Collaborators

Colin Wheeler

AMEC

Colin Wheeler is Director of Understanding Expertise, offering freelance consultancy utilising 20 years’ experience in agency and client-side roles. He is currently a member of the International Board for AMEC, and is a member of MRS. Colin ran the WE Communications EMEA Insight & Analytics team, providing measurable insight and understanding for client communications activity for over 3 years. Previously he spent 9 years at British Airways specializing in global brand, communications and reputation research. Colin has also worked as an independent consultant with several global market research agencies.

Andrew Canter

BCMA

Andrew is amongst the leading practitioners in branded content and has over twenty five years experience working in marketing communications. Andrew is the Global CEO of the BCMA (Branded Content Marketing Association) which is the pre-eminent global industry body for branded content practitioners, run by practitioners, promoting best practice, sharing knowledge and growing the branded content industry. He has been instrumental in developing the contentmonitor evaluation system which has been widely used by the industry. He has been responsible for spearheading the development and launching BCMA chapters across the world. He also the Chief Content Officer (CCO) at Global Living Brands (GLB), offering clients global opinion monitoring & influencing, reputation enhancement, strategic marketing, branded content creation & profile management. In his role as CCO, he is heavily involved in finding, selecting and developing suitable projects for the GLB Media Investment Fund, financing movies, TV formats and Digital content. He is co-author of the academic study, "Defining Branded Content For The Digital Age" and eBook series, BOBCM (Best of Branded Content Marketing) which has been successfully launched on iTunes and other digital platforms. Andrew lectures in Branded Content Marketing and regularly speaks at international conferences and has been on many international award judging panels. He is also a member of the Brand Entertainment Cristal Academy. Andrew is married with three young children. He is mad about Watford FC and all things horological. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London.

Tony Manwaring

CIMA

Tony oversees CIMA's external affairs directorate, leading on global communications, public policy and advocacy programmes. This includes responsibility for building and sustaining key relationships with stakeholder groups and working with governments, employers, members and partners to promote the best interests of CIMA and the CGMA community. He is also programme director for Valuing your Talent, a research and engagement programme CIMA is conducting alongside several partners including the CIPD, CMI and UKCES. Most recently, Tony was Chief Executive at Tomorrow’s Company, a global think tank, where he worked in partnership with CIMA on a number of programmes, including the Tomorrow’s Value lecture series and joint initiatives on corporate governance and reporting. Prior to this, he served as Chief Executive of the charity Scope. He has also provided consultant services to the Lord Mayor of the city of London, leading the Restoring trust in the City and the City values forum initiatives and helping to deliver the Tomorrow’s City programme. Tony has a degree in economics from the University of Cambridge.

Clare Hill

CMA

Clare brings more than 15 years media, marketing and management experience, particularly across Film and TV, having worked in product management for Universal Pictures on DreamWorks Film and for Anchor Bay Entertainment as Global Brand Director based in both London and Chicago and then as Director of UK managing the Sales and Marketing for ITV's £30m Home Entertainment product portfolio. For the past three years Clare has led The CMA, building the industry profile of the content marketing discipline, diversifying the membership of the CMA and driving industry best practice.

Rachel Aldighieri

DMA

Starting out in journalism before crossing into PR, Rachel has helped to drive the DMA's transformation from an ordinary trade association to a vibrant, facilitatory industry community over the last eight years – widening its relevance and appeal far beyond its traditional heartland and working closely with many of the UK's biggest and most forward-thinking agencies, brands, suppliers and press to promote a true one-to-one-to-millions marketing approach.

She is responsible for leading the DMA's key industry initiatives – including the flagship annual DMA Awards, the Campaign for great British copywriting, Responsible marketing, the organisation's community website and an array of other events, workshops and research projects to help marketers put their customer first.

Rachel is passionate about attracting new talent into the marketing industry and believes in the positive contribution and central role that one-to-one marketing can deliver within a modern, creative UK economy.

Nigel Geach

ESA

Nigel is responsible for the marketing and sales side of Repucom’s global motorsport business. Whether it be Formula One, Touring Cars, World Rally Championship or Moto GP, Nigel contributes regularly on TV, in the press or at conferences to give a balanced and informative view of the state of global motorsport. He brings more than a quarter of a century of experience of the sponsorship research business to the table, having joined Repucom as part of the acquisition of IFM Sports Marketing Surveys, where he was a Director since 1986. A graduate in business management, Nigel has seen first-hand the importance of sports sponsorship in marketing and communication and the growing need to evaluate all marketing disciplines. He is Vice Chairman of the European Sponsorship Association Board. He is married with one son and two grandchildren and lives in Surrey.

Tim Elkington

IAB

Tim joined the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in 2009 as Head of Research, became Director of Research and Strategy in 2010 and Chief Strategy Officer in 2014. Tim is responsible for all IAB UK research projects including measuring the size of the UK digital advertising market through the IAB / PwC Digital Adspend Study, which now also measures the size of the affiliate and lead generation industries and the percentage of the UK digital display market that is traded programmatically. Tim is also responsible for commissioning consumer insight pieces such as Real_Living which looks at how people divide their attention between different screens in the living room.

Janet Hull

IPA

Janet is responsible for strategy, content and promotion of the IPA's external marketing programmes. She has been instrumental in developing and promoting the IPA Databank series of thought leadership publications with Peter Field and Les Binet, and has now been appointed to Executive Director Effectiveness Week and the Effectiveness Institute. As a former pioneer of the IPA President’s agenda, Janet has also developed the IPA’s content stream around intangibles and KPIs for marketing reporting. Janet's industry experience spans senior management positions at Y&R advertising, Burson-Marsteller corporate communications and Lewis Moberly brand identity. She was awarded an OBE for services to the creative industries in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list.

Carey Trevill

IPM

Starting her marketing career in the 90’s with Clarke Hooper, Carey has a long marketing background focussed on promotional marketing and has most recently joined the IPM as its first traditional marketer in the role. Having worked across major brands, sectors and markets, and even making the odd TV ad or two, her work has led to founding an agency, successfully merging and going on to work with a number of businesses preparing for sale. The IPM has long had at its heart the need to champion effective practice across the industry as we strive to grow brands through brilliant work, Carey’s central role is to promote effective work. A Member of CAP, PMDRP CAP Panel and various working groups.

Debbie Morrison

ISBA

Part of the six strong management team that leads ISBA, a not for profit organisation representing the interests of 450 leading British advertisers spending £10b PA on marcoms activities. Adept at identifying business critical issues for the advertiser community, chairing and managing industry committees, developing strategies to drive resolutions to key advertiser issues. Works with partner organisations on global and local initiatives to enhance/better industry practices, including developing standard template model contracts for clients and agencies which have revolutionised client/agency negotiations. Runs the consultancy and best practice division of ISBA working with her team on more than 2000 projects PA, with ISBA's blue chip advertiser members. Skilled at advising on the changing shape of marcoms and marketing orgs, agency contract and fee negotiations and benchmarking, agency search and selection, relationship evaluation and general trouble shooting on client/agency issues. Expert in comms agency marketplace and marcoms trends. Always looking ahead of the market to the next thing to impact the marketing community. Coach and advisor to many senior advertisers. Speaks on advertising trends at conferences across the globe. Debbie has an Honours degree in Fine Art, CIM marketing qualifications, is part of the Hyper Island digital alumni and is a member of the elite, thought leading comms industry women's group WACL.

Gemma Greaves

Marketing Society

Gemma Greaves is an advocate of the power of networking and the connected world - everything leads from there. She believes that when you bring interesting and interested people together, big ideas happen and we do good together. As Global Managing Director of The Marketing Society, Gemma is spearheading its international expansion, working hard to transform the society into the leading global network of senior marketers. In 2014, the Marketing Society Asia was launched in Hong Kong, swiftly followed by its hub in Singapore. Shortly The Marketing Society Middle East in Dubai will launch with further hubs as they plan to have 10 hubs open by 2020, including planned in New York, India and China. Gemma also runs the day-to-day of The Marketing Society from leading the team to being responsible for the P&L. Everything she does is about delivering value to the members from building rewarding partner programmes to creating new events and networking opportunities. Gemma is the founder of Cabal, a private club for extraordinary people who are curious and humble and can't sit still creating memorable experiences that you wouldn't get anywhere else.

Jane Frost

MRS

Francis Ingham

PRCA

Francis Ingham is Director General of the UK Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA), and Chief Executive of the International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO). Founded in 1969, the PRCA is the professional body which represents the UK PR industry. The largest PR association in Europe, the PRCA represents over 18,000 individuals working across the industry. ICCO is the voice of public relations consultancies around the world. Its membership comprises national trade associations in 32 countries across the globe: from Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australasia. Collectively, these associations represent over 2,500 PR firms. Ingham’s background is in politics and public affairs. He is External Examiner to the American University at Richmond; Trustee of The Speakers' Corner Trust; and the Master of the City of London Company of Public Relations Practitioners. He was educated at Oxford University, where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He appears in both the UK and the Global editions of PR Week’s PowerBook.

Stephan Loerke

World Federation of Advertisers

Stephan has been the CEO of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) since November 2003. During his tenure, WFA has doubled its corporate membership and has extended its network to 58 countries, significantly reinforcing the WFA’s presence in the world’s fastest emerging advertising markets. Prior to joining WFA, Stephan worked for L'Oréal in Paris and Brussels. He studied business economics at the Saint Gall Business School in Switzerland, after which he worked at the United Nations in New York. Stephan has German and French nationalities. He is married to Sabine and has two sons, Sebastian and Alexandre.