Nicole France is a passionate customer advocate evangelizing new ways of thinking about content and organizing the work of digital business. It’s the wave of the future — and her mission is to make sure everyone knows why. She brings the perspective and critical thinking of an industry analyst and the first-hand experience of a practitioner. Before joining Contentful, Nicole worked as an analyst at Constellation Research and Gartner. She also held a variety of strategy and marketing roles at Fujitsu, Equinix, ITSMA, and Cisco. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Nicole enjoys the outdoors, flying small planes, and embarking on yet another house project in her spare time.

Derek is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Media One Group and Media One Creative. He is an award-winning executive and serial entrepreneur. Starting as a journalist for CTV and BNN early in his career, Derek went on to found an advertising agency and co-founded the digital video agency and creative agency now known as Media One Creative. He is also the co-founder of Media One Group, with over 1,400 Creators worldwide and operations in Canada, UK and the USA. Derek is the 2X recipient of FT1000: The America's’ Fastest Growing Companies (2021) and (2020), 2X Great Place To Work Canada (2021) and (2020), 2X Top Growing Companies Canada (2020, 2019), the winner of Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in Canada (2015) and the winner of the Toronto Region Board of Trade’s Business Excellence Awards for 30 Under 30 (2014). Derek holds a Bachelor’s of Journalism degree from Ryerson University with a specialization in Broadcast Journalism and Documentary. He has also continued his education at Harvard University and Harvard Business School with certificates in the Program on Negotiation & Leadership from Harvard Law.