Co-founder • Mixcloud
Nikhil is Cofounder of online radio platform Mixcloud. Over the past 8 years he has helped lead the growth of the company from a couple of guys in a warehouse in Wembley to the world’s biggest community of DJs and radio talent, reaching over 17 million people a month. Prior to Mixcloud, Nikhil was a...
CMO - eCommerce M&A Consultant • TIME Inc.
Michel is a digital and e-commerce pioneer. He started as head of new media at Sony Music in the early 90’s, and has since filled several senior executive positions with international B2C and B2B multichannel companies (including Bertelsmann, Manutan, Quelle, Conrad Electronics, Camaïeu). Michel relocated to the UK to join Marks & Spencer to develop...
CEO • Koru Kids
Rachel is the founder and CEO of Koru Kids, a fast-growing tech startup helping parents in London share their nannies. Before starting Koru Kids, Rachel was CEO of www.DrThom.com, the world’s largest online doctor service, which she grew to 1.3m patients in 3 countries. She has also been the Managing Director of a chain of IVF...
Founder • CharlieHR
Rob O’Donovan, founded ‘start-up studio’ The Eleven at age 17, alongside his best friend from school. From then on, his love affair with creating companies grew, turning the business into a small network of marketing agencies that empowered brands to make sense of a new, digitally savvy and ultra-demanding generation of consumers. The same team...
CEO • so-sure
Investor turned entrepreneur, Dylan was in strategy consulting and private equity before he left his job to rethink insurance for the consumers’ benefit. Frustrated by the insurance sector’s focus on profits rather than consumer needs, Dylan launched so-sure to disrupt the stagnant insurance industry. so-sure’s model takes insurance back to its 17th century roots to...
Product Manager • Google
Tom is a Product Manager at Google. He works on the Google Play Console, specialising in insights and guidance for companies and app developers. Before this he was Head of Product for the Guardian, leading their award-winning web and app teams. He’s worked with HMRC, Kew Gardens, the London Olympics, and many others on digitally...
Head of Brand and Digital Strategy • Sport England
Feminist firebrand and former journalist Kate Dale is responsible for delivering This Girl Can, Sport England’s multi-award winning campaign, which is changing the way millions of people think about exercise and physical activity, and has seen 2.8 million more women get active as a direct result. Prior to this, Kate spent 10 years as a...
Marketing Manager • Orlo
Stuart Banbery is the Marketing Manager at Orlo (perviously SocialSignIn) – a complete social media management platform used by leading brands around the world. Stuart gets to see from behind the scenes how the most forward-thinking organisations are harnessing social media.
Social Media Manager • LV=
Having worked for LV= for nearly 25 years, including roles in internal communications, assisting in two brand redesigns, and managing website content, Nick Joy is now the Social Media Manager at LV=. He oversees the management of the company’s social media CRM and its use in marketing activity. Nick developed LV=’s social media function from...
Programmatic Lead, EMEA • LinkedIn
Bruna leads sales and operations at European level for LinkedIn’s most recent advertising offer – programmatic. Bruna set the foundations and continues to develop the solid operating model that has sustained this growing business for LinkedIn. With a background in media and tech companies, Bruna has a decade of experience in both advertising and project...
Head of Digital Production (Delivery) • BT
Conner Josey is a senior digital leader with experience in large blue chip organisations as well as agency/consultancy side in building and delivering against a digital transformation agenda in. Having recently joined BT as Head of Digital Production (Delivery), he has taken on the digital delivery accountability for Business & Public Sector parts of the...
Digital & CRM Director • L’Occitane en Provence
Mark Dugdale is an entrepreneurial, multi-channel consumer marketer with over 15 years experience within retail and leisure. He has extensive experience leading multi-disciplined, consumer focused teams with a particular focus on CRM, customer experience and online customer acquisition (UK & international). Throughout his career, Mark has worked for both privately owned and VC backed organisations.
Head of Search • Secret Escapes
As Head of Search at Secret Escapes, Rumyana has a deep understanding of the current Paid and Organic search ecosystem. With over 7 years of experience in the Digital Marketing she has worked for various international brands and managed a portfolio of over a billion keywords. She decided to pursue a career in Performance Marketing...
Marketing Director • New Scientist
Ben Cordle, Marketing Director at New Scientist, is a key figure overseeing the development of the magazine’s brand and content offering, which lies far from its humble beginnings in the fifties. With a combined global audience of over five million highly engaged readers, the publication brings to its diverse and learned audience the latest cutting-edge...
Marketing Director • YMCA
James is a passionate advocate of digital marketing with 20 years’ experience ranging in start-up companies, blue chips and the third sector. James believes that businesses should learn from charities not just charities from businesses. Today consumers want brands to demonstrate positive impact, moving away from transactional relationships in favour of experiences. Charities have been...
