Jenny set up the7stars in 2005 after a career in media agencies including Zenith and Carat. In the last 20 years the7stars has grown to be the UK’s largest media independent agency with billings of £500 million and over 300 people. During the last nine years, the7stars has been named Agency of the Year by Campaign Magazine, Media Week, The Drum and Mediatel. They have won numerous awards including golds at Media Week and an IPA Effectiveness Award and most recently Campaign’s Independent Media Agency of The Year.

Jenny is particularly passionate about workplace culture and personally leads a number of diversity and inclusion initiatives at the agency. She is particularly proud that the agency has been listed in the Best Companies to Work For consistently for the last twelve years and for two consecutive years the7stars were crowned Campaign’s Best Place To Work (Large Companies). In 2016 Jenny launched the7stars Foundation to support under-privileged young people in the UK and the7stars donates 5% of profits to good causes via the Foundation. Jenny is a member of the IPA Media Futures Group, the ASA’s Industry Advisory Panel and the British Heart Foundation’s Marketing Committee.

Rak spent seven years driving commercial growth for the streaming platform with his last role being to lead the EMEA Ad business.

In 2025, Rak stepped into the leadership of Channel 4 Sales, the commercial arm of Channel 4, where he is responsible for driving the organisation’s advertising revenue as Chief Commercial Officer. A key focus of his role is to accelerate the commercial elements of Channel 4’s Fast Forward strategy, maximising revenues from linear to digital while pursuing new partnerships and expanding into new areas of digital growth.

Rak is a board member at Thinkbox, focused on advancing the future of TV marketing and media in the UK, as well as a board member at the Advertising Association, which acts as the unified voice for the UK Ad industry. He also sits on the Soho House & Co Committee Board and the Campaign Board for Historic Royal Palaces. And he’s extremely proud to be one of the founding members of MEFA.

UK Influence Lead and Managing Partner at Ogilvy, Imogen was recently named one of the top 30 trailblazing women in Influencer Marketing. Imogen has been a social and influence specialist for over 15 years, and alongside her team of over 80, leads global influence strategies for the likes of Bacardi, Unilever, The Coca-Cola company, LEGO and Kenvue.

Outside of her day to day role, Imogen works as an influencer in her own right, amassing over 120,000 followers, allowing her to develop a clear view of both sides of the influencer industry. As well as being a member of the Influencer Marketing Trade Body on behalf of Ogilvy, and on Ogilvy UKs Diversity, equity and inclusion board helping to shape the future direction of our industry.

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.

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.

After a career spent mainly at media agencies including Wavemaker, OMD and Starcom, Elliott made the switch to Thinkbox, the UK marketing body for commercial TV, because of deep seated belief in the effectiveness of the platform and a long standing admiration for the work that they do. In the newly created CSO role, he leads the planning and research team with an ambition of helping agencies and advertisers make brilliant decisions to make the most out of TV advertising in all its forms.

Elliott has worked with some of the most celebrated TV advertisers – from retail and FMCG with Procter & Gamble, Heinz and Lidl to giants of entertainment in Disney or Paramount, and tech / start up brands like Samsung, Uber and Airbnb.

He is a regular industry speaker and judge and is (or was) a regular member of Campaign’s Planner of the Year lists and has won awards including Cannes Lions, IPA Effectiveness and the first ever UK Grand Effie.

When not working, Elliott will read anything that comes near him and enjoys a long walk anywhere with water or trees. And he firmly believes that zombies or vampires improve a TV show.

With over 20 years’ experience across the UK media landscape, Rachel is a senior commercial leader specialising in digital transformation and strategic partnerships. She is a passionate advocate for innovation and believes the best ideas are born from genuine collaboration. She loves supporting brands to show up in bold, meaningful and fun ways that deliver real impact.

Currently Sales Director – Agency & Client at JCDecaux, she leads agency and client relationships across WPP and Omnicom (UM and Initiative) for the UK’s leading outdoor advertising business, having previously served as Head of Sales and Business Director.

Prior to JCDecaux, she held senior roles at Bauer Media, Absolute Radio (formerly Virgin Radio) selling across multi-platform portfolios spanning audio, magazines, digital and mobile.

She began her career at The Guardian and holds an MA from the University of Aberdeen.

Richard has spent 35 years advising some of the most significant organisations about change and growth, latterly as the Chair and CSO of Saatchi & Saatchi. In the past five years he has advised BT Group, EE, John Lewis Partnership, HSBC, Lloyds, Direct Line Group and the British Heart Foundation.

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.

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.

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.

Dave is an award winning media strategist who has held CSO and Head of Planning roles across all the major holding groups. He has built media plans for some of the UK’s biggest advertisers including Toyota, O2, IKEA and The National Lottery.

In 2017 in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, Dave founded AdLondonCalling, an industry wide music quiz that raised over £125,000 for the families impacted by the fire. In 2025 he’s bringing it back for NABS.

Dave is also an active member of Common People, a community that supports those in the creative industries from a Working Class background.

Dave is a lifelong Wrexham FC fan in exile.

Talk to him about Ryan Reynolds / The Eras Tour / Media Planning (in that order).

He also has the best email address in media / davegrainger@gravedanger.ltd