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London, GB

London, GB

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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