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Andrew Vassallo Wazenaarstraat 3 E 9050 Ledeberg (Ghent, Belgium) 0476 57 32 45 vassallo.andrew@gmail.com Malta, 20/11/1985 Maltese & Belgian

EDUCATION
MA in Communication Sciences (with honours) University of Ghent Political & Social Sciences Universiteitstraat 8 9000 Gent (Belgium) Period: 09/2006 09/2008 Thesis: All blogged up and ready to go: weblogs as communication tool BA in Business management & marketing Hogeschool Gent Departement Bedrijfsbeheer Mercator Henleykaai 84 - 9000 Gent (Belgium) Period: 09/2003 06/2006 Thesis: A blogs life Economics & Modern Languages College, Sint-Jozef-Klein-Seminarie Collegestraat 31 9100 Sint-Niklaas (Belgium) Period: 09/1996 - 06/2003

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vassalloandrew Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AndrewVassallo Websites: http://www.outoftheblog.com http://jongtuig.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AndrewVassallo

PERSONAL INTERESTS
snowboarding, music, travel youth culture & trends social media, street art

REFERENCES & PORTFOLIO

references & a portfolio can be provided on demand.

EXPERIENCE

Enchant/Adhese position: foreign kid & digital micro marketing mediator November 2009 till present http://enchante.adhese.com Jong Tuig - Young Scum position: founder & host for Belgium October 2009 till present http://www.youngscum.com Out of the Blog position: founder & blogger February 2009 till present http://www.outoftheblog.com

Trendwolves European Youth Trends Tortelduifstraat 79a 9000 Gent October 2008 till november 2009 position: youth trendwatcher & account manager http://www.trendwolves.com Porter Novelli - Corporate PR & communication agency Bomastraat 14a - 9000 Gent February 2006 till june 2006 position: intern in strategy & account management http://www.porternovelli.be VF Europe Van Kerckhovenstraat 110 2880 Bornem (Belgium) several different summer jobs

Porter Novelli is a top-level, strategic communications consultancy with fully integrated design and production services within Belgium, across Europe and around the world. Services range from top-level strategic communications advice to support on product launches, and from crises and issues management to the development of brochures and online communications tools. The office in Brussels is the European hub of one of the largest communications networks worldwide, Porter Novelli International. Founded in 1972, the network is part of Omnicom, the world's largest communications holding. Sister companies in Belgium include BBDO, TBWA, DDB and OMD.

Projects/clients

Trendwolves - European Youth Trends - is monitoring youth culture and its trends, on a European scale. Trends are bundled in trend reports and briengs that are translated in tailored market research, strategic marketing insights and communication advice, brand activation, product development and communication concepts. Trendwolves unites a vast amount of young people through their network. Complementary to this, Trendwolves is very active on social networks such as Netlog, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. These social media platforms have often serve as pre-test and post-research platform. These have proven successful benchmarking tools as well. An international real-life and online network of youngsters keeping track of youth culture forms the basis of our international research. When possible and appropriate peer-to-peer research is conducted.

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Enchant is always available to assist brands to build a strong relationship with the blogosphere. Bloggers and their readers allow advertisers to get in touch with a niche of hard to reach, but inuential individuals. You have a product or service that you want to give some online visibility? Enchant offers several services in order to start the online dialogue you are looking for. With over ve years experience - and 300 campaigns - combined with a lot of metrics we poses the insights needed to guiding you through the world of social media. Adhese on the other hand is a full scale ad management and ad serving tool. Easy to use & maintain, cross-platform, fast and scalable, Adhese's unparalleled features puts online publishers in full control of their inventory.

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