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London, Gb

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San Francisco, California, Us

Leading the Uber Advertising business across international markets - EMEA and APAC

San Francisco, California, Us

Uber Advertising is a new part of the Uber story. We have a variety and growing selection of advertising opportunities - using both the Rides and Eats Apps and continue to evolve these across 2024. My role is a commercial and senior manager role. Core responsibilities are : - - Build the UK and Eire Team, now one of the largest teams in Uber Ads globally. - Three core teams - across non endemic advertisers, cpg partners and restaurant partners- Promote the opportunities we have to the Industry via events and PR- Build the strategy for the UK and London based Advertisers and agencies- Work with clients and agencies - Work with the key stakeholders across Uber - Work across the global organisationSuccess so far includes : Team Hiring - diverse and dynamic team hired 25 people in 12 months.54 % Female, 10 nationalitiesRevenue - achieving and overachieving revenue targetsJudge of the following - 2023 Media Week Awards , Drum Digital Awards 2024 Campaign Media Awards, Festival of Media Awards ( Global ) , World Media AwardsPresented at 20 events in 2023 + 5 podcasts

London, Greater London, Gb

London, London, Gb

Have been working with Future London Academy ,as a guest lecturer, on a business strategy module. Worked with the cohort in 2022 and now working with the team in 2023.

I have been mentoring business people for several years and have been trained by various organisations in mentoring ( IPA, Bloom and others )The mentoring process for me , is usually two way, so both sides come away with benefits. I have mentored a lot around senior leadership and helping drive the diversity agenda. My approach is informal usually a over a coffee and can be regular catch ups or a simple one or two session process.I have mentored for the Bloom Exchange Programme in 2019 and continue to help people across the industry gain success and am always happy to help. So if you are interested please contact me via this page and we can arrange a short call to decide next steps. Please note I travel a lot for work so may take a few days to come back to you , but always will.

London, London, Gb

Seattle, Wa, Us

This is a new Business Development and Partnership Team , part of the Ad Tech org within Amazon Ads. The team covers the following areas :1. AdTech with AWS - a joint program with AWS helping our customers work across advertising and cloud services (EMEA and LatAm)2. Reseller Partnerships - supporting our resellers in core markets 3. Tech Partnerships - building new programs that support our expanding technology suite including Amazon Marketing Cloud4. Building Tech Sales across LatAm and EMEA Markets via our own teams and via resellers. The team is based across Mexico, US (Miami),UK,Germany and France.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Amazon has many Diversity and Inclusion Groups, I led the UK Advertising Group. We created events, support training and champion change across the org. We worked closely with the HR,PR and Recruitment Teams to help drive change.I also sit on a global group as a Team Member and am helping to set up a group that supports male allyship.

Seattle, Wa, Us

My role was to lead the Sizmek commercial team in EMEA alongside the Programmatic Team in Amazon Advertising across EU5 . This covers the adtech solutions that Amazon offers - ad serving via Sizmek, dynamic creative optimisation (DCO), Amazon Marketing Cloud and self service opportunities on the Amazon Demand Side Platform (DSP).There are teams across EMEA - both Amazon teams and partners. Our coverage ranges from Nordics to Russia and from Israel to South Africa and MENA while naturally covering the main EU markets.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Sizmek is a world class ad -serving technology and was purchased by Amazon in June 2019. My role at Sizmek by Amazon was to oversee the whole EMEA region. - Sizmek has dedicated teams in UK,France,Spain,Italy and Germany- Sizmek works with teams across other markets in EMEA - from South Africa to Nordics, Greece, Turkey and Russia providing the best in class support for our local and global advertisers. - My role is to run Sales and Account Manamgnent , Global Accounts and Insights Team. - My role was part of the Global Leadership Team

London, Gb

CAN is a volunteer group working to improve how advertisers engage with their audiences and follow best practice around the areas of diversity, fake news, hate speech, ad fraud, consent and child welfare. Please check out www.consciousadnetwork.com and sign up. I was involved from the early discussions right through it's formal launch, gaining the support of ISBA and beyond. But after nearly two and a half years and a change in role , it seemed the right time to move on. I am still very supportive of the group and its aims.

New York, Ny, Us

This role was to run the Commercial organisation across EMEA for Sizmek. This covered 20 markets and multiple products. The role reported to the CEO. After a few short weeks Sizmek was placed into Chapter 11 in the USA following a funding issue. This then led to the business being broken up and sold. I was part of the team who talked to prospective buyers about the business, while the keeping the EMEA organisation in tack. The Ad Server was sold to Amazon in June 2019 and myself and the core leadership team joined Amazon.

A short period of time off between roles allowed me to do some consulting projects for various clients

London, Gb

iotec was the Ethical Adtech Company. iotec had digital media buying(programmatic DSP) platform which it had built from the ground up. The platform was transparent in terms of margin and success at a time many other DSP's not providing that guidance and data.My role was to run all aspects of the business from engineering, product and finance to marketing and sales I reported to the board and assisted and led 3 fund raises. The company won numerous awards , spoke out about key issues in the industry ( online, in print and in broadcast ) and created an manifesto for ethics in ad tech , a precursor to many other initiatives in ethical media buying such as the Conscious Ad Network. After a reset of the business in the summer of 2018 which involved a change in strategy and technical reset.Once completed,I decided to move on. The business is now part of Silver Bullet Services Ltd.

Cupertino, California, Us

My responsibilities were to run iAd (Apple's digital advertising platform) across EMEIA and APAC.This included - - Managing the international iAd Sales and Account Management Team across London,Paris,Milan,Oslo,Tokyo and Sydney- Creation of sales strategy and implementation across each local market.- Responsible for all revenue targets and achievements - Responsible for all product launches in market - Apple News, retargeting , programmatic solutions, Apple Wallet Integrations,performance advertising- Coordination with US (product,data,marketing)- Working with creative teams,research teams and business Intelligence teams to create great advertiser solutions- Evangelising iAd to senior marketeers and agencies in all regions - Team Leadership - Co-ordination across other non iAd Teams - reporting directly to the VP of iAd in Cupertino

Cupertino, California, Us

iAd was Apple's global advertising platform , my role was to run this in the European, Middle East, India and Africa regions. I reported to the Head of Global Sales and was responsible for a "reset " of the business when I joined.

London, Gb

Omnicom Media Group UK is the holding company for the following media agencies - PHD,Rocket, PHD North, OMD,M2M and Manning Gottlieb OMD.This role reported into the Group CEO, covered all the agencies and was focused on digital media skills - from PPC ,SEO, display,mobile and social platforms. I sat on the OMG UK Board and on the Annalect UK Board.I was involved with clients,creation of client events,client pitches,internal training,hiring of key staff, and relationships with key media owners ( Google, Facebook, Twitter and key publishers and tech providers). During my tenure I became heavily involved with the move to programmatic buying and the use of tech platforms to enable this. I was also a regular speaker at events - as well as a judge across a variety of media awards.These were - -Revolution Awards 2013 (www.revawards.com)-Hollis Sponsorship Awards 2013 (http://www.sponsorship-awards.co.uk/hollis-uk-sponsorship-awards)-Festival of Media 2013 (http://www.festivalofmedia.com/global/awards/judges)-AOP 2013 (http://www.ukaop.org.uk/events/aopawards20133947.html)

London, Gb

OMD UK is one of the UK's leading media agencies and part of the OMNICOM Group. This role covers both the OMD and Manning Gottlieb OMD Agencies and is focussed on all key digital advertising skills - from PPC ,SEO, display, mobile and social platforms.

I worked with the boards of various digital companies to help them grow and develop from early stage to fund raising and exit.

Mayfair, London, Gb

Venturing Unlimited is a boutique consultancy focussing on helping clients achieve growth and innovation.Venturing changed their name to Take Out in July 2011.My role was to provide senior advice and insights on several UK based and EMEA based projects.All were growth strategies for existing digital businesses.

After leaving Adtech I focussed my energies on advising and helping companies deal with the ever changing media marketplace.This included projects looking at expansion plans, new technology developments( DSP's,ad exchanges,targeting technologies,cloud based data) changes caused by social media, sales strategies,investment strategies and business development.My core focus areas were mobile, video and data based advertising.

Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) is a global integrated mobile and digital communications business and is the fastest growing privately owned technology company in the UK and EMEA.My role was one of the group of advisors that MIG has to help its growth. My focus was on the marketing and advertising side of the MIG business.

Web TV was the market leader in VOD and pre roll advertising in the UK working with brands ranging from IPC and Bauer to BBC Worldwide.The role was the sole Board Advisory postion to the company. I assisted with business strategy,fund raising , technology strategy and ultimately an exit strategy.This resulted in the successful sale of the company to Collective (www.collective.com) in March 2011.

Dreieich, De

ADTECH is one of the worlds leading adserving providers and this role was created to run the commercial proposition for ADTECH in Europe. This involved a variety of areas from sales and marketing activities to looking at product roadmaps for the technology.The role reported to the CEO at the time.

Hamburg, De

This role was across the Bauer London Lifestyle Division - which includes FHM,Empire,Heat,Q, Mojo, Kerrang and Closer. The role oversaw the editorial and commercial teams for the digital(mobile and web) versions of these brands.It also worked closely with the technology and project managment teams.The role was a consultancy role covering maternity leave and finished in December 2009.Working with the team - we achieved lots in a short space of time- FHM - rebuild of core site to maximise commercial opportunities including new home page, new style section.- Heatworld - complete redesign and rebuild( in 4 months)- Mobile - launch of 2 core IPhone apps and redesign of existing mobile sites- SEO improvements across the board- Initial Implementation of new Sales Order Process system.- Improvement of sales team ranking for Bauer to 6th overall in IPA survey(Sept 2009)- FHM wins AOP Award April 2009 - Empire online editor wins BSME Award ( www.bsme.com)

I ran my own consultancy focussed on the digital commercial market.I focused on the display ad markets including video, mobile and ad networks and provided advice and services to several companies.Bauer and many others were my clients during this period.

Middlesex, England, Gb

Sky Digital Media was BSkyB's Digital Sales Team covering online advertising sales, ecommerce partnerships as well as mobile ad sales.The team worked across Sky owned properties as well as third party properties. This was(during the period) the fastest growing part of Sky's advertising offering, and covered all types of advertising from video to display as well as tenancy partnerships. The team was based in Victoria,London and was 50 strong.Over a year after my departure this team was integrated into Sky Media's offering.

Middlesex, England, Gb

This role was to expand Sky Media's client base in the online sector. During the short time I held this role, the team added many major new clients to our portfolio.During this period there was significant change within the organisation and I was put in charge of the digital sales team as well as the business development teams and operation teams. This led to the creation of Sky Digital Media.

Aura Sports was a independent digital sports agency/ad network which specialised in advertising sales and sponsorship on behalf of sports rights owners.Aura was created by four of the orginal sales and marketing team from Sports.com, six weeks after we had been made redundant in the summer of 2002.Aura built a portfolio of clients that included 92 UK Football Clubs including Manchester United and Liverpool, the RFU ,ECB,ESPN and many others.Aura existed from 2002 until 2006 when it was sold to BSKYB.During that time Aura won many awards and was named the 4 th Fastest growing media company in the UK by Media Momentum (www.mediamomentum.co.uk) for the two years running 2005 and 2006.The business is now part of Sky Media's offering.

Sports.com was the European Arm of CBS Sportsline and existed from 1999 to 2002. My role was to build and manage both the sales teams and the marketing teams across Europe(uk.germany,italy,spain,france). We were successful in building significant revenues and developing a targeted marketing plan. Sadly the business did not stack up and after a tough last few months we were put into administation.

Middlesex, England, Gb

This was the first role at Sky designed to exploit the opportunity the internet presented to advertisers. The role worked closely with Sky Sports on the launch of Sky Sports' first website.

Middlesex, England, Gb

After 7 years in TV trading , I lobbied to get a new role helping to run a new team that was focussed on several areas - broadcast sponsorships( which were in their infancy then),teletext sales and the then new internet opportunity

Middlesex, England, Gb

As a member of the advertising sales team at Sky,I worked selling ad space to clients and agencies. This was from pre launch (1988) through to the merger with BSB. I initially started as a Sales Assistant , gradually moving to Group Sales Manager and running 25 % of Skys ad billings at the time.

London, Uk, Gb

My first role out of University. Quickly decided that advertising was for me.

Ba, Geography

English, Geography, History