Passionate to provide meaningful solutions to brands contributing to their digital growth. Dynamic, innovative, creative, and enthusiastic driven with 16+ years learning and adapting to the marketing ecosystem with strong experience both in the digital media and advertising technology fields. Used to evolve in fast paced and complex environments.

Sophie is the Four Communications’ lead on insight development and integrated strategy and planning, and provides internal and client consultancy on market analysis, sizing and positioning, communications strategy, campaign development and implementation, and effectiveness evaluation.

Sophie has delivered complex segmentation and planning projects for the Office of National Statistics and other public sector organisations, and has worked on insight, strategy and planning for private sector clients across the travel, financial services and travel sectors. She has also previously been a judge in the UK Effie effectiveness awards.

Early in her career, Christine worked at various start-ups with marketing roles in brand management, consultancy and ad tech, promoting established and launching new-to-market brands. One of which has held the position of #1 bestselling niche fragrance in Selfridges, Oxford Street London.

Currently Christine is working in the international ad sales and marketing team at Viacom Velocity International, part of global media company Viacom and manages campaigns surrounding iconic, global TV & movie brands such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Channel 5, Paramount Pictures and BET.

In addition to managing several sponsorships of the biggest entertainment events globally such as MTV EMAs, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and the first ever VidCon, London, Christine is also a member of the International Advertising Association (IAA) Marketing Committee.

Dirk  has more than 20 year’s experience working in the fields of marketing  and communication. Starting his career in a small owner-managed  Healthcare agency he moved quickly to client’s side working in the marketing departments for well-known, global brands such as Deutsche Post DHL, Sony and Johnson + Johnson  (Janssen).
Usually you do it the other way around, but he decided to leave the client’s side and go back to agencies again. For him the greatest industry you can work for! Inter alia he worked for Razorfish / Publicis Health as Director Strategy.

Now he leads Havas Life Düsseldorf, the German operation of Havas Health  & You as a Managing Director. Havas Health and You is a unique and one of the largest health and wellness networks with more than 65-plus agencies in 50 countries and part of Havas Group. Dirk is also a juror at Comprix (Germany’s leading healthcare award), DubaiLynx Health, The Global Awards and GWA Health Effie.

Iva Dixit is an Audience Editor at the New York Times Magazine, where she oversees the digital and social rollouts of their signature longform journalism. Previously, she was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, where she started the New Yorker Cartoons account on Instagram, that was nominated for a Shorty Award. She was named a CNN-ONA Diversity Fellow by the Online News Organization in 2016. 

Jonty Rens is a Senior Brand Strategist by trade, and is also the Managing Director of STRATEGY et al, a member of the et al Group

Originally from a copywriting background, Jonty is responsible for leading his teams in the development and implementation of brand and marketing strategies for a wide range of clients, including Redefine Properties, Massmart (Makro), AVBOB, Mitsubishi SA, BetterBond and many others.

He has vast experience in integrated marketing campaign development, spanning across genres and disciplines ranging from PR, to social media and both long and short form television.

Jonty’s area of specialisation is brand positioning, and more specifically the brand’s exemplification of its positioning through its marketing activities, which is evident – and often the key to success – in the campaigns he orchestrates for the et al Group’s clients.

Under Jonty’s leadership, his team has won multiple top local and international awards, including a gold M&M Global Award in 2018. He has also been nominated as a judge for the DMASA Assegai Awards (SA) for the past three years

As Managing Director of Manning Gottlieb OMD, Natalie is responsible for the strategic direction of the agency, its capabilities and what it delivers for its enviable client list which includes John Lewis, Waitrose, Specsavers, Renault, Nissan, Starbucks, Sony and Virgin Media. The agency is currently Campaign’s Media Agency of The Year.

Natalie has been at the agency for 11 years and in her previous role she led the agency’s 160-strong digital offering, developing a breadth of new services including the highly-awarded search, mobile and social teams and more recently the tech innovation arm.

Prior to joining MG OMD, Natalie spent several years as a magazine publisher at IPCMedia (now Time Inc), where she got a taste for digital by launching magazine websites before moving agency side to master digital marketing further.

Since social media and online content has become an important part of business, Brie has been immersed in the industry playing a pivotal role in building and executing measurable social media and digital campaigns. Brie has seen all sides of how social media can work, from working within a digital performance marketing agency for close to 6 years becoming Head of Social Strategy, navigating how social media fits into the public relations space at esteemed Edelman, National Head of Social with an integrated communications lens at Ogilvy Australia, Head of Social moving into Head of Channel Transformation at highly awarded Clemenger BBDO Melbourne and now as Creative Director, Content at Wunderman Thompson Australia.

Merging creativity with a focus on goals, conversions and data analytics have been key to her success. Her experience spans the likes of General Electric, UNICEF, GAP Clothing, Gumtree, China Eastern Airlines, Bayer, CUB, NAB, Nestle, Mars Australia (Choc, Pet and Food), Coca-Cola, KFC, U by Kotex, Huggies, IBM, AMEX, MYER, Mattel, AbInBev/CUB, Optus Business and more.

Most recently, Brie was a part of the team for AirBnB’s #UntilWeAllBelong campaign driving change for marriage equality in Australia that received Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions, a D&AD Wooden Pencil, a Webby and more. Brie was also instrumental in developing KFC’s multi-award winning $1 Chips campaign, which won the Grand Prix for Behavioral Science and Social Media at MSiX Awards, and was also the lead social media teacher at Miami Ad School in 2016.

Simon is the global media director at adidas, where he has overseen media strategy, activation, measurement and operations for the last 5 years. Within adidas he has been responsible for changing the perception of media, from a commodity, to an investment. Prior to adidas, Simon headed media in Europe for Twentieth Century Fox and also worked agencies PHD, Mediacom and Mindshare. He is a member of the WFA Global Media Council and was named as a top 50 Changemaker by DigiDay in 2018.

As a career marketer, I have worked across multiple categories across various blue chip brands, such as Citibank, Microsoft and Unilever in Asia and Australia. I moved to the UK joined Lotus Cars as the Global Brand Manager for Lotus Elise and Exige. Following this, I joined Shell and have since worked in various parts of the business supporting our Employer Branding for the Group, roles in trade marketing and global brand management with Shell Lubricants and now in Shell Retail, having worked in Global Promotions and Global CRM.

In my current position as the Global Media and CRM Manager I am responsible for bringing together the CRM and Media parts of the business to achieve a holistic customer view and enable greater omni-channel orchestration. Driving an increase focus on our data and insight capability to further personalise and continuously optimise the experience for our Shell customers to capture more of our audience’s hard-won attention

Jim Piercy is Creative Director for EMEA and Asia at The Trust, the custom content unit of The Wall Street Journal Barron’s Group.

Based in London, Jim joined The Wall Street Journal in 2014, and now gives creative oversight to custom projects across the globe. He has worked on a wide variety of campaigns including partnerships with LG, Star Alliance, UBS and British Airways.

Jim previously worked at Bloomberg where he developed their custom content model for television. If he’s not working, you’ll find him on his bike.

With over 25 years’ experience in working with brands, Zubin currently works with Mindshare India, leading strategy for a certain set of clients. Zubin loves brands, and began his brand journey with creative agencies like Ogilvy, Grey and Lintas. He then shifted to work with media agencies to get a wholistic experience of brand marketing

Zubin loves movies and music. He believes that’s where he gets most of his inspiration and consumer insights. He favorite mantra, if you can think it, you can do it

Tamina is the Global Head of Clients Director for Zenith Worldwide. Tamina is responsible for delivering best in class business leadership for our clients. In addition, she is also the Publicis Groupe client leader for the Coty business, one of Zenith’s largest global clients and a leader in the beauty category. Her client portfolio has a breadth and depth of variety including technology giant Oracle, as well as past experience on Emirates Airlines, Fitbit, Lexus, Research in Motion and HomeAway.

Tamina, a US native, comes from a truly global background, being raised in Tokyo and living in the UK for the past 12 years. She boasts nearly 13 years of global business leadership experience, having spent her career at Publicis, sharing time between sister brands Starcom and Zenith. Most recently Plum was the Jury President of Media for the Eurobest awards, has been shortlisted for the IPA Women of Tomorrow and was awarded an Internationalist Innovator in Media in 2012.

I have the pleasure of sitting in the Board of Core, Ireland’s largest communication company and being the Managing Director of Ireland’s No.1 Media Agency, Spark Foundry. We work with Procter & Gamble, Nissan, Irish Distillers (Jameson’s parent company), Road Safety Authority, Vhi Healthcare, Three, ESB and the Health Service Executive. Being part of Core is a an absolute privilege as we are now a collective of nine practices, working towards a single purpose, to expand the possibilities of what brands can achieve.

In the past, I held a Board position in Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (2014 and 2015). I have been a judge at the Festival of Global Media, Effies, and was also the Jury Chair of the EACA pan-european competition which sees 400  students across Europe answer a brief. Last year,  I also spoke at The Cannes Festival of Creativity in a panel discussion about diversity and creativity. My favourite job is being a mum of a three year old as she reminds me every day about the power of curiosity.

As Managing Director, I am responsible for the day-to-day operations and performance of Hearts & Science in the UK, helping guide the 130-strong team spanning Client Servicing, Audience Planning, Marketing Sciences, Data Planning, and Activation. I am a champion of finding a better way of working for the agency in order to create additional value for our clients. I’m MIPA Accredited – the IPA’s badge of professionalism – and have achieved all 3 IPA Professional Qualifications including the Excellence Diploma.

I grew up in Holywood, County Down – the same town as golf superstar Rory McIlroy (who continues to make my 7 handicap look rubbish).

Sabrina leads client business at start-up agency Yonder Media, solving media and communications challenges with a variety of creative approaches. In a career spanning both agency and media owner side, Sabrina has a distinct perspective on the ways media can be applied to solve clients’ business challenges. Originally a digital media buyer, Sabrina worked on travel, auto and luxury accounts at Mindshare before becoming a Strategy Director at Arena Media, working on Domino’s Pizza, LG, and A+E Networks, where she won a coveted Media Week award for a campaign to re-launch Britain’s Next Top Model. She then moved to head up Creative Solutions at music video platform Vevo, leading a team of creative thinkers finding new ways to tie up brands and bands.

Music is Sabrina’s enduring passion and side hustle; she plays the piano and sings in a professional choir, often supporting popular and emerging artists. She particularly likes being asked to “go on then, sing something” when people find this out.

An accomplished data science, research and insight leader experienced in combining traditional research methods with big data to answer complex business problems.

Phil currently leads Data Science and Insights for Bloomberg Media across EMEA. He is responsible for ensuring that data and research fuel strategic media partnerships, increasingly through the findings provided by Bloomberg Media’s AI powered audience insight and content analysis platform, Bloomberg AiQ.

Phil began his career at Kellogg’s, building econometric models to quantify sales impact and marketing ROI across the entire portfolio. The bright Lights of London soon called him, gaining brand strategy knowledge through leading international branding agency Design Bridge and most recently developed ground breaking research to validate the commercial model and corporate strategy at News UK.

Antoine started his career in television at BBC Worldwide in Singapore where he developed a real thirst and passion for the media and broadcast industry. After a year, he returned to Paris where he joined Fox International Channels and then had the opportunity to relocate to Fox Networks Group in London.

Antoine has held consumer marketing and advertising sales roles at Fox Networks Group, part of global media company 21^st Century Fox, for over six years. Joining the organisation in 2013, Antoine’s FOX career included roles based in London and Paris, working across global TV brands including FOX, National Geographic, FX and FOX Sports.

In this time Antoine has led the marketing strategy and creative for iconic and award-winning TV shows including The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, The X-Files, Prison Break, The Simpsons, Outcast and Wayward Pines. More recently Antoine has overseen European brand and social media strategy for FOX, launched the Bundesliga on FOX Sports globally and drove Europe & Africa launches for new VOD products FOX+ and FOX Now.

Rachel has worked in financial services for over 25 years, starting at Abbey National as a cashier and working her way up to being a Branch Manager in the North West of England. She moved into Marketing in 2002, into the Customer Insight team, then when Santander took over in 2007 headed up the Customer Service Quality team for 4 years. She moved into a Marketing Communications role in 2011, firstly for the Business and Corporate bank, then for the whole UK business. Her current job, Head of Marketing Communications for Santander in the UK has responsibility for developing and delivering the marketing communications strategy for the UK, including all customer comms from mass channels such as TV to precision channels such as CRM.

Michael Olaye is the CEO of Dare, a digital creative agency. Dare is part of the world’s fastest-growing marcomms company: Inside Ideas Group.

Michael leads Inside Ideas Group’s entire tech vision, responsible for its technical collaboration, industry thought leadership and advanced technology incubations. Away from the office, he’s also a keen Capoeirista.

He’s a regular guest speaker and judges for the likes of Creativepool, The Drum and Campaign; and an advisor to tech start-ups and a yet-to-be-announced cryptocurrency company. Michael has also been named as one of The Drum’s 100 most influential people in UK digital and honoured in the BIMA 100. He is also one of Creativepool’s top 100 influencers and made the 50 Male Advocates for Equality in Marketing & Media list. Michael has also been listed in the Financial Times Top 100 Tech BAME.

Providing mentorship to talent across marketing, advertising and technology, he also supports the industry at a grassroots level. Michael assists at the School of Arts & Communications 2.0, working with up-and-coming industry talent; and helps local communities in the London boroughs through the Future First Alumni programme, both as a supporter and guest speaker.

Ultimately, Michael’s mission is to make technology not just seamless, but invisible in our everyday lives.

Amanda is a Senior Client Partner in the Media and Entertainment sector UK & EMEA for Korn Ferry.

Amanda brings over 20 years of experience across the media industry. She has held senior positions at leading executive search firms, media owners and agencies, including managing partner of new business and marketing at Havas Media Group, commercial director at Haymarket, group advertisement director at BBC Worldwide and group head at IPC Media (now Time Inc.).

Amanda has worked on leadership and senior executive positions across a breadth of media businesses. She has placed CEO & Exec appointments internationally across senior management roles in leadership, sales, commercial, technology, strategy, marketing, communications, operations and creative.

Before joining Korn Ferry, Amanda was Partner at two other boutique executive search firms, focused on the media sectors across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Amanda earned bachelor of technology degrees in the fields of business, marketing and finance from the University of Gloucestershire.

Amanda is actively involved in the media industry. A trustee of NABS, she won the Ron Miller award for her outstanding service to the charity, and regularly sits on panels for industry debates or awards including Media Week’s 30 Under 30 and Media Week’s Rising Star.

Milton’s digital marketing career began in the 2000s within Publicis Groupe’s Phonevalley in Paris, France. He has previously worked in Head of Mobile roles at both OMD and Starcom MediaVest Group in London where he built agency mobile teams and their commercial propositions whilst working with numerous leading brands as they entered the mobile marketing space. As News UK’s Head of Platforms & Innovation he is in charge of commercial strategy & partnerships across a broad rage of platforms where The Times & Sunday Times, The Sun, Q LIVE, and Wireless Group publish and broadcast content.

Milton has also been responsible for brokering and bringing numerous media firsts to market, including the world’s first 3D tablet ad, the first ad campaign on YouTube Mobile in the UK and Europe, and the UK’s first haptics-enabled mobile video ad. He has previously been named one of MediaWeek’s ‘30 Under 30’, one of Campaign Magazine’s ‘Faces To Watch’, one of the top influential people in mobile marketing by The Drum in consecutive years, and Mobile Marketer of the Year at the Effective Mobile Marketing Awards.