Reggie Bradford brings more than 20 years of experience to his role as Senior Vice President of Product Development at Oracle. In his current role, he is focused on driving Oracle’s vision to become the global leader in Cloud Computing. He also serves as a thought leader speaking and writing about marketing technology, social business and today’s customer experience imperative.

 Prior to joining Oracle, Bradford was the founder and CEO of Vitrue, the global leader in cloud based social marketing platform. Vitrue was acquired by Oracle in May 2012 and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle. Prior to Vitrue, Bradford held executive management positions at TANDBERG Television, N2 Broadband, and WebMD.

 Over the course of his career, Bradford has received a number of industry accolades recognizing his success as an entrepreneur and Internet visionary, including Business Insider’s 2014 Most Influential People in Cloud Computing; Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Distinguished Entrepreneur Award in 2013; Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2012. Bradford currently serves on the board of directors of Integrate, a cloud-based marketing and media services provider; Mana Health, a healthcare technology startup which helps physicians glean trends from patient medical record data; and Persado, a marketing technology startup which provides marketers with an automated copywriting software that generates persuasive language to their target audience.

 Richard Turnill is , leading the Investment Strategy Function within the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). He is responsible for ensuring we create, coordinate and communicate value added market and investment insights and deliver them consistently to our clients and client facing professionals.

Prior to his current role he was Chief Investment Strategist for the Alpha Strategies Group, responsible for developing strategic plans around the Alpha Strategies product range and the positioning of Alpha Strategies products both internally and externally. He has also served as Head of the Global Equity team within the Fundamental Active Equity division of BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. He was responsible for leading the team which manages large cap global equity portfolios.

Mr. Turnill's service with the firm dates back to 1996, including his years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. At MLIM, he led the global equity team and was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the investment process. Earlier, Mr. Turnill was a group economist in MLIM's Central Strategy Group, head of MLIM's asset allocation and economics team, and was the Chief Investment Officer for the Merrill Lynch Global Private Client discretionary business in EMEA Pacific. Prior to joining MLIM in 1996, Mr. Turnill worked in the international division of the Bank of England as an economic advisor and the global economics team of Paribas Capital Markets in London.

 Keith Wade is responsible for the economics team and the house view of the world economy . He formulates asset allocation strategies and is based in our Multi asset group in London. Wade is a Member of the Group Asset Allocation Committee.

He became our senior economist responsible for international economic forecasting in early 1992. His investment career commenced when he joined Schroders in 1988 as UK economist

Prior to joining Schroders, he was a researcher at the London Business School's Centre for Economic Forecasting

Wade is a member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals (UKSIP), the Society of Business Economists and Member of the investment committee for Addenbrookes hospital charity fund in Cambridge. In addition, he is a Regular contributor to the press and has coauthored a book on macro-economics for MBA students