Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Social Media space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Marie Outtier
Director of Product Management of Twitter
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
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David Wilding
Director of Planning of Twitter
As Director of Planning at Twitter UK my role is to help to inspire and enable planners and clients to get the most out of a product by advising them on how to embed Twitter into their marketing and communication strategies. I’ve recently joined Twitter from PHD where I spent 5 fantastic years as Head of Planning, overseeing PHD’s planning product on brands such as Sainsbury’s, Warner Bros, Mondelez, YouTube and the BHF. Before that I spent 8 years at Mindshare. I’m Module editor for the IPA’s Excellence Diploma and sit on the APG committee.
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Marjorie Scardino
Member of the Board of Directors of Twitter
Marjorie Scardino served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors of Pearson PLC, a publishing and education company, from 1997 to 2012.From 1985 to 1997, Marjorie Scardino served in several roles at The Economist Group, a media company, including as Chief Executive Officer. Marjorie Scardino served on the board of directors of Nokia Corporation, a telecommunications company, from 2001 to April 2013. Scardino holds a B.A. in Psychology from Baylor University and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.Scardino was selected to serve on our board of directors because of the strength of her extensive knowledge of the media industry and her global business experience.
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About : Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Steve Lok
Director, Global Customer Data Strategy of Media.Monks
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About Media.Monks: Media.Monks is a global, digital-first marketing and advertising services company.
Maximilian Bleyleben
Managing Director and Chief Privacy Officer of SuperAwesome
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About SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Orhan Hasanov
Director of SwiftGift
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About GiftMagic, SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Stan Stalnaker
Founding Director of Hub Culture
Stan Stalnaker is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Hub Culture, an ecosystem that includes the Ven the digital currency, Ultra Exchange, AQUA quarantine system and HubID digital identity. Previously, Stan was the international director of marketing for the Time Inc. Business and Finance group, based first in Hong Kong, then London.
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About Hub Culture: Hub Culture is a global collaboration platform focused on digital currency and identity, knowledge brokerage and community services.
Caroline Drucker
Director of Strategic Partnerships EMEA of Instagram
Vice, SoundCloud, Etsy, and now Instagram – the NEXT regular knows her stuff.
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Ashley Read
Editorial Director of Buffer
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About Buffer, The Media: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Simon Daglish
Group Commercial Director of ITV
After leaving school Simon decided that University was not for him and joined the army. This was followed by work in Venezuela, America and Australia before returning to the UK in 1991 to start work on the ‘new’ Daily Telegraph, which had recently been purchased by Conrad Black. Having managed the launch of the Saturday Magazine in 1995 he decided to set up his own publishing company, and in 1998 sold it to Tony O’Riley’s Independent Magazines. Simon then joined the fledgling Classic FM and within 4 years it had grown into the biggest commercial radio station in the UK and the most profitable. In 2005 Classic FM and its parent company GWR merged with Capital Radio and Simon became the Group Commercial Director. On the sale of GCap Media to Global, Simon left and joined the early social media revolution working for MySpace as Commercial Director. Simon joined ITV plc in January 2011 as Group Commercial Sales Director and was promoted to Deputy Managing Director, Commercial in January this year. In his free time he has rowed across the Irish Sea and walked to the South Pole, unsupported on both trips. He has also led an expedition to the North Pole with 4 wounded soldiers and HRH Prince Harry. Simon completed his second South Pole challenge in December 2013 for Walking With The Wounded, a charity which he founded and he has raised nearly £3 million for various charities.
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About ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Tom Betts
Director of Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions of ITV
Tom Betts is a Director of Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions at ITV plc.
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About ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Steve Forde
Director of Digital Products of ITV
Steve Forde has nearly 20 years of digital marketing and product experience. He has spent the majority of that working for the UK’s leading broadcasters. Steve joined ITV in 2015 having spent a decade at Channel 4 where he headed up the marketing for 4oD and the award winning viewer data strategy. Steve joined ITV to launch of the ITV Hub, which has had a 43% increase in viewing in it’s first year. As the Director of Product and Online Marketing, Steve is responsible for the ITV Hub’s product and viewer strategy. Him and his team of product, engagement and experience professionals are placing the viewer at the heart of the end-to-end viewer experience vision.
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About ITV, ITV, ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Gary Knight
Commercial Content Director of ITV
Gary began his career in commercial TV almost 39 years ago when he joined the airtime Sales Dept of London Weekend Television. He has held many roles in ITV companies across the subsequent years, including the Executive Director of commercial Ventures at Granada & the Brand Partnership Director’s role at the newly merged ITV. In his present position he is responsible for Sponsorship, Digital Partnerships, Branded Content & Product placement activities. He is also the commercial team’s main link into ITV’s production & commissioning teams, giving him a unique insight into this world. Although born within the sound of Bow Bells, he now lives in deepest Kent, closer To Paris than London & only a boat ride across the icy seas to his Viking ancestors base on Norwegian shores. Launching a version of Coronation Street in the Chinese market remains one of his most “ interesting “ achievements to date.
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About ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Richard Fenn
Design Director of The Engine Group
Although being a country boy from the depths of Herefordshire, Richard Fenn knew pursuing the family tradition of farming was not for him. Like most teenagers Richard Fenn loved playing computer games and was fascinated by cool tech. This inspired him to study Interactive Multimedia at University, a course offering various modules, from programming to graphic design. Richard Fenn quickly knew where his passions and strengths lay. Returning from a gap year Richard Fenn got a job as a Flash Designer. A few years down the road, it was obvious flash was dying a death and that’s when Richard Fenn traversed to full design. Many years and three companies later Richard Fenn is now a freelance Art Director and currently working at Google.
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About The Engine Group, The FWA: A creative community that provides clients with best-in-class communications expertise under one roof.
Harry Hardisty
Commercial Director of OnSerro
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About OnSerro: OnSerro provides community management software for companies to engage with customers and clients.
Peter Seldon
Director of OnSerro
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About OnSerro: OnSerro provides community management software for companies to engage with customers and clients.
Kathy Phillips
International Beauty Director of Condé Nast
Kathy Phillips spent seven years at Vogue as Health and Beauty Director. She left this prestigious post a few years ago to pursue various new projects specifically the launch of the natural Beauty Brand This Works. But she still maintains a strong link with Condenast in her current role as International Beauty Director for Condé Nast Asia working with all their titles (Vogue, “W” Self, Vogue Girl and Allure) in Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan juggling both responsibilities which call on differing facets of the Beauty industry. For the Asian titles, she plans and directs Beauty shoots, writes articles and oversees the 50-page Beauty sections in China and Japan. At This Works, as Creative Director and Founder, she is involved in the visual and formulations side of the business including the packaging design, concept and creation of products. Her long relationship with Condé Nast began in 1992 when she was first Associate Editor and then Beauty Director of Tatler. She is one of very few journalists who are also involved in the visual side of things, not surprising since she spent four years studying Fashion and History of Art at St Martins School of Art before the start of her career. She has styled fashion, beauty editorial and advertising shoots over many years and worked with the very best photographers including Raymond Meier, Carter Smith, Enrique Badulescu, Willy Vanderperre, Nathanial Goldberg, Dan Jackson, Regan Cameron, Miles Aldridge, Solve Sündsbo, Ben Hassett and Richard Burbridge, to name a few. She has worked for many British magazines and newspapers throughout her career. From having her own weekly page on the Daily Mail, at 23, she has been a columnist for the Mail on Sunday, a commissioning editor on YOU magazine and written for various publications including The Financial Times, The Times, and The Sunday Times, the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Telegraph and most recently, Psychologies magazine. She wrote the “Beauty Guru” column in the Evening Standard and from 2008-2010, the “Beauty Queen” column in Observer Woman magazine. She has won several Jasmine Awards, the fragrance industry’s top prize for Journalism and a C.E.W Lifetime Achiever Award, recognition from the Cosmetics Industry. In 1977 she wrote The Vogue Book of Blondes and then edited and co-wrote Vogue Beauty (2000) as well as two best-selling books on Yoga. The most recent of these, The Spirit of Yoga has been translated into several languages and re-issued as a paperback. A new, smaller paperback format was re-printed for August 2005. She has frequently appeared on TV and radio both here and in the US. Kathy is interested in the serious side of Beauty, Complementary Medicine, Health and Fitness and is often found quizzing doctors, dermatologists, laser specialists, nutritionists and cosmetic surgeons as well as being invited to watch operations and new procedures being performed. She has been practising Yoga for thirty years and is a qualified teacher.
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About Condé Nast, This Works: Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications.
Danielle Bennison-Brown
Director of Video Content of Condé Nast
Danielle Bennison-Brown is Director of Video Content of Condé Nast Britain. Heading up a dedicated central video team, she works alongside the editorial and commercial teams of leading media brands including Vogue, GQ, Wired and Glamour to create high quality video content for a combination of digital platforms. In addition to her remit for Condé Nast Britain, Danielle provides input for key Condé Nast International markets. Formerly i-D’s Global Head of Video, she founded and directed the media brand’s video content strategy whilst overseeing production and commissioning. Danielle carved a unique and instantly recognisable style for i-D’s visual output, and the video platform generated 20+ million views in under 12 months, helped in part by the pioneered trend for ‘edutainment’ videos, with strands such as the A-Z and Model Mother Tongue series.
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About Condé Nast, DBB & Partners: Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications.
Ahmed Abou Hussein
Regional Director of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Mats Granryd
Director General of GSMA
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Luciana Camargos
Senior Director Future Spectrum of GSMA
Luciana Camargos is the GSMA’s Senior Director of Future Spectrum. She is responsible for the coordination and applicationof mobile industry positions on spectrum plans and is the manager of the future spectrum team, which looks after the GSMA’s WRC and ITU-R activity. She is also responsible for the GSMA’s Future Spectrum Group, the global committee of industry experts focused on future spectrum issues for mobile. She is a specialist with long experience in mobile telecommunications and spectrum policy. In 2012, Luciana joined GSMA Brazil, after having worked in the UK for consulting firm Access Partnership from 2009.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Amol Jadhav
Director of Market Engagement of GSMA
Amol Jadhav is the Director of Market Engagement at GSMA.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Jade Nester
Director of GSMA
Jade Nester is Director, Consumer Policy, at the GSMA, a trade association representing the interests of mobile network operators worldwide. Previously, she was at Promontory Financial Group, an IBM company, where she advised clients on compliance with privacyand data protection laws and regulations. Jade has over 13 years of experience working on information and communicationstechnology policy and regulatory issues. Between 2006 and 2014, she held a number of roles within the U.S. government, including Senior Advisor for Internet Policy at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in the Commerce Departmentand Director, Internet Public Policy at the State Department.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Yolanda Sanz
eSIM Technical Director at GSMA of GSMA
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Pablo Iacopino
Director of Ecosystem Research of GSMA
Pablo leads the Ecosystem Research practice at GSMA Intelligence. He oversees the direction and production of content for a range of research streams such as industry megatrends, technology developments, 5G and network transformation, telecoms and media convergence, and the future of the digital consumer. Pablo has more than 15 years’ experience in the telecoms industry in different roles, including investor relations, equity research and industry research. He holds a Master’s degree in business administration and a postgraduate Master’s degree in statistics and economics from University degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
John Hoffman
CEO & Director of GSMA
John Hoffman is the CEO and Director at GSMA.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
David Kershaw
Co-Founder ,CEO & Exec Director of M&C Saatchi
David Kershaw is a founding director of M&C Saatchi. He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1982 after obtaining an MBA at London Business School. He became managing director in 1990 and was made chairman and chief executive of the UK agency in 1994.
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About M&C Saatchi: M&C Saatchi Group is a creative company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data and technology.
William McMullan
Director of Sales – eCommerce of Trustly
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About The Carlyle Group, Trustly: Pay directly from your online bank
Eugene Delaney
Non Executive Director of Make Agency
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About Make Agency: Make is a young, tight-knit and fast growing tech team, specializing in the latest trends in website development & digital marketing.
Lee Buchanan
Co-founder & Operations Director of Miappi
Lee Buchanan joined Miappi as Co-founder and Operations Director in 2012.
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About Appismo, Miappi: Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.
Julian Miall
Managing Director of Gravity4
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About Gravity4: Gravity4 is the world’s first high-frequency machine-learning marketing OS, built to enhance the advertising and SaaS industries.
Craig Ribton
Managing Director of Proactive
Craig co-founded Proactive Investors. He is FCA regulated, an expert in financial media and advanced web design. Formerly a full-time trader, he has a passion for stock picking and a thorough understanding of the financial markets. As managing director, he runs the UK business and sits on the board of the parent company. Day-to-day he helps co-ordinate the media and investor outreach for 300 publicly listed companies. Craig is a member of the Institute of Directors, a director of Fuller Treacy Money Ltd and co-founder of StockTube.com and IScapital.
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About Brighter IR, Proactive: Proactive is an international news and media organization providing coverage of companies in the small to mid-capitalization range.
Paul Dobson
Managing Director of The Chelsea Magazine Company
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About The Chelsea Magazine Company: The Chelsea Magazine Company is an award-winning publisher of specialist magazines.
Vicki Gavin
Commercial Director of The Chelsea Magazine Company
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About The Chelsea Magazine Company: The Chelsea Magazine Company is an award-winning publisher of specialist magazines.
Juan Juan Clemente Lopez
Creative Director of Favorey
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About Favorey: We are building a community of trust, where we can all ask for help from trusted contacts, and use our skills to help others.
Jo Brandl
Human Resources Director of Immediate Media Co.
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About Immediate Media Co.: Immediate Media Co. is a special interest content and platform company.
Alex White
Managing Director, Food and Parenting of Immediate Media Co.
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About Immediate Media Co.: Immediate Media Co. is a special interest content and platform company.
Katya Scott-Barrett
Creative Director of Spin Brands
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About Spin Brands: The go-to Scale Up Social Media Specialists
Nicola Parry
Account Director and General Manager of Spin Brands
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About Spin Brands: The go-to Scale Up Social Media Specialists
Tom Curtis
Executive Creative Director of mediacom
Tom heads up MediaCom Beyond Advertising UK, the content marketing arm of MediaCom, one the world’s largest media planning and buying agencies. He runs a team of around 100 content specialists, overseeing content strategy, creation and distribution for the local and international clients that are serviced out of MediaCom’s London office.
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About mediacom: MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media agencies.
Kim Thesiger
Co Founder and Group Director for Asia Pacific of TVT
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About TVT: Building digital tools for the Entertainment industry
Jemima Garthwaite
Director of This Here
Founder and Director of This Here, a data-driven creative agency and marketing technology startup. http://thishe.re
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About This Here: This Here build brands through the story-tellers of our generation, influencers.
Saverio Cianfrone
Director Music Partnerships of Crowdmix
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About Crowdmix: Connecting the world through music. The app where bands, fans and brands collide.
Kostas Alekoglu
Managing Director of Caliston
Serial entrepreneur and Managing Director of Caliston Digital, a results-driven marketing agency based in London, UK.
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About Caliston, SmartFi: ROI-driven Digital marketing agency
Paul Davies
Group Client Director (interim) of Econsultancy
Paul Davies is the Group Client Director (interim) at Econsultancy.
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About Econsultancy: Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, e-commerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
Simon Derungs
Global Client Director of Econsultancy
Simon Derungs is the Global Client Director at Econsultancy.
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About Econsultancy: Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, e-commerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
Paul Mead
Exec Board Director of Jellyfish
Paul is Executive Board Director @ Jellyfish, NED @ Social Life and Adviser @ Vitruvian Partners, HolidayExtras.com and Squared.io Formerly Founder & CEO of VCCP Media, Paul is a Fellow at The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, a mentor at Tech Stars and sits on the creative industries Inward Investment Committee and Promote UK board.
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About Jellyfish, Social Life: Jellyfish works as a digital platform, supporting and drives digital transformation by providing strategy, technology, and training.
Franki Goodwin
Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi (Advertising Co.)
Franki leads a double life as a Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi London and as Exec Producer at Western Edge Pictures and the Gennaker Group – a group of independent Feature Film Production and Finance Companies. In her first company, Franki&Jonny, she pioneered early integrated content and social media campaigns and won many awards, including a BAFTA interactive and a bunch of D&ADs. Franki was recently was named by the prestigious awards outfit the FWA as a ‘Digital Pioneer’ for her work in this period for Warner Bros, Disney, Skype and Film4. In 2013 she joined Saatchi & Saatchi London, bringing unique digital expertise and storytelling skills to an integrated advertising role working across clients such as Marie Curie, Asda, and Deutsche Telekom. In 2016 Franki won 9 Cannes Lions for “Sea Hero Quest” – the world’s first game to plug into Dementia research, which was named as one of the top 10 campaigns of 2016 by Creative Review and Campaign. In 2017 she was a Judge at the Cannes Lions, and also won 4 Lions, including one gold, for her latest work for DT “Magenta Unleashed”– a partnership with the band Gorillaz.
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About Saatchi & Saatchi (Advertising Co.), Saatchi & Saatchi London, Western Edge Pictures: Saatchi & Saatchi is a global creative communications company headquartered in New York with 130 offices in 70 countries.
Rakesh Bhasin
Investment Director of yourfeed
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About yourfeed: yourfeed is an online platform that connects people to relevant opportunities via their real life skills!
Bengu Atamer
Co-Founder & Director of BuzzMyVideos
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About BuzzMyVideos: BuzzMyVideos is leading martech company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube.
Nick Wakefield
Founder & Managing Director of inAsia Media
Nick has over 18 years of experience in technology, media and finance. He started his first tech business in 1999 building an e-commerce platform. He spent 7 years in London focusing on financial sales in the risk management and derivatives market, before moving to Asia to help build Euromoney’s portfolio of conferences across emerging markets. Over this period he ran teams in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2010 he setup inAsia Media and in 2013 launched Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory information service. He still plays an advisory role in the business. His passion for technology and experience working within the financial markets partner well for Bambu in the role expanding into Europe. He holds a Diploma in Economics and is currently studying a Software Engineering MicroMasters at University of British Columbia.
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About : Online publisher headquartered in Singapore. Publishes market leading titles Regulation Asia & ESG Investor
Ed Ethelston
Director of etc.venues
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About etc.venues: etc.venues operates, and hires conference, training, meeting, exhibition, and event venues in London and Birmingham.
Nicola Andrews
Senior Sales & Commercial Director of Keshet International
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About Keshet International: Keshet International is Keshet Media Group’s global distribution and production arm.
Patrick Herridge
UK Managing Director of MikeWorldWide Integrated Public Relations
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About MikeWorldWide Integrated Public Relations: One of the top mid-sized public relations firms & one of the 5 largest independent agencies in the US, with European headquarters in London.
James Carter
Managing Director – Digitalbox Publishing Ltd. of Digitalbox
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About Digitalbox: Digitalbox have created a ‘push media’ publishing model able to deliver large, high quality audiences in a brand-safe environment.
Matthew Brown
Managing Director of Data & CRM of Karmarama
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About Karmarama: Karmarama is a full service communications agency, combining creative excellence with technology-inspired solutions
Darshan Sanghrajka
Founder & Product Director of State of Ambition
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About State of Ambition: State of Ambition is a social enterprise that helps young individuals build support networks around their ambitions.
Kevin Gibbons
Managing Director of BlueGlass Interactive
A leading light in the search industry, SEOptimise founder Kevin Gibbons is a web expert with over 10 years’ experience. He has specialised in the field of search engine marketing since 2003, advising a wide range of industry sectors on increasing their online visibility by using the latest search engine marketing techniques. A highly respected expert blogger on the latest developments in search engine marketing, Kevin writes regularly for SEOptimise, Econsultancy and Search Engine Land, plus he is highly followed on Twitter. At SEOptimise Kevin oversees the search marketing team, the strategy of online marketing projects, client account management and promotes the business within the search industry.
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About BlueGlass Interactive, Re:signal, WeLoveDates: BlueGlass Interactive is a digital marketing agency providing integrated SEO, content marketing, and paid search services.
Matt Chrisp
Commercial Analytics Director of beIN MEDIA GROUP
Matt joined beIN in February 2016, to launch the Commercial Insights team based in London. He leads a team of insights and analytics executives, seeking out the value that content drives for beIN’s platforms and channels across our international portfolio. Matt’s team is also responsible for valuing entertainment and sports rights for beIN and beIN’s competitors, to contribute to bidding strategy in the various major tender processes that beIN participates in. Matt started his career in New Zealand at KPMG, before taking a 9 month sabbatical to play rugby in London in 2009…which he never made it back from. Since then Matt has held positions at the National Basketball Association, Sony Pictures and A+E Networks during which time he contributed to new ventures across the various elements of the pay-tv ecosystem.Matt has two children, loves to travel, and enjoys triathlons and the odd tennis match.
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About beIN MEDIA GROUP: beIN MEDIA GROUP brings unrivalled sport action and major international events, to dozens of millions of viewers around the world.
Farhad Divecha
Managing Director of AccuraCast
Farhad Divecha is the managing director of AccuraCast. He oversees all search engine marketing, advertising and technical development work. A recognised authority in the field of search engine marketing and mobile search marketing, Farhad is a regular speaker at industry conferences and is quoted in numerous popular publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and CNet.
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About AccuraCast: AccuraCast is a digital marketing agency based in London, UK.
Jerome Bergerou
Director of AccuraCast
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About AccuraCast: AccuraCast is a digital marketing agency based in London, UK.
Kos Gkortsilas
Managing Director of Footy Addicts
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About Footy Addicts: Footy Addicts is a social platform that enables football players and enthusiasts to discover, organize, and join football games in the UK.
Alexander Mark Lemon
President,Co-Founder & Executive Director of Mkango Resources
Mr Lemon is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London (MSc Mineral Exploration) and Oxford Brookes University (BSc Geological Sciences) He has 21 years experience in mineral exploration and business development and from 1994 to 2001 was the Managing Director of a Gold Mining company, which owned and operated a producing gold mine in Central Asia, where he gained extensive operating experience in emerging markets including government negotiations and project management. From 2001 to 2005, he worked for a family office Allied Commercial as an investment advisor. Mr Lemon is a founding Director and President of Mkango Resources Limited which listed on the TSX.V in January 2011 and is a founding director of its major shareholder Leo Mining and Exploration Limited. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and a Member of the Southern African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.
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About Mkango Resources: Mkango Resources Ltd. is a mineral exploration and development company.
William Dawes
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder & Executive Director of Mkango Resources
William Dawes is a graduate of Bristol University (BSc Geology) and Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London (MSc Mineral Exploration with distinction). Having trained as a geologist in South Africa, he worked as a mining analyst based in London and then for Rio Tinto’s exploration division. Subsequently, he gained significant global mining transaction experience in the metals and mining team of Robert Fleming & Co, Chase Manhattan Bank and JPMorgan. Mr Dawes was a founding director of Mkango’s major shareholder, Leo Mining and Exploration (Leominex) and since 2004 has been involved in the exploration and evaluation of a variety of projects throughout Central Asia, Middle East and Africa. He has 12 years’ experience in exploration and business development and 9 years in mining finance, mergers and acquisitions. He is a Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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About Mkango Resources: Mkango Resources Ltd. is a mineral exploration and development company.
John Aby Olival
Finance Director of Firefly Experience (Firef.ly)
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About Firefly Experience (Firef.ly): Illuminating Journeys. Firef.ly is a mobile app which distils trip planning, guiding and journalling into a beautiful experience.
John Aby Olival
Finance Director of Firefly Experience (Firef.ly)
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About Firefly Experience (Firef.ly): Illuminating Journeys. Firef.ly is a mobile app which distils trip planning, guiding and journalling into a beautiful experience.
Matt Garbutt
Creative Director of Greenlight Digital
Matt has been a digital creative his entire career, starting out in full service agencies in the late nineties through to in-house roles in the 2000s. In 2010, he co-founded a digital agency, followed by a creative production agency in 2013. Matt has extensive experience in a great many areas of digital creative and build, as well as video and film, motion graphics and above-the-line creative. In 2017, Matt’s digital agency and Greenlight joined forces, with Matt being appointed as the agency’s Creative Director.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Hannah Kimuyu
Director of Paid Media & Data Insights of Greenlight Digital
Hannah has been working in digital for over sixteen years, thirteen of which have been at Greenlight. A major element in Hannah’s success as a search professional is her historical knowledge and understanding of the way that search has grown over the years, coupled with her extremely specific hands-on experience. Hannah has been a key innovator in diversifying Greenlight’s paid media and data offering, moving the agency towards retargeting, audience insights, display, and paid social advertising, at a time when other agencies saw those innovations as a fad. As Greenlight’s Paid Media & Data Insights Director, Hannah is responsible for managing and delivering the agency’s paid media strategy for all clients. Through this role, she consults for some of Greenlight’s largest international clients, including New Balance, Superdry, ghd, and Victoria Beckham. In 2016, Hannah launched a second department; Data Science & Audience Insights. Partnering with Lotame, a data management platform, the service combines interaction, attitudinal, descriptive, and behavioural data to help brands understand who their customers are and what they’re buying with a cross-channel and cross-device focus.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Ben Cook-Northrop
Account Director of Greenlight Digital
Ben Cook-Northrop is an account director at Greenlight.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Chris Mackie
Director and Founder of 205 Media LTD
Chris Mackie is a Director and Founder of 205 Media LTD.
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About 205 Media LTD: 205 Media is a creative agency that offers a range of personalized services to its clients.
Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development of Royal Shakespeare Company
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About Royal Shakespeare Company: The Royal Shakespeare Company creates theater at its best, made in Stratford-upon-Avon and shared around the world.
Ivan Fernandes
Director – Digital Transformation of Digital Business Partners
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About Digital Business Partners: Digital Business & Technology Consultancy
Kevin Bone
Director of Sentiment
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About : Sentiment Engage is a cloud platform including a unified inbox for social media and messaging apps.
Tobin Byers
Account Director of HardHat
Working in public affairs and stakeholder engagement for over five years, Tobin has significant experience devising and implementing consultation and communication strategies. Having worked with some of the country’s leading housebuilders, he has advised on consultation and political engagement on both planning applications and strategic land allocations.
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About HardHat: HardHat is a specialist communications consultancy for the property, development, energy and infrastructure sectors.
James Bird
Director of HardHat
James is a former freelance broadcast journalist, councillor and parliamentary candidate. He is a public affairs professional with a solid background in communications and a proven track record in delivering effective campaigns in public consultation and political relations in London and beyond.
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About HardHat: HardHat is a specialist communications consultancy for the property, development, energy and infrastructure sectors.
Ally Kennedy
Director of HardHat
Ally is an experienced communications professional with a background in politics, stakeholder and community engagement and media relations. Ally has worked for clients involved in house building, renewable energy and regeneration projects and sits on Remarkable’s operational board. In a previous life he worked for a major political party at their Westminster HQ and at constituency level.
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About HardHat: HardHat is a specialist communications consultancy for the property, development, energy and infrastructure sectors.
Ally Kennedy
Director of HardHat
Ally is an experienced communications professional with a background in politics, stakeholder and community engagement and media relations. Ally has worked for clients involved in house building, renewable energy and regeneration projects and sits on Remarkable’s operational board. In a previous life he worked for a major political party at their Westminster HQ and at constituency level.
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About HardHat: HardHat is a specialist communications consultancy for the property, development, energy and infrastructure sectors.
Sam Clough
Director of HardHat
With over 15 years agency experience under her belt across a diverse group of clients and sectors, Sam is used to delivering digital, social and campaign strategies to ensure clients’ business objectives are met in today’s challenging communications landscape. With a strong understanding of the principles of business growth combined with a passion for creating great content her focus is on delivering considered and integrated solutions that make an impact. Sam has worked with many clients and brands over the years including Associated British Ports (ABP), GenesisCare, Novartis, J&J and Ordnance Survey.
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About HardHat: HardHat is a specialist communications consultancy for the property, development, energy and infrastructure sectors.
David Button
Account Director of HardHat
David has five years’ experience working on public affairs and political engagement campaigns for clients across a number of sectors, including housing, property, transport, and the third sector. He has worked with clients to raise their profile with policy makers and deliver changes to government legislation and supports developers including McCarthy & Stone to deliver local stakeholder engagement programmes.
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About HardHat: HardHat is a specialist communications consultancy for the property, development, energy and infrastructure sectors.
Terence Bradley
Director Scientific Engagement of WE Communications
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About Health Unlimited, WE Communications: WE Communications (fka :Waggener Edstrom ) is one of the largest privately owned, full-service public relations agencies.
Charlie Dawe
Director of Strategic Partnerships, London Ops of RECOVR
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About RECOVR: Creators + Patrons + Charity = ☮. Reevaluating the Value of Music. We ♥︎ #creators #mycelia #FairTradeMusic #blockchain #VR + You.
Carlos Serra Cardenas
Corporate Development Director of Audiense
Carlos Serra is responsible for finance, fundraising and strategic partnerships at Fits.me. Prior to Fits.me, Carlos worked at Strata Partners, a London-based technology-focused corporate finance business; and, before that, for Monroy Petersen, a San Francisco-based M&A specialist. In addition to advising technology entrepreneurs, Carlos has been a Silicon Valley entrepreneur himself. He co-founded a mobile services start-up – iPling, one of the first iPhone applications – and has invested in a number of other small UK/Spanish start-ups and secured the required funding. He has a Law degree from the Universidad Complutense and a Masters in Finance from IEB (Madrid).
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About Audiense: Audiense is a develops delivering unique consumer insight and engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies.
John Welbourn
Director of Partnerships of Gnatta
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About Gnatta: Gnatta allows businesses of all sizes to listen and engage with their customers on an individual basis via one single interface.
Matt Roskill
Managing Director of Albion
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About Albion, Utility Warehouse: We are a creative business partner. We work with companies to invent and reinvent their businesses to unlock growth.
Somi Arian
Managing Director of Smart Cookie Media
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About Smart Cookie Media: Smart Cookie Media bridging the gap between digital natives and established brands.
Katherine Adams
Business Director of The Village Communications
My primary focus is to oversee the team across a portfolio of accounts. Ensuring that the team consistently deliver to a high standard and work closely with partner agencies to deliver integrated through the line campaigns.
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About The Village Communications: Small and independent, with a talented, passionate, multi-disciplinary team, we allow great ideas to flourish
Stephen Worn
CTO & Managing Director of DatacenterDynamics
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Adam King
Creative Director of Diagonal View
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About Diagonal View: Diagonal View creates entertaining video content that reaches mass audiences.
Charlie Ryan
Founder & Director of Moshhh Ltd.
I’m the Founder of Giguana, a new kind of streaming service that rewards fans for supporting the bands they love. I have an 11 year background in Design and Development, and worked with a number of big name clients before joining the team at football statistics startup Squawka to build the initial product. I exited Squawka in 2014 to try and disrupt the music industry with Giguana.
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About Moshhh Ltd.: Giguana is new kind of streaming service that rewards fans for supporting the bands they love. Launching Soon!
Afsor Miah
Director of Ciesco
Director | Corporate Finance | Advisory Services
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About Ciesco: Corporate finance advisors to technology-enabled media and marketing businesses
Bhairav Patel
Board of Directors of Sjapper
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About Defactor: Sjapper is a mobile application that makes it easy to find local products, events and exclusives in Kristiansand and South-Norway.
Ian Nunoo
Digital Director of Javelin
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About Base2digital, Javelin: Javelin is an advertising agency that specializes in launching, developing, and evolving brands.
Tony Restell
Director, Social Media Marketing of Social Hire
Tony Restell is the Founder of Social-Hire.com and works with SMEs around the world to generate tangible business results from social media marketing. He was recently ranked by Brand24 as the 40th most influential marketer worldwide, with a social media reach of 15 million people. He’s also a guest speaker at business schools across Europe and has been a featured expert on the BBC, Business.com and Fox Business News
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About Social Hire: Social-Hire.com using social media to drive sales, generate leads or make hires for your business.
Mark Fleming
Creative Director of Rosie Lee
With a decade’s experience within the creative sector – working cross discipline for Virgin Group, Lego, MTV and various record labels – Mark founded Rosie Lee in early 2000. As Creative Director he saw the agency’s client base soon grow to include a diverse relationship with Nike UK, EHQ and Global. Developing projects spanning both brand and retail categories, performance and sportswear, campaigns include National and International team kit launches, Nike Sportswear 08.08.08, the NIKEiD launch at NikeTown London as well as grass-roots projects such as this year’s Run Dem Crew Youngers initiative. A keen collaborator, Mark is currently working alongside industrial designer Jasper Morrison to launch Swiss electronics brand Punkt, and with poet, producer and DJ Charlie Dark on a number of creative projects. In keeping with Rosie Lee’s ethos of celebrating diversity within creativity, Mark has become increasingly involved with mentoring aspiring creatives, sharing his substantial experience within the sector and giving hands on advice to business start-ups.
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About Rosie Lee: Rosie Lee are a hybrid creative agency.
Stephen Benzikie
Non Executive Director of Wamo
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About Wamo: Mobile app that connects brands to fans
Hannah Thorpe
Business Director of Found.
Hannah is Head of SEO at White.net, and works with clients to produce multi-platform campaigns through every stage from ideation through to completion. Hannah’s role covers everything from leading complex technical strategies, to creating innovative content campaigns and harnessing data to drive results. With experience speaking at multiple conferences, including BrightonSEO, Search London and SEONow and a regular blogging slot on State of Digital, Hannah is always happy to share tips and debate the controversies of the latest changes in technical SEO best practice.
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About Found.: Through Search, Social & Mobile.
Alex Lowe
Marketing Director of Sportlobster
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About Sportlobster: Sportlobster was born out of the frustration that sports fans face in having to visit multiple sites or download multiple apps.
Lucy Blair
Director at Digital Marketing of Motive Unknown
As director at digital marketing agency Motive Unknown, Lucy specialises in helping music clients including BMG, Sony Red, AIM and Gramofon to identify and implement strategic business and technology opportunities. Prior to joining Motive Unknown in 2014, Lucy spent three and a half years as Digital Marketing Manager at renowned dance music labels Ministry of Sound and Anjunabeats, heading up their digital strategy, campaigns and teams. Lucy is also a regular conference panellist and presenter, and to date has contributed to events including MIDEM, By:Larm, AIM Music Connected and Indie Con and Brighton Music Conference, amongst others.
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About Motive Unknown: A strategic digital marketing consultancy working primarily in the music business
John Mitchison
Director of Policy and Compliance of DMA UK
John has extensive in-depth knowledge of the data and marketing industry, with over 20 years of experience in both. He has worked closely with industry to give advice and support to organisations dealing with the changes affecting their businesses, as well as contributing to any industry and government working groups and committees. Prior to joining the DMA, John worked at Acxiom and before that the Daily Telegraph, where his roles involved managing large data campaigns.
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About DMA UK: DMA UK is a trade body for the direct marketing industry.
