Responsible for creating partnerships of our extraordinary touchless authentication solutions in The Americas

Facial Recognition for everyday functions - that are faster, more accurate and efficient.

The pie, Re-Imagined. Sold over a million pies - straight up, frozen, tiger stacked or in floaters. Our chef is a Chopped Champion. Our pies take 3 days to make. In 3 years became the #1 rated savory pie in USA - (according to Yelp). #howsyapie. Fed tons of foodies, chefs, Aussies, celebrities, mayors and rock stars - in our (3) restaurants, catering and shipped to 50 states via Goldbelly.

Responsible initially for Los Angeles office, then promoted to West Coast - including San Francisco and Seattle. Key clients included Wells Fargo, Activision, Southern California Edison. LA OFFICE Won multiple awards including Gold Effies for Call of Duty and Guitar Hero. Reported to the President of DDB North America.

Ran the British American Tobacco business globally for Grey/G2 from both the London and NY offices, while "officially" living in California. Managed almost 2,000 team members in 72 offices across multiple continents, countries and time zones. Key brands were Dunhill, Lucky Strike, Kent & Pall Mall. Business grew from 40 to almost 100 in revenue in 3 years.

Created a global "objective" consulting practice that serviced agency and brands globally. " We don't want your job, your clients, or your staff. We just want to help - with experience, logic and objectivity." Used 7 Things process multiple times. Client and projects available on request.

Reported to the CMO. Responsible for all agency relationships globally. Responsible for brand management globally of Coca-Cola, diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta & Schweppes. Responsible for all global advertising.Also Chief Communications advisor to the Chairman. After 15 years of working with Coke at McCann, it was a short, wild ride.

Hired as Global President of Anderson & Lembke. Led the successful pitch for the global Microsoft consumer business. We won. Ask me about the client, Mike Delman's presentation of "How to make history without repeating it" . As a result of the win, A&L and McCann were merged into agency powerhouse and I was promoted to President of the merged operations. 450 staff. Requested by Bob Herbold as in house agency lead at Microsoft Redmond, while at McCann A&L.

Repeated the "7 Things process" to engage staff, provide clear direction, measurement, milestones and accountability. Agency was #1 in new business in the market 2 years running. Won second HK McCann award for agency turn around.

Invented the "7 Things" framework to engage senior and middle management to build our plan for success. Invited entire company and partners to participate. 100% engagement.Rose agency in Dutch rankings from #14 to #7 in 18 months. Asked to move to run McCann Sydney as CEO and repeat the results. Won first HK McCann award for agency turn around.

When the Coca-Cola Company has only 1 president under the age of 40, AND only 1 female President - and BOTH of these accomplishments are bestowed upon ONE person - Penny Hughes ... she isn't willing to accept "business as usual" from Mccann". I, along with Mark Gault, Trista Grant, Poran Malani, Mark Ratcliffe, Russ Lidstrom and many others - created and delivered the renegade (but sponsored by McCann) agency called HK that "saved" the Coca-Cola account in GB with it's new agency model - collaborative, ideas from anywhere, The Red Room and more.

In 1990 the Spanish media market became deregulated. Set up Universal in Spain as MD - "freshly" imported from US/Australia. Didn't speak Spanish. 72 staff. 6 spoke English. We opened, grew and thrived as one of the most innovative, fast growing and trail blazing media companies in Europe. Added Global experience, with local rules to create a media powerhouse agency.

Was the first ever international media transfer in McCann history, and (allegedly) the youngest ever global VP. Ran the global Coca-Cola media business for McCann.

It was my first job in advertising - working for the amazing Barry Thompson as an AE. He taught me so many things and gave me a chance, which I never thanked him enough for. He nicknamed me "Knackers" (no idea why - and thankfully it didn't really stick.When I started there was a wheel missing off my desk chair. He said if I won an account he'd buy me a new chair which he did - when we won our next account - which we did. Berry Funeral Directors - who buried my mum.Another of my first clients was Annie Lovejoy from Outdoors on Parade - who I'm still friends with - almost 40 years later. THANK YOU BARRY XXXX