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Malcolm is a communications strategist with nearly 20 years experience working globally with some of the world’s most valuable and innovative brands.

He spent a decade in New York, firstly at Mindshare establishing and leading its North American communications planning practice and then joining MediaVest to lead strategy on its Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Kraft and Heineken assignments.  He has also spent time in as a brand strategist at MDC’s Anomaly.

Before journeying across the Atlantic, in his native UK he was responsible for strategic planning duties at Mindshare for Nike, Britvic-Pepsi and Abbey, winning most of the major media creativity and effectiveness awards along the way. He started his career at top 10 full service agency, Bates Dorland.

He will shortly be leading strategy for MediaVest across the EMEA and APAC regions.

Outside of advertising Malcolm is a keen music producer and label owner.

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In April 2016 Toby joined PHD International as CEO in London. This newly created role is designed to deliver leadership to PHD International and to enhance the current success of the agency. Previously as Managing Director of PHD Australia his role was focused on new business and developing the agency product. Over his time in this role PHD Australia more than quadrupled in size, won agency of the year four times, expanded to Melbourne and became regarded as one of Australia’s best media agencies. Before joining PHD Toby held a number of roles across the media industry including leadership positions in media owner and technology businesses in various countries.

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Mohit Lodha is the Regional Director of Human Experience at Starcom Mediavest Dubai.

With around 16 years of experience of working in media, Mohit is a creative professional who’s worked with a multitude of clients across markets like UK, USA & now Middle East. He’s responsible for driving agency’s product and creative thinking across the agency. He has won over 50 international advertising awards in his tenure at SMG which has translated to him being part of SMG’s Global product committee which is tasked with judging best in class work across the network.

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James Sallows has over fifteen years’ experience in the market research sector and began the role of Chief Insights Officer at IPG Mediabrands in April 2016. James is responsible for growing, developing and refining the IPG Mediabrands Insights division and ultimately enhancing the value offered to existing and new clients.  Prior to joining IPG Mediabrands, James spent three years as Managing Director, Europe at global data collection company, Schlesinger Associates, where he oversaw a diverse range of Schlesinger businesses across consumer, B2B and healthcare research.  In his time with the company James doubled the size of their European business through acquisition and organic growth. Before joining Schlesinger Associates, he was also SVP, Global Research Excellence at Ipsos ASI, where he was responsible for the deployment of a variety of research methods, as well as holding global and regional roles with eight years at both Lightspeed Research and the Kantar Group.

Lee joined OMD in 2007 and has been an integral part of their growth and product development, gaining experience across multiple categories and disciplines.  “Working in an industry that has evolved dramatically over the last 20 years has been incredible.  Every day we face new challenges and it’s through applying creativity, talent and the wealth of data and technology that motivates me today – ultimately to drive better results for clients.’  His 10 years’ experience prior to OMD was gained in local market planning and this, combined with winning several M&M awards with his client teams, provides a valuable and holistic point of view of what it takes to be a successful M&M global winner.

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With over 20 years’ experience in the industry, Andrew has been with OMD since November 2007 and been fortunate to work with some of New Zealand’s biggest organisations including Air New Zealand, Frucor Beverages, Lion Breweries and Fonterra.

Andrew is a passionate advocate for the role of media agencies in developing communication solutions that deliver superior business results.

He sits on the group responsible for the on-going development of the NZ Media Awards (The Beacons) and in 2013 was a judge at Cannes International Festival of Creativity.

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Jeremy Clark is Managing Director EMEA of MEC’s recently launched content offer, MEC Wavemaker.

He is responsible for the strategic development and growth of the offer across the region, its integration within MEC, and the effective delivery of services to clients globally to locally.

He has over 20 years’ experience in the marketing, media and PR industry, and has advised a wide range of leading brands.

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Ben Jankowski is a Senior Vice President, Global Media at Mastercard.  In this role, he is responsible for managing the Mastercard investment in marketing communications.  This includes working with Mastercard’s global, regional and local marketing teams as well as agency partners to drive engagement and preference among MasterCard’s core constituents. Under his leadership, Mastercard’s media investment has helped drive business success, won multiple awards and created over $200 million in incremental value for the organization.

Having worked for many ad agency networks such as Omnicom, WPP, and Havas, Ben has a vast experience with helping drive business success of some of the world’s leading marketers such as Chase, Citibank, Dell, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Pepsico, Procter & Gamble, and Xerox. He has won numerous awards for this work around the world.  In addition, Ben serves as an industry leader including currently serving as the Chairman- Media Forum, World Federation of Advertisers, a member of the Media Policy Committee of the Association of National Advertisers, Jury Chairman for the M&M Awards, Europe’s largest communications awards program this fall. He is also a frequent speaker on industry topics at conventions and media.

Ben is passionate about the industry and committed to helping it’s strong future through teaching the next generation of communications professionals.  He lectures periodically around the industry and is an Adjunct Professor at Temple University.

Ben holds a B.A. in Communications from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.  He lives in Holland, Pennsylvania with his wife Brenda.  They are blessed to have two daughters; Kathryn and Alexandra.

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Dan Calladine is the Head of Media Futures at Carat Global Management.  He has worked within the media industry for over twelve years, tracking online and offline media trends and effectiveness.  He has been interviewed in the news media including on BBC Radio 4, the Financial Times, Campaign and the Guardian.

He has presented at many conferences including DMEXCO in Germany, IAB Interact in Spain, Login in Lithuania, and for The World Media Group in the UK.

Presentations include Next Generation Media on Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/NextGenerationMedia

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Charlotte White has 20  years’ of industry experience at global, regional and local levels including a three-year spell in China. She has worked across a variety of sectors and brands including MasterCard, Microsoft, Bacardi, Renault and Philips.

Charlotte joined Carat two years ago to lead Global Strategy on MasterCard and is also responsible for developing and delivering Carat’s “Building Trust in the Digital Economy” initiative.

Before Carat, Charlotte was at UM where she headed up led Comms Planning for EMEA, developed central strategies for clients and helped guide local markets on strategy development.   In 2008 she was named a ‘Global Innovator of the Year’ by The Internationalist magazine.

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Joern Solfrian has been in the media and communications industry for over 16 years with a wealth of experience in the FMCG sector and an impressive client list including Mars, P&G, Mondelez, Henkel, Beiersdorf and The Coca-Cola Company.

Joern has been with the Carat Global Network for 9 years holding leading strategy positions in our Hamburg, Frankfurt and Istanbul Offices. In Istanbul he was responsible for building the strategy department, as well as leading various emerging market projects.

Before joining Carat, Joern was responsible for the main FMCG accounts of advertising agencies like Grey and DDB and later joined Jung von Matt’s creative department. In 2010 he took a year off to go travelling and sailing.

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Lone Thomsen has over 15 years of industry experience at a global, regional and local level, working in various roles over time including Comms Planner, Creative Director and Strategy Director. She has worked across a variety of sectors and brands, including General Mills, Cadbury Stimorol, Xbox, plus Coca-Cola. Recently joining Carat, she now works as Global Strategy Partner leading Global Connections Planning on Mondelez Chocolate.

Before joining Carat, Thomsen was at UM where she worked closely with Coca-Cola to deliver strategic direction for some of their most iconic campaigns, including their global activity around the FIFA World Cup. She also headed up the EMEA region building the connections planning capabilities and driving best practice across markets.

Thomsen’s experience does not just sit within agency, she also has worked client side heading up marketing and PR at MTV in Denmark; along with a secondment to Coca-Cola connections planning in Europe.

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Dominic Chambers has 25 years’ experience marketing some of the World’s top brands. After graduating from Lancaster University, he started his career in the drinks industry working for Seagram responsible for Chivas Regal, The Glenlivet & Martel among other. Dominic launched the Japanese retail chain Uniqlo into the UK back in 2001 – which established it as a global player.

He also was head of brand and marketing communications at Vodafone UK, responsible for all aspects of communication, sponsorship activation and driving the digital agenda. More recently he has moved into automotive initially as marketing director for Audi UK and now as head of global digital marketing for Jaguar Land Rover, responsible for the global content delivery for all J&LR websites and all social media channels & content.

Dominic lives in Barnes west London, is married to Janet, has three Children and enjoys cycling.

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With 20 years of experience in marketing and advertising, he has a track record of creating innovative work using digital media and technology. He has an expertise in leading teams to deliver multi-discipline marketing plans across the modern communications mix, achieving brand and direct response objectives across both traditional and digital media. He is also driven by nurturing and developing talent to improve marketing capability in organisations, and to create future marketing leaders.

Paul is passionate about marrying the left-brain science of digital technologies with the right-brain art of creativity to create unique marketing collaborations that surprise and delight consumers. Recent examples include the multi-awarded Brandon Generator online crowd-sourced interactive drama curated by Edgar Wright, a unique film collaboration with Gorillaz to celebrate Internet Explorer, and the creation of the world’s largest Surface tablet device in Trafalgar Square.

Paul is also Chairman of ISBA (Institute of British Advertisers), has been recognised in Vision 100 (Marketing Week, 2016) and Hot 100 Digital Marketers (British Interactive Media Association, 2015), and was awarded Marketer of the Year (2011). He is a sponsor and mentor at the Marketing Academy, supporting the development of emerging new talent in the industry.

Paul is a Board Trustee for Punchdrunk, the leaders in immersive theatre (The Drowned Man, London & Sleep No More, New York). He is also a Board member of the Featured Artist Coalition (FAC), who campaign for the protection of UK performers’ & musicians’ rights in the digital space.

Most importantly of all, Paul leads a busy family life in Brighton with his wife Marie, and two young daughters Sophie & Lily.

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Hannah is responsible for managing the relationships of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter amongst other key digital entities with the agency as well as sourcing the pipeline of next future partnerships across technology and media through collaborations with Venture Capitalists Firms. She has previously worked at MediaCom as Director of Digital Operations, running product development and infrastructure change initiatives to ensure our markets and clients are equipped and advancing their processes and practices at a common pace to ensure consistency and best in class digital offerings. Hannah joined us from Mindshare where she worked in the same capacity and comes to MediaCom with a deep understanding of the GroupM and WPP family companies.

Hannah studied her Bachelor degree in Economics Management and Public Policy at Murdoch University in Western Australia, moving from Australia to make the UK her home in 1999. Named in Campaign magazines Faces to Watch in 2009 she is a dedicated achiever focused on driving her career forward through the success of her clients.

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Fredrik joined as CEO of OMD in December 2015. OMD is the leading and most vibrant and dynamic agency in the Sweden. By being fully integrated and with an agile and innovative culture OMD has increased in size by over 80% in the last four years. Fredrik is not new to the Omnicom family, he joined from sister agency PHD where he was Managing Director for over five years. He is recognised as having successfully established PHD as one of the leading and fastest growing media agencies in Sweden, awarded “Agency of Year”. Prior to that he headed the OMG insight department where he capitalized on his deep passion for understanding consumer behaviour and analysing media effectiveness in the new media landscape. Fredrik holds a master in marketing from the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Sarah graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and Communication degree. She began a law career in London but jumped into the world of advertising within a year.  14 years later she hasn’t looked back.

Working in a full service agency account team opened Sarah’s eyes to media and she moved to a UK planning role with P&G. A focus on communications and data planning helped numerous brands grow digital presence.

Sarah then moved to a global planning role  to work with Unilever, Hertz, Trip advisor and Amazon.  Brands of this calibre deepened her insight into clients’ needs as well as wants. She delivered operational consistency and planning excellence across EMEA.

Sarah is now at OMD International managing the PepsiCo business across EMEA. She is guiding PepsiCo’s brands to organisational transformation, digital ambition and business growth.

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Alex joined Newscred in 2015 to head up the Global Marketing Solutions – a team of US-and UK-based content marketing strategists and consultants, responsible for establishing and nurturing strategic partnerships with the world’s biggest brands..

In his previous role, Alex worked for Outbrain where he built and led the global sales team, helping establish the company as a global leader in native advertising.  He then moved into a strategy role to help global brands (Red Bull, P&G, HSBC, Coke) deliver multi-market content marketing activations.

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Bernhard Glock founded the Bernhard Glock Media Leadership Company LLC in 2009 focusing on strategic media consultancy and business development. Until September 30, 2009 he worked as Vice President Global Media and Communication and Vice President Global Media Purchases at Procter & Gamble where he was responsible for leading and advancing P&G’s marketing communication and media purchases best practices. Since January 2011 he joined the advisory and business development company Medialink LLC as senior partner.

Glock joined P&G in 1985 in Germany where he continually advanced within the company worldwide. Glock was a passionate advocate in P&G’s move toward holistic communication planning. Glock was also a pioneer in involving purchases in P&G’s media negotiations and enhancing consumer marketing return on investment (ROI). His latest pioneering responsibility was to re-organize Media at P&G and establish dedicated Media Purchases and Media Planning and Operations organizations.

Today he works as a consultant with major advertisers, agency networks, broadcasters and associations in the US and International. His current entrepreneurial initiative is an innovative market shifting media solution that brings together breakthrough emerging companies and established businesses in media and marketing communications. He is chairman of the UK based media barter company Miroma and is in the advisory board of DataXU (real time bidding and ad optimization, Boston), TheTMSway (global telco free gateway to mobile marketing, HongKong), Adpulse (breakthrough technology harnessing media solution, Bangalore/NY) and Modiv Media (leading mobile shopper marketing solution, Boston).
Glock was the chairman of the Media Committee of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) for 6 years and Deputy President of the WFA for 2 years. For the past 4 years he has served as President of the WFA. His head office is in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Final Jury

Mobbie is a highly experienced digital and marketing strategy specialist, working with global brands for over 14 years. As Chief Strategy Officer at global agency We Are Social she oversees social strategies for clients such as Google, HSBC, Lenovo and Netflix with a focus on championing the role of social thinking to drive business value. Previously at Digitas, Fishburn Hedges and JWT she has a background which spans digital, PR, advertising, and social media channels and a passion for developing integrated brand planning approaches.

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One of our agency strategy leads at Havas Media, Armin always offers fresh perspective on how to meet consumer needs through media and technology. Here at Havas Media, Armin leads all strategy for our Boston and San Francisco offices. Armin’s career has spanned over 16 years across a number of global agencies, both digital and traditional. Before joining Havas Media, Armin was the director of digital media and planning for One to One Interactive. With a deep bench of Financial Services, Travel and Retail clients, Armin has developed a deep understanding of best-in-class eCommerce and the complementing analytics/attribution strategies. Earlier in his career at Publicis Groupe’s, Digitas, Armin was the global digital strategic lead for Procter & Gamble’s Oral Care business, including Crest Toothpaste, Oral-B Toothbrushes and Crest Whitestrips.

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Passionate about the convergence of media, digital, data and technology, Joshua leads Digital Strategy & Innovation in the U.S across all of UM’s accounts. Joshua brings a unique global perspective to UM’s clients, having worked in senior digital roles not just in the U.S., but also while living in China, Europe and Australia.  His clients have included Hershey’s, Unites States Postal Service, Zurich Insurance, ExxonMobil, Walmart, Bloomin’ Brands, and Procter & Gamble.

Driven by applying innovation to deliver real business results, Joshua is there to help clients lean into future opportunities – but always in a meaningful and scalable way. An approach honed while working at Ernst & Young, and refined after completing his MBA.

Throughout his career, he has worked on all slides of the media industry, including technology, internet, broadcast, publishing, from corporate finance and advisory, to media planning and investment.  His vast industry knowledge and depth of experience gives Joshua the ability to comfortably move from strategy to the nuts and bolts of how technology and data can be architected to deliver the right end result.

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During a career spanning almost 20 years across India and Middle East, Suvi has managed client relationships across numerous categories including FMCG, Telecommunications, Automotive, Banking, Luxury, Personal Care, Leisure, Travel and Retail.

C.V. Suvi leads Strategy for Zenith across MENA championing the network’s Live ROI! approach. Suvi works with local and regional clients to help drive their communications strategies and plays a key role in the business development in MENA. He is also part of the ZenithOptimedia’s global product taskforce to evolve the overall communications planning product.

Suvi also helped to launch Newcast, one of the largest content agencies in the Middle East. He leads a team of content specialists across the region generating non-core revenue and delivering award-winning work for its clients across MENA.

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Sonja is a media professional with over 10 years in the business working at Starcom and ZenithOptimedia. She currently works as a Business Director at Starcom Sweden with a passion for great product and creating meaningful experiences for people, client and team. She is also involved in driving the digital- and datadriven transformation of Starcom and the media business.

Her client experience ranges from Samsung, Mondelelz, Heineken, Puma and Electrolux. Being passionated about great and meaningful campaigns, she has also been working as a Nordic Head of Strategy within Starcom Nordics and involved in elevating and celebrating strategies and ideas on a global level within Starcom Mediavest Group.

Sonja lives in Stockholm with her family and loves skiing and horseback-riding.

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Spending the last decade working in social media covering social advertising, content and public relations, Renée has holistic perspective about how to bring content to life for consumers in a way that makes them take notice. She currently leads MediaCom’s Worldwide Paid Social team with an incredible roster of global social brands including P&G, Sony, eBay, Shell, Audi, Dell and EY. The team’s approach to social media is grounded in systems thinking, integrating all marketing content and connections, and is recognised as industry leading with recent M&M Global Award and Social Buzz Award wins. Renée is an active member of the Cityparents Mentoring scheme and a founding member of a Lean In circle in North London.

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Prior to moving to London to cover the General Manager EMEA role, Massimo managed the Southern European operation for StickyADS.tv as Country Manager Italy and Spain.

He began his career in the advertising agency industry with managerial roles at JWT, Lowe and BBDO, and in 2000 became Country Manager of Engage – a leading US digital performance media and marketing platform. Massimo left Engage in 2003 to launch a digital consultancy service supporting UK and US companies such as Enpocket, Mirago and Accipiter, developing their sales operations in Southern European markets. In 2007 he launched aQuantive Italy, and following its acquisition he moved to Microsoft Advertising Italy to cover the roles of Digital Solutions Director and Sales Director, and later became Atlas Business Director for the EMEA region. Massimo left Microsoft in 2013 to join StickyADS.tv.

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Ms Lim Shoo Ling has in January 2016 taken on the role of Director Brand, managing the Singapore tourism destination brand and all brand communication across markets. In her previous capacity as Director, Strategic Marketing & Brand, she managed the Singapore tourism destination brand, STB’s marketing budgets and global agency contracts, and cultivation of multi-faceted strategic partnerships that extend across regions, industries and functions. Under her leadership, notable projects included partnerships with Changi Airport Group and Singapore Airlines, Trip Advisor, Mastercard, and the Golden Jubilee campaign to celebrate Singapore’s 50th anniversary.

Ms Lim has amassed some sixteen years of experience with the Singapore Tourism Board. Over the years, her responsibilities have spanned tourism development, strategic partnerships, planning and resource management for international markets and marketing, brand management, and destination marketing and tactical initiatives to drive visitors’ arrivals and expenditure.

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Greg is responsible for global revenue, music, and leads Shazam’s global sales teams.  Prior to Shazam, he was Global CRO for digital advertising technology company Undertone where he oversaw sales, planning, partnerships, ad ops, marketing, and all of EMEA operations.

Prior to that, Greg spent 18 years at Clear Channel Media & Entertainment (now known as iHeartMedia), where he was most recently President of the Clear Channel Connections business unit. In that role, he led ad sales strategy for all large advertisers across local, mobile, digital, network, live events, venues, and branded content, and was responsible for developing award-winning integrated strategies across all Clear Channel Media & Entertainment assets. During his tenure at Clear Channel, Greg held a wide variety of leadership roles around the U.S.  He was named to the “Mediaweek 50” list of innovative advertising executives.

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With more than 20 years of industry experience, Brent Lux serves as Executive Vice President/Managing Director, overseeing business development and product at Mediavest | Spark. Brent’s role is multifaceted in that it allows him the privilege of leading both strategy and product development across a wide variety of client and strategy teams. His approach to client objectives often pushes traditional media boundaries in order to deliver tangible results and add new dimensions to existing partnerships.

Brent is also a pivotal component in the pursuit of new client partnerships within the agency, having been credited with leading many of Mediavest | Spark’s new business wins. In addition to this, since joining what was then just Spark in 2012, Brent has helped take what was an agency with nearly no measurement, to one of the top 10 agencies in the world in terms of growth and product recognition.

Brent often draws upon his experience with a range of categories including pharma and QSRs, in order to continue developing innovative media strategies and new business success stories. When asked about his unique leadership style, Brent credits the trust he has in his colleagues and his hands off approach, which allows team members to make certain projects their own.In addition, Brent firmly believes that if Mediavest | Spark stays true to its culture, there is no doubt the company will lead the industry in becoming the true agency of the future.

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Mario D’Andrea is the CCO and Presidente of Dentsu Brasil since Feb/2014. Clients’ portfolio includes: Toyota, Canon, Ajinomoto, Nissin and others.

As a copywriter he worked for large agencies such as FCB, Loducca and Lowe.

D’Andrea was president of JWT Brasil and placed the agency among the most creative agencies in the country. In 2008, he also began to integrate JWT Global Creative Council.

Also in 2008, he was chosen the Best Creative Director in Brazil at El Ojo Ibero-America. He coordinated HSBC communication in Latin America and has great cases for Coca-Cola, Ford, J&J, Kraft, among others. In 2010 he was the Creative Professional of the Year for the Caboré Award by Meio&Mensagem  (Brazilian AdAge).

He was a juror at Cannes in three editions: 2006, 2012 and 2013.

As a creative director, has won the N. York Festival, Gold at the London Festival, Grand Prix at Fiap and 14 Cannes Lions.

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Thomas Jamet graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences Po). He started his career as Strategic Planner with Carat. In 2004, he contributed to the creation of Deepblue, the consulting entity of Aegis Media before joining in 2006 the Publicis Group through the launching of ReLoad, the first consulting and communication planning integrated agency in France.

He then took on the role as Manager of the strategic planning and research departments of ZenithOptimedia and Starcom.  In 2009, he was appointed General Manager of Newcast, the Brand Content and production entity of Vivaki (Publicis).

Following this experience, Thomas co-founded Moxie, (Publicis Group) that he was heading up from 2012 to 2014. He was managing a team of 60 talents working for clients such as L’Oréal, Ralph Lauren, HTC, Chloé, Renault, Intermarché, Swaroski etc. Moxie has received numerous awards such as Cannes Lions, Grand Prix du Brand Content, MIDEM and Grand Prix des Stratégies du Luxe.

Thomas was appointed CEO, Mediabrands France in February 2015.

Since 2011 Thomas Jamet is also the head of the Brand Content and Innovation Committee of the Udecam (professional association of French media buying and consulting firms)

In addition, he is a regular guest speaker at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences and he is the writer of two essays related to Brand Content.

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Agnieszka Kosik successfully manages MediaCom Warsaw for 13 years. She started her career at Optimum Media in 1993. Since 2008, when Agnieszka became the CEO, MediaCom 4 times won the title of Media House of the Year and over 100 media awards (Effie, Media Trends/Innovation AD, Mixx Awards, KREATURA and others). Under her leadership, agency grew nearly 3-times. Year by year MediaCom is also getting higher in RECMA ranking.

Agnieszka confirmed her competences by completed MBA Business School at Warsaw University of Technology, Academy of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and prestigious courses at London Business School.

Agnieszka is responsible for create the company’s strategy and ensures its position and image. She supports the agency team at pitches. Is governed by a strong, feminine hand, without losing the sense humor and great contact with co-workers. It is an excellent example of a manager who combines work with being a full-time mom. Shw also supports women in business – attending to Lean in meetings , as a mentor at the Foundation of Business Leaders. Agnieszka was also frequently invited as a speaker at prestigious meetings industry, including EFFNI 2014, Women’s Leadership, Think with Google Partners and others. As the first woman in the industry Agnieszka was awarded in the AdMan 2013. In 2015 was titled as BusinessWoman of the Year 2015 by Sukces Pisany Szminka and Forbes magazine and AdMan 2015. Privately, in addition to marketing and advertising interests, her passion is folk dancing.

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Tom has been MD at independent media agency Total Media for 4 years. During his time with Total Media he has worked across a variety of roles from an international media planner and buyer to heading up the agency’s insight team. Tom is an extremely curious person and enjoys looking beyond the industry for inspiration and applying what he learns to the agency and its clients business. He is very positive about the future of media, in spite of the record levels of anxiety in the industry, and thinks that agencies have a wonderful opportunity to redefine their roles and contribute more to clients’ growth.

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Stéphane Rydlewski, Creative, Media & Production Manager at Toyota Europe, has over 13 years of managing large scale communication campaigns at an International level. He has been responsible for the development of Toyota brand and communications in Europe for the last 10 years, from strategy to integrated campaigns across 26 European markets; helping shaping Toyota’s new face in Europe and lately guiding Toyota’s approach in sports marketing.

Stéphane puts all his passion and knowledge – brand & communication strategy, visual identity, consumer research & insight, film and video production, creative thinking, social & digital media – to challenge the status quo and engage people through creative & innovative solutions.

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Parry joined what was then The Insert House in 2006 as a sales exec. He has risen relentlessly through the business and today is the Managing Director of Print, heading up the press, inserts, data and print teams, plus i-transact, TSW’s transactional media (digital and print) business.

Parry is responsible for the agency’s expansion into Europe and North America.

When not travelling with work, Parry lives in Kent with his wife and two young children.

He is passionate about helping colleagues develop their careers and clients grow their businesses – two things which ‘complement each other perfectly’.

Final Jury

Nick Hugh is VP, Yahoo EMEA and oversees Yahoo’s business in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He runs teams across the region focused on strategy, sales, account management, operations, media and data acquisition, optimization, video, programmatic and social. His remit covers all performance and brand solutions across all screens and in display and search. Prior to his current role, Nick ran the performance display network and programmatic platforms across EMEA where he was responsible for the business end-to-end.

Nick joined Yahoo in November 2008. Prior to Yahoo, Nick was Director of Publisher Services at the London-based behavioural targeting specialist Phorm Inc. There he was responsible for all supply-based operations and business development to drive the launch of the new business.

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Mike has worked in various roles both client and agency-side building up nearly 20 years’ experience in the process.  Spending over 10 years at Royal Mail he worked across product management, new product development, campaign management and media development.  During this time he worked on some of the first digital campaigns for Royal Mail and the positioning of mail as an advertising medium alongside more conventionally accepted channels.

He spent five years agency-side in Dublin and the UK, where his clients included O2, Philips, Samsung, Centrica, Danone and Green Isle.

For the last three years Mike has been heading up the media planning and buying for Epson across EMEA and, more recently, an expanded role that also encompasses creative and promotions.

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Hanan is Naked’s Head of Data, well known for interrogating the data to confess anything. She designs, leads and project manages cross-cutting data analysis for multiple clients. Previously, at Wunderman, she led analytical projects like churn and pattern analysis for Shell, and she has developed pre-testing and post-campaign measurement for multi-channel campaigns while working for a media owner in Paris for clients such as Unilever, Renault, Nivea, Orange, P&G and Amazon.

Prior, she worked for analytical companies on clients like Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis and Caterpillar on a diversity of projects, including macroeconomics analysis, reporting optimisation, and market audits.

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Francesca (Fran) Brosan is Chairman of Omobono, the global creative and technology agency, a role she’s held since starting the company at her kitchen table with co-founders Ben Dansie and Chris Butterworth in 2001. Splitting her time between Omobono’s offices in Cambridge, London and Chicago, Fran’s focus is now on advising clients on the strategic role that digital communications and technologies can play in strengthening business performance.

Fran was previously a Board Director at consumer ad agency WCRS and Managing Director of B2B specialists, Warman & Bannister.

She is author of Omobono’s award winning research programme ‘What Works Where in B2B Digital Marketing’ and has 3 IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards to her name. She is a BIMA’15 Hot 100 Women in Technology, a Fellow of The Marketing Society and most recently the winner of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

As mother of four daughters Fran has a particular interest in promoting women in the workplace and in encouraging young people into the creative industries.

Shortlisting Jury

With more than 16 years of experience working in media across the globe, Emma is a seasoned professional who has helped some of the world’s largest brands grow and transform. At Initiative, she’s responsible for overseeing the strategy for some of the agency’s largest clients, including MillerCoors, Serta Simmons Bedding, Boeing and Massachusetts Financial Services. She also plays a lead role in developing and refining Initiative’s national strategic product.

Previously head of planning at Leo Burnett, Emma was responsible for reinventing the agency’s strategic product for the connected age. Also heavily involved in client work, she oversaw the creation and architecture of effective brand ecosystems for existing clients, including Diageo, McDonalds, Samsung, Canon and Woolworths, an Australian supermarket chain. She led a team of 20 handpicked, cross-discipline strategic experts across brand, digital, shopper, data & CRM, communications, media, social and content disciplines.

Emma previously held various leadership roles at Starcom Mediavest Group in Chicago and Sydney, Australia, culminating at a Global Product Director role. During her tenure at SMG, she drove innovative marketing solutions for clients like Mondelez, P&G, Coca-Cola, Samsung and Sony.

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Aurora is the Digital Communication Manager for Alfa Romeo and Jeep ® in the EMEA Region, the two “premium” (and “love”) brands of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), the world’s 7th-largest player in the automotive business.

Since 2010 her role focuses on developing all Consumer Engagement digital solutions through the different phases of the Customer Journey, through the development of new product Launch Campaigns, Social Media activations and Brand Promotion projects, localized in all FCA markets within the Europe Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) perimeter.

Driven by her strong curiosity and dynamic attitude, during her career path she ranged from finance to unconventional and tribal marketing, spending +10 years exploring the infinite opportunities of the WEB on diverse projects (8 of them award-winners) and sectors (dairy, exhibition services, fashion, food, no-profit, recruitment, automotive) to fine tune her natural tendency to think out-of-the-box, her flexibility and capability to reach the goal set and her will to prove herself in always new contexts and challenges.

Beside, during University she collected working experiences from Europe to Australia, to the USA to Bangkok (TH). As a result, her multidisciplinary vision and not-ordinary approach naturally became her personal “trademark”.

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Tim Flattery is the North American Managing Partner at MEC’s newly launched content division..MEC  Wavemaker.

Tim brings 20 years of advertising experience and an accomplished track record as a pioneer in engagement marketing to the role, having recently served as Chief Innovations Officer at MEC Australia where he was responsible for the oversight of its range of diversified services (brand experiences, activations, branded content, sponsorships and new technologies).

He also has a successful track record in branded content financing in the television industry, having created and sold over $75 million worth of brand-funded content projects (including 60 episodes of network television), co-created a $40 million branded entertainment project for Baz Luhrmann’s movie, ‘Australia’, and developed the award-winning marketing content series, Marketing Dividends, produced by MEC in partnership with the AANA.

Prior to joining MEC, he lived and worked in Los Angeles, where he was the VP of Development at Grainey Pictures, delivering branded content and interactive IPTV platforms for clients including Google Labs, ABC Television, Old Navy and Nike/Win Forever. He also co-founded the industry’s first social forecasting agency Pophouse and co-authored the popular innovation book, Ideas Generation.

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Kumar Manix is the Founder and Creative Director of The Spaceship, a brand activation agency that is based in Sydney and works globally.

He specializes in blending the creative and the commercial with an entrepreneurial flair, and brings to each project a deep level of strategic thinking and industry knowledge honed by years of experience working with blue chip brands.

Kumar has lead a wide range of high profile campaigns for his clients (including Microsoft, Foxtel, Samsung, Intel, Coca Cola and Adobe) and achieved enormous success, driving millions of dollars worth of earned media and inspiring epic levels of fan engagement.

As a marketer, his campaigns have seen him collaborate with some of the greatest storytellers in the world including Oprah, the BBC, Disney and Marvel.

Through his innovative use of video to drive engagement, Kumar has taken fans on numerous adventures to thrilling places, such as 100,000 ft. into the sky on a space balloon, leaping off a building with Lara Croft and driving at 280 km/h in a racing car with The Stig.

His passion for technology and fan engagement has also seen him put his money where his mouth is, and he recently established two start-ups: an artist-based fan engagement platform called Clyppin and a social fundraising platform called Movement.

Through his work in Australia, Asia and the US, he has proven that great marketing ideas can deliver business impact.

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Katie Field was appointed Viant’s UK MD in December 2014. Katie is responsible for delivering Viant’s position as a unique complete cloud-based advertising technology platform to the UK market.

Katie was previously Vice President of EU Operations at Vindico, a Viant Company, and was responsible for launching operations of the leading Video Adserver and Video DSP in the US, into the European markets. Prior to moving over to the Vindico arm of Viant in January 2014, Katie spent over ten years at Specific Media.

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Karol is a Senior Marketing Manager within the Global Marketing team at HSBC, based in Canary Wharf, London. Beginning her career with HSBC 9 years ago, Karol has worked across Sponsorship, Advertising, Media and Marketing Operations for the bank. Prior to HSBC, she held positions at Natwest, Barclays and L&G, across in-branch, treasury and insurance.

As a well-rounded marketeer, Karol has a very holistic and passionate view on HSBC’s marketing efforts and has been at the leadership of some of the global department’s big operational changes. In particular, Karol led the development of a new planning, briefing and deployment framework across HSBC’s local marketing teams and respective agencies.  Karol is currently working across media planning and operations and embedding agility within the function.

Karol graduated with a B.A. hons in Marketing and Advertising from the renowned University of the Arts, London. She lives in Essex with her husband and young daughter.

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A leader in the marketing field, Henry was the first and now longest serving member of the LinkedIn EMEA team. He joined the company in 2008 and leads the Marketing Solutions business in UK, DACH and ES which helps marketers identify, target and engage with world’s professionals.

Prior to LinkedIn Henry was the European General Manager for Europe at Vibrant Media helping to establish and grow the business in the region.

Henry holds a degree in Geography from University of Bristol, and is a well-respected leader in the world of marketing.

He lives in Surrey with his wife and four children and has recently added a dog to the family! He’s also an avid sports fan and keen cook.

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Henric Ehrenblad is Co-Founder and Chairman of Widespace, a global technology company which makes mobile ads relevant for 240 million people worldwide. Prior to Widespace, Henric spent 13 years at Ericsson in numerous roles across the world – most recently as Director of Business Development, holding roles in America, China and Sweden.

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Brian is chief creative officer at OLIVER Group for the UK, with unparalled expertise that spans above-the-line and digital.

Inspired by CP Snow, Brian sees it as his role to help clients bridge the gap that can exist between the scientific and creative aspects of marketing. With technology and data playing an ever greater role in communications, his focus is on harnessing these twin powerhouses to traditional creative craft to deliver superb customer experience.

With a career that has taken in BBH, McCann-Erickson, Mother, Wieden + Kennedy, and Ogilvy, Brian is a multi-award-winning creative with experience working on brands including Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, MasterCard, Barclays, Lynx and Audi. He most recently worked at Apple as head of creative and strategy EMEA, advising CMOs and agencies on marketing on mobile platforms. He is a regular commentator on the latest mobile developments.

Brian is married with two young daughters, Daisy and Hannah, who he freely admits are way ahead of him technologically.

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Anna Foot (VP Advertising Sales EMEA) is responsible for multi-media advertising sales in the EMEA region for Dow Jones’ global portfolio of consumer products and publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and, MarketWatch.com.  She leads sales teams based in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Dubai and provides innovative and creative solutions for clients across a range of platforms.

Ms. Foot was previously with Bloomberg, where she worked in a range of sales and marketing roles including Head of European Advertising Sales for Bloomberg Television and Head of Broadcast and Digital Sales, EMEA.  In her previous role, She was most recently Head of Financial Client Sales for EMEA, where she was responsible for leading the financial client and agency cross-platform sales teams.

Ms. Foot started her career with EMAP, before moving on to Euromoney where she managed European Projects.

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Andy has been a Strategy Partner at MEC for over 2 years, in that time he has created award-winning work for Activision and Paramount. As well as strategic planning and ideation for MEC’s clients across the region he is also Creative Director for MEC’s Team GE based in London.

Before MEC, Andy worked for 5 years as Executive Director for Strategy and Creativity at OMD International, helping to create successful campaigns and platforms for clients across multiple categories, notably with Google and Sony.

Prior to agency-world, Andy was Head of Content and Digital for Sony PlayStation UK for 4 years, helping shape a loved and respected brand creating iconic digital and TV content. His first proper-job was creating interactive entertainment and programming for AOL, when people had modems and screamed at people not to make a phone-call.

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Nicole Armstrong, Associate Strategy Director on Nike, has over 8 years of experience helping leading international organisations bring their brand(s) to life with purpose and cultural relevance. She leverages her in-depth knowledge of digital experience planning and integrated brand strategy to help R/GA’s client partners move into the connected age – imagining new futures of their business and consumer relationships.

Nicole, who has been with R/GA since 2015, had previously been at M&C Saatchi for 4 years. During her time there, she developed the integrated strategy to rebrand Virgin Holidays with Unleash Your Mojo and helped Peroni reimagine what a beer brand could be through the creation of The House of Peroni. Prior to that she worked at Blast Radius and Critical Mass helping industry leading brands like Starbucks, Dolce&Gabbana, Budweiser, AT&T and Panasonic.

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Cameron Worth is the founder of London-based IoT agency SharpEnd (www.sharpendagency.com) whose clients include Absolut Vodka, Unilever, Beiersdorf and Pernod Ricard. With previous roles including Engine Group and EVRYTHNG Cameron has been heavily involved in building some of the UK’s most exciting tech businesses but has also benefited from working agency-side to help support their clients in understanding and embracing new technology opportunities. Cameron founded SharpEnd to combine these two experience-sets to provide brands with an effective partner as they explore and embrace the Internet of Things to create genuine connections with consumers.

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Here’s a brief profile : Basant Rathore is the Sr VP, Strategic Planning, Brand and Business Development at Jagran Group. In his earlier stint on the Media Planning side of the business, he has worked at agencies like Ogilvy, Mudra, Mindshare and Madison where he’s planned and bought media for leading brands across diverse categories ranging from Chocolates to Automobiles. An alumnus of the Shri Ram College of Commerce and a first batch pass out of MICA, he has conducted numerous workshops for working professionals and has taught Media Management at MICA for over 10 years as a visiting faculty. Has been with the Jagran group for the last 12 years. Under him, brand Dainik Jagran has emerged as the most awarded newspaper brand in India for a range of consumer engagement initiatives with several award wins at INMA, WAN IFRA, Effies, Abbys, INK, ACEF and WOW.

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Cristian Citu is based at DHL’s global headquarters from where he’s managing digital marketing programs as a mix of strategic brand initiatives and lead generation campaigns. Before focusing on digital, Cristian had various global marketing roles for DHL in areas such as brand management, sponsorship or hr-marketing and he also spent time in Singapore for the Asia Pacific regional office. He joined the yellow logistics giant after a few years in consulting, where he worked with a wide range of customers from industries like IT, telecom, automotive, pharma or retail. Follow him sharing insights on digital transformation at @TheChiefDigital and www.chief.digital

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Marketing professional with 10 years of FMCG brand marketing at Proctore & Gamble and 3+ years of corporate branding at Hitachi, covering more than 10 countries in Asia Pacific, stationed in Japan and Singapore.

Have vast range of experience and mastery on branding and its marketing, from upstream work of landscape assessment / business model development to campaign, marketing & promotion planning.

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Ukonwa Ojo is a passionate marketer and proven business leader with over 18 years of experience. She was named to Marketing Magazine’s Power 100 list of the most influential, inspiring, and innovative marketers and Black Enterprise’s list of the top women in advertising and marketing. She is a Senior Global Director for Knorr, Unilever’s largest and the world’s 8th most chosen FMCG brand, with annual sales of over €4 Billion.

Prior to this role, she was the Head of Global Brand Equity for portfolio of Durex and KY brands at Reckitt Benckiser. Her leadership resulted in global revenue and market share growth, as well as external business and creative recognition. She led “Connect” and “Turn Off to Turn On” campaigns that both ranked as the #1 viral ad in the world during their respective campaign periods. Both global campaigns were externally recognized with numerous creative and business awards. Also at Reckitt Benckiser, she led the repositioning and turnaround of the French’s portfolio of products, including the world’s #1 mustard brand.  Before joining Reckitt Benckiser, she worked at General Mills, where she successfully led iconic brands such as Betty Crocker, Progresso, Honey Nut Cheerios, and Cascadian Farm Organic.

Ukonwa holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina.

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Kristen Colonna has been appointed to Chief Strategy Officer at OMD USA, where she previously led Global Strategy for some of Omnicom’s largest clients, and has been providing thought leadership and innovative communication strategy to the U.S. office in her previous role as Managing Director, East. As CSO, Kristen will align OMD agency capabilities to key client business challenges, delivering tangible business growth and transforming the value OMD delivers to its clients. Kristen will ensure the best in class strategy and innovative media execution OMD is known for, continues and expands.

An avid mentor, Kristen is one of the key champions for VISION, OMD’s global operating system. She is responsible for inspiring and teaching all U.S. employees to leverage VISION thinking and philosophy to deliver business growth and groundbreaking Insights, Ideas and Results for OMD’s clients.

Passionate about innovation with impact, Kristen is the North American Lead for OMD Light, a global committee focused on identifying, mentoring and preparing OMD’s best global work for industry awards and recognition across Festival of Media, Effie, and Cannes and others.  Kristen is most proud of the business driving and award winning work her teams have delivered across the PepsiCo portfolio, helping media become a leading driver of business growth, while also delivering unparalleled media creativity recognized by Effie, OMMA and Cannes.

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Noam’s passion and focus for over 15 years has been to drive the adoption of new digital advertising platforms and technologies.
Currently serves as Vice President of Brand Partnership at Playbuzz – a unique platform that empowers publishers and brands to easily create and distribute content using media formats that are optimized for social sharing and engagement.
Prior to that Noam served as a Director at Zynga leading Zynga’s brand partnerships across EMEA out of Zynga’s London office, which he launched in 2012.
Noam is responsible for many of the most successful campaigns in the industry to date, providing innovative digital marketing solutions to various Fortune 500 companies, winning the Cannes Lion Award for Innovation (adidas, 2007) and the IAB UK Creative Showcase Award (Nike, 2010).
Prior to joining Zynga, Noam co-founded and served as the MD of inPlay Media (acquired by Zynga in 2012). inPlay Media was exclusively representing Sony Playstation’s advertising sales across EMEA.
Prior to inPlay Media Noam served as Vice President of Sales EMEA and as MD EMEA at Double Fusion where he introduced to the market an in-game adverting network that offers ad-serving technology and a network of games.
Prior to joining Double Fusion, Noam lead the European advertising sales team for Ad4ever Interactive Technologies, an ad-serving platform that was acquired by aQuantive Inc. (NASDAQ: AQNT)
Noam is a founding member of the IAB UK Gaming Steering Group and holds a Bachelor degree in Business and a LLB degree in Law from the Interdisciplinary Center.

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Personal profile: Strong integrated marketing communications profile with 10+ years marketing experience with Coca-Cola – strong affinity towards media planning and buying with broader communication development experience, worked in multi-European environment with responsibilities over several markets, matched with outstanding leadership skills on managing agency partners and internal stakeholders and strong communication skills (fluent in English and Hungarian, and good level in German).

Specialties: assets recovery, budgeting, business plans, financial reporting, leadership, lotus notes, management, marketing, marketing communications, media buying, media training, microsoft excel, microsoft powerpoint, microsoft word, negotiation, strategy

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Emma Fraser – your strategic marketer with a creative and insightful mind, she is a strong PR advocate with a real passion for creating and delivering results-oriented initiatives across the business, principally acting on guest behaviour and insights.

Through a genuine belief in the power of relationships and partnerships, Emma ensures all Marketing and PR activities are collective, responsive and market driven. Continually creating multi- channel, integrated and targeted campaigns, whilst managing alignment across brand portfolios, Emma ensures initiatives are always delivered through a guest focused lens.

With 15+ years in Marketing and Communications in the Luxury and Hospitality industry, Emma’s wealth of international experience includes working for major hotel groups such as TFE Hotels, Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, Raffles Hotels & Resorts, Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts and Starwood Hotels after starting her career with InterContinental Hotels Group.

Emma has just launched her own business – Fraser Marketing International – Branding, Marketing and Communications Consultancy, based out of Sydney, Australia but working with clients worldwide.

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Ambitious and entrepreneurial by nature, Jo has always been a high achiever: at 25 she was Head of Group Marketing for a major pub company and by 29 Jo had set up her first business, a turnaround consultancy for underperforming brands and businesses. ZAK has evolved from her first venture into an award-winning independent creative agency. As CEO, Jo is responsible for driving the business forward, hiring and retaining the best talent, ensuring all departments are delivering excellence and seeking out the next growth opportunities for the agency.

ZAK

ZAK is known as agents of change, developing credible brands and commercially effective campaigns for global clients. ZAK is New Balance’s global agency for Football, Lifestyle and PF Flyers. ZAK also has a wide variety of clients from booze clients such as Magners and Gentleman Jack, to the Wellcome Trust, to Sub-Saharan 4G network brands.

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Charlie Gower is Group Head of Research at Insight at Hiscox. Prior to this was a brand planner at Coca-Cola Great Britain.
Charlie has been in Marketing for many years both from the client perspective as well as working as an account planner in advertising both in the UK and USA.