Chris J Reed, CEO, Black Marketing

CHRIS J REED
CEO
BLACK MARKETING

EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
BBDO
MALAYSIA

Michal Golebiewski

Speaker Biography

Chris J Reed is the Only CEO With A Mohawk! He is also the most recommended LinkedIn marketing entrepreneur on LinkedIn with 600 recommendations, all listed on his profile.

Chris is a two times No. 1 International Bestselling Author with his books "Personal Branding Mastery For Entrepreneurs" and "LinkedIn Mastery for Entrepreneurs", the No.1 book about LinkedIn on Amazon.

Chris has been named as an Official LinkedIn Power Profile 2012-2018, has one of the world's most viewed LinkedIn profiles with 55,000 followers and has just won Social Media Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 award by CMO Asia/World Brand Congress and recently"Asia's Most Influential Digital Media Professional" by them too.

Chris is serial, global entrepreneur having created Black Marketing - Enabling LinkedIn For You and The Dark Art of Marketing - Personal Branding For Entrepreneurs, Mohawk Marketing - TripAdvisor Engagement For You, Chris J Reed Mastery - Masterclasses that Engage, Delight, Educate and Entertain and Spark : LinkedIn + Tinder = Match.

Chris is also a vastly experienced event speaker & chairperson and happily speaks & chairs at conferences, company events & regularly hold LinkedIn workshops. Chris lectures at both the The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School and National University of Singapore to MBA students.

Chris also mentors for the CMO Council/Singapore Management University Business.

Michal Golebiewski, Microsoft Malaysia’s Chief Marketing & Operations Officer (CM&OO) is responsible for leading the entire span of the marketing and operations functions of the subsidiary in line with the company’s vision of reinventing productivity in a mobile-first, cloud-first world.

This is an area that he is well acquainted with, after having led various divisions within the marketing and operations team over the last 21 years in Microsoft Poland and Romania. This includes leading the Server and Tools Business, the Customer and Partner Experience, as well as the Business Planning Operations function in Microsoft Poland, in addition to championing the CM&OO in Microsoft Romania – his last role prior to joining the Malaysian subsidiary.

Golebiewski plays a key leadership role in Microsoft Malaysia in directing and managing the overall business and marketing strategy as well as execution locally, overseeing product marketing groups, marketing communications, compete, business operations, enterprise marketing, public relations as well as customer and partner experience efforts. His main priority is to drive Digital Transformation awareness in Malaysia and evangelize technology impact on business for every organization.

Having held this current position for almost two years since 2015, Golebiewski brings wealth of knowledge and experience in the areas of marketing and operations ensuring greater productivity within a Cloud-driven era in Malaysia. Upholding Microsoft’s Digital Transformation vision in Malaysia, he has participated in many speaking engagements and media relations initiatives alongside with key digital drivers such as the Malaysian Development Economy Corporation (MDEC) amongst others to create a cloud first, mobile first nation.

Recently, Golebiewski has shared his views on how Malaysian businesses are embracing digital transformation in news stories - https://news.microsoft.com/en-my/2017/07/07/microsoft-companies-transform-digitally-will-left-behind/ and has also lent his opinions on artificial intelligence’s increasing presence in the workplace to Malaysia’s leading newspaper, The Star -https://news.microsoft.com/en-my/2017/05/25/race-against-the-machine/.

Golebiewski graduated with a degree in Electronics from Warsaw Technical University, and enjoys swimming, and reading books in his spare time.