MBC 2022

Biography

Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, an attractively vague job title which has allowed him to co-found a behavioral science practice within the agency.

He works with a consulting practice of psychology graduates who look for ‘unseen opportunities’ in consumer behaviour – these are the often small contextual changes which can have enormous effects on the decisions people make – for instance tripling the sales rate of a call centre by adding just a few sentences to the script. Put another way, lots of agencies will talk about “bought, owned and earned” media: we also look for “invented media” and “discovered media”: seeking out those unexpected (and inexpensive) contextual tweaks that transform the way that people think and act.

It is a hugely valuable activity – but, alas, not particularly lucrative. This is because clients generally do not have budgets for solving problems they did not know they had.

Before founding Ogilvy’s Behavioural Practice, Rory was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988. He has variously been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global. He writes regular columns for the Spectator, Market Leader and Impact, and also occasional pieces for Wired. He is the author of three books: The Wiki Man, available on Amazon (at prices between £1.96 and £2,345.54, depending on whether the algorithm is having a bad day), and the best-selling Alchemy, The surprising Power of Ideas which don’t make Sense, published in the UK and US in May 2019, and, co-written with his former colleague Pete Dyson, the newly released Transport For Humans on the behavioural science of transport.

Rory is married to a vicar and has twin daughters. He lives in the former home of Napoleon III – unfortunately in the attic. He is a trustee of the Benjamin Franklin House in London and a Patron of Rochester Cathedral.

Biography

As Director of Planning at Twitter UK my role is to help brands, organisations and people to get the most out of the most exciting, weird and wonderful communications tool in the world.

Before joining Twitter I was Head of Planning at PHD for 5 years working predominantly on Sainsbury’s, Mondelez and Warner Bros for whom I helped create The LEGO Movie Ad Break, an ad break made entirely from LEGO which won 2 Gold Lions at the Cannes Lions.  

Before PHD I spent 8 years at Mindshare working predominantly on Nike and ITV and I started out at Zenith Media as a press buyer in a time my kids describe as “the 19 somethings”.

I have been involved with the fantastic Media Business Course since 2015, initially as Chair of Judges and currently as Co-chair alongside Karen Stacey and am also Governor for the University of Portsmouth.

Outside of Work I can mostly be found on Twitter and watching my beloved Wolverhampton Wanderers. 

Biography

Karen Stacey is Digital Cinema Media’s CEO, overseeing the transformation of cinema’s role in the modern media mix to raise the medium’s profile and position it as THE BEST SEAT IN MEDIA.

Karen’s business strategy is grounded in the belief that cinema’s core proposition is getting stronger in this cluttered world where growing trust and creating impact for a brand is at a premium. Since joining DCM in 2015 she has successfully created a vision which has repositioned cinema as a lead AV medium, expanding the business to deliver sustainable long-term growth for four consecutive years.

Karen has worked in the media industry for over 25 years, holding senior positions at Bauer Media UK and Channel 4. She is also a member of WACL (Women In Advertising and Communications, London), The Marketing Society, a keen supporter of NABS and a member of The Advertising Association’s Front Foot Committee.

In 2016, Karen was also honoured as one of Ad Age’s Women to Watch Europe and a ‘Top 50 Women in Global Cinema’ by Celluloid Junkie for the last three years. Karen was also shortlisted for ‘CEO of The Year’ at the Female Frontier Awards 2022.

Biography

Karen Blackett OBE, UK Country Manager, WPP & UK CEO, GroupM

Karen Blackett OBE, UK Country Manager for WPP and GroupM UK CEO, is a renowned and proven business leader with a track record in creating vibrant cultures, energising teams and consistently delivering business growth and success.

Named by Vogue as one of the 25 Most Influential and Inspirational Women of 2018 and ranked top of the EMpower 100 Ethnic Minority Executive Leaders list, Karen was appointed the Race Equality Business Champion by the UK Prime Minister in October 2018.  Her recent clients include: Amazon, Barclays, BNY Mellon, Odgers Berndtson, Channel 4 and the Civil Service.

In January of 2018 Karen became the first UK Country Manager for WPP, the world’s largest communications network, overseeing 14,000 people across multiple operating brands. In this role Karen is responsible for delivering growth in WPP’s 2nd largest market, with revenue of $2 billion.

With over 20 years’ experience at the forefront of the media industry, Karen rose to her current positions after an enormously successful period as CEO of MediaCom UK, which saw her in charge of over £1.2 billion of media billings and 1,200 employees.

As CEO, she also oversaw £790 million of new business and the successful capture of the coveted Tesco account, after 23 years with their incumbent agency. This period of growth and success was recognised by industry magazine Campaign, voting MediaCom UK Agency of the Year for an unprecedented two years running in 2013 & 2014.

This was further recognised in 2014 when she was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours for services to Media & Communications, and in 2017 with Campaign Magazine voting Karen the most admired leader in Ad Land.

Karen has driven inclusion as a key contributor to business success in all organisations that she works with. In the 5 years that Karen was CEO of MediaCom, ethnic diversity transformed from 11% to 19%, and women in senior management roles increased to 44%.

In 2015, Karen was appointed as one of only four external advisors to help diversify the Civil Service. In March 2016, Karen served a 2-year term as President of NABS, the advertising industry charity which focuses on health and wellbeing in the workplace and presenting the business case for diversity.

She is also one of 40 Business Ambassadors for the Department of International Trade; Board member for the Creative Industries Federation; Advisory Board member of Hyden Talent; a Non-Exec Director for Creative England and a member of WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications London).

Karen was appointed Chancellor of The University of Portsmouth in January 2017. In 2019, she was appointed as a Trustee of the new Sussex Royal Foundation, and made a non-executive director of the UK Government Cabinet Office.

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Trevor is the Head of Marketing, Global Business Solutions for Europe, leading a function that consists of Creative Lab, B2B Marketing and Comms, Brand Strategy and Creator Monetisation. The team will have people in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Milan and Madrid.

Trevor joined TikTok from Facebook / Instagram, which he joined in 2008 as one of Facebook’s first employees outside of the US. He most recently held the role of Director of Instagram, EMEA, and prior to this held a number of senior global strategic and partnership roles during his Facebook career (which included establishing 14 Facebook offices across the globe, then moving to Facebook’s Global Agency Partnerships function, based in NYC, to manage the strategic global relationships between Facebook and some of its large media and creative agency partners).

Trevor plays an active role in championing diversity and inclusion within the advertising industry, holding advisory roles in a number of organisations in the D&I sector. He is also on the board of Trustees of the Ideas Foundation, a UK based charity.

Biography

Clare Peters, Client Strategy & Comms Partner at Channel 4 leads the client sales strategy and manages it’s dedicated client sales teams within its award-winning Ad Sales division, 4Sales.

Previously Clare was Chief Business Strategist at Manning Gottlieb OMD, working with clients to find new and innovative ways to solve business challenges, boost effectiveness and increase profitability. She has spent 15 years with the media agency where she also held the position of Head of Planning for six years.

Biography

Born in Newport, Wales, Nick graduated from the University of Bristol with a degree in French and Spanish. Joining Saatchi & Saatchi as a graduate trainee, he became managing director nine years later. Nick was one of the nine founders of M&C Saatchi as joint chief executive, became chairman of M&C Saatchi Europe, and opened offices in Paris, Berlin and Madrid. Nick left to found George & Dragon, an ad agency with clients such as HM Government; Kwik Fit; and BAFTA. In 2015, Nick led a management buyout of The Groucho Club becoming chairman there.

In 2021 he joined the AKA Group as Chief Executive. AKA is owned by the Ambassador Theatre Group and specialises in the entertainment sectors, with offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. Clients include ABBA Voyage, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Cabaret, Tina the Musical, Matilda, Pretty Woman, Jerusalem, Sony Pictures, Universal, Disney, Netflix, Apple TV+ and Amazon.

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Liam is one of the Managing Partners of the7stars. He has 21 years of media and marketing experience. Liam joined the7stars in 2005, previous roles included Head of Trading and client Team Lead. Liam is now responsible for driving business growth for clients of the7stars through bringing together specialist teams from TV and Digital to Data, Strategy and Insight.

Biography

Kat is proud to have clocked up 17 years in this wonderful industry across various planning and buying roles, as well as spending time in a full service creative agency. Most of these years have been spent at MG OMD, working in sectors that span Public Sector, Automotive, Beauty, Tech, Travel and FMCG. Last year, she joined the leadership team as Managing Director. A proud member of MEFA, Kat is involved in D&I initiatives both in and outside of the agency and is excited to help create a new dawn of responsible practice in the industry.

Biography

Sally joined Spotify in 2021 as Head of Sales for Northern Europe where she leads the enterprise advertising teams in the UK, Nordics and pan-EMEA, driving the sales strategy and execution for some of the regions top brands and agencies.

Prior to Spotify, Sally held a number of leadership roles over a thirteen-year stint at LinkedIn after joining in 2008 during LinkedIn’s early days, culminating in her final role as Head of Vertical Enterprise Sales where she was responsible for the growth of LinkedIn’s marketing solutions.

Before joining LinkedIn, Sally ran the Commercial Development team for Entertainment at Yahoo!, overseeing key content relationships with film and music companies and securing key commercial partnerships with brands. Sally also was a Category Director at Yahoo! for the Tech & Telco vertical, working with the editorial teams to develop bespoke content to commercialise for the sales team to sell.

Sally began her career in the world of outdoor advertising, convincing notable FMCG brands to use Transport for London’s buses and underground network to market to consumers.

Sally is passionate about culture, diversity and inclusion and helping to develop others. She has been a member of Bloom (a not-for-profit professional women’s network in marketing and communications) since 2017 and was named Bloom President in 2020. In the same year, she was also recognised as a HERoes Top 100 Future Female Leader and IPA’s Inclusivity Trailblazer.

Biography

David brings over 25 years media agency experience to the MBC committee, building communication strategies for some of the UK’s biggest advertisers; including Camelot, Toyota and IKEA.

His agency career includes shifts at Zenith, Initiative, M/Six, Starcom, Carat and iProspect.

In 2017 in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, David founded AdLondonCalling, an industry wide music quiz that raised over £125,000 for the families impacted by the fire.

Currently employed as Chief Strategy Officer at iProspect, he is helping ensure that iProspect offers opportunities for all and better reflects the geographical make up of Britain.

David is a lifelong Wrexham FC fan in exile.

Talk to him about Ryan Reynolds / don’t mention the playoffs.

Biography

Davina Barker is Digital Cinema Media’s (DCM) Sales Director, overseeing the company’s agency sales team to generate new and incremental revenues, as well as developing DCM’s relationships with media agencies across the UK. Her primary mission is to drive sustainable long-term growth and prove cinema’s unique value as part of an advertiser’s multi-media schedule and deliver DCM’s plans to align cinema with other AV media channels. Davina was honoured as Commercial Director of the Year at the 2019 British Media Awards, as well as being named as one of Campaign’s commercial sales chiefs of the year for her work in cinema in 2017 and 2018. Prior to DCM, Davina held senior roles at ids & Virgin Media and ITV.

Biography

After leaving school Simon decided that University was not for him and joined the army.

This was followed by work in Venezuela, America and Australia before returning to the UK in 1991 to start work on the ‘new’ Daily Telegraph, which had recently been purchased by Conrad Black. Having managed the launch of the Saturday Magazine in 1995 he decided to set up his own publishing company, and in 1998 sold it to Tony O’Riley’s Independent Magazines.

Simon then joined the fledgling Classic FM and within 4 years it had grown into the biggest commercial radio station in the UK and the most profitable. In 2005 Classic FM and its parent company GWR merged with Capital Radio and Simon became the Group Commercial Director. On the sale of GCap Media to Global, Simon left and joined the early social media revolution working for MySpace as Commercial Director. Simon joined ITV plc in January 2011 as Group Commercial Sales Director and was promoted in 2014 to Deputy Managing Director, Commercial.

In his free time he has rowed across the Irish Sea and walked to the South Pole, unsupported on both trips.

He has also led an expedition to the North Pole with 4 wounded soldiers and HRH Prince Harry. Simon completed his second South Pole challenge in December 2013 for Walking With The Wounded, a charity which he founded and he has raised nearly £10 million for various charities.

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Bhavesh is the Head of Media for Sky Group, and responsible for ensuring that as one of Europe’s biggest advertiser, Media is invested both efficiently and effectively across all markets.  Previous to this, he had spent 10 years+ in a variety of senior investment roles at GroupM and Dentsu.

Biography

Demi Abiola is an Investment Business Director at Msix and partners, previous to that he headed up the Publishing team at PHD media. Demi is passionate about driving the discussion about cultural inclusivity and openness, which will hopefully lead to a change in the advertising industry towards diversity and anti-racism. He is a proud member of Media for All and a mentor at the Brixton finishing school.
Demi is a perennial commentator about the advertising industry where he is panellist at many industry events, in addition to writing thought leader pieces for the IPA, Mediatel, Newsworks, and WARC. He has also judged a number of leading awards: Campaign, Mediaweek , British Media, Drum OOH, AOP and Young Cannes but to name a few.
In his spare time you will find him singing to himself on the Peloton, boxing, practicing yoga, or playing poker.

Biography

Zoe Cadman is Commercial Agency Director at Global where she leads an integrated sales and trading team that work across Audio, DAX and Outdoor, championing innovation and creativity to craft and deliver market leading solutions to/for clients.

Zoe has over 20 years experience in the media industry, starting her career at Dennis Publishing and moving to Pearl & Dean where she spent 15 years working in cinema advertising, leading the team as Sales Director.

Biography

Jehan is from the liberal, tree hugging, friendly part of America, called Canada. He started his career in out-of-home advertising then moved over to publisher sales, both SKY Sports and ESPN. His proudest moment from that era was working with Budweiser in producing a feature length film on giant killing in the FA Cup. He joined Google 9 years ago and leads the relationship with multiple network agencies. The core of his role is working with agency leadership to accelerate digitisation and grow revenue on Google advertising products, like Search, YouTube, Google Marketing Platform, and Cloud.
He lives in Tottenham with his wife, two daughters, legendary dog Oxo, and also a cat.

Biography

Patrice leads the strategy and development of YouTube advertising sales in London. She partners with agencies and marketers to connect YouTube’s diverse audience and advertising opportunities to their business objectives. Prior to this role, Patrice lead CPG brand partnerships with YouTube and Google’s programmatic technology.  As an ex-agency media planner Patrice is passionate about innovation within the advertising industry and the way that this innovation can shape consumer experiences.  This is not Patrice’s first time at MBC – she was actually a delegate a few years ago herself, and is honored to be invited back to take the stage!

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Kevin Chesters is the Owner & Strategy Partner of Harbour (www.harbour.london) – an independent brand communications consultancy based in London. He has led strategy at British Telecom, Saatchi & Saatchi, Wieden+Kennedy, dentsumcgarrybowen and was most recently the Chief Strategy Officer at Ogilvy. He sits on the Account Planning Committee in the UK and is a frequent contributor to industry titles Adweek, The Drum & Campaign. He is a visiting lecturer in Creativity at three UK universities (UCA, AIU and Edinburgh Napier) – and runs training courses for many companies including Google, Lego, Twitter, Marks & Spencer, BT & Diageo.

“The Creative Nudge” is his first book.

Biography

Dominic joined Spotify in 2018 and is currently leading the UK agency team as a Director of Sales. Dominic is passionate about inspiring his team to deliver meaningful strategic campaigns that shape global brand performance and success. This is fuelled by ensuring culture, inclusion and diversity is at the heart of everything.

Biography

Katie Bowden is Director of Commercial Audio at Global, one of the world’s leading Media and Entertainment groups and home to market leading brands including Capital, Heart, Classic FM, LBC, Smooth, Radio X and Capital XTRA.

She leads a 200 strong team who work with brands to deliver creative audio advertising campaigns, helping them reach and connect with audiences at scale across the UK on radio, podcasts and online.

Katie joined Global as a Content Solutions Manager in 2011, was promoted to Media and Content Manager in 2013 and then Group Business Director and Commercial Agency Director thereafter. Among other things, Katie has been instrumental in executing the company’s strategy to simplify the buying process for advertisers across Global’s extensive online, audio and outdoor portfolio.

Biography

I joined Twitter in November 2012 initially heading up the sales team before becoming Managing Director at the start of 2016. With approximately 400 staff, Twitter UK is the only office outside of our headquarters with multiple disciplines including Engineering, Sales, Partnerships, Comms & Marketing.

Previously I was at Google for 5 years overseeing the sales team for YouTube and Display.

Prior to Google, I began my career in the TV media market, leading teams initially at Flextech Television and later Eurosport.

I’m married with two girls, two dogs, love sport (I’m great at watching, not so good at playing) and enjoy boxsets.

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Dino Myers-Lamptey is the Founder of The Barber Shop, a strategy-led creative company that aims to solve the biggest business problems through data, distribution and disruptive ideas. They work with businesses that are driven by a purpose and which strive to enrich culture through the pleasure that they bring. Their clients include Karma Drinks, Triumph, TikTok and Parkinson’s UK. Dino is Co-Chair of The Alliance of Independent Agencies, CAN (Conscious Advertising Network) and is also a board member of the UK Effies, Marketing Society and a Trustee for the Brixton Finishing School and a member of the Global Snap Creative Council. In 2021 Dino was recognised as a Top 10 Media Planner by Campaign. Dino is also a founding member of MEFA (Media For All), and has recently founded Diverse Speakers.

Biography

Vicky is responsible for leading a team of 100 people who have elevated OMD UK’s planning output to new levels, creating competitive advantage for their clients. Most recently she has overseen the creation of a new department – Connected Performance – which joins media planning with biddable expertise, delivering audience-first thinking.

Prior to joining OMD UK in 2013, Vicky worked on some of the biggest campaigns for household names including John Lewis, Virgin Media and Apple at MGOMD. She continues this passion for the craft of media planning with her current clients, including McDonald’s, Lidl and recent win – Compare the Market.

With over 25 years’ experience and twice named winner of Campaign’s Media Planner of the Year, Vicky was also honoured by the IPA 2021 with a Fellowship. Vicky is committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive industry – both in the planning work and championing representation across the agency.

Biography

Naren Patel joined the Outdoor industry in 1991. During his earlier career at Primesight he helped turnaround the business, floated it on the LSE and then sold the business to STV plc. In 2007 Naren led an MBO of the business and proceeded to grow Primesight through digitisation, acquisitions and organic development, making Primesight one the leading and most successful brands in media industry. In September 2018, Naren sold Primesight to Global Radio and left Global in May 2020 after assisting with the integration.

Naren has spent the last two years volunteering and building up Media for All (MEFA), which is a social enterprise he created to help minority talent thrive in the media industry. Media for All has over 500 members and offers mentoring and support services to its members. It is challenging the media industry to improve diversity and the lived experiences on minorities in the sector.

Naren is also the founder of Geoprove, which is a mobile advertising verification product.

Biography

Kate  joined Publicis Groupe UK in March of 2021 as the Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the UK. Prior to joining Publicis Kate spent 8 years working for the LGBTQ+ Human Rights charity Stonewall, leading their Empowerment and Diversity Champions’ Programmes.

She has provided advice, support and guidance to hundreds of organisations, across a wide range of sectors on creating positive, affirming and productive cultures. Kate works towards building and embedding a consciously inclusive culture, where everyone can thrive and people feel like they belong.

Biography

Richard is the Chief Strategy Officer for Saatchi & Saatchi. A planner by trade he has spent the last 30 years guiding the brands of three of the most iconic UK agencies, AMV.BBDO, HHCL and Saatchi & Saatchi.

Responsible for the agency’s overall strategic output and the effectiveness of its work, Richard specialises in brand strategy for complex organisations with multiple stakeholders and large employee bases including BT, EE, Direct Line and HSBC.

He also looks after Saatchi & Saatchi’s IP output and sponsors Saatchi Open, the agency’s entry level programme aimed at opening-up the ad industry to more diverse talent.

Richard is a regular commentator on brands, strategy and advertising through adliterate, live performances and columns and articles for trade and national press. He is also a trustee of LIFT, London’s international performing arts festival.

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Jen is the co-founder of Craft. A communications agency designed to put the Craft back into comms planning & strategy.

She has over 25 years’ experience in media agencies in London, including Mindshare, PHD, Maxus and Wavemaker.

During her career, she has been nominated for and won various Media Week and Campaign awards and has been named one of Campaign’s Top 10 Planners in the UK for the last 6 years. She regularly judges at industry events including Cannes Media Lions, Campaign & Media Week awards, D&AD, APG & YouTube Effectiveness.

She has 4 kids, a dog & a cat, spends too much time on TikTok and is a lot of the time, quite tired.

Biography

Jane leads the Hearst Solutions commercial team across Hearst UK’s 21 iconic brands, as well as Hearst Global Solutions, the international commercial division, based in London. Hearst Solutions delivers premium content solutions and experiences through data driven insight.  She is responsible for maximising revenues across: Display Advertising, Branded Content, Data & Insight, Experiences, Licensing, Accreditation and the Hearst Content Agency Market. Before joining Hearst in 2015, Jane worked at media group IPG as Head of Investment and Commercial Strategy, gaining agency experience across all media touchpoints.

In 2020, Jane was named on Ad Age’s prestigious list of ‘Women to Watch Europe’ and this year, she was shortlisted for ‘Media Leader of the Year’ at Mediatel’s Media Leaders Awards.

Jane is a proud member of WACL, whose purpose is to achieve gender equality in the communications and marketing industry, a NABS 100 member and a trustee of Ovarian Cancer Action, funding research to save women’s lives.

Biography

Collette Philip runs award-winning brand and strategy consultancy, Brand By Me.  Brand by Me help organisations harness the power of brand strategy to embed anti-racism, drive equity and tackle injustice. Collette has 23 years’ experience both agency and brand-side, building powerful strategy for brands including Starburst, Clearasil, Veet, Always Ultra, T-Mobile, EE and Barnardo’s children’s charity. Collette is also a celebrated writer and speaker having featured in Third Sector, Campaign, Forbes and on BBC Radio 4.  Her business, Brand by Me was named a “Small Business of 2021” by Lloyds Bank and The Times.

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Emma Dibben is part of the senior media leadership team at Wavemaker UK. Emma has more than 20 years of experience across all media, principally in publishing. In her role as Head of Partner Engagement at Wavemaker, Emma works with partners in all media to support the creation of unrivalled work that moves people and has a positive impact in the world.

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Kenya Hunt is the Editor-in-Chief of ELLE UK. Her career spans working for some of the world’s most influential women’s titles on both sides of the Atlantic from her post-graduate days as an Assistant Editor at the seminal magazine, Jane, to her time as Deputy Editor of Grazia UK and ELLE UK. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Essence, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Refinery29,The Evening Standard and other publications. And she has made a number of appearances on BBC Woman’s Hour, Sky News and more.

As the founder of R.O.O.M. Mentoring, she advocates for greater diversity within the fashion industry by providing a supportive network for some of the many talented aspiring designers, journalists and image makers of colour London has to offer. In 2021, she was recognised by The British Fashion Council for her work and awarded a Global Leader Of Change Award. An American based in London, she lives south of the river with her husband and two sons.

Her critically-acclaimed book, Girl: Essays on Black Womanhood (HarperCollins/HQ), is out now.

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Having spent the best part of 30 years working for some of the leading creative and media agencies in the industry, Enyi joined UM London in an expanded Chief Strategy Officer role in April 2020.

Uniquely for a media agency, UM has creative and production talent embedded within the strategy and planning teams, which Enyi leads to deliver effective and award-winning work for brands including Johnson & Johnson, Amex, Spotify, Just Eat and Mattel.

Enyi passionately believes Media is a force for good and is committed to using our industry influence, skills and expertise to positively impact society. He has led the development of the Mediabrands ‘5 point plan’ and launch of the Diversity Council to accelerate the change required to create a more equitable and equal environment across Mediabrands agencies.

Enyi is also a member of the MEFA (Media 4 All) Advisory Board, which exists to help Black, Asian and ethnic minority talent thrive in media and advertising companies, ultimately increasing the ethnic diversity of the industry in the UK.

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Natalie is a Client Partner for Retail & Telecoms at Clear Channel UK.

She is celebrating more than 17 years working in OOH; a specialism she has been passionate about since starting her career at the tender age of 18, as a Sales Coordinator at Viacom Outdoor (now part of Global).

Moving roles to join Kinetic as a Planning & Buying Executive, she climbed the ranks to Account Director, seeing a 2012 nomination for their ‘Person the Year’ award and working closely with agencies such as Starcom & the7stars to promote & grow Out of Home.

A move back into sales saw Natalie take on an Agency Group Head role at Clear Channel, before promotions to Specialist Partner & now Client Partner positions. Her time at CCUK has seen her champion allyship through internal training, represent their business in 2022’s final pitch for Campaign’s Commercial Team of the Year and even transform into the Easter bunny!

Natalie is CCUK’s ambassador for Brixton Finishing School, a volunteer for ADventure for Schools, and has recently joined the Events Committee for Great Ormond Street Hospital.

She loves musical theatre, the writing of Haruki Murakami & jigsaw puzzles and lives in Romford with her husband and Max the cat.

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Euan joined PHD UK in 2008 and sits on the agency’s exec leadership team, with responsibility for the agency’s marketing, comms and new business functions, as well as having a broader remit across agency culture (the ‘experience’ bit of his job title). He is part of the PHD leadership team who doubled the agencies billings in the past decade, winning four Media Agency of the Year accolades along the way.

Prior to PHD, he spent 12 years in the marketing team at ITV, rising to Marketing Controller for ITV1, where he worked on the launches of enduring TV behemoths like I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! as well as three FIFA World Cups.

He is also an alum of the Media Business Course “a few years ago, now”.