Julian Ingram is EVP Momentum Worldwide / Regional Director EMEA / Managing Director UK Group. He also runs  the Subway and Black & Decker Assignments – just to keep his sleeves rolled up!

Momentum Worldwide is the world’s first truly Phygital™ Agency. Our 77-office global agency creates ideas and brand engagement with consumers through the seamless interplay of experiences in both the physical and digital space. We leverage our expertise in live events & sponsorship, IP and content creation, music and entertainment marketing, social networking, and retail and promotional marketing for blue chip clients and hold more awards than any other agencies in our verticals. Momentum Worldwide is headquartered in New York and is part of the McCann Worldgroup, the world’s largest marketing communications network, housed within Interpublic Group [NYSE: IPG]

Momentum UK is comprised of 3 offices; London, Manchester and Cheshire, and has over 200 employees who develop sponsorship, events, shopper marketing, promotions and digital campaigns for clients such as American Express, UPS, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Subway, 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures.

Julian graduated from the London School of Economics [LSE] and joined Saatchi and Saatchi in London on the 80’s. He cut his teeth on accounts like P&G and IBM even working for Sir Martin Sorrell and eventually ended up leading the Head & Shoulders brand business across Europe.

Having got rid of his itchy scalp he joined a small agency in the UK with possibly the worst TV, but certainly the best print work in London. At Abbott Mead Vickers [AMV]  for over a decade Julian joined the board,  led new business,  became Head of Client Service, helped win and lead the UK’s then largest ad account British Telecom, integrated BBDO into AMV and therefore made a modest contribution to helping AMVBBDO become the No1 UK agency.

After a few years of working for AMV’s new parent company, BBDO, running accounts like Mars, GE and Frito-Lay [Pepsico] across Europe; Julian became BBDO’s first regional Business Development Director for EMEA. He helped launch Proximity then Omnicom’s first global CRM network.

Before joining Momentum, Julian served as Worldwide Director and Managing Partner at McCann Worldgroup (MWG) based in London. Over his three-year stay, he worked on international accounts including MasterCard, HP and Sony Ericsson and was heavily involved in developing new models for servicing global clients and driving cross-group assignments.

Julian is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Practitioners in Advertising [IPA], a former board member of European Association of Communication Agencies [EACA] and led the successful re-launch of the Euro Effies, Europe’s only major communication effectiveness awards programme.

Robert is Managing Director of the Media Communications Agency, Manning Gottlieb OMD. A lifer at the Agency, having helped it to launch back in 1990, the year the World Wide Web entered our lives and Cheers was the UK’s favourite TV programme.

Before Manning Gottlieb Robert was at CIA for 5 years, where he started his career after leaving Leeds University with a degree in politics.

As Managing Director Robert is in charge of making sure the service the Agency provides is always adding value and constantly looking ahead in the amazing, ever changing world of Media.

Ben began his career as a speechwriter for the CBI and then moved into management consultancy, initially for the private sector and then, in a fit of conscience, for the not-for-profit sector. In 2001 he joined Sky Television just to see what it was like and eight years later he left, having had a unique opportunity to lead a function that combined CSR, Marketing Sponsorships and Communications. In 2010 he joined the John Lewis Partnership as a ‘Senior Learner’ – effectively a mid-career graduate training scheme, although with only one participant.

Over the past two years he has been up a steep learning curve and held the roles of Managing Director, John Lewis Leicester, and (his current role) Head of Regional Operations leading 16 Waitrose Branches in South East London and Kent.  Ben is married to Mindy and they live in Teddington. They have two children, Anuska (3) and Zoran (10 months).

Paul is Managing Director, EMEA for the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). He has over 20 years experience in a wide variety of sales, marketing, business development and commercial roles spanning several different industries and market sectors including automotive, printing, internet development and management consultancy.

He is a regular speaker at mobile events a member of The Marketing Society, Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing

Caroline Foster Kenny is MEC’s Chief Client Officer .

She has overall responsibility for and works closely with MEC’s global clients :  listening  to and understanding their business & marketing  issues , developing  and shaping the  world class service offer each of them need and deserve.   Caroline has over 10 years experience in International Client Management,  and 20 years in the industry, working across virtually all sectors.

She spent six years in Asia as Managing Director of MEC Hong Kong, where she helped to establish and build the first media specialist agency in the Asian region, pioneering the sector back in 1993.  Under her stewardship, MEC Hong Kong was named Media Agency of the Year in 1998 and 2001.  Caroline was also named Hong Kong’s 2001 Business Woman of the Year by China’s largest monthly Women’s Magazine. Prior to Caroline’s time in Asia, her attentions were focused on the Print arena where she was MEC UK’s Press Buying Director, responsible for the agency’s print negotiations and performance. As well as both local and international management experience prior to joining the agency world, Caroline worked in advertising sales at the UK national newspaper, The Independent.

Caroline is married, has three children and lives in London.

 

Martin Glenn is the CEO of the Permira owned Birds Eye Iglo Group which was bought from Unilever in November 2006; his brief is to restore the fortunes of this famous company by both attacking cost and restoring growth.

Prior to this role, Martin worked with Pepsico for 15 years on its Snackfoods business. Joining Walkers in 1992 he was responsible for the successful launch of Doritos and the dramatic growth of Walkers Crisps, catalysed by the highly acclaimed (and still running) Gary Lineker advertising campaign which was first aired in February 1995.  Between 2003 and 2006 Martin was given accountability for all of UK / Ireland Pepsico business, including Quaker, Tropicana and Brand Pepsi.

Martin is an advocate of explaining the positive social contribution made by Business in general and marketing in particular.  He has publically fought against the vilification of the Food Industry in the debate on obesity. Following Walkers pioneering work on Cause Related Marketing he was appointed a Prince of Wales Ambassador for Education in 2004 and has won several industry awards recognising his work on championing the role of Marketing and how to restore it’s influence. He was acclaimed as the most influential marketer in the recent Marketing Week 30 year anniversary awards.

Matt Hart describes IndustryApproved as being less a ‘name’ and more of a unique approach to innovating fresh ideas that releases creative talent in people and so positively impacts the culture from within any organisation.

Working with clients in FMCG, Retail, Mobile, Charity, Government and Education, Matt is best known for his creative work with BBC Radio 1. He’s since gone on to innovate within TV, Music, Film and Publishing.

For the past 24 months Matt has been helping Sony Music connect their artists with the widest audiences in new creative ways.

Sue has been an Executive Director of Chime Communications plc since 2003 and is currently leading Chime’s strategic & business development programme.

Prior to Chime she was European Managing Director of Golin/Harris, an IPG owned PR group where she ran half a dozen businesses across Europe, developed an affiliate network, identified acquisition candidates and spear-headed a new business drive resulting in wins from B.A., T-Mobile, Samsung and Lego.

Most of Sue’s client career has been spent in broadcasting.  Firstly as Director of Corporate Communications for Thames Television plc (1990-3) which saw her launch UK Gold, and subsequently as Director of Marketing for the BBC (1993-2000).  She was responsible for marketing strategy, planning and implementation across all the BBC’s public service brands, she oversaw the re-launch of Radio One and the launches of Radio 5 Live, BBC Online and the BBC’s digital television channels.  She also created and launched Proms in the Park.

In April 2007 she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Historic Royal Palaces. Previously she was a Non-Executive Director of New Look plc, 1994 until 1996.

In February 2008 she was appointed a Non Executive Director of Motivcom plc, the AIM listed market leader in Employee Motivation (B2E).

A Director of The Marketing Society since 1984 she was the first woman Chair in 1991/2.  She is now a Fellow and a member of the Chairman’s Council.

She was chairman of The Marketing Group of Great Britain in 1999/01 and remains a Council member.

She was voted the Advertising Woman of the Year in 1997, a WACL Woman of Achievement in 1998 and awarded The Marketing Society “Grand Prix” in 1998.

Tim Wragg leads Millward Brown’s businesses across Europe. He has had a lifelong interest in brands and has extensive experience advising marketers in the art and science of influencing consumer choice.

Tim, who joined Millward Brown’s UK and Ireland management team in 2006, started his career at Arthur Andersen before returning to school to earn his PhD in consumer behaviour. He later worked in a variety of senior insights and marketing roles at American Express, TNS and NOP World (now GfK). His achievements include consistently building major new accounts, developing innovative research solutions and successfully leading business change programs. Prior to his current role as Chief Executive Officer for Millward Brown Europe, Tim was Managing Director for Millward Brown in the UK and Ireland.

Tim’s career to date spans many industries, and he has worked on both the agency and client-sides. He is a regular commentator in the business and marketing trade press and is a previous winner of the British Market Research Society prize for “Best New Thinking.” Tim earned his BSc (Hons) Business Studies from Cass Business School in London, and his PhD from Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK.

Michele is Chief Operating Officer at Brand Learning, the leading international specialists in building marketing capability. She has 25 years blue chip marketing experience working for 10 years at Colgate Palmolive both in the UK and Internationally and 6 years at PepsiCo where she was Marketing Director for Walkers Crisps. For the past 9 years Michele has been with Brand Learning and sits on the Brand Learning Board. She has led several global marketing capability programmes with clients such as PepsiCo, Aviva and HP. More latterly she has also led new business development  for Brand Learning, with the latest wins being the global Kellogg and Vodafone businesses.

Michele is a highly energetic, passionate, strategic marketer who loves a challenge. She has a busy home life with a husband working for BP,  two children aged 12 and 10 years and lives in Farnham Common, Bucks.

Robert is the newly appointed EMEA CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi with responsibility for expanding the group’s EMEA business across its 51 markets and for P&L across the group’s European offices. He  was previously UK CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Fallon Group.  The SSF Group is a mini-group within the Publicis Groupe which aims to drive growth and creative excellence across Saatchi & Saatchi and Fallon. 

Robert was formerly UK CEO and a founding partner at Fallon London which he set up in 1998 with four other partners.  Famed for work on Skoda, BBC, Sony and Cadbury they grew the business from a start-up to a 160 person strong multi award-winning agency named agency of the year by Campaign magazine in 2006.

Prior to founding Fallon London, Robert was client services director at TBWA Simons Palmer where he ran the Nike business.  Before Simons Palmer, Robert was at DMB&B working predominantly on P&G accounts. 

Robert has a degree from Durham University and is married with three young children and is a dynamic speaker on business, creativity and leadership

Katie Vanneck-Smith is the Chief Marketing Officer at News International (NI).

Katie was appointed to the newly created role in October 2010 and oversees all marketing activity for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and the News of the World. Her role encompasses responsibility for circulation revenue and the continued growth in subscription sales of print and digital products.

Katie joined Times Newspapers in 1996 as a graduate trainee.  She rose quickly to marketing manager and, from 2000– 2002, she was digital director responsible for launching Times Online.  From 2002 – 2005 she was promotions director and then left to join the Telegraph Media Group as marketing director.   She returned to Times Media in 2007 to the role of sales and marketing director. Katie became interim MD, Digital & New Business for a short period and was later appointed MD, Customer Direct at NI.

Katie is a graduate of St Hugh’s College Oxford and, on graduating in 1995, she spent a year teaching English in Japan.

Recently appointed the UK Managing Director for Church & Dwight UK (where Arm & Hammer is the lead brand),  Andy has a wealth of UK and international marketing and additional cross functional experience with Unilever (Lynx, Dove, Sunsilk) and SAB Miller (Miller Beers)

Cilla heads up the Abbott Mead Vickers Group, the largest and most respected advertising and communications Group in the UK, serving clients including Sainsbury’s, BT, Camelot, Royal Mail, BBC, Guinness, PepsiCo and COI.

She has worked for AMV for 18 years: in senior management positions for the last 10, rising to agency head and now country head, with overall responsibility for the five communications companies that make up the AMV Group – AMV.BBDO, Proximity, Redwood, Fishburn Hedges and Hub Plus.  The advertising agency, which she chairs, has held the number one position in the UK for 13 years.

She sits on the BBDO worldwide board, the board of Business in the Community and she is an advisor to Macmillan Cancer Support and Comic Relief.  She is a member and Past President of the Women’s Advertising Club of London, a member of The Thirty Club, the Council of The Marketing Group of Great Britain, a Companion of The Chartered Management Institute and a fellow of the Marketing Society.

She was awarded the CBE for services to the advertising industry in 2009.

Most importantly, she is Fred, Albert and Rosie’s mum.

Elizabeth started her career as a field sales rep, then moved into marketing & has been working on FMCG brands for many years.  Elizabeth worked in roles with lots of local autonomy & independence as well as ones in local market within large global organisations.  

Elizabeth loves developing brands, businesses and people. Elizabeth has worked on great brands like Mr Muscle, Clairol, Mr Kipling, Haagen Dazs Green Giant, Energizer & Wilkinson Sword.

As the  UK Chief Marketing Officer Tom oversees consumer-facing marketing across  Disney’s UK operations, including movies, merchandising, branded channels, games, home entertainment and CRM. The CMO role is new to Disney UK, and has the goal of creating  innovative integrated marketing programmes, that are optimised across Disney’s extensive in-house media platforms and work effectively with external media and promotional partners.

In the mid nineties having gained experience in FMCG marketing, he worked for Disney for four years in Home Entertainment marketing. Tom then became a corporate brand and identity consultant within WPP, working with global clients such Ford Motor Company, 3M and Standard Chartered.

After returning to Disney in 2005,  Tom has led Disney’s Home Entertainment European marketing team, he was joint leader of the European Toy Story cross-company franchise initiative, and he launched Disney Movie Rewards, Disney’s first European customer loyalty programme.

After leaving Hertford College, Oxford with a degree in PPE, Mike joined the Unilever graduate scheme in 1972. He then joined Coca-Cola UK in 1980 as Marketing Director, where he launched Diet Coke into the UK market. In 1984 he moved to Guinness as Worldwide Brands Director.

Following a five-year stint as CEO of Guinness’ North American business, he returned to the UK in 1992 to become MD of Guinness Great Britain.

In 1998 he became CEO of HP Bulmer Holdings plc. In 2003, Mike moved into the new technology area, where he was responsible for the development and sale of a number of ventures.

In 2007, Mike assumed his current role as Director General of ISBA, The Voice of British Advertisers. He is a member of all key relevant industry bodies and also sits on the Executive Committee of the Worldwide Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

Married with three children, his main interests are golf, rugby, opera and theatre. 

Stephen Miron, joined Global Radio in December 2008 as Chief Executive. Stephen runs the day-to-day operations of all Global Radio brands which include 95.8 Capital FM, Classic FM, LBC, XFM and the Heart network. The business employs in excess of 1800 employees across 71 Stations, making Global Radio the largest commercial radio group in Europe.

Prior to Global, Stephen was Managing Director of the Mail on Sunday & Mail Digital. He was famed for masterminding the high-profile giveaway of Prince's latest album in a promotion that rocketed sales of the Sunday newspaper.

Outside of Global Radio, Stephen is a Trustee of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Foundation.

Charles Allen, is currently Marketing Director for Arsenal Football Club.  He was previously Marketing Director - Sharing Portfolio at PespiCo International UK.

John Orriss is Acquisition Director for BSkyB.

Gavin Patterson was appointed to the BT plc board and made CEO, BT Retail in May 2008. BT Retail is responsible for BT’s UK small and medium enterprise and consumer business, BT Ireland and BT Enterprises (a portfolio of businesses including BT Conferencing, BT Directories and Dabs.com).

Gavin is a pan-BT sponsor for corporate social responsibility, ensuring BT maintains its leading-edge momentum and business alignment in CSR. Gavin is  also a member of the CBI Climate Change Board. He joined BT in January 2004 as Group Managing Director Consumer.

Prior to BT, Gavin spent four years at Telewest, latterly as Managing Director Consumer division, and nine years at Procter and Gamble, rising to become European Marketing Director.

A fellow of the Marketing Society and member of The Marketing Group of Great Britain and Thirty Club.

He graduated from Cambridge University in chemical engineering.  He’s married with four young children.

Vijay is currently Senior Director of Global Digital Marketing, Consumer Lifestyle at Philips.

Vijay graduated with a degree in Psychology from Newcastle University. In Newcastle he was an intern at P&G which got him into marketing. He worked as a graduate at Unilever moving from toilet cleaners through to Personal Care, he also worked on brands like Domestos and Dove. Vijay also worked for media brands, Capital FM and NME. As the Marketing Director, he developed consumer segmentation, new positioning work and unique programmes including 100,000 pop event, Party in the Park, NME radio and partnerships with MTV and ITV. He launched mobile music service, Shazam into the UK and 5 other countries before moving to lastminute.com where he managed online/offline marketing and the editorial. A strong brand positioning & smart digital marketing gave them cut-through with a fraction of the spend of competitors.

At BP, he worked across Europe setting up marketing services and then took the Castrol brand into global football sponsorship with a digital idea at its core. Most recent, at BlackBerry he managed marketing operations across EMEA and then fronted digital marketing and social media. The team and his agency partners helped them step-change digital marketing and integrate social media. He now works as a marketing consultant with a focus on where brand meets digital.

 

Chris is CEO of Starfish 360, a mobile commerce business delivering market leading customer insight and technology enablement to the retail sector.

He has 20 years experience within the mobile technology industry and is the ex-Group Managing Director at 2ergo Plc, a global mobile marketing technology company.

Chris has won a number of business honours including a commendation at the UK Innovation and Growth Forum 2006 for ‘Technology CEO of the Year (Private Firm)’. He has previously held senior positions with Cap Gemini Ernst and Young (CGEY), BT, CPW and NCR, and writes an m-commerce blog for the Huffington Post.
 

Philip joined HSBC in November 2006 as Head of Marketing HSBC UK in the retail bank.  In 2009 he was promoted to Marketing Director overseeing the multi-brand portfolio of the HSBC, first direct, M&S Money and John Lewis Partnership cards business’ in the UK.  His responsibilities span all customer communications in all channels and management of the brand websites.

Previously, Philip was part of the UK board of Wanadoo (now Orange), part of the France Telecom Group of Companies.  As Managing Director, Sales and Communications, Philip was responsible for communications across all Wanadoo channels including the internet, sales, the brand and distribution.
 
Philip joined Wanadoo from T-Mobile where he was VP International Advertising and Communications. Where he had also led the T-Mobile UK rebrand from One 2 One.  Philip’s brand marketing background covers a range of high profile industries, with stints at PepsiCo, Mars, Unilever and Ford adding to his extensive brand knowledge.

James Hart is the SVP, Global Marketing at AVG (Internet Security market leader). In this role, he is responsible for all Global marketing activities encompassing Brand, Social Media, Customer Insights, Propositions and Channel Marketing.

He has 20 years of international marketing experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors with some of the leading technology companies in a range of senior management roles. These companies include RIM,  T-Mobile and BT.

James has a MA in International Marketing from Brunel University and a BA (Hons) Business Studies (First Class) from the University of Central England. He also has a number of professional qualifications including a post-graduate Diploma in Marketing. James is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). He is also a bi-lingual Spanish speaker.

Julia Porter is currently Acting Group Marketing and Research Director at ITV having joined the company in 2006.  This role oversees all B2C and B2B marketing and research for ITV Broadcasting and ITV Studios in UK and overseas.

 

Prior to joining ITV Julia was Client Services and Marketing Director at Getty Images, responsible for marketing and client servicing for image.net and Media Manager asset management businesses in UK and Internationally.

 

Before image.net Julia was Business Enterprises Director at IPC Magazines, the UK's largest consumer publisher. There she was responsible for creating the division that leveraged all non-publishing revenue streams including subscriptions, mail order, database development, International licensing, syndication and digital archives. Prior to this role she was responsible for Strategic planning for IPC and holds an MBA from London Business School. Julia started her career as a media planner in the advertising industry.

Jack Black is the Founder and Course Director of MindStore International.  In the 1980s, he was a social worker in the underprivileged East End of Glasgow. After seeing two colleagues destroy their health through the stress of work whilst only in their 40s, and then experiencing a similar collapse himself, he decided to discover how stress could be managed and personal development harnessed to allow people to fulfil their potential. MindStore was the culmination of his findings and now, Jack is recognised as one of the UK's leading authorities on personal development and is an internationally renowned keynote speaker.

MindStore is one of the worlds leading personal development programmes. The system has evolved over 20 years of research and development and underpins a range of unique tools designed to empower anyone to achieve much more in their personal and business lives. MindStore uniquely provides participants with mental tools to harness whole brain thinking, boosting self-belief, creativity, and confidence to succeed and enjoy life to the full. 

PERSONAL DATA & INFORMATION:
 
O Jack was born in Glasgow and raised and educated in the UK.

O Jack has taught "MindStore" to business leaders and many top entrepreneurs. Over half of the FTSE 100 leading companies are clients.  World champions and teams from sport, entertainers and endless leaders and work forces from blue chip companies around the world have all benefited from his teachings.

O Jack has appeared on numerous television and radio programmes. He is regularly featured in magazines and national newspapers.  Jack continues to work with international leaders in the field of performance coaching, creating leading edge approaches to organisational and personal development.  Jack continues to be busy presenting on the international conference circuit.

O  Jack is married, lives and works in the UK and travels extensively to share the MindStore System around the world.

O  Jack is also a book author. His bestselling books are ‘MINDSTORE the Ultimate Mental Fitness Programme’ and ‘MINDSTORE for Personal Development’ 

JACK BLACK QUOTES:

""The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world."

Paul joined creativebrief at launch in 2003, bringing with him over 20 years experience in marketing and general management. This experience has been gained with some of the major consumer companies and brands worldwide, from consumer goods (including Coca-Cola, Beecham, Andrex and William Grants /Glenfiddich) to telecoms and entertainment software (including Sony and Carlton), the latter two companies where he held marketing directorships.

At creativebrief, with his wealth of client experience, Paul ensures that the external marketing supplier requirements of brands are understood and the most appropriate solutions provided.

Paul is an accomplished senior executive with a strong blue chip grounding in marketing and general management and team leadership skills and looks forward to helping the Academy’s scholars from his own career experience, including successes and indeed failures!

Cathy is Professor of Marketing and Retail Enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, where she leads and contributes to a number of commercial and research projects, in the areas of retailing, marketing and place management. She is also Development Director for the Institute of Place Management , the professional institute for all those involved in making places better. The IPM is a joint venture between MMU and the Association of Town Centre Management. Cathy is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Place Management and Development, published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd and is Visiting Professor of Retailing and Place Management at the University of the Arts, London. She is a Senior Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Cathy was the Principal Researcher and Director for two 3.5m+ EU part-funded projects. AGORA, which aimed to bring the principles of social enterprise to town and other place management partnerships and REN, which aimed to promote and protect diversity in the independent retail sector. She is the recipient of two research prizes and is an ad-hoc reviewer for the European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Journal of Applied Management Studies, Academy of Marketing, American Marketing Association and Sage Publications Limited. Cathy has been an academic advisor and contributor to the All Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Town Centre Management.

Ellen currently works for Nokia Sponsorship as a Consultant.

Ellen Marzell has held international business development and sales roles at IMG Media, WPP/Global Sportnet, In Game Advertising Worldwide and the Perform Group and has over twenty years experience in sponsorship, marketing and media.

She has worked with international brands including Samsung, Coca-Cola, Bacardi, VELUX, Tommy Hilfiger, Universal Music, Callaway Golf, Electronic Arts and Volvo and resorts such as Celtic Manor and Kerzner International.  She has created sponsorship, product placement and ad-funded content initiatives around a wide variety of sports and entertainment.  She began her career in media working with Wyse Advertising USA, Saatchi & Saatchi and Conde Nast and remains a passionate media junkie.

During her tenure with IMG, Ellen set up an intern programme to provide young “best in class” marketeers interested in sports marketing careers with an opportunity to hit the ground running.

Ellen began her career in sponsorship through her ice dancing background by forming a company with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean to investigate creating an international figure skating grand prix. London Business School awarded her Female Entrepreneur of the Year 1993 for this work.  She still enjoys ice skating and now rollerblades as well.

Ellen is an independent sponsorship and branded content advisor.

Amanda is the Chief Marketing Officer of Aviva plc, heading up Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs and a member of the Executive Committee.

This is the first time marketing has been an executive role at Aviva and the first time there has been a woman on the executive in its 200 year history.

Amanda has 23 years of experience in advertising and marketing, starting as a graduate trainee at WCRS, leaving DMBB to move in to marketing and then senior roles at Air Miles, BT and British Gas before joining Aviva in March of 2008.

Amanda is a Fellow of the Marketing Society, on the Board of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and is a member of the Government Strategic Marketing Advisory Board.

Teresa is an international business leader with significant experience in global marketing, strategy and innovation.  She worked for 17 years on the client side with two marketing powerhouses, Procter & Gamble and Diageo, and is now a Director of EffectiveBrands Global Marketing Consultancy.

She grew up in Latin America and has also lived in North America and Europe.  She has a Sloan Business Masters from London Business School.

Teresa is proud to have worked with some great brands, like Guinness, Always, Hackett, Tampax, Baileys, J&B and Old Parr.

Nick is currently CEO of Boxclever.

Nick had an early career at General Electric Company with roles in the operations, commercial and strategy functions. 

He then joined the strategy practice of PA Consulting Group and operated across Europe and Scandinavia.

Nick subsequently moved to the Coca-Cola system with roles in, marketing, sales, corporate development, business development and strategy, based in UK, Boston and the Atlanta HQ.

Nick joined Octagon, the sports-marketing agency within IPG, as Managing Director, UK and was soon promoted to Chief Executive, Europe & Middle East.  Under Nick’s leadership, Octagon won Marketing magazine’s “Agency of the Year” accolade in 2008.

Nick has completed the President’s programme at Harvard Business School, has an MBA from Aston University Business School and a BSc. (Hons.) Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southampton.

Alastair joined Nationwide in January 2010.  He has responsibility for brand marketing at Nationwide and is charged with re-invigorating both the brand strategy internally and externally.

His career began at NatWest in 1990 and he has spent much of his time working with service brands such as AA, Goldfish and Norwich Union.  In 2003 Alastair was appointed as Head of Customer Marketing at Virgin Money where he delivered both customer growth and greater brand awareness for the Virgin Money brand using a then unconventional digital dominated approach which was recognised by IMAA and Revolution awards.

Alastair moved to RAC as Marketing Director in 2005 revitalising the brand and marketing strategy to seriously challenge the sector on both volume, profitability and brand metrics whilst launching the anti hero Vinnie Jones to our screens in 2007.  

Most recently he has been working at Vodafone delivering a new brand strategy and managing the portfolio of sponsorship assets.

Alastair is married with two children and enjoys spending time with them and playing and watching sport particularly his beloved Norwich City

Dee Dutta is currently Chief Marketing Officer for Bodog Europe, starting this role in September 2011. Prior to this, he was recently the Global CMO of mobile telecommunications company Sony Ericsson. During his tenure at Sony Ericsson, the business achieved CAGR growth in sales by 25%, 35% volume and 36% in NIBT.

He joined the business in 2002 and was one of key figures in the success of the Sony Ericsson joint venture in the recent years. Under his leadership the brand rose from 6 to no 2 in the world and delivered 18 successive quarters of growth. He was instrumental in launching the mobile walkman and is widely credited with turning around the fortunes of women’s tennis when he signed them to bring glamour and appeal to the Sony Ericsson brand. . In 2005, he signed the largest ever deal in women’s sport and was critical in defining the vision forward for the whole of tennis to appeal to the younger 15-34 generation.  Not only did this benefit the brand but he also redefined the presentation of tennis around the world. In February 2008, he was honoured by the WTA with a lifetime achievement award.

Born in India, Dee Dutta was educated in the UK and completed his MBA in London and was trained in marketing at Procter & Gamble Ltd upon graduation at the University of Liverpool in 1982. During the 1980’s Dee worked at a number of major FMCG companies including Quaker Oats, Golden Wonder snacks, Borden Foods in Asia etc.   He brings a wide level of experience in sales & marketing having held senior marketing positions in Europe, North America and Asia.  In the 1990’s   Dee moved into the telecommunications industry and was instrumental in creating wider access and ownership of phones with the launch of prepay phones which changed the face of the UK mobile industry.  In 2000, he was approached to lead the marketing and commercial efforts for MCI World Com, where he was appointed Senior Director for EMEA. He left them to join Sony Ericsson after having delivered 41% uplift in revenue in his first year for WorldCom.

Dee is known for delivering innovative business solutions within consumer businesses and ensuring high returns on investment for shareholders.  His understanding of global consumers and the ability to monetise the value led to him being appointed by a number of  private equity companies to advice and act as non executive director in 2008 on a number of their investments He was also appointed onto the Board of one of UK’s largest universities in 2006 as non executive director and independent governor of the Manchester Metropolitan university.

Carol has a 30 year Marketing career in the corporate world, in UK and international roles. Mars apprenticed, with IMEDE and Insead training, she now operates as an Interim Marketing Director.

She specialises in developing and implementing strategies that drive growth by doing what she’s passionate about - leading marketing teams to new heights of individual and collective performance and great business results !

Helen Kellie is Chief Marketing Officer for BBC Worldwide and a member of the Executive Board, joining in October 2008.

Helen’s role is key to BBC Worldwide’s transition as it moves to become a more consumer-facing and brand based business around the world,. She works across all BBC Worldwide business areas to build up its marketing, creative services and audience research functions.   She is responsible for prioritising BBC Worldwide’s mc&a activity and spend around the globe, building the BBC brand and its portfolio of sub-brands and ensuring the company understands and makes the greatest impact on audiences around the world.

Helen joined BBC Worldwide from its parent company, the BBC.  Helen started at BBC in 2000 as Head of Brand and Planning, overseeing the BBC brand and the planning & prioritisation of  marketing support. Her last role in the public service business was as Director of Marketing, Communications & Audiences, for BBC Vision, where she has presided over a 130-strong team of mc&a professionals supporting the Vision channel brands and all vision output.
 
Before joining the BBC, she worked for household products giant, Reckitt & Colman (now Reckitt Benckiser) working in the UK before moving to global and European positions in New York and Paris.

Helen lives in London and is married with 2 children and in her spare time (not that there’s very much!) enjoys most outdoor pursuits and food from cooking to eating.

 

Andy was raised in Leicester, UK and attended Cardiff University where he studied Psychology.  He has spent time living in the US and is now based in Henley on Thames, with his wife Ellie. He loves to watch rugby and football with his three sons, is a keen skier and counts photography as a favourite hobby. 

 

His passion is driving value by growing the top line and he believes that the best route to growth is by focusing on people and holding the highest standards in execution.

 

In his career, Andy has been lucky enough to work on some of the worlds best beverage brands and created a reputation for driving rapid growth. In the early 90s, he launched PepsiMax.  He then steered Carling Black Label to the fastest growth in its history via “I bet he drinks …” advertising and Carling Premiership football sponsorship.

 

At the beginning of 1997 Andy joined Guinness (which became part of Diageo plc) and took the brand to its highest ever market share.  He launched Guinness Extra Cold and the “Good things come to those who wait” ad campaign.  “Surfer”, the second ad in the series won a Grand Prix at Cannes and was voted the best ad of all time by Channel 4 viewers.

 

From 1999 to 2004 Andy operated in the USA, leading Smirnoff vodka and Diageo’s rum portfolio globally.  Turnover doubled in 3 years.  Andy’s team launched Smirnoff Ice in 76 markets and grew the core Smirnoff vodka business at the fastest rate in its history.

 

On returning to the UK as Marketing Director he brought back the “Good things come to those who wait” campaign for Guinness and the spot “noitulove” won the Grand Prix at Cannes.  The campaign has gone on to win 150 major awards.

 

As European Marketing Director from January 2005, Andy oversaw rapid growth in Eastern Europe and Russia, particularly for Diageo’s scotch business.  He also drove the revitalisation of Guinness in Ireland and the creation of Diageo’s responsible drinking consumer activity across Europe.

 

Andy was appointed Chief Marketing Officer in October 2008.

Carolyn McCall joined easyJet as is Chief Executive in July 2010.  She was previously Chief Executive of Guardian Media Group plc, which comprises:
Guardian News & Media: the Guardian and Observer newspapers and the guardian.co.uk website.
GMG Regional Media: the Manchester Evening News and its website, a number of other regional newspapers in the North West and South of England, and the Channel M city TV station.
GMG Radio: a number of regional radio stations across the UK under the Real Radio, Smooth Radio, Century Radio and Rock Radio brands.
GMG Property Services: Vebra, Core and CFP, providers of software to estate agents.
Trader Media Group: one of Europe's largest specialist print and online media companies, and publisher of the Auto Trader magazine and website. Jointly owned with Apax Partners.
Emap: the B2B publishing, events and information business, also jointly owned with Apax Partners.
GMG is wholly owned by the Scott Trust, which was created in 1936 to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity.

Carolyn was non-executive director of Lloyds TSB (from 2008–2009) and was a non-executive director of Tesco Plc (2005-2008), and of New Look plc (1999-2005). She was Chair of Opportunity Now, the UK’s leading membership organisation for gender equality and diversity at work, and a former President of Women in Advertising and Communications London (WACL).
Carolyn has recently been reappointed as non-executive Director of New Look plc.

Carolyn was awarded the OBE for services to women in business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2008. In April 2008 she was named Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year.

 

She graduated from Kent University with a BA in History and Politics, and from London University with a Masters in Politics. She is married with three children.

She’s tenacious, driven, hardworking and one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs. Yet first and foremost, Emma Harrison believes businesses can and should do good.

As well as her business interests, Emma is a mum of four, works tirelessly for charity and lives in a “posh commune” with 20 of her friends and family. Her story is one of creativity, determination and hard graft.

Growing up

Born in Clacton-on-Sea, Emma grew up in Nigeria and Sheffield, her family moving where their father’s training company took them. Money was tight and her mother, unhappy with family life, would regularly leave home.

Emma confesses to being a naughty child but also showed her entrepreneurial skills at school from an early age, running an illegal tuck-shop at the age of 9, raising money for charities through bring-and-buy sales and auctions at 12, and becoming a school governor at 15.

Mediocre ‘A’ Level results put paid to a career in medicine but, through persistence and going out and knocking on doors, Emma secured an engineering degree place at Bradford University as well as four years’ sponsorship by British Steel where she worked throughout her course.

A4e

After graduating, Emma’s life took another twist and when she was 23, her father left England for Germany, leaving Emma in charge of the training company. At the height of the decline of the steel
industry in Sheffield, Emma pioneered training solutions for out of work steel workers and in 1991 founded Action for Employment (later to become A4e) in order to provide them with new opportunities
and improve their lives.

Emma went to work marketing the company and by the end of her first year, she’d increased turnover from £100,000 to £1 million. Today, A4e manages £300m of government training contracts, operates
in 11 countries, employs over 3,300 people and has a turnover of close to £200m.

A4e is now the prime contractor to the UK government of services such as Flexible New Deal, Legal Aid Helpline, Social Care, Education for Offenders, Business Enterprise and Youth Vocational centres.

Yet Emma still manages the business as an organisation whose first priority is to help others.

Her company motto “Doing well by doing good” explains the A4e approach to improving people’s lives by helping them develop new skills.

Under Emma’s stewardship A4e has now diversified into many markets, with the sole aim of improving people’s lives. Emma still, to this day, mentors staff individually, believes passionately in what A4e does
and provides them with the inspiration to embody the company’s ethos.

Other business interests & roles

Emma’s business acumen and success make her much in demand as a mentor and she has supported many small businesses throughout her career. She serves on the boards of other companies and is Chairman of Andromeda (an events company), non-executive chair of SPG Ltd (manufacturing), Chairman of Improving People’s Health Plc and food group Novantia (develops and owns the new Brian Turner Food Brands) She also has a role in the Bank of England regional consultations on behalf of the Monetary Policy Committee, has been a governor of the Sheffield College (the largest college in Europe) and is a Trustee of the Fellowship Council of the RSA and also The Eden Trust, a Freeman of the Cutlers Company, Honorary Member of the NSPCC Council, Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and until recently was a Non-Executive Director ofthe Institute of Directors

David oversees all Sony Ericsson's marketing activity in UK & Ireland ranging from brand building, ATL, sponsorships and PR through to the nitty gritty of driving sales in channel with retail POS, sales incentives and field marketing and training. It's a great job in a great industry.

He has over 14 years experience in the internet industry and seen a few companies and business models come and go but right now he is really excited about the huge growth in mobile internet and the new opportunities this offers. David has a strong young team and works with many great agency teams so he is excited to be part of the Marketing Academy

Andrew joined the company as Managing Director in November 2006.

His career in the travel and airline industries has spanned 23 years. He worked for British Airways for 11 years, as Managing Director of BA Travel Shops Ltd, Managing Director of BA Holidays Ltd and Head of Leisure Sales for the UK and Ireland. Before joining the airline, he worked for Thomas Cook for 10 years in a variety of management roles across the company.

Some of Andrew's key achievements as Managing Director include overseeing the move of Airmiles' banking partner from Royal Bank of Scotland to Lloyds TSB, taking responsibility for running the commercial aspects of BA's frequent flyer programme globally and the creation of The Mileage Company.

He is passionate about looking after customers and employees while driving sustainable growth for the shareholder.

He lives with his partner in Sussex and, when he is not working, enjoys spending time with his horses and dogs as well as overseas travel.

Paul Stobart is currently Chief Executive at CPP Group since joined in September 2011. Prior to this Paul joined Sage in 1996 as Business Development Director, and was appointed to the Main Board in 1997.  Working closely with the Group Chief Executive, Paul was heavily involved in designing and delivering the Group's acquisition strategy in the US and Continental Europe.  Since 2003, Paul has been working in an operational role as CEO of the UK and Ireland Region for the Sage Group.

Paul attended school at Peterhouse, in Zimbabwe, before reading law at Oriel College, Oxford.  He then qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in London.  In 1983, Paul moved to Hill Samuel where he spent 6 years in corporate finance in both London and New York.   In 1988 Paul moved again, this time to a small branding consultancy, Interbrand.  During his 8 years at Interbrand, culminating in his chairmanship of the European operations of Interbrand, Paul advised many international clients (including Procter & Gamble, Mars, Ford and IBM) on all aspects of branding, including branding strategy, brand name creation, corporate identity, and brand valuation.
 
Paul freely admits that it’s a rare privilege being a marketing man with an accounting background. He says: “It means that marketing departments can’t get away with unrealistic budget requests, but it also means that finance can’t demand cuts in spend that will harm the business. It's all about getting the balance right.”

• Ashley Stockwell is Global Sales and Marketing Director at Global Ethics.

Ashley started his career at British Airways before jumping ship to Virgin Atlantic, where, amongst other things he introduced the original UpperClass Clubhouse lounge concept. He then helped set up Virgin Drinks as well as branding and launching Virgin Cinemas in the UK.

He then joined Eurostar working in the UK, France and Belgium, before joining Virgin Trains and led the rebrand/cultural transformation and design of the new Pendelino rolling stock. Ashley also became Managing Director of Virgin.com before being asked to manage the Virgin Brand/Marketing globally, where he set brand and customer service standards as well as being involved in a number of new Virgin start-ups.

Having been involved in brand licensing discussions Ashley then join Ntl:telewest the UK's sole cable entertainment and communication provider and led the entire rebrand of that business with Virgin Mobile and Virgin.net to become Virgin Media in Feb 2007. He ran all brand and marketing activities for Virgin Media.

 

Currently VP for EMEA for overgrown start up Jawbone, John is a veteran of the Consumer Electronics and telecommunications industries.

Over the past 2 decades he has held roles in Sales, Retail Channel Management, Product Management and Marketing, Corporate Strategy as well as General Manager for Sony UK and Managing Director for Sony Ericsson UK and Ireland.

Rated last year as one of Mobile Magazine's 'Power 50' most influential people in the telecoms industry, John also lead many technology and sub brand launches including Sony Ericsson's Walkman and Cybershot brands as well as Digital Terrestrial TV in the early 90s, re-launching Sony's 140 strong chain of Sony Centres and most recently establishing a market leading position for Jawbone.

John completed his Masters Degree at the UCLA Anderson Business School and BSc at the University of Wales.

When not travelling EMEA and AsiaPac John builds houses, rides motorbikes and pretends to keep fit.

Mark read English and Philosophy at Bristol University as a logical precursor to becoming an account management trainee at Lintas. There followed 6 years in the cradle of British creative advertising Collett Dickenson Pearce.  In 1990 he joined Euro: RSCG as Director of International Development in Paris.  After two years of global travel Mark rejoined Still Price Lintas in London, as head of account management.

He moved to Delaney Fletcher Bozell in 1995 as Managing Director.  In 2000 he and his partner Greg Delaney led an MBO to form Delaney Lund Knox Warren where he was Group Chief executive.  The agency grew from 20 to 220 people.  DLKW became part of Creston plc in 2005 and Mark chaired the operating management board of all the Creston companies.

In 2009 as DLKW became a Top 10 UK agency he joined COI as Chief Executive.  In April 2010 he founded the Agency Now.

He has been Chairman of the Advertising Association from 2006 -2009 and was an IPA council member for ten years.

Phil founded the new Marketing Agency 101 in January 2011.

Previously Phil was Cadbury UK’s Marketing Director, managing brands such as Cadbury Dairy Milk, Flake, Cadbury Creme Egg, Bassett’s Liquorice Allsorts and Trebor Extra Strong Mints.

Phil joined Cadbury UK in 2006, he was responsible for groundbreaking advertising campaigns, such as the award-winning Cadbury Dairy Milk 'Gorilla', along with the successful introduction of Trident chewing gum into the UK.  He also oversaw the launch of the Natural Confectionery Company and the much-publicised return of Wispa to popular acclaim.

Phil, 43, joined Cadbury from Inbev where he held the position of UK Marketing Director, Brands and managed such household names as Stella Artois, Boddington’s, Beck’s and Murphy’s.  In this role he was responsible for overseeing such successful campaigns as Stella's ‘Reassuringly Expensive’ advertising.

Phil has also managed brands such as Toblerone and Dime brands at Kraft Foods and gained his marketing apprenticeship while working on Hovis, Windmill and Mother’s Pride at Rank Hovis McDougall.

A graduate of Brunel University, Phil has two sons and is both a keen music fan and follows rugby closely.

James founded HΩΩPLONDON, a House of Opportunity, in April 2010. Principally a market strategy and product incubator, HΩΩPLONDON is building a portfolio of innovation projects for start-ups and mature businesses seeking to refine their market opportunity, commercial vision and product roadmap.

To date James has successfully completed both global and domestic projects in industries ranging from Entertainment, Platform Technology, Telecoms, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Sports equipment, to the Arts and Charity.
 
In the same period James has co-founded a Music & Live Arts enterprise, Theartre, to incubate and launch new products and artists - the first of whom launches October 2010.

 

Until Spring 2010, James was Vice President Consumer Business at SpinVox – a celebrated UK Technology start-up, acquired by Nuance Ltd at Xmas 2009. SpinVox developed a reliable Voice-to-text conversion system in 6 languages across the Globe, creating a new paradigm in communication: Speaking content. From devising and implementing a Brand strategy and launch programme, through to shaping commercial and product strategies, James spent much of his time consulting with network operators and strategic partners on product and go-to-market strategies across the world.

He joined SpinVox from MTV in 2007. As Vice President Marketing for a little over 5 years, James was instrumental in the growth of the portfolio of music channels. In that time, James led the celebration of the brand’s high-profile 25^th Anniversary, launched various defining TV properties including Pimp My Ride and The Osbournes, orchestrated many International events & Awards Shows, and launched merchandising and social enterprise initiatives - including the launch of the MTV Condomi range & a unique education programme - BOOM! Music Video Academy – in Secondary Schools nationwide, a launch exemplar of the Government’s Music Manifesto.

James started his career in advertising as an Account Director at the “Grocers of St James”, DMB&B, then the 90’s Industry Goliath, Lowe Howard Spink, managing many award-winning campaigns for Mars Bar, Budweiser and Stella Artois - a Cannes Grand Prix winner.

In 2000 he turned from poacher to gamekeeper, joining ONdigital to navigate its rebrand as ITV digital, and in so doing creating the award-winning 'Al and Monkey' brand campaign (now reborn as a character vehicle for PG Tips), before becoming Marketing Director of MTV UK.

James is on the Board of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Patron of young male mental health charity C.A.L.M. – Campaign Against Living Miserably. He is a music-obsessive.
 

 

Jon is currently Marketing Director of Premier Foods.  He was previously marketing director of the Hovis division. There, Goldstone oversaw the development of the award-winning ‘Go on, lad’ TV commercial, launched Hovis Hearty Oats and led the shift to using only British wheat. These initiatives contributed to Hovis becoming Britain’s fastest-growing brand in 2009, with sales increasing by £46m. Jon’s new role combines the lead marketing roles of Premier’s Hovis and grocery divisions with responsibility for brands including Branston and Mr Kipling. Jon’s key objective is to accelerate branded growth in the face of strong competition from supermarket own-label lines.

Claire Cronin is the Marketing and Customer Services Director at NetJets Europe.

 

NetJets is Europe’s leading private aviation company, and operates a fleet of 150 private jets for a clientele that ranges from senior business leaders to professional athletes and entertainers. Backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, the company enjoys a position at the pinnacle of private aviation, both for the size and strength of its operation and for the trust placed in it by Europe’s most influential people.

 

In her role, Ms Cronin is responsible for defining and delivering the company’s marketing strategy across 22 countries, in addition to overseeing NetJets Europe’s 100-strong customer services department at the company’s operations centre in Lisbon.

 

Prior to joining NetJets, Ms Cronin served as Associate Director, Global Propositions, at Barclays Bank, which she joined in September 2001.

           

Ms Cronin holds a degree in Law (LLB Honours) from the University of Warwick, and is a Non-Executive Director of the Ultimate Travel Company.

Sarah Speake has just moved into a new role at Google as Strategic Marketing Director, having worked previously as Google’s Technology Sales Director since 2006.

Sarah started her career at VNU Business Publications, which fuelled her interest not only in the technology sector itself, but also in the information sources available to professionals working in IT. She has since spent 5 years as International Sales Director at IDG, sat on the Board of Carat Business for 2 years, and ran the International Sales division at VNU for 5 years prior to joining Google in September 2006. She was headhunted to join Google whilst on maternity leave, and was promoted to Director during her maternity leave in 2008.

As someone who feels passionately about diversity contributing to better business, she was nominated Diversity Champion EMEA for Google; runs the Google EMEA Women’s Leadership Council; sits on the Project Team for Connecting Women in Technology; on the Management Committee for Women in Technology and regularly speaks at events on the topic. Outside work she is a Trustee on the Board of YWCA and volunteers with SANDS (Stillbirth And Neonatal Death Charity) after the death of her first daughter.

Sarah is a graduate of St. Andrews University and holds a BA Honours degree in German and Business. She lives in West London with her husband and little people.

 

Mike Ashton is managing director of consulting and training group, ABCG and chairman of digital marketing agency, LHM Media.  ABCG specialize in helping companies drive commercial value from their brands, marketing and customer experience and developing individual and team performance.

Mike’s commercial experience includes senior roles with some of the world’s leading brand names including Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and hotel giant, Hilton.

For 8 years Mike was Senior Vice President, Marketing & Brand Management and a member of the board of Hilton International.  During this time, Mike led Hilton’s transformation to become the No1 hotel brand in all major global markets, winning two National Business Awards for Marketing Strategy along the way. 

Mike now harnesses that experience to help organizations create market-leading and profitable brand experiences. Mike’s diverse experience and pragmatic style make him a popular coach and speaker at conferences in the UK, Europe and the USA. He is a member of the CIM Faculty and advisor to the CIM’s Marketing Transformation Leadership Forum.       
  

Based in the UK, Mike is a family man with two teenage kids.  He’s a keen sportsman and musician, playing drums and percussion with any band that will let him join!   Mike has an MBA and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. 

Gail is CEO of Fallon and formerly Partner at Gallie Godfrey, Head of Marketing at the BBC, responsible for Youth Marketing, News, Sport, Learning and New Media. She has held senior roles in marketing, strategy and advertising and worked with some of the UK’s largest and most popular brands on both agency and client sides. With 15 years experience in brand and marketing roles, she has extensive experience in developing brand identities, corporate branding, marketing and advertising.

At the BBC Gail led the marketing launches of CBeebies, BBC THREE, and the strategic overhauls of the core BBC Brand, Radio 1, BBC News and BBC Sport. In advertising she led campaigns for clients including the Ministry of Sound, Proctor&Gamble, British Gas and Kraft. At BMP she directed the Labour Party advertising account for the successful 1997 general election and has led brand reviews for BBC Children in Need, Sport Relief and The Music Manifesto.

Richard Jolly is Adjunct Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. He teaches the ‘Leadership Skills’ and ‘Developing Effective Managers and Organisations’ core modules and the ‘Managing Change’ and ‘Paths to Power’ electives, as well as the ‘Executive Leadership’ module on the EMBA Global with Columbia Business School.
In addition to the MBA teaching, for which he was voted Best Programme Teacher by students in 2003, runner-up in 2007, won two runner-up awards in 2010 and runner-up in 2011.

Richard also instructs a large number of Executive Education courses for London Business School in the UK and across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including the ‘Senior Executive Programme’, ‘Accelerated Development Programme’ and ‘The Essentials of Leadership’, as well as working on a diverse portfolio of company-specific programmes, including Barclays, IBM, Lloyds of London, Lufthansa, Nestle, Orascom, Procter & Gamble, PwC, Rabobank, Rio Tinto, Roche, SABIC, Sony Ericsson and the World Economic Forum.

Richard is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Case Clearing House.

Outside of academia, Richard is a Director of the organisational consulting firm, Stokes & Jolly Consulting Limited, where he works with clients representing a wide range of sectors, including investment banking, private equity, fund management, law and accountancy firms, management consultancy, advertising, media, music, architecture, consumer goods, telecommunications, information technology and data management companies.

Richard’s primary consultancy interests focus on designing and delivering executive development workshops, coaching senior managers and facilitating senior management teams, with an emphasis on leadership and change management agendas. He received his MBA with Distinction from London Business School.

Rory Sutherland read Classics at Christ’s College, Cambridge, before joining Ogilvy as a Graduate Trainee in 1988. After 18 months spent as the world’s worst account handler (as a desperate remedial measure he was once booked onto a time management course, but got the date wrong) Rory became a copywriter in June 1990.

He has worked on Amex, BT, Compaq, Microsoft, IBM, BUPA, easyJet, Unilever, winning a few awards along the way. He was appointed Creative Director of OgilvyOne in 1997 and ECD in 1998. In 2005 he was appointed Vice Chairman on the Ogilvy Group in the UK in recognition of his improved timekeeping.

By an amazing stroke of luck (his brother is an academic) Rory first used the Internet in 1987. Hence he had the advantage in 1994 of knowing what it was and what it might do a few years ahead of many colleagues. Most people would have combined this knowledge of marketing and technology to make a fortune; not Rory. Instead he became the first Briton to have his credit card details stolen online, thereby losing £22.45.

In his spare time, Rory collects self-aggrandising job titles. He was President of the Direct Jury at Cannes in 2007, and was elected President of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising in 2009. He is also the Technology Correspondent of the Spectator, the world's oldest English language magazine.

 

Sally joined O2 (then BT cellnet) in 1999 as Prepay Manager for the UK. She went on to become Head of Prepay and later Head of Consumer Marketing, before being appointed as Marketing Director for O2 UK in August 2006.

As Marketing Director, Sally is responsible for setting the marketing agenda and overseeing the brand’s strategy in the UK. Sally has commercial profit and loss accountability for the Consumer and Business markets, as well as responsibility for delivering the through the line execution for both sectors.

Sally also drives the development, management and marketing of O2’s product portfolio, which includes the O2 Broadband customer proposition. Under Sally’s leadership she has delivered sponsorships such as The O2 and the O2 Academies, which have helped O2 to become one of the most successful consumer brands in the UK.

Prior to working in the telecoms space, Sally spent 8 years in the travel industry, latterly responsible for the marketing launch of BAA’s Heathrow Express Service. Holding a degree in Business Administration from Bath University and a Diploma in Marketing, Sally enjoys outdoor pursuits such as cycling and running and spending time with her two young boys.

Through her role as Marketing Director, Sally is committed to differentiating O2 through generating emotional loyalty, building on a brand that O2 customers can feel proud to be a part of. 

Joining Google in January 2006, Mark brought with him a wealth of advertising and marketing experience; having worked in the UK television industry for 20 years - over half that time in digital, multi-channel TV.

Mark’s role is to be the public sales leadership face of Google in the UK Media Market.

In building out the UK Sales team, Mark has felt first hand the challenges inherent in presenting Google’s value proposition to a market dominated by traditional media thinking and values.

In his 4th year with Google, he's proud of the stronger relationships Google now has within the UK advertising & media agency community and the opportunities Search marketing has brought to UK businesses. The next great challenges are to drive the growth of on-line video & mobile advertising within the UK market.

You wouldn't think it to look at him, but Mark completed 2 triathlons last summer & intends to compete in a load more in 2010. 

He was educated at University College London & now lives in Thames Ditton, Surrey, with his wife, three children & Daisy the Labradoodle.

Paul is responsible for marketing SunGard’s Financial Systems business operating in over 70 countries and serving 25,000 customers. SunGard is a successful multi-billion dollar business because of its deep understanding of the specialized, mission-critical business processes that lie at the heart of the banking, securities and investments, and insurance industries.

Paul has worked at SunGard for ten years, and before that, worked as a BBC news journalist and in community projects in the UK and Asia.   Paul has an MBA, a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism, and an undergraduate degree in political science.

Andy began as an illustrator adept with airbrush and ellipse guide before the ability to press the ‘cmd z’ key made him get digital.

Subsequently his career moved through design and TV channel branding and then online with early rich experiences for PlayStation and the prototyping of the BBC iPlayer when the scale of the idea seemed nuts.

Somewhere around 2005-07 Andy was Creative Director of Agency Republic driving the creative towards winning Campaign's Agency of the Year and awards for Mercedes, Sony, BBC, Diageo and Unilever, before leaving to co-found Work Club. It’s going really well thanks.

 

Andy is currently 36, good at beards, bad at being tall, good at spotting a good idea and tries to smile in photos because people tell him he looks grumpy.

Steve Gray is Group Chairman at emnos and a board director at Clash Media and Mobilize Systems. He was previously CEO at emnos and a director of holding company Loyalty Partner gmbh. He was UK & Ireland Managing Director at dunnhumby and a director of dunnhumby USA. He worked at P&G, Pepsico and Barilla in sales, marketing and general management roles.

Joe has more than 20 years marketing and communications experience, having worked in senior marketing roles in Financial Services and Internet/Telecommunications as well as domestic, regional and global roles in Advertising and Marketing Communications agencies. Prior to joining Lloyds Banking Group, he spent four years at payment services association Visa Europe, where he was Senior VP of Brand Management.

Joe has an MA in Modern Languages form Oxford University and is a Member of the Certified Institute of Marketing and of the UK Marketing Society and has recently been appointed to the Executive Committee of ISBA (Incorporated Society of British Advertisers).

Joe is married, with two sons and lives in St.Albans, Herts. Beyond work Joe tries to keep fit (regular 10k events and the occasional half-marathon) and is busy planning his younger son’s 2010 motorbike racing campaign – all sponsors welcome of course!

Tim graduated from King's College, Cambridge. In 1986, he joined Saatchi & Saatchi as a Strategic Planner.

Nine years later, he left with Maurice and Charles to help found M&C Saatchi which quickly grew from an unranked start-up to a top-10 UK agency in just under five years.

Tim quickly moved through the ranks and was appointed Managing Director in 1997, Chief Executive in 2004 and was recently promoted to Chairman this year.

Kristof Fahy is Group Brand and Marketing Director for William Hill plc.  He is responsible for development and control of the William Hill brand across all the channels in which the business operates and is a member of the Executive Management Team.

Before joining William Hill, Kristof was Vice President of International Marketing for Yahoo! He was responsible for driving the marketing and brand strategy for all Yahoo! operations outside of the US.  His previous role at Yahoo! was VP, Marketing Yahoo! Europe where he was responsible for driving marketing across all parts of the business as well as leading research, insights and PR.

Prior to joining Yahoo! in November 2007, Kristof Fahy was Brand Marketing Director for BlackBerry, responsible for Brand and Communications across EMEA.  In this role he successfully created and implemented the brand and marketing strategy for BlackBerry as the company moved into the consumer market.

Before his move to BlackBerry, Kristof Fahy worked in various senior marketing positions at Orange for over 7 years, including Director of Global Brand Communications and Head of Brand, Planning and Advertising for Orange UK where he was responsible for the creative direction of Orange UK. While at Orange he also launched the brand into Australia and The Dominican Republic.

Adam Crozier joined ITV Plc as Chief Executive in April 2010.  He is currently leading a company-wide review and developing the strategy that will transform the business in the next 3-5 years.

Prior to joining ITV Adam Crozier was Chief Executive of Royal Mail Group (2003 – 2010) where he led Royal Mail's transformation from an organisation failing customer service targets and losing more than £1m every working day to a company making £1m every working day and delivering on its Quality of Service targets.

He was also responsible for driving forward Royal Mail’s plan to invest around £2bn in modernising and automating the business to enable it to compete and lead both in the UK and in the international marketplace.

Before joining Royal Mail, he was Chief Executive of the Football Association while between 1988 and 1999 he held a number of senior roles at Saatchi and Saatchi, including Joint Chief Executive from 1995.

Adam sits on the board of Debenhams. 

Adam was born on the Isle of Bute in 1964.

Debbie became Joint Chief Executive of Engine in June 2008. She was Chief Executive of WCRS from 2005-2008 and continues to be involved as Chairman of the advertising agency. She was a founding partner in the management buyout of WCRS in 2004 and prior to that Head of Planning at WCRS for five years.

Debbie started her career at AC Nielsen. In 1993 she joined Saatchi & Saatchi as a Strategic Planner. She was promoted to the Board of Saatchi & Saatchi in 1996. She joined WCRS in 1997 and was promoted to Head of Planning in 1999.

She is the author of Women in Advertising: 10 years on, a study commissioned by the IPA. Many of the recommendations made in her report have since been adopted by the advertising industry. She is a past president of WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications London), a network of senior women in the media, advertising and communications business.

Debbie was named one of the Sunday Times 'Top 40 under 40 in Media'. 

Beth Broughton joined The Leading Edge a marketing strategy firm with customer insight at its heart as Client Partner in June 2011.  The Leading Edge integrate primary research, analytics and trends/forecasting to develop and guide the implementation of strategies to help clients differentiate and succeed.

Previously Beth worked at SCB Partners as a Senior Strategist, joining in May 2010.  Prior to this she worked as the Marketing Director for One Alfred Place, a unique concept of a private members club which provides the perfect environment for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators to share ideas, meet with colleagues and get work done.  Beth has over 15 years of experience and proven achievements across the FMCG, B2B and public sectors in the UK and USA. She has worked in the corporate, agency and start-up fields, giving her a breadth of experience.

Beth is proud to have worked with great brands and companies such as Spotify, BP, Peroni, Burger King, Denny’s, Carlsberg, Skanska, Tata Group, Lucky Strike, Rockstar, Dunhill, Billington Cartmel, SCB Partners, Henley Centre and G2.

Yasmin is Director of Communication at the Home Office. 

She works with, and advises, the Home Secretary, Ministers and senior officials on the strategic development and daily management of all the Home Office’s external and internal communications.

Jonathan is one of the industry's leading experts on service brand marketing.

He is a firm believer that the traditional FMCG marketing models don't work in services sectors, and has built Rapier around the requirements of these clients.  Current Rapier clients include Lloyds Banking Group, Virgin Media and Yell.

John Petter joined BT in 2004 as Chief Operating Officer of the Consumer Division in BT Retail.  He was responsible for the launch of BT Total Broadband and the Home Hub, as well as BT's response to the removal of price controls on PSTN.  He led the use of lean (rft) business improvement techniques within bt on a Broadband Customer Experience Project.  In May 2008 john was promoted to Managing Director of the Consumer Divisioin.

Previous to joining BT, John worked at Telewest, the cable company.  He began as Head of Digital TV in 2000 before being promoted to marketing director in 2001, and eventually ending up overseeing a combined marketing and commercial function in 2003.

Ahead of this John worked for Proctor and Gamble in a variety of marketing roles, 1993-2000.  He covered a wide range of market sectors from UK health and beauty care (1993-6), industrial cleaning in the B2B market (1996-9) and global hair colourants (1999-2000).

John began his career in public relations where he worked for two consultancy firms.  Before this he graduated in Modern History from Oxford University.

Amongst a number of appointments during his 35 years as a soldier, Major General Denaro commanded his Regiment in the first Gulf War, was Chief of Staff of some 44,000 multinational troops during the Balkans conflict, and then became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for 3 years.  For his last 6 years he was also the Middle East adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence.

Born in 1948 and raised in County Donegal, he was commissioned from Sandhurst in 1968 into the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars; he also spent time with UK Special Forces. 

Other appointments included commanding an armoured brigade in the transition period following the end of the Cold War, being Chief of Staff British Forces Cyprus, and running the Artillery, Air and Special Forces assets within the Ace Rapid Reaction Corps in Germany.  His final job was General Officer Commanding the West of the UK until his retirement in February 2003.

He has recently finished 5 year honorary appointments as Colonel The Queen’s Royal Hussars, The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and The Royal Wessex Yeomanry.

Denaro became an OBE as a result of the Gulf War in 1991 and a CBE after his time in the Former Yugoslavia.

Since retiring from the army in 2003, he has been an adviser to the Crown Prince of Bahrain, a council member of the Princes’ Trust and an Extra Equerry to HRH The Prince of Wales.  He is a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Herefordshire.

Major General Denaro is married to Maggi and they have 5 children; their eldest daughter retired from the army in 2005 having done one tour in Iraq, and their youngest son is served in Iraq in 2009 with the Queens Royal Hussars.  The other two daughters are married to officers currently serving in Afghanistan.

After 10 years as a copywriter in ad agencies Ogilvy, Yellowhammer and DMB&B, Townshend joined Rapier. Under his direction the agency has become one of the country’s most successful integrated agencies, winning Campaign’s Direct Agency of the Decade in January 2010.  In April 2011 John founded the agency Now.  Townshend has won awards in a broader range of media than any other UK creative, with work in D&AD, Creative Circle, Campaign Poster, as well as 12 Golds at the DMAs, including his online work for smart cars.

Paul graduated from Durham University in 1991 and began his marketing career in London, promoting sport, arts and leisure activities.

In 1996 Paul became Head of Marketing at Arts & Business, a networking organisation that promotes arts sponsorship and creative partnerships between commercial and cultural organisations.

Paul joined The Prince’s Trust in 2002 and is now Director of Marketing and Communications. He is responsible for building the brand of the UK’s leading youth charity, reaching out to disenfranchised young people who desperately need a chance in life.

The Prince’s Trust uses strategic partnerships in fashion, music, sport and media to enhance its brand position, to raise funds and engage the hardest to reach young people. Since the onset of the recession, The Trust has campaigned aggressively to maximise the support available to disadvantaged, unemployed young people.

In November 2009, a Populus survey of business leaders ranked The Prince’s Trust as the third most influential and innovative ‘thought leading’ organisations in the not for profit sector.

Mark Ritson has a First class honours degree in Marketing and a Ph.D. in Marketing from Lancaster University and has been a faculty member at some of the world's leading business schools. He has taught at London Business School, MIT Sloan, the University of Minnesota and at Melbourne Business School - where he has been an Associate Professor of Marketing since 2005. He is an acclaimed MBA instructor having won the teaching prize at all his past schools: LBS (2002), MBS (2008, 2009, 2010), MIT Sloan (2009).
 
Mark has also worked extensively as a consultant for some of the largest brands in the world. His clients have included McKinsey, adidas, PepsiCo, Glaxo SmithKline, Eli Lilly, Honda, Johnson & Johnson, De Beers, Bupa, Ericsson and WD40. For ten years he has also served as advisor and in-house professor for LVMH - the world's largest luxury group - working with senior executives from brands like Louis Vuitton, Dom Perignon, Fendi, Tag Heuer, Dior and Hennessy.  He also a founding partner of Brandtrack - a brand tracking firm based in Melbourne.
 
Mark has been writing a weekly column on branding for ten years, first at Marketing and now Marketing Week. In 2009 he won Columnist of the Year in the PPA British press awards and is shortlisted again for the award for 2011. His more scholarly publications include articles published in Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and the Journal of Consumer Research. Mark's research on pricing was cited in the acceptance speech of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001.

Andrew is a founding partner of Beattie McGuinness Bungay.

Before going to university Andrew spent 2 years working in a business-to-business direct marketing agency.  After gaining a degree in English History Andrew joined J Walter Thompson where he produced one of the UK’s first advertiser funded programmes for Esso UK.

In 1998 Andrew moved to Sydney to join M&C Saatchi as a Group Account Director, handling business including British Airways and  News Corporation.  In February 2000 he came back to the UK to join TBWA\LONDON.

In June 2001 he was promoted to Managing Director.

In October 2002, aged 32, Andrew was promoted to the role of Chief Executive.  In this role he over saw a number of achievements including TBWA being listed, for three consecutive years, in The Sunday Times Top 100 Companies To Work For, new business wins of over £100m and in 2004 TBWA being recognised as the fastest growing major agency in the UK.

In 2001 and and again in 2005 Andrew led the team that created the Labour Party’s election advertising. 

In May 2005 Andrew left TBWA to form BMB, now a top 25 UK agency; described recently as ‘the most in demand creative agency in the land’.

Andrew is a former non-executive director of Chorion plc and oversaw the business going private in 2006.  He has sat on the Council of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) since 2002.  He is a Fellow of the Marketing Society and is Chairman of the Advertising Association.

Andrew is married to Isabella and has 3 young children, Ella, Jessica and Alfie.

Mikah was previously Chief Marketing Officer with Microsoft, prior to this he worked for Samsung from 2008 to 2010 as Marketing Director. 

Previous roloes include Marketing Director at Samsung, General Manager Marketing at BT and Head of Marketing at Viacom.

Chris Lenton DipM, FCIM, FCCA, FCIS, FRSA, Chartered Marketer, is the current Chairman of the London Academy of Professional Education and Research, a large business educational group, whose international operations are centered in London. He also works as senior partner in a business consultancy practice which he formed in 1988.

No stranger to The Chartered Institute of Marketing, Chris’s institutional career began with him assuming the role of Finance Director and Secretary of The Institute in the early nineties, where he went on to hold the posts of Commercial Director, Managing Director (CIM Holdings), Chief Operating Officer, and acting CEO on three occasions during his tenure.

Chris left The Institute some six years ago to take up a series of non-executive directorships and was invited to become the Chairman of two companies one of which was in the international healthcare sector. He successfully lead the negotiations to sell the company to a major Dutch healthcare group. During this time Chris was engaged in an executive role as the COO of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators where he was responsible for Marketing, Finance, Membership and Operations.

Chris’s career as a director has centered on strategic planning, marketing and corporate governance. Ethics and corporate social responsibility have played a key part in his business philosophy.

Chris has qualified as a Chartered marketer, Chartered Secretary and Chartered Certified Accountant. He began work for BCI Plc, a speciality chemical company in finance and mergers and acquisitions. His financial career continued with Motorola Inc in their IT business before moving into general management with Perkin Elmer Inc in their IT business.

Born in Kensington, London in 1950 Chris, was educated at Staveley School Chiswick, Chiswick Polytechnic and UCL. He is married with two daughters aged 15 and 19 and has been a company director (both public and private) for the last 25 years. His interests include representative rugby and international rowing (he still rows competitively), actively supports rugby and enjoys music, literature and the arts.

Appointed Chief Executive Officer on 29 March 2004 and is also Chairman of the Operating Board. He has been a Non-Executive Director of Staples, Inc. since September 2007 and was appointed to the board of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in January 2009. He was formerly Director of Food at M&S and from 1994 to 2001 he held a number of senior positions at ASDA/WalMart in Trading, HR and Retail. Justin was previously Managing Director of Häagen Dazs UK and spent much of his early career with Mars Confectionery and Pepsi International.

Since 1996, Webmart founder and managing director Simon Biltcliffe has shaped the business based on his personal ethos that Marxism and capitalism together are unbeatable. Putting his money where his mouth is, the company’s success is shared both by employees and by the less fortunate through a charitable trust. Constantly switched on to new possibilities, he puts a lot into people development and training, and also realised early on that harnessing the power of technology would be key to his company’s success, freeing staff for more important added-value activities such as a relentless focus on customer service.

Andy is currently UK Managing Director of Camelot, joining in October 2011.  Prior to this he was the CEO of HR Owen and before this he was Chief Executive of Channel 4, a position he held from 2004 to 2009. During his time there, the company increased its share of total UK television viewing from 10% to a record 12% and grew its share of the UK television advertising market every year to a record 25% in 2009.

Prior to this he was an Executive Board member at the BBC, where he was Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences, and the founding Chairman of Freeview. Andy has also had a 17-year career at Unilever, where he held a number of top level positions in general management, marketing and sales. In addition to his executive experience Andy is a non-executive director at HMV plc, the leading entertainment retailer. He has also been Chairman of the Media Trust since 2006.

Moray joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1983 having graduated from Christ’s College Cambridge with a degree in law.

He was made a Board Director at 26 (the youngest in the company)

He was appointed Managing Director in 1992, when the Agency was No 1 in the UK.

Whilst at Saatchi & Saatchi he worked on many of the Agency’s largest accounts including British Airway, Mars, Silk Cut and the Conservative Party. He worked closely with the Conservative Govt and the Thatcher elections, in 1987 and 1992.

He left Saatchi & Saatchi together with Charles and Maurice in 1995 to set up M&C Saatchi, as CEO.

M&C Saatchi was international from birth with offices in Sydney, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

It was the fastest growing start-up in history.

Moray was appointed CEO, M&C Saatchi Worldwide in 2009. The network now has 21 offices covering all disciplines.

He was IPA President, 2007-09.

Michele joined Comic Relief in January 1998 as the newly created Head of Fundraising, and was responsible for directing all the fundraising initiatives that the charity undertakes. These ranged from major corporate partnerships, which underpinned the Red Nose Day campaign to the mass mobilisation of the general public.  She was also directly responsible for co-ordinating the logistics of the credit card donations around the TV show, and all fundraising activities outside of the Red Nose Day.

In 2003 Michele was promoted to Marketing Director for the organisation. Her responsibilities continued to include all the fundraising activities around Red Nose Days and the newly launched Sport Relief. The new remit also included developing
the communication strategy around the brand, and overseeing its implementation.

Michele has a degree from Sheffield University and has spent the last 10 years working for media/advertising and sales/promotion agencies.

 

David graduated from Oxford University. After three years at Nielsen, he spent 20 years in advertising agencies, and managed five in UK, Europe and Asia.

Deborah Dolce is currently Group Marketing Director - TJX Europe (TK Maxx/HomeSense).  With a degree in French & Italian, Deborah began her career in fashion journalism then marketing communications, ending up at the consumer comms agency that won the TK Maxx business in 1994.

Wooed by the off-price retail concept, she joined the company as Head of Marketing (of 2 stores!) and has been there now for 16 years. She has since helped to build the TK Maxx brand, roll the concept out to four European countries and over 250 stores, plus played a key role in the launch of the group's second fascia, HomeSense and ecom business.

Today, she oversees all group marketing and brand functions, and leads a 25 strong in-house creative and store design agency. Business Development, Customer Service and Corporate Social Responsibility also sit in her remit, the latter being her passion, in particular the company's long-standing partnerships with Comic Relief and Cancer Research UK.....she lives in peaceful rural Herfordshire with her less peaceful Husband and 3 young sons.

Andrew co-founded i-level, the UK’s leading online media agency, in 1998.

Winner of over 30 awards, the company has been Agency of the Year eight times in the last eight years, and in 2007 became the first digital agency to win a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

Andrew is on the judging panel for several industry awards and is frequently quoted in the trade and national media, as well as writing a weekly column in Marketing magazine.  Ernst & Young named him London Media Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.

Andrew has an MBA from Kingston University, where his dissertation researched the impact of digital media on advertising agencies. He lives in Hammersmith with his wife and children, who now firmly control the family media schedule.

Russ is currently a non-executive director for three companies:  GAME Group plc, Dialog—a publicly traded semiconductor company, and Unwire--a Danish, venture-backed mobile commerce business.

Previously, Russ was Vice President & General Manager at Skype with global responsibilities for its mobile division and also for Europe, Middle East & Africa. Before Skype, Russ was at Telefonica, where he was the Global Innovation Director.  Prior to this role, he was with Telefonica’s O2 mobile business, as Marketing Director, responsible for initiatives such as The O2 venue in London. Before joining O2, Russ was the CEO of Mobileway, a venture-capital backed start-up sold to Sybase. Before joining Mobileway, Russ was a Managing Director at NTL (now Virgin Media). Prior to moving into telecoms, Russ spent many years in consumer financial services, both with American Express and Charles Schwab, in a variety of marketing, advertising, and brand management roles. He has a BS from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  He lives in London with his wife Lesley and his three sons.

Charmaine Eggberry is Senior Vice President – Marketing at Nokia, with responsibility for Go-To-Market Operations (GTMO). This role oversees all aspects of marketing development and execution globally as well as aligning with other core functions in bringing Nokia devices and services to market.

Prior to joining Nokia, Charmaine was the Vice President & Managing Director, EMEA, at Research In Motion (RIM). She had overall responsibility for RIM's Europe, Africa and the Middle East business, including its growth targets and all sales and marketing activities. Charmaine has extensive senior level experience in the telecommunications and technology sectors. Before joining RIM in 2002 as Marketing Director for Europe she worked for Lucent Technologies where she held several positions including the roles of Global Business Partner Marketing Director and Marketing Director, EMEA. Charmaine holds an MBA, attended Wharton Business School to study Global Marketing.

After an early career in journalism and a four-year stint as director of Starcom IP, John joined Dare in August 2003 to put planning at the heart of the agency’s approach to digital marketing.

Now managing partner of Dare, which was named Digital Agency of the Decade by Campaign at the end of 2009, John is also a Fellow of the IPA.

Emma Beale is Manager of Instore Communications at Waitrose.  Emma has previously been a Marketing Director with extensive experience in the foods sector, working on major brands such as Walkers crisps & most recently in Healthcare on medical devices.

Classically trained, commercial marketer who draws on UK & international experience to create consumer winning ideas & consistently deliver business results.  An experienced leader, mentor & successful people manager.

After graduating from Oxford Nick started his career at Ogilvy & Mather and spent 5 years working on the American Express and Kraft business.

In 1995 he joined HHCL & Partners and over the next ten years worked across a broad range of business including Unilever, Mars, Guinness , British Airways & BSkyB. Nick became Client Services Director in 1991, Managing Director in 2001 and CEO in 2004. During his time at the agency, HHCL & Partners was voted Campaign Magazine’s Agency of the Decade.

Nick joined CHI & Partners in 2005 and heads up the Agency’s Talk Talk, Best Buy, Nestle and RBS Business.

Saj has over 20 years of global commercial marketing experience with senior roles in mobile, consumer & financial services. He is Group Marketing & Brand Director at Vodafone where he is responsible for marketing & brand strategy & execution. Vodafone is the world’s largest mobile network operator and the 7th most valuable global brand with 350m customers. Prior to joining Vodafone he was Sales & Marketing Director at RAC leading a major turnaround of the brand and the business.

Prior to this he spent 10 years at American Express in 3 major global marketing roles include leading enterprise product development, setting up the digital channel globally & establishing a global CRM programme.

This was preceded by a 7 year stint at Visa Europe in a variety of product management, product development and marketing roles.

Saj is married with 2 young children and lives in London.