Ilan Geva
Senior Director of Academics and Head of Americas & Chicago Office
Professional Experience:
Ilan Geva is a global branding and consumer behavior expert who provides consulting, teaching, training and help in practicing and implementing all brand touchpoints. He authored the book “Global Brand Management” and wrote many articles for international publications. His work has won over 100 industry awards around the world.
For many years Ilan taught Branding at the University of Chicago and Consumer Behavior & Marketing at DePaul University. He is invited to speak at many international conferences. He helped many countries, doctors, hospitals and healthcare providers solidify their brands while working with some of the largest and best-known Healthcare and travel brands in the US and abroad.
Among them:
Panama Clinic in Panama City,
KHIDI South Korea,
MHTC Malaysia,
Ministry of Health Turkey,
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,
Kaiser Permanente insurance – California
Mercy Hospital in Des Moines,
Open System Imaging – California
Lasik Plus – Ohio
Alexian Brothers Hospital – Illinois
Swank Healthcare – Missouri
Glaxo Smith Klein & Richardson Vicks – South Africa
Bayer Aspirin – USA
Gusib health tourism organization & consulting – Turkey
ME-DENT Regenerative medicine dentistry and stem cell – Croatia
St. Catherine Hospital – Zagreb
Terme Selce-Crikvenica – Croatia
Wallcott Holdings Sydney and New York,
Anderson Podiatry Center – Colorado,
University of Chicago Medical – Illinois
BIOSTAR Korea/Japan, and more.
Central Asian University, Podcast – Uzbekistan
Ilan is a member of ACHE in Chicago, and as such participates in many of its activities in the city.
Ilan is a popular speaker in many international conferences. As of this moment, Ilan was invited to speak, lecture and train in: Malaysia, Korea, Japan, China, India, Turkey, Israel, Italy, Romania, Croatia, Greece, Germany, Netherlands, England, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Kosovo, France, Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, UAE.
Ilan serves as a consultant to governments, countries, cities, and businesses around the world to build a solid international brand and find the right resources to activate them. As the head of academics at Vmarsh, Ilan helps to organize and build training programs and masterclasses for various entities around the world.
Areas of Expertise
- Project Management
- Brand Audit
- Branding and Brand Touchpoints
- Organizational Development
- Agility, Change Management & Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Culture & Humanities
- Strategic Management
Industry Expertise
- Healthcare
- Medical Travel
- Government, NGOs & Corporate
- Automotive
- Tourism
- Education
Former Employers
- Ogilvy & Mather
Professional Memberships and Certifications
- Multiple organizations,
- Board of Directors in multiple organizations
Education
- BFA
- Marketing Management
- MA