Naming Specialization: Strategy, Creativity and Verbal Identity

Ignasi Fontvila is a specialist in brand verbal identity and a member of the Global Branding Network. Throughout his career he has been the Creative Director of Internomen Spain, Founding Partner and Managing Director of Nameworks and Nomen Spain as well as Naming Creative Manager in Branward.

Some of the clients for whom he has worked are: Seat, Nocilla, Ruffles, Marcilla, Damm, Schweppes, Ausonia, Danone, La Piara, Repsol, Bimbo, Findus or Acciona, among others.

Ignasi is also a professor at several universities and co-author of the books "Brand PR - Public Relations to Mark" and "The Five Pillars of Branding."

Carlos Cornejo is a marketer by trade who specializes in the creation of names. After seven years experimenting with different naming techniques, he decided to take the leap and cofound the first naming studio in Mexico, Secretname, alongside six others.

Secretname are active in 10 countries to date, with 300 projects already completed, a Laus Award for “No compitas, haz compitas,” and, thanks to their methodology, now have over 800 students.

Carlos aims to be able to bring academic value to the creation of names and that is why his focus is on training those who want to follow in his footsteps through the world of naming.

Alejandro is a Brand Strategist by trade—and a Graphic Design graduate—with more than 10 years of experience, focused on understanding the relationship that exists between brands and people.

In 2012 he co-founded the agency The Branding People and after that the influencer marketing agency Hive, with which he has worked with Saba, All Saints, and Le Coq Sportif. In 2017 he joined the innovation consultancy Insitumnow called Fjord, where h led the Brand Strategy and New Product Development area working in projects for Uber, American Express, and various brands within the PepsiCo group.

Currently, Alejandro works helping brands and companies to focus their resources on those opportunities where they can generate greater value. He directs them towards innovation initiatives that transcend through to their users, and towards brand development and identity.

Xavi Grau’s passion for words led him to focus on name creation in the 1990s, and he has been doing it wholeheartedly ever since. In the more than two decades that he has spent in the world of naming, Xavi Grau has named hundreds of companies, brands, products, and services of all kinds.

He is the founder of Nom-Nam, a company dedicated exclusively to the noble art of naming things. He has carried out naming projects for design studios such as Atipus, Bisgráfic, Clase, Murray, and Run, and entities such as Barcelona City Council, Damm, and Roca. His work has been recognized with six Laus awards.

Erica Wolfe-Murray is the founder of UK-based intellectual property company Lola Media. She is also a director of Taxo’d, a tax app that helps freelancers manage their business accounts and calculate and file their taxes online. Her career has seen her working with different creative sectors in advertising, graphic and product design, public relations, documentary production, and licensing.

Her client list includes big corporations such as British Airways, London Transport, Puma and Dairy Crest, as well as well-known companies and individuals such as Hackney Empire, Historic Royal Palaces, Harvey Nichols and TV chef Rachel Khoo. Erica is also the author of Simple Tips, Smart Ideas: Build a Bigger Better Business, which was a finalist in the Business Book Awards 2020. She has been featured in publications like Finance Digest, Forbes, The Mirror, and The Telegraph.