RENEW 2022

Biography

Nina Hossain is an award winning journalist and ITN newscaster.

Nina is lead presenter of the ITV Lunchtime News and also presents News at Ten. She presented the series Coronavirus: Q & A for ITV, throughout the lockdown period of the COVID-19 crisis. She has also co-presented ITV’s Election Live coverage for the 2015, 2017 and 2019 elections.

She joined ITN 15 years ago after being poached from BBC London where she was a launch face of their evening programme.

Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire she studied at Durham University before gaining a post-graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire.

She is the RTS Presenter of the Year for Regional News, and has picked up three RTS Programme of the year awards when anchoring ITV News London and the ITV Evening News.

She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield.

When not writing and presenting daily news she has worked on documentary programmes, Exposure and On Assignment, has hosted countless awards ceremonies and chaired a range of conferences for both charities and the corporate world.

She has three children, loves travelling and music.

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Peter was appointed to the Board as Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. Peter has extensive experience in digital businesses and a dynamic leadership style. He was previously CEO of Just Eat and before that was Chief Commercial Officer at easyJet and Marketing Director of Audi UK. Peter started his career in banking, holding positions with Barclays, Yorkshire Bank and TSB. He is a Non-Executive Director of Close Brothers Group plc, where he is a member of the Risk Committee. He is currently President of ISBA – the UK trade body for British advertisers.

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John Pienaar’s Times Radio show deals with the issues of the day in Westminster and beyond.

He is one of the most familiar voices in UK broadcasting, with a 30 year career at the heart of Westminster. Previously he was Chief Political Correspondent at BBC Radio 5 Live and the BBC’s Deputy Political Editor, and hosted the highly regarded Pienaar’s Politics show and podcast.

News UK launched Times Radio in June 2020 and in October 2021 posted its first RAJAR figure with a weekly reach of 637k listeners, consuming almost 3.5m listening hours.You can tune in to John on Times Radio Drive, Monday to Thursday at 4pm-7pm on DAB, online, connected listening devices or via the Times Radio app.

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Alessandra has an international background in advertising and Marketing and is obsessed with developing people and growing brands, seeing these as the ultimate levers to a successful business.

She joined Tesco in March 2017, as Chief Customer Officer, where she brings together all of the disciplines of marketing, advertising, innovation, loyalty and insight to create strong and distinctive brand proposition – putting customers at the heart of Tesco.

Prior to Tesco, Alessandra worked for Unilever for over 20 years, holding different board-level positions in Marketing and General Management in Italy, Central & Eastern Europe and the USA.

Alessandra started her career in Advertising at JWT Milan, as an apprentice straight out of School. She worked in Advertising for 12 years in Italy and the UK.

She has two grown up children, lives in London travelling around town on a baby-blue Vespa.

Alessandra is the Chair of Teens Unite, a charity helping young adults facing cancer, live their best life.

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Julian Douglas, or Dougie as he is better known, is the Vice Chairman of the VCCP Partnership. He joined the agency in 2008, having previously worked at WCRS, BBH, TBWA, and Grey London twice. With over 20 years experience, he has created some of the world’s most successful campaigns, both in the UK and internationally, for brands including Audi, Lynx, O2 Telefonica, Domino’s, Nationwide and Shell.

He holds a BA and MA from Jesus College, Oxford, an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Fellow and Council Member of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. As the Chair of the IPA’s Talent Leadership Group, he originated Advertising Unlocked, the annual joint industry open-day welcoming thousands of young people into the industry from right across the UK.

Outside of advertising, he is a Founder of Lucky Voice, the UK’s premier chain of karaoke bars and online karaoke. His latest venture is Parent Pool, a social enterprise on a mission to transform the childcare market through collaborative parenting.

Dougie was awarded 2018 Account Person of the Year by Campaign Magazine.

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Nadine Dorries was appointed Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 15 September 2021.

Nadine Dorries was previously appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care in May 2020, having been promoted from Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the department, appointed on 27 July 2019.

She was elected as the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire in May 2005.

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Shez Iqbal is the Director of Publisher Partnerships and BIPOC EMEA Community Leader at Criteo. With over 16 years of industry experience, he has held various roles across adtech and publisher organisations. Shez is also a mentor at MEFA and BFS, and supports the All In working groups organised by the Advertising Association.

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Kathryn is the CEO of Pearl&Dean, the cinema advertising company, famous for its “Pa, pa, pa, pa” sonic logo.

In previous roles Kathryn has worked in national newspapers, magazines, radio and in a cross media role at Scottish Media Group. As well as having the opportunity to watch films for a living, Kathryn sits on the Development Board of RADA, the Board of AOC Sport (which offers sport opportunities to college students), the Council and Board of the Advertising Association and the Executive Council of SAWA. She is a past president of WACL.

In 2016 the book she co-authored with Sue Unerman, “The Glass Wall” was published and since then they have given over 150 talks about the book. In October 2020, Sue and Kathryn joined forces with Mark Edwards to write another book “Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion and Equality at Work”. Esquire called it “The most important business book of the year”.

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Andrew is responsible for ISBA’s relationships with agencies, ensuring our agency services are up to date and reflect ISBA’s new remit, particularly in media.

Andrew has an extensive background in media and marketing. Most recently as an ISBA member, he had responsibility for procurement of global media and marketing services at Associated British Foods.

He started his career in procurement at GlaxoSmithKline, leaving to take up the role of EMEA Commercial Director for MediaEdge:CIA . Andrew then formed his own consultancy and went on to deliver Marketing Procurement solutions for organisations including Novartis, Philips, J&J, Nokia and ABF on a global basis.

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Kate joined ITV in 2019 the newly created role of Director of Client Strategy and Planning, with a remit to help ITV Commercial build broader and deeper relationships with advertisers. A creative strategist by background, most recently she was co-founder and CSO of Now Advertising. A highly respected and well known strategic leader with twenty years’ experience Kate has worked across sectors as diverse as automotive, retail, government and public sector, FMCG and financial services, and with clients including BT, Ocado, Public Health England and Moneysupermarket.com.

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Clare Shine was appointed Director and CEO of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership in April 2021. She joins CISL after nine years as Vice President and Chief Program Officer at Salzburg Global Seminar, an international non-profit founded in 1947 to challenge current and future leaders to shape a creative, just and sustainable world.

At Salzburg Global, Clare was responsible for strategy, design, execution and impact of multi-year programs, partnerships and networks. She focused the program portfolio on systems transformation and embedded the Sustainable Development Goals across all activities, working with diverse intergenerational teams and Fellows from nearly 180 countries. Under her leadership, Salzburg Global built collaborative alliances linking research, policy, business and entrepreneurial practice and launched a series of cross-border networks for bottom-up innovation.

Clare has over 30 years’ experience at the nexus of sustainable development, organisational change and culture. From 1990-2011, she worked from Paris as an independent environmental lawyer and policy adviser for intergovernmental bodies, governments, business and NGOs, focusing on biodiversity, climate change, coastal and marine systems, public health, governance, trade, equity and rights, and conflict transformation. She played an influential role in the evolution of regional and global policy frameworks and led multi-sector capacity-building around the world.

Clare is a UK-qualified barrister, an Associate of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and the World Commission on Protected Areas, and a professional facilitator and mediator. She began her career in industry, working in the media and publishing sector. She holds an M.A. in English literature from Oxford University, UK and post-graduate degrees from London University and the Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

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Zaid Al-Qassab is the Chief Marketing Officer of Channel 4, the UK public service broadcaster, where he leads the marketing and digital teams, and 4creative, Channel 4’s award-winning in-house creative agency. Zaid is a Director and Council member of the Advertising Standards Authority, a Board Trustee of WaterAid and a Board member of Creative Diversity Network. He was educated at Oxford University, where he read PPE. He spent 20 years at Procter & Gamble, including as Managing Director of the UK Health & Beauty division. He is committed to diversity and inclusion.

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Sebastian Munden is the Executive Vice President & General Manager, Unilever UK & Ireland and joined Unilever in 1990 as a marketing trainee at Lever Brothers in the UK after completing his MA in English Language and Literature at Oxford University. After several brand management and customer team positions in Home and Personal Care, he was appointed category director for Laundry UK in 1997.

Sebastian then went on to hold various senior roles across the US and Europe before being appointed Vice President of the Laundry Category for Europe in 2008 and head of Global Marketing Operations in 2012.

Sebastian now leads the UK & Ireland business, a position he has held since 2017. Sebastian has pioneered new ways of working across Unilever to accelerate the agility of the business, helping to respond to the challenges of today’s competitive environment in an ever more connected world. He champions the sustainable packaging  agenda and the inclusion of more diverse young talent in the workforce, and into Unilever. He is married to Elisabeth and has two children.

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Nicola Kemp is Editorial Director for Creativebrief, where she oversees consumer trends, innovation, and interviews with industry thought-leaders from across the creative industries for all areas of the business. She is a member of the Associate Board and focused on growing the reach, relevance and reputation of Creativebrief and BITE. She started her career as a financial journalist before specialising in technology, social trends and marketing. Her work has appeared across titles including Campaign, WGSN, M&M Global, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Guardian and The Observer. A passionate advocate for diversity in all its forms she won The Women in Marketing Journalist of the year award for her work championing diversity in the creative industries, and was featured in Timewise’s Power 50 for her work on flexible working. She was named as one of the 200 women redefining the creative industry by The Dots an #EverydayAction award winner by Bloom, a Pitch 100 Superwoman and a Campaign Trailblazer of the future. With a 5-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son, Nicola is always on the look-out for new feminist fairy-tales to add to their ever-increasing book collection.

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Anna Lungley is Chief Sustainability Officer at dentsu international. She is responsible for embedding dentsu’s ambitious ‘Social Impact’ strategy at the heart of business, operations and culture to deliver shared value for dentsu, our clients and society.  Anna is a member of the Dentsu Group Sustainable Business Board, a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership and sits on the advisory boards of Sustainable Brands and AdNetZero. Anna has been recognised for her work to deliver sustainable development with the ‘Changing Lives’ award at the Broadband World Forum, the World Economic Forum’s ‘New Vision for Development’ award, The Drum’s ‘Purpose’ award and Business Green’s ‘Sustainability Team of the Year’.

Anna joined dentsu in 2018 as Global Head of Social Impact from BT Group where she spent five years as Director of Sustainable Business and was also an advisor to the UK government on digital inclusion. Previous roles include Director of Communications and media spokesperson at BT Group and Committee Member for the World Economic Forum’s Internet For All initiative. Anna started her career at Brodeur Worldwide, part of the Omnicom Group, where she led global campaigns for brands including Nortel Networks, Philips and Vodafone.

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Lara is currently Director of Lifestyle Retail UKI at Google after serving 2 years as the Finance Director of Google UK.  Starting her career at Goldman Sachs, Lara moved onto Bridgewater Associates, the Boston Consulting Group and worked in private equity before becoming CFO for mining company Rio Tinto’s commercial operations.  Supporting Rio’s Commercial Group globally in company sales, marketing, procurement and logistics activities.  She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and BA in Economics from Harvard University.

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For the last 24 years Sharon has worked in the field of domestic abuse. Starting out as a volunteer for a local refuge service, she went on to secure a full-time job for the same service.

She joined the Women’s Aid Federation of England, board of trustees in 2000 and went on to become the Vice Chair in 2002. Also, in 2000, Sharon was involved in the writing of a book called ‘Getting Out’ which tells the stories of several English and American women who experienced domestic abuse and how they escaped those relationships.

Sharon went to London to work in 2004 where she developed and managed the first IDVA (Independent Domestic Violence Advocate) service in Westminster. She was the Vice Chair of the Westminster Domestic Violence Forum and Chair of the forum’s Legal Issues sub group and was instrumental in campaigning for the first Domestic Violence Court in Westminster.

Sharon Bryan specialises in survivor consultation and intervention, risk assessment, facilitation of The Freedom Programme and Multi-Agency training.  She has also trained student social workers and offers supervision to other professionals who work with women who have/are experiencing Domestic Abuse.  Sharon has extensive experience of delivering consultation to Social Workers and Child Protection Chairpersons.  She is a qualified IDVA and sat on the Westminster MARAC panel for 14 years. She is an accomplished public speaker and has been involved in media work including being on television, radio and writing numerous newspaper and magazine articles. She has also been an expert witness in criminal and civil courts of law.

From 2009, Sharon worked for The City of Westminster Council.  Until 2016 she was the Senior Domestic Abuse Consultant for the ground breaking ‘Family Recovery Programme’.  In 2016 she became the Domestic Abuse Consultant for the Integrated Early Help Service at the council.

In January 2021, Sharon embarked on the next chapter of her career by joining the award winning NCDV (National Centre for Domestic Violence).  Here she is developing a new and exciting role and is the ‘Head of Partnerships and Development for Domestic Abuse Services’.

Sharon was awarded the ‘Survivor of the Year” Award in 2012 by The Women’s Aid Federation of England in partnership with Avon and Marie Claire magazine.  She was also nominated and shortlisted for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize in 2015 for her services to women experiencing domestic abuse.

Sharon is a survivor of domestic abuse.

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Anna Dalziel, Founder of 40 Over Forty and SVP, Director of Marketing Communications, Global, Momentum Worldwide

Anna is the Founder of 40 Over Forty, the first global platform that acknowledges and celebrates those who are 40 plus in the advertising, media and marketing industry, launched in January 2020. She’s also a mentor for SheSay’s ‘Who’s Your Momma’ in the UK and has over 20 years of international marketing experience.

In her role at Momentum Worldwide Anna is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of the marketing strategies, marketing communications, new business and public relations activities, both internally and externally. Anna also champions DE&I, leading a programme of diversity initiatives in the UK. More recently under Anna’s leadership, Momentum won their first DE&I award at the Drum Awards. Her mantra is to get sh*t done.

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Kate Magee is the editor of Management Today. Here she oversees MT’s editorial portfolio, including a quarterly magazine and daily bulletins. She has 15 years of experience as a journalist, most recently as Campaign’s associate editor, where she won PPA’s Business Writer of the Year, twice. She has also worked at PRWeek, reporting on the news behind the news.