling, where he sat on the global Board, and Edelman, as MD for emerging markets within EMEA (personally founding Edelman Turkey in Istanbul in 2012 and overseeing the re-launch of the Edelman brand in Russia). Since leaving Edelman in 2014, Chris has worked as an independent advisor to a number of start-ups & established businesses internationally, in parallel to his strategic roles at GigPlug.com and www.diktiolabs.com.