Alexander E.

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Alicia C.
Alicia started working for Meltwater News in Philadelphia in June 2007. In February 2008 she was promoted to sales manager before moving to NYC in October 2008. She switched to Client Relations manager in February 2009 before being promoted to Client Relations managing director in May 2010.

Education: Rutgers University

Fanatical About: Live music, trying new food (I will try anything twice), CHEESE, Philadelphia sports, football, working out, online shopping, and my cat, Preston
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Alysa
Alysa started in Meltwater News in Washington, DC in January 2007 and then spent a year on the first Meltwater News client relations team in Philadelphia and NYC. After that, Alysa moved to Toronto as sales manager to launch the Canadian market before becoming managing director of Meltwater News Toronto for a year and a half. She took a quick three month break to backpack India and is now back in DC launching the Meltwater Reach office.

Location: Washington, DC

Education: Finance and International Business at VA Tech University

Fanatical About: Indian culture, big cities, antiques and social media
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Amanda
Amanda started as a sales consultant in Washington, DC in June 2007. Six months later she was promoted to sales manager and one year later she moved to Montreal to help launch the Canadian organization as the Managing Director of the new Montreal office. Amanda moved back to DC in July 2009 as the Managing Director of that office. In October 2010, Amanda became the Managing Director of Meltwater Reach, Washington, D.C.

Location: Washington, DC

Education: BA in Communications from Montclair State University

Fanatical About: The people who have been on my teams! It has been so cool so see people develop skills and confidence in sales and then progress in their careers. Outside of work, I'm passionate about my crazy Italian family, my Yorkie, Kona, kickboxing and collecting friends in all the cities I live in : )
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Anders G.
Anders began working for Meltwater Talent in Oslo in March 2010. He then transferred to the Client Relations department in February 2011. Within six months he was promoted to Sales Manager and transferred to Hong Kong in June 2011.

Location: Hong Kong

Education: Bachelor in Science of Business Administration and Economics from Blekinge Institute of Technology

Fanatical About: Football (soccer), meeting people, having fun and reading books
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Andy Y
Andy started as a Client Relations Account Manager in Meltwater News Hong Kong in March 2011.

Location: Hong Kong

Education: Bachelor of Commerce (Co-op) - Marketing and Japanese

Fanatical About: Volleyball, Photography, Food and all things Digital
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Anne R.
Anne started in Oslo working for Meltwater News, then Magenta News, in August 2006. She was promoted to sales manager by November and then to managing director in August 2007. In 2009, she became area director for Meltwater News in Norway and Denmark. Most recently, in February 2010, Anne moved to San Francisco to launch Meltwater Press before moving back to Oslo to launch the new product in the Nordic market. She became the area director for Meltwater Press Nordics in January 2011.

Location: Oslo, Norway

Education: Masters in Business and Administration from Norwegian School of Business and Administration (NHH, Bergen)

Fanatical about: People and Business!
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Aref
Aref works with Meltwater Buzz in Stockholm.
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Ashley B.
Ashley joined Meltwater News as a Sales Consultant in the Canterbury office in July 2007. He was then promoted to Sales Manager and Managing Director before moving to London to take over as Managing Director there. Ashley is now the Area Director for Meltwater News United Kingdom, Ireland and Israel.

Location: in Edinburgh

Education: Studied Sport Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University

Fanatical About: business, photography and the future
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Birte T.
Joined Meltwater in autumn of 2007 through the International Management Trainee program in the Zurich office and then participated in the opening of the Bordeaux office in spring 2008. In 2009, she transferred to the Client Relations department and moved back to Berlin.

Location: Zurich, Berlin, Bordeaux and back to Berlin

Education: Sciences Po Paris, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Fanatical about: Sports and cooking - they somehow belong together

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Brandon
Brandon started in 2006 as a sales consultant for Meltwater News Chicago. In 2007 he was promoted to managing director of the Chicago office and remained there until 2009 when he helped launch Meltwater Drive in London and San Francisco. In April 2010 Brandon joined the brand new Meltwater Reach team in San Francisco to launch it in the U.S. market. He is currently the area director for Meltwater Reach east coast.

Location: Charlotte, NC

Education: Oakland University, B.S. in Marketing

Fanatical About: Hemmingway, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell, music that appeals to people that wear oversized t-shirts & skinny jeans, motown, Detroit sports, helping marginalized dads & kids, pumping iron
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Briana K.
Briana started in August 2007 in Meltwater News' Boston office. She spent 18 months there as both a Sales Consultant and, later, a Sales Manager before moving to Montreal to help with Meltwater's Canadian expansion. After a year and a half in Montreal she was promoted to Managing Director and given the opportunity to open the Vancouver office, which launched in August 2010.

Location: Vancouver, BC

Education: BA in Business and Spanish from Merrimack College

Fanatical About: Volleyball, dancing, live music and Shark Week.
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Catriona K.
Catriona started in Meltwater's Edinburgh office in October 2007 and was promoted to sales manager in 2008. In 2009, she transferred to the London office before taking over the Dublin office as managing director. In January 2010 Catriona transferred to the Edinburgh office before moving to the Strategic Accounts department in 2011.

Location: London, UK

Education: BSc Clothing Design & Manufacture, MSc Corporate Strategy & Finance

Fanatical About: Design
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Chris H.
Worked with Meltwater News in Philadelphia since January 2007, then moved out to our San Francisco headquarters with his wife and two year old in late 2009 to work on our new product, Meltwater Press. Just recently Chris left Meltwater after four years to launch a new product at Google in Austin.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Education: Cornell University

Fanatical about: My wife and son, Phils and Eagles, 19th century Russian novels, doing all things well, artisanal meats and cheeses, good drink

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Chris R.

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Cristofer E.
Cristofer started with Meltwater News as a Sales Consultant in Oslo in 2008. One month later he transferred to the Bergen where he helped set up the new office. Soon afterwards he transferred back to Oslo and was promoted to Account Manager for Client Relations. In 2009 he transferred to the Edinburgh Meltwater News office before finally moving to Hong Kong. In 2010 Cristofer was promoted to the Controlling team and is now the lead Controller for Asia.

Location: Hong Kong and London

Education: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts - BA in Performing Arts and Universities of Edinburgh & Glasgow + Nankai University in China - MChS in Chinese Studies

Fanatical About: Voice over, movies, football (soccer), music, piano, video games
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Dan P.
Dan is the Director of Public Relations at Meltwater Group.

Location: London

Education background: University of Reading

Fanatical About: Football and Socks
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Dan T.
Joined Meltwater in July of 2008 after 2 years in the orthopedic device industry. Dan currently works as a controller and recently moved from San Francisco to Meltwater's Zurich office.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Education: BS in Finance, Saint Mary's College

Fanatical about: Rugby (Go Gaes!), Traveling, Disney Movies, my Italian Heritage, raw oysters, Whiskey (Bourbon to be more specific), College Football, and the Discovery Channel's Planet Earth series.

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Eirik
Formerly an army sergeant, adventurer and scholar of African democratization, Eirik started his Meltwater career in 2008. He is currently in charge of recruitment in the Scandinavian region.

Location: Oslo, Norway

Education: Officer's School, Norway, BA International Relations, University of Oslo, MSc African Politics, Oxford University

Fanatical about: People, new places and wreck diving.

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Eirik N.
Eirik began his Meltwater career in May 2007 as a Sales Consultant in the Oslo office. Later that year he transferred to the Client Relations department before being promoted to Senior Account Manager in February 2008. In 2009 he was then promoted to Managing Director of the Oslo and Bergen offices. Most recently, in February 2010, he moved to London as Managing Director of the Client Relations office there.

Location: Oslo, London, or somewhere in between

Education background: Master in Marketing, Norwegian Business School

Fanatical about: Skiing, Floorball, and Kriek
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Elinor R.
Joined Meltwater in November 2006 when Meltwater founded their first Australian office in Sydney, and is currently the Recruitment Manager for Australia and New Zealand.

Location: Sydney, Australia

Education: BA (Hons), Warwick University, Master of International Studies, University of Sydney

Fanatical about: books!! red wine, running, politics, and karaoke

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Emily M.
Emily joined the original Meltwater Press team in March 2010 as a Sales Consultant. In January 2011, she made the transition onto the Communications Team and now works on Meltwater's social media channels.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Education: UCLA, BA in Global Studies and Geography

Fanatical about: All things literary, music festivals, food and Lake Tahoe in the summer
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Frida
Frida started as a sales consultant with Meltwater News in August of 2006 and was transferred to the Silicon Valley office six months. When the San Francisco office opened, Frida transferred to that office and was promoted to sales manager. Three months later she was promoted to managing director and moved to Boston to open an office there. She later moved to DC and New York as managing director of each of those offices. In September of 2008 she moved to Canada to open Meltwater's first three Canadian offices. In January of 2009 she became area director of Canada and in April of 2010 became the managing director of Client Relations in Canada.

Location: Toronto, Canada

Education: BS from Boston University

Fanatical About: running, food, wine and more food
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Gavin F.

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Heidi
Heidi started with Meltwater in 2005 when it was still called "Magenta News." She was promoted to managing director in 2007 and six months later moved to Singapore to set up an office. She remained managing director there until 2009 when she moved back to Norway as managing director of the Meltwater Talent office. She is currently the area director for the Strategic Accounts department.

Location: Oslo, Norway

Education: Bachelor of Politics and International Relations

Fanatical About: literature, roaming libraries and bookstores around the world, modern art and cooking, vintage fashion
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Heidi M.
Heidi started in London as a sales consultant in October 2006 and six months later was promoted to sales manager and relocated to the Manchester office. Just six months after that she was promoted to managing director and opened the Cardiff office. A year later Heidi moved to San Francisco as the managing director. She is currently the head of global recruitment and specifically manages UK and Ireland recruitments.

Location: London, UK

Education: Ancient History at the University of Wales, Swansea

Fanatical About: Theatre, exploring London, singing with a secret love of karaoke ; )
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Holly E.

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Ines R.
Ines started in Meltwater News' Barcelona office and after six months she helped launch the new Spanish Client Relations department. Ines is now in Paris helping to launch the new Client Relations department for the French market.

Location: Paris, France

Education: A degree in Advertising and Public Relations with a second degree in Business and Enterprises Communication

Fanatical About: Dancing!
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Inga B.
Joined Meltwater in summer of 2005 as International Management Trainee in the newly founded Berlin office and then opened the Zurich office in summer 2007. In 2008, she moved back to Berlin, heading up the Berlin office and then took over the German speaking region in 2009. In 2010 Inga started in HR, helping to build the department from scratch.

Location: Berlin, Zurich, back in Berlin & traveling all over Europe

Education: Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg, St.Thomas University Canada, University of Cergy-Pointoise France Fanatical about: A great morning coffee and just recently - Tapas & traveling.

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Jason A.
Joined Meltwater in 2006 after working as a Civil Engineer and a short, unsuccessful attempt at comedic acting. Currently the Managing Director of Meltwater Buzz Client Relations.

Location: Boston, MA

Education: BS Civil Engineering, Northwestern University 2005

Fanatical about: Architecture, XBox, Puppy Bowl

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Jeff B.
Joined the Meltwater New Ventures group in March 2009. Currently working as an Associate in the San Francisco office.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Education: BS, Human & Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University, 2002
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2008

Fanatical about: Indigenous cultures, meditation, biking, trekking, Eastern Religions, vintage travel accessories and argyle socks

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Jennifer O.

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Jenny H.
With Meltwater since 2008. Began in Austin, Texas and moved to New York 9 months later as the Managing Director for the New York office. Currently, Jenny is in charge of Human Resources for the West and South Areas of North America and recently moved to San Francisco.

Location: New York, NY

Education: MA, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation, St. Edward's University 2008

Fanatical about: Classic cars, vintage dresses, travel in Eastern Europe, rock climbing, and Pit Bulls

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Joseph L.
Joined Meltwater's Trainee Program at the start of 2008 in London as a Sales Consultant and after eight months was promoted to a Sales Manager and was part of the founding team of our Tokyo office. He is currently handling the Recruitment and Staffing activities for Asia.

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Education: BS Business Administration, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon with a Minor in Japanese

Fanatical about: Soccer, Rugby & Basketball. Enjoys the outdoors, rivers, oceans and mountains

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Julien
Julien joined Meltwater's Client Relations San Francisco team as a consultant in July 2009. In November 2010 he made the move to Strategic Accounts New York.

Location: New York City

Education: UC Davis, International Relations

Fanatical About: Music, New York City, dressing sharp, whiskey, modular synthesizers
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Katherine B.
Katherine started as a Sales Consultant in May 2009 at the Silicon Valley office and after a year was promoted to Sales Manager. She is know a Sales Manager at our San Francisco headquarters.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Education: Chico State University, BS, Business Administrations and Management

Fanatical About: Wakeboarding, biking, making jewelry, and exploring
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Kathi P.
Joined Meltwater beginning of 2007 through the International Management Trainee program in the Berlin office and later headed the Munich operation. Opened the very first New Zealand office of Meltwater in 2009. Now in charge of Recruitment in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Location: after Munich, Sydney and Auckland back where it all started - the great city of Berlin.

Education: University of Passau, Germany

Fanatical about: Ballet, modern art (Van Gogh rocks!) and discovering new hot spots in Berlin.

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Keighley B.
A born and bred Capetonian, Keighley joined the Meltwater Group in 2008 and continues to work in Client Relations Management. She comes from a Communications and Marketing background and has previously worked on exciting projects like the 2010 FIFA World Cup ™.

Location: Beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

Education: Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies, and English Language and Linguistics, Rhodes University (South Africa).

Fanatical about: Africa's wildlife, writing and blogging, rugby, cricket and sunny summer afternoons on the beach or at the wine farms!

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Kimling L.
Former TV news reporter who made the jump to Corporate Communications at Meltwater.

Location: San Francisco CA

Education:
BA Philosophy, Wellesley College 2004
MS Broadcast Journalism, Boston University 2005

Fanatical about: Yoga, food, road cycling, great video production and swimming

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Laurie

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Lindsey
Lindsey started in Hamburg in 2009 as a sales consultant for Meltwater News before transferring to Berlin in September 2009. In May 2010 she was promoted to sales manager.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Education: MSc in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, England

Fanatical About: Meltwater culture! Shopping, playing the piano and badminton
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Louis D.
Louis joined Meltwater New Ventures in 2010.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Education: McGill University and Oxford University

Fanatical About: hiking, rock climbing, reading, working with start-ups, good restaurants and wine
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Mariah H.
Mariah joined Meltwater in May 2010 after working and travelling in Uganda after her studies. Mariah is a part of the Client Relations team at Meltwater News.

Location: London

Education: BSc Sociology from University of Southampton (UK) , and MA in Television Journalism from Goldsmiths College - University of London (UK).

Fanatical about: Hip Hop, Creative Writing, East Africa, and Documentaries.

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Matt A.
Matt began his career with Meltwater News in October 2005 in the London office. By January 2006 he had transferred to Meltwater's founding U.S. office in Meltwater, California and was quickly promoted to Sales Manager. In July 2006 he moved to Miami and was promoted to Managing Director of the new office. Two years later, in April 2008, he transferred back to Mountain View to take over as Managing Director there. Most recently he was promoted to Area Director of North America, Central in January 2009.

Education background: University of Florida – Advertising

Location: Austin, Texas

Fanatical about: Golf, staying fit, and helping with my wife’s career (www.emilyalvers.com)
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Michael
Michael is a Sales Manager formerly based in Singapore, currently in Sydney
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Mikko H.
Managing Director of Meltwater Drive in Helsinki.

Location: Helsinki, Finland

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Nora H.
Joined Meltwater in July 2005 in Berlin after working for publishing houses in Munich and New York. Nora is now part of the Corporate Communications team.

Education: BS in Business and Media Science, (BA Heidenheim) Germany

Location: Berlin

Fanatical about: Dancing, boxing, traveling, music


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Oliver H.
Joined Meltwater in February 2007 in Berlin and is currently Managing Director of the Barcelona office.

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Education: Business Administration at Boston University/USA

Fanatical about: running, soccer and cooking!

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Richard T.
Started in Meltwater's Trainee Program in Sydney in 2006 and moved as part of the founding team to Tokyo in 2008. He is currently the Managing Director of the Tokyo office.

Location: Tokyo, Japan.

Education: B.Sc, B.Com. from University of Sydney (Australia).

Fanatical about: Skiing, sailing, and discovering great food and wine.

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Sam C.
Sam started in August 2007 in Meltwater News London as a sales consultant. In March 2008 he was promoted to sales manager before transferring to the Dubai office in February 2009. In August 2009 he was promoted to managing director of Meltwater News Dubai.

Location: Dubai

Education: University of Bath, International Management & Modern Languages (French)

Fanatical About: Triathlons, marathons, southern France, farmers markets and singer-songwriters
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Sam T.
Joined Meltwater at the start of 2006 in London and have since been working in San Diego, Silicon Valley and New York. Founded the Meltwater Buzz office in London at the start of 2009, and ran the New York Meltwater Buzz office until 2011.

Location: New York

Education: BA History, University of Leicester

Fanatical about: Sports, Skiing, Travel, Movies

Sam's personal blog

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Samantha M.
Joined Meltwater in November 2007 after completing a fellowship at the International Radio and Television Society in New York. Samantha was the Managing Director of Meltwater News in Boston and recently moved to Argentina as the Managing Director of Meltwater's Buenos Aires office.

Location: Boston, USA.

Education: BA with high honors in Philosophy, BA in Economics; Brandeis University.

Fanatical about: raveling, fine dining, fashion, yoga, general joie de vivre.
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Santiago Pombo

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Sara
Sara began working as a sales consultant for Meltwater News in the Edinburgh office. She later transferred to Abu Dhabi as a sales manager before making the move to the Tech team in San Francisco. She is now a product manager for Meltwater News.
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Sebastian
Sebastian started in MEST (Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology) in 2008 as a Teaching Fellow teaching web technologies and general software development principles. He moved to Hungary in 2009 to found Meltwater's new Research and Development team in Budapest.

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Education: German Diplom in Computer Science

Fanatical About: Education, new business ideas, starting things, developing software, and playing basketball
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Stefan
Stefan is a Client Relations Managing Director based in Berlin.
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Theo V.
Theo joined the New Ventures team in July 2010. Before joining Meltwater he was an entrepreneur and helped create Microsoft Bing.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Education: UC Irvine, Computer Science and University of Chicago, MBA

Fanatical about: Ski, surf and salsa
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Tove I.

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Trine A.

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Ursula T.
Joined Meltwater in November 2008 in the Edinburgh office, currently a manager and soon to embark on a new challenge with a transfer to Dublin.

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Education: BA Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy; BA (Hons) International Marketing, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK

Fanatical about: learning languages, break-dancing and wine tasting.

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Vibeke I.
Vibeke began working with Meltwater in November 2010 and was one of the sales consultants hired for Meltwater Press' inaugural Norway office.

Location: Oslo, Norway

Education: BI School of Management in Oslo, Business and Entrepreneurship; UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Exchange Program; Boston University

Fanatical About: Skiing, kitesurfing, everything outdoors - including hiking, running and fly fishing
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Victor V.
Victor is currently the Managing Director of Meltwater News' Den Haag office.
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Victoria H.
Joined Meltwater's Manchester office in 2007 and made a move to London six months later. Victoria is now part of Meltwater's global Communications team.

Location: London

Education: BSc Management (Hons) University of Manchester

Fanatical about: Extreme sports - wake boarding, snow boarding & sky diving, festivals and visiting new places

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