Margot Daly is a Inquiry Chair & Digital Markets Board Member at CMA | Board Chair & Independent NED | Strategic Advisor at Competition and Markets Authority. She possess expertise in strategy, digital media, entrepreneurship, management, strategic planning and 32 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Any start up or growing business looking to reposition would benefit immeasurably from having Margot directly involved or as an operational advisor, mentor and board member. She’s an experienced marketeer and a joy to work with. She’s clear about objectives and generates ambition in teams to achieve them. Her influencing skills are outstanding and resilient, particularly evident as I watched her bring a large team of creative people, technologists and investors on a repositioning and brand identity journey. Margot appreciates and communicates clearly to colleagues the value strong positioning and brand identity bring to an organisation, both internally and externally. She makes sure accurate insight into the customer and stakeholder base is in place then works with teams to develop strong and individual positioning, a set of values and clear brand strategy. Margot invests the necessary attention and energy to make sure stakeholders support and have bought into proposals. Margot is also just the type of client or advisor agencies long for – she focuses on a clear brief with properly defined objectives and deliverables, including a measured and appropriate budget and timeline. As is frequently necessary, she invests in collaborative creative development and isn’t afraid to take (and/or help others take) bold, ambitious and courageous steps, shouldering the full responsibility for their success. Because she has been a chief marketeer on a global basis she can meaningfully mentor a top team as well as directly lead the work if necessary. " and "I have founded two companies and been lead investor in over a dozen. As such, I have served on more than a dozen boards and worked with 60+ directors, many of those independent directors. I have known Margot Daly for 20 years. I think she would be an excellent independent director and I would not hesitate to put her on a board. She has had the direct experience as a CEO and COO of media and technology companies. She has fundraising and capital markets experience through IPO, M&A, MBO and private financings. She has worked globally and has experience on several boards. In addition to the paper qualifications, qualitatively I think she is excellent. She is extremely smart and hard working, and committed to being an independent director as a vocation. I find that many former executives just want something to say they do, but they really don’t want to work – Margot wants to work. She also has a great mix of business judgment and no-nonsense directness, combined with a very high EQ and understanding what motivates people, and leadership development. To me, these are issues where the board can become high performing – not just understanding what should be done, but HOW to get it done. She would be a great mentor for a CEO facing big challenges. "