Phil has chaired the judges at our annual DADI Awards since its inception in 2006 and has an amazing knack of pulling together a truly high quality and representative collection of judges year after year. 

Phil was recognised for his services to digital when he was inducted to the BIMA Hall of Fame and in 2020 he was Creativepool Influencer of the Year. Not bad for somebody who started out as a compositor in the printing industry before setting up his own type studio APT in the 1980s.

In 1994 Phil created the first podge lunch and invited 30 of the top designers in the country to attend. 27 years later there is a podge lunch for the digital, design, sport & music communities and Phil and his daughter Clare enjoy bringing the great and the good together every year and having fun.

www.podgeevents.com

Alyson Williams leads Forbes’ advertising operations, ad product, yield and inventory management, and sales operations and analytics teams. She oversees the execution and delivery of all direct digital advertising programs. She is additionally responsible for overall digital strategy including optimizing site experience for marketers and audiences, developing ad products for display, video, and content programs, exploring new ad technologies and expanding Forbes’ data capabilities, and managing technology partnerships in order to continually grow digital revenue.

Prior to her current role, Alyson held various digital advertising positions at Forbes. She graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in English and Communications and currently lives with her husband and two children in Westchester County, New York.

Jed has 20+ years experience launching, building and scaling brands, marketing, and operation functions at start-ups and large companies.

Jed has a track record of driving business growth and increasing customer satisfaction by optimizing the customer experience across all touch points - sales, marketing, and support. Jed is currently at Facebook as Head of Global Media and Digital Marketing.

Prior to Facebook, Jed held positions at both early-stage start-ups and large, public companies. Jed was COO and VP, Marketing at social e-commerce start-up, Yardsellr. Prior to that Jed was Director & Head of SEM for ebay.com, eBay Motors and Half.com.

Jed has an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Finance from Boston College.

Alexis Sanders is an SEO Director at Merkle. She works with a team of SEOs to ensure the accuracy, feasibility and scalability of technical, content, and strategic SEO recommendations for clients across multiple industries. She is a contributor to the Moz blog, Search Engine Land, OnCrawl, and TechnicalSEO.com, creator of the TechnicalSEO.expert and technicalseo.guru challenge.

Iain is Head of Digital & Creative Product for CNN International Commercial’s award-winning brand studio Create. Working across a diverse range of clients, he helps brands tell stories that resonate with the CNN audience. Prior to this, he’s worked across international publishers and agencies.

Flavilla Fongang is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, an international and multilingual keynote speaker. She is the founder of 3 Colours Rule, an award-winning branding and marketing agency. Flavilla was awarded the “She’s Mercedes” businesswoman award by Mercedes Benz among women such as Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook. She is the author of “99 Strategies to get customers”. She is also the founder of Tech London Advocates – Black Women in Tech. She published in October 2021 “The Voices In The Shadow”. A book that features stories of black women in tech and is distributed to secondary schools for FREE across the UK and Ireland. The Voices In The Shadow Volume 2 will be coming back in 2022. She is a judge at the AWS Software Startups Awards 2022. Flavilla Fongang is a recognised leader in marketing as she created the D.A.C. system and The Beyond Marketing Approach which have helped numerous brands successfully grow their business. Flavilla is the chosen brand advisor for BBC and provides actionable brand strategy advice.

Computer Weekly named her among the top 2 most influential women in tech in the UK. She is an Entrepreneurship Expert with the Entrepreneurship Centre for Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

She has been a keynote speaker for the most prestigious international events, such as AdWeek, HubSpot, DMWF, MozCon, AdWorld, Upgrade100, CTA, MarTech and many more.

She also delivered corporate talks for the following companies: Facebook, Toyota, Zoom, Levi’s, Microsoft, Deloitte and many more

Frederic Brehm is an editor, director and producer on the front-lines of new media focused on culturally relevant documentary and commercial storytelling. He has traveled the world with Beyoncé creating television specials for ABC and Viacom, a feature concert film and an HBO documentary. He also led creative production for Vice Media’s Intel Creators Project where he oversaw teams of editors, directors and producers developing branded content featuring talent like Pharrell, Daft Punk, David Blaine, and the Directors Bureau. His work has won Webby’s, MTV Music Video awards, Cannes Lions nods, and even a Grammy. After running his own production company working with top brands on commercials and documentary projects Fred has partnered with Brad Dixon to create a contemporary hybrid production/creative agency.

Kirsty Hunter joined innocent as the European Marketing Director in 2020. Since she has been on board, Kirsty has overseen the launch of innocent’s new brand platform, innocent’s Little Drinks, Big Dreams, which is connecting a new generation of drinkers with innocent’s ongoing mission to make great-tasting, healthy drinks that help people and the planet. The European-wide campaign launched in May 2021 and showcases innocent’s commitment to sustainable business and balancing commercial success with community activism.

Kirsty joined innocent just days before the first national lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last year, Kirsty has led the creation and implementation of a more connected and collaborative marketing team, with the capability to continue the exciting growth journey that innocent is on.

Kirsty has more than 20 years of experience in both local and global marketing role, previously working on brands like Tennent’s Lager, Stella Artois, Magners, Pepsi and Robinsons.

Matt is the co-founder of FX Digital, a London-based Connected TV-first and OTT app technology company, helping sports and entertainment brands reach millions of new customers by building and launching premium quality CTV applications across Smart TVs, Set-Top-Boxes, gaming consoles, web and mobile devices. FX Digital partner with global brands including Discovery Inc., Eurosport and ATP Media, helping them to reach new audiences by advising on strategy and designing, developing, and deploying applications across connected TV devices.

Chris is accomplished agency leader and digital specialist with over twenty years’ experience of delivering complex marketing solutions, leading global accounts, developing, and optimising operational process, setting and implementing business vision at board level and driving successful new business initiatives. Throughout his career he has delivered initiatives within all major digital disciplines and run integrated accounts across a wide range of industry sectors. This includes the delivery of £8+ million eCommerce platforms, award winning creative campaigns, transformative consulting services and innovative digital media planning and buying.

He is currently President of BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) and has a focus on addressing the digital skills gap.

Carolyn McKeever is Specsavers Group Marketing Director. She has responsibility for identifying synergies and generating sustainable value for customers, JV Partners and Local Marketing teams across the 11 markets Specsavers operates in. She is an experienced Marketing & Communications Director with extensive multichannel retail, financial services & healthcare experience. An exemplary people leader she is skilled in vision creation, service and digital transformation, people development and generating growth and efficiencies.

Prior to Specsavers: she held senior marketing positions with Shell, Boots, Zurich and OgilvyOne.

Rebecca is COO at Kyan, a technology agency. With over 22 years agency experience she made the leap from the world of advertising and creative to a pure play tech business in 2020. Championing the creativity of tech agencies she is keen to see more tech businesses enter and win awards to celebrate the difference they make by solving clients business problems.

Previously to Kyan, Rebecca has worked in some of London's biggest agencies including: Ogilvy, Iris and MRM as well as setting up and running her agency for 10 years. Outside of Kyan Rebecca is an ultra runner, boxer, qualified behaviour change coach and during lockdown found her love of improv.

Mélanie has built her career on challenging the status quo of internationalisation and traditional models to offer a much more effective and qualitative approach by bringing local cultures back to the fore to feed globally-led initiatives. A proud award winner of the 2021 Female Frontier’s Championing Change category, which celebrates women constantly pushing the boundaries of equality, gender balance, and making dynamic changes within their work, Mélanie is very active in promoting DEI and has developed innovative initiatives to allow brands to successfully navigate complex inclusion pieces within an even more complex and diverse multicultural environment.

With over 15 years of industry experience in transcreation, cross-cultural communications and strategy, Mélanie has been advising international brands such as Barclays Wealth, Cointreau, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal Luxe, Maserati, Nokia, Orange, P&G, Sanofi, Sony and Urban Decay.

Patrick is a writer and strategist who has worked in branding, direct marketing and digital in the UK and US. He helps established and emerging brands create a distinct voice and clear purpose. 

Back in the days of WAP and dial-up he won a Cannes Lion, a Campaign Digital Award and a DMA Gold as the writer on the team that launched Diesel’s first e-commerce store and his work with Made Thought on the re-branding of G . F Smith was awarded a Black pencil by D&AD. He has put pen to paper, online and off, for the All Blacks, Audi, Ballymore, Barclays, Bayer, Brooks England, Chandon, Claridge’s, Diageo, Gilbert & George, Inglesina, Mars, Mulberry, RBS, Sunspel, StatsBomb and Tesco.

His writing on design and designers has appeared in Eye, Creative Review, Pulp, Graphis, Grafik, Design Week and P98APER and he is contributing editor at independent food and culture magazine The Gourmand. He is the son of a compositor, former chair of the Typographic Circle, an intermittent Chip Shop Awards judge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 

Cristel Lee Leed is the global Group Marketing Director for IG Group. IG Group is a global fintech providing its clients with cutting edge online trading platforms and products to unlock the global financial markets. IG Group includes the IG, IG Prime, tastytrade, Spectrum and DailyFX brands. At IG Cristel works with the key brands and has responsibility for a team of over 125 people based around the globe, who lead on in-house creative and production working out of Johannesburg, London and Krakow.

Along with leading the in-house agency for IG's marketing across APAC, Europe and North America, she also leads IG's group strategy on content, social media, marketing intelligence and CRM.

Prior to IG, Cristel has been a CMO / Director for Yolt (by ING), Nutmeg, WWF-Australia, giffgaff, Lulu.com, Virgin Media / NTL.

Cristel's focus on driving brand impact, customer growth and sustainable business value has been evident throughout her career. From her early days growing Onetel to a national brand with over 1m customers as the UK's first triple play telco, to launching and scaling up 'Best New Brand' giffgaff with a marketing team of just 5, to gaining over 1m users in Europe for app only fintech Yolt.

She has won numerous awards by leading her teams and agencies to create impactful campaigns recognised with industry awards such as The One Show, Asia Spikes, LIA's, Webby's, Ad Fest, Epica's, D&AD's and The Marketing Society UK for outstanding achievements in marketing excellence, TV, social, re-brands and brand launches, UX and digital design.

As CMO of WWF-Australia, Cristel led campaigns focused on the threats to the Great Barrier Reef, endangered species and climate change, and was honoured to lead the build and delivery of the world's first digitally immersive WWF branded visitor attraction featuring the species of, and threats to, Antarctica and the Southern Oceans.

Rob has spent most of his career agency side, working at Agency.com and Global Beach before founding and running his own agency for 16 years where his clients included Dreamworks, Paramount, Universal Pictures, Live Nation and Microsoft. His agency was also a production partner to BBH, Saatchi, Ogilvy, Sapient, Engine Group and several others.

In more recent years Rob switched to client-side where he was Head Of Design for Pizza Hut Digital Ventures and is currently a UI Motion Design Consultant at a Tier 1 Investment Bank.

Malcolm Garrett is a Founding Partner and Creative Director of the design consultancy Images&Co, and a Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Design Manchester festival.

Collaborative and user-focused, he is widely regarded as a key influence on contemporary British communication design. As one of the UK’s leading authorities on design and branding in music, Malcolm’s career spans four decades from Punk to digital download. At art school in Manchester in 1977 he founded the graphic design group Assorted iMaGes, and later in 1994 the pioneering digital agency, AMX, one of the first in London’s Shoreditch. He has been a creative lead for numerous international design initiatives, working at the interface of digital, virtual and real world experience.

In 2000 Malcolm became the first Royal Designer (RDI) in ‘new media’, and served as Master of the Faculty from 2013 to 2015. He represents the Royal Designers on the Sir Misha Black Awards Committee, the only awards anywhere in the world that recognise excellence in design education.

Ben is Head of Sport Services at JMW Solicitors LLP and leads the team managing Barn Door, the firm’s commercial platform connecting athletes with new business and active commercial opportunities.

Ben’s work at the intersection of athlete involvement in the start-up ecosystem sees him advise clients on commercial partnerships & sponsorships, growth strategy and branding for consumer facing challenger brands, high-growth startups and digital enterprises within sports, health, wellness and web3.

He has overseen deals involving Anthony Joshua and West Ham striker Michail Antonio, as well as many Premier League teams, Premiership Rugby sides and national governing bodies.

Ben has close to 10 years of experience within sport, previously representing talent at CAA Base and then acting for clubs, rightsholders and brands as part of the global partnerships team at Lagardere Sports.

Ben is regarded as an authority in commercial, branding and marketing.

Ela Osterberger was named as one of the most influential people in Data and Analytics in 2022. As Director of Data Science at Deliveroo - one of the UK's most valuable startups - she managed one of Europe's largest Data Science teams.

Prior to optimising the restaurants, riders and consumers' experience, she ran the audience data team at the Guardian. Outside of work, Ela enjoys baking (and eating) cakes, encouraging her kids to speak Austrian slang, and bike rides. She is passionate about developing Data Scientists and creating an inclusive work environment.

Jamila has 15 years’ experience working across multichannel marketing, events and comms. She brings commercial insight and a strategic approach garnered from a mix of in-house and agency positions, paired with co-founding two independently owned brands.

She is passionate about the role of digital within the sporting sector and leads the creative people behind the brand which is synonymous for Coaching in the UK - a system partner of Sport England, collaborating across over 400 partner organisations to deliver one vision: to build healthier and happier nations through sport and physical activity, with coaching as the catalyst.

A strong activist for female leadership, Jamila is determined to create more opportunities and nurture creativity and passion. She strives to bridge the gaps between some of the most prominent and fundamental issues, raising awareness through campaigns that inspire action and behavioural change. She takes a no-nonsense approach and delivers marketing that delivers real impact and tangible results.

A marketeer by day and co-owner of an independent speakeasy by night, Jamila also holds a multi-award-winning luxury spirit brand under her belt.

Lianre is CEO at Codec, a cultural intelligence platform. She is an award-winning digital marketer, who is passionate about technology, culture, communities and their impact on brands.

With 20+ years experience across global companies like LADbible, Livity and Jack Morton Worldwide, she has a wealth of experience in designing and delivering new business and diversification strategies to drive growth and optimise business performance. She is truly passionate about talent development, DE&I and increasing team happiness and performance.

She is a member of leading industry organisation WACL (Women Advertising & Communications Leadership) and a proud mentor for the She Says ‘Who’s Your Momma’ program.

Tom Ollerton is the founder of adtech platform Automated Creative who turn Impressions into Intelligence. Their technology understands consumers by analysing their responses to optimised paid advertising. Their clients include Diageo, Reckitt, KFC, GSK, Nivea, 3M, P&G, MARS, Beam Suntory, Wm Grants, Mondelez, Wickes, Unilever and NCS. Tom is the host of the Shiny New Object podcast and Advertisers Watching Ads which explore the world of advertising and marketing with the industries’ leaders.

Cactus is Europe’s leading corporate advisory and growth consultancy for agencies. The Cactus team have supported thousands of agency owners globally over the past 10 years in growing, buying and selling their businesses.

Spencer started his agency life in 1999 and exited his agency, Bluhalo, to Gyro in 2008 and took Bluhalo/Gyro to the 8th largest Digital Agency in the UK in 2009, now part of the Dentsu Network. Over the past 10 years he’s dedicated his time to supporting the now, next and future generation of agency owners.

Spencer is the co-author of Agencynomics, the Amazon five-star rated best selling book and Audiobook, aimed to help all types of agencies scale from start-up to the first £5M in revenue. He’s also the Co-founder of the Agencynomics community, the UK’s largest for independent agency owners.

Heather is passionate about designing delightful experiences that have a positive impact on people’s lives. She brings over 25 years of experience designing end to end service and product experiences across multiple industry sectors, including airline, healthcare, banking and automotive. Creative Director on large digital transformation projects, she also recently became part of the Global Impact Team at Accenture Song, tasked with placing creativity at the heart of Accenture and focusing on work that drives impact for the people and business at scale. Award winning creative with experience as a judge for international design competitions, she has worked for some of the most respected design agencies globally and co-founded the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design in Denmark. She has lived and worked in the UK, USA, Spain, Italy and Denmark and is a champion of inclusion and diversity. Clients include Ford, Meta, Sky, HSBC, Prada and Lufthansa.

Michelle is a purpose and people led inspirational leader with 25 years experience in marketing and digital transformation within Financial Services. She spent 12 years at Santander, took some time out to co-found the charity Mission Beyond and then joined Sainsburys Bank last year.

She is passionate about the effective use of talent, data and technology to achieve a positive commercial impact by delivering great customer experiences and outcomes.

She believes everyone should have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and leads cultural and organisational change by building sustainable and diverse team structures and operating models.

John has 20 years of experience in digital marketing, having grown several global digital marketing agencies and marketing technology businesses.

John's role involves driving the vision of Modo25 and BOSCO forward. He is passionate about people and creating an environment which will enable the team to deliver the best possible work for clients.

He has worked with global brands such as Asos, Pepsi, BMW, Superdry, Honda, HP and Toyota.

John is a founder of Rise25, a unique cycling event management company that enables people to cycle around the world while raising money for charity.

A senior marketing executive with over 20 years of digital marketing, eCommerce, OTT, lead generation and technology development across both B2C and B2B. Craig has an extensive and deep knowledge in developing and executing digital transformation and marketing engagement strategies that have a proven record in improving business performance. Craig is a focused and highly driven professional who strives to build world class teams that transform, innovate and disrupt legacy marketing models.

Craig is currently leading the Web3 strategy across UEFA with the ambition to better understand the strategic opportunities for European football in all areas such as NFTs, Metaverse, Blockchain, Fan Tokens and Crypto.

Craig has a broad & detailed knowledge of the digital technology marketing landscape, brand planning, online consumer behaviour, mobile marketing, content development and consumer experiences and has been responsible for developing highly successful marketing strategies and digital transformation programs for some of the worlds largest brands including Rentokil Initial, STA Travel, Nokia, Microsoft and Tata. In doing so Craig has been able to develop and deliver world leading digital transformation programs that have fundamentally enhanced how companies engage with customers while also transforming internal business processes to be more relevant in a digital first world.

Craig was voted as one of the UK's rising stars in the digital marketing sector by Revolution Magazine and the co-author of The Future of Now, a future thinking book on how technology and marketing has disrupted legacy business models.

In digital since dial-up. Experience as founder and working for multinationals. Executive responsibilities at local, regional, global roles. Lived in Buenos Aires, Dubai, Atlanta, Singapore, Shanghai and London. Graduated in Business from London Business School. Guest scholar for Digital Transformation since 2015.

My Skillset is on digital transformation for daring companies, marketing in a digital world, digital commerce, business to business solutions, sales force systems, data & analytics, automation, artificial intelligence and digital supply chain. New business developments, global expansion for digital businesses, strategic partnerships.

My goals are "love what you do and do what you love!". There is more value to extract from fabulous failure than ongoing success. The main barrier to the extraordinary is simply ourselves. The more I practice, the luckier I get. The success of a project start with its people, purpose and profit. The most important capital is humans.

Osman is global strategy director at MediaCom where he writes comms guidance for adidas. Osman joined from Publicis Groupe where he advised brands including GSK Consumer Healthcare (now Haleon), Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare, NatWest Group, Edrington Beam Suntory and 888.com. Prior to life as a strategist, Osman was Head of Insights at Maxus (now Wavemaker) and M&C Saatchi agencies, where his focus lay in audience profiling, measurement and marketing effectiveness. Osman is a visiting fellow at the LSE and a member of the RSA; where his interests include the future of the economy, sport, and healthcare.

Former journalist Kate Dale leads Sport England’s award-winning behaviour change and marketing campaigns – all focused on helping more people get and stay active, including This Girl Can, Join the Movement and We Are Undefeatable.

Prior to this, Kate spent 10 years as a trade magazine editor before becoming a brand and content specialist for major online banking institutions including Barclays. She is a non-executive director for Find Your Voice, a CIC that uses singing workshops to engage people in marginalised communities; sits on the Advisory Panel of the Women’s Sport Collective and is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Expert Working Group responsible for developing best practice in physical activity.

In her spare time, she performs regularly with the Rainbow Nation Dance Academy and Choir and us trying her hand at stand-up comedy. 

Kriti is an innovator, product leader, and a global voice on AI and its impact on society. She was named in the Forbes 30 under 30 list for advancements in technology. She is a Google Grace Hopper Scholar and a winner of the Google Women in Engineering Award. Her TED talk has been viewed more than two million times, leading a global movement on AI for Good. In 2017, Kriti founded AI for Good, an organisation that's using AI and data to help solve some of the toughest global challenges of our time, such as violence, climate crisis, and mental health. She is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, TechCrunch and BBC.

Melissa “Meltifaceted" is a multi-hyphenate creative from Connecticut now living in Los Angeles, California. She works by day as Associate Creative Director in Social & Digital Media at TMA, and as a UX/UI Designer for CreateLabs. With over 11 years of experience designing on both in-house and agency teams, Mel also moonlights as a social impact entrepreneur. She is Founder of The WoMi™ App, a small business directory app for women & minority founders; and Co-Founder Melanin Minds, a non-profit-in-progress hosting experiences that center BIPOC mental health. Mel’s also a Founding Member of In For 13 - a Black equity in advertising initiative - and was featured alongside her MM Co-Founder as a 2021 Savage X Fenty Game Changer Duo.

As GumGum’s global CMO, Erin McCallion is responsible for architecting GumGum’s narrative and bolstering its global brand presence while scaling the corporate communications, product marketing and lead generation teams to support GumGum’s growth. With 20+ years of experience in marketing, Erin thrives in high-performance organizations and leads organizations through a transformation to a customer-centric, goal driven approach across all GTM initiatives that results in positive customer lifetime value and success.

Prior to GumGum, Erin served in leadership roles at Outbrain, a recommendation technology platform; Mediaocean, an adtech company in the Vista Equity portfolio; and INVISION, a cross-media ad technology company. In those roles, she built and scaled teams to support each respective company's next stage of growth. In her most recent role at Outbrain, she oversaw the successful execution of their IPO. Prior to adtech, McCallion spent almost a decade running marketing teams in the publishing industry at The Deal and TheStreet. McCallion is an avid tennis fan, a proud mom of 2 children and a lifelong New Yorker.

Tom Edwards serves as the Chief Digital & Data Officer for Omnicom Health Group. Tom is also an award-winning futurist keynote speaker and a technology evangelist.

Tom has been recognized as the 2022 Dallas Fort Worth Interactive Marketing Associations Marketer of the Year, a 2x Winner of the OnCon Top 10 Global Marketer award (2022 & 2021).

Tom was recently named as one of the 10 most inspiring tech leaders to watch (2022) and a top 50 most influential business leader in technology (2021). Tom was also recognized as the 2x Professional of the Year in Marketing & Emerging Technology by Strathmore Worldwide (2020 & 2019), The CX Summit Digital Marketing Professional of the Year (2020), Tech Titan Technology Advocate award winner (2019), OnCon Marketing Trailblazer Award Winner (2019) and OnCon Marketing Contributor for thought leadership award winner (2019), and Tom was named a Marketing Technology Trailblazer by Advertising Age. (2017).

Before Omnicom Health Group, Tom served as the Chief Marketing Officer for gaming strategy agency Tripleclix; before that, Tom was the Chief Digital & Innovation Officer at Epsilon, and he was the EVP of Strategy, Digital, for the The Marketing Arm, which is an Omnicom company.

Tom is an avid gamer, has jumped out of perfectly good airplanes while a member of the US Army, and was also a college mascot at the University of Oklahoma. Tom lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, three children and their Maltipoo Daisy.

Nav Thethi is an accomplished, customer obsessed, and marketing acumen for creating and designing unified digital experience for large enterprises to engage with technology and business leaders by providing them with information for the purpose to advance their adoption of specific products and solutions offerings. Loaded with variety of technology and business experience of over 20 years across mid-to-large organizations combined with prestigious professional affiliations, Nav is capable to drive best-in-class digital strategy for global businesses to engagement with customers.

Nav is graduated with a master's degree in business economics (M.B.E.) from Guru Nanak Dev University, India, and he's good at economics and operational research. Being an economist, he is passionate with data analysis and statistics, and at all opportunities he wants to find patterns and look for improvement areas.

Nav comes from a very diversified background and experience. His professional journey involves in leading technology, management, business, marketing, customer-facing leadership roles with reputed global organizations including Quark, Fidelity, and in his current role at Hitachi Vantara, he looks after digital experience on corporate website and managing tech stack that caters to B2B audience including enterprise-class visitors from several Fortune 500 companies. His role also covers the overall web operations and governance model to achieve operational excellence to deliver an awesome digital experience.

Nav is also affiliated with Leadership Excellence at Harvard Square, Harvard Faculty Club, and advisory board member at CMO Council and CSU Chico. He also volunteers with PMO communities and speaks at marketing conferences to contribute his knowledge and experience. He's an author in digital/customer experience space and has contributed his leadership thoughts to various publishers online.

After five years as Editor of The Independent, and four as Editor of Independent Digital, Christian Broughton was promoted to a new role as Managing Director in 2020. Since then, the business has recorded its most successful year. Christian leads initiatives designed for rapid growth, from the launch of Independent TV to new international markets and the expansion of eCommerce. His focus is on growing the business through outstanding, innovative journalism to deliver the brightest possible future for The Independent, the only major legacy media brand in the world to have transformed into a high-quality, growing and profitable fully digital news publisher.

A Cranfield MBA qualified strategist who combines a love of brand with digital and data expertise. Melanie has worked closely and for years with senior teams who must transform their brand and marketing communications to shift to a consumer-centric, data-driven approach. Client experience includes Unilever, adidas, Kraft Heinz and GSK.

Melanie started her career in Planning with boutique digital agency Soup and then moved to Havas helia. Prior to this she was a Publisher at the Guardian. She lives on the Isle of Wight with her two sons. 

Gareth is a growth-focused marketing leader, creative storyteller and award-winning journalist. Currently, SVP Global Marketing Director at Wunderman Thompson, Gareth is responsible for building the reputation of the world’s largest advertising agency, from the inside out. He oversees marketing, events, content and thought-leadership aimed at ensuring Wunderman Thompson stays at the cutting-edge of innovation. Previously Gareth was managing director of POSSIBLE in Seattle and Chief Brand and Content Officer at DigitasLBi in London. In a former life, he spent 10 years as a journalist and broadcaster making programs for the BBC. 

Mark is a proven marketing leader with more than two decades of experience in financial services. He has a track record of delivering significant marketing transformation within data-rich and digitally focused businesses. Mark is well-known for building, developing, and leading high-performing marketing teams. In 20017, he was named as ‘UK Marketing Leader of the Year’ by the Financial Services Forum.  

Mark spent 18 successful years at Barclays Bank PLC. In his final role as Marketing Director, Barclays UK - Mark led a team of over 150 marketing professionals working across all of Barclays’ B2C & B2B segments within the UK.  Mark’s previous leadership roles at Barclays included: PR, Insight, Product Marketing, CRM, Advertising & Brand Management and Digital Innovation. 

In 2019, Mark set up his own independent consultancy which provided bespoke marketing, digital and business development leadership. His clients were predominantly FinTech and high-growth businesses, who were looking to scale quickly and confidently. 

Mark then joined Yorkshire Building Society in June 2020 to build and transform their new Marketing, Digital Channels and External Affairs function.  He led a full cultural and technical marketing transformation in his 18-months at YBS, all aimed at embedding the function more effectively within the group and better aligning their outcomes to ExCo and Board priorities. 

In January 2022, Mark was recruited by Nationwide Building Society to become their Marketing Director. Mark is now responsible for all of Nationwide’s Marketing activities, including – Brand; Marketing Strategy; CRM; Member Communications; Advertising; Sponsorship & Partnerships; Digital Marketing; Content; Events and Nationwide’s Community Investment. Mark’s remit has recently expanded to incorporate Nationwide’s Communications function (comprising of PR, Public Policy & Internal Comms); he now leads a community of over 250 marketing and comms professionals, on an interim basis within the World’s largest Building Society. 

Mark lives with his family in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.  In truth though, Mark is a proud northerner, having been born and then grown-up in the Lake District.  Mark is sports and music mad! He coaches junior rugby and football and plays several sports (often badly nowadays!) and will happily spectate any-and-all sports and music events!  

Melissa joined MRM in 2019 as Chief Creative Officer of the US West to define the creative vision and deliver creative excellence for our clients. At MRM, we use creativity and technology to help businesses grow meaningful relationships with people. We deliver award-winning work that drives impactful results for our clients and pushes the industry forward.  

Her career has spanned 20 years, leading agencies and building creative teams in London and New York. Her work has been recognized by the B2 Awards, Clios, D&AD Impact, Effie Awards, One Show, The Webby Awards, The Lovie Awards, DADIs, and The Shortys, to name a few.  

She is also actively involved in the creative community, speaking and judging regularly, and frequently participates in industry initiatives that help make the industry more equal and inclusive.

Cheelip is a hybrid creative leader with over 20 years of integrated advertising experience,

having successfully helmed creative departments in markets as diverse as Singapore,

Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, and China. As Regional Chief Creative Officer, he drives

Lion and Lion Digital Group’s creative and innovation excellence in Asia, overseeing work

and teams across multiple markets and disciplines.

He has won creative awards across multiple categories at international, regional and

domestic award shows such as CLIO Awards, One show, One Show Greater China, Cannes,

Communication Art Annual, ADFEST, Spikes, ADSTARS, Global Best Digital Advertising Awards, London International Awards, Creative Circle Awards, ROI Awards, China International Advertising Awards, TigerRoar Awards, Red Dot Design Awards, Times Asia-Pacific Awards, IAI InternationalAdvertising Awards, and EFFIES, just to name a few. He also helped break a Guinness World Record for his digital activation campaign for DIDI App in China.

Cheelip was a guest speaker at the 2014 International Advertising Association World

Congress and was named by ChinaSmack.com as one of the leading advertising creatives in

Greater China. In 2018, he was named by Campaign Asia as a Digital A-list Achiever in China in 2018 for his achievements as a creative and digital innovator.

He has been a jury member at the China Content Marketing Awards,  ECI Awards (E-Commerce Innovation Awards) ADSTARS, One Club Young Ones Jury (as well as being the One Club Young Ones Advisory Board member), LIA Chinese Creativity Awards, One Show Greater China Awards, CRESTA Global Awards, New York Festival’s AME Awards, Creativepool Awards, Cannes Young Lions, The Drum Digital Industries Awards and Cannes Lions for its first ever Creative e-Commerce category.

Cheelip is also a frequent expert contributor to MARKETECH APAC on the topic of the metaverse and during his leisure time, Cheelip enjoys advising web3 start-ups on innovation and growth while collecting NFT art. Cheelip will also be speak on “The new creative economy in Web3 and Metaverse” at the upcoming Adapt Convention 2022.

Cleo is the Director of Global Product Marketing at Tinder, building the company’s product marketing function from the ground up. She is responsible for driving go-to-market strategies and partnering cross-functionally to create category-defining products and marketing campaigns that resonate with members in 190 countries.

She has extensive experience marketing directly to consumers across Brand, Growth, and Product Marketing. Her prior roles span a wide range of global products in the tech and consumer packaged goods industries, at companies such as LinkedIn, Squarespace, The Clorox Company, and Procter & Gamble.

Emma has over 25 years experience in design, advertising and in-house creative arenas, creating and collaborating with top creative and strategic innovators.

Brands Emma has worked with include Camelot (The National Lottery), CNN, Nestle, Disney, Associated British Foods, Habitat and the O&CC Group.

Within fashion Emma has worked across the portfolio of brands within The Arcadia Group including Topshop | Topman, Burtons and Dorothy Perkins. Emma has also worked across key client-agency integration initiatives with both Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and adam&eve DBB.

She currently leads the Communities Pillar at award-winning global EDI and social impact consultancy CreativeEquals, striving to make positive change in the world. 

Emma’s motivation lies deeply in mentoring and coaching new emerging talent from full and diverse backgrounds and is passionate about closing up the education gap. For over 3 years she’s been proud to be a visiting lecturer at UOH (Hertfordshire of University).

Her industry engagement includes collaborating and judging at D&AD and Creative Circle Awards. 

Mabel LU, Global Vice President Digital in Danone, is leading Global Digital Transformation, which covers Digital marketing & media activation, Direct to Consumer, CRM, Marketing Technology Solutions and Consumer Data Management. She has over 16 years experiences in Digital, Data, Innovation fields, led successful digital transformation in retail by leveraging new technology, data and digital capabilities, and has career record of exceeding demanding sales goals in highly competitive markets.

Prior to joining Danone, she led a Data AI start up in APAC as Managing Partner, after she spent a decade in advertising agencies across China, Vietnam and Hong Kong. She was nominated as “40 Women to Watch in APAC” in 2018 by Campaign Asia.

She is actively mentoring young talents to help them to grow their skills in business management, digital and data transformation. And she holds bachelor degree on English & Psychology and is studying her Executive MBA from Kellogg HKUST. 

Rhona Bradshaw serves as Senior Vice President Digital Experience and Platforms at Comcast Cable. In this role, Rhona oversees all digital strategy, platforms and experience across Xfinity residential sales and customer care channels. She is responsible for accelerating the convergence of Xfinity’s digital channels to support evolving consumer preferences, including how artificial intelligence and machine learning are applied within these experiences to create a more convenient and personalized customer experience.

A native of Ireland, Rhona brings with her several decades worth of international experience in marketing, customer experience, and digital transformation, at leading consumer brands. Prior to joining Comcast in 2019, Rhona spent 12 years as Group Director of Digital Experience Transformation at Liberty Global and has held several other leadership positions including Head of Marketing at UPC Ireland (now Virgin Media Ireland) and Director of Digital Transformation at Virgin Media in the UK.

Rhona is an active member of the Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) organization, having served as Treasurer and President of the UK chapter for four years. She is particularly focused on supporting and championing the careers of young women and continues to support WICT now that she is in the USA.

Rhona holds a B.A. in business studies with a major in marketing from the University of Limerick in Ireland.

Sunil is the Chief Product Officer for dentsu International and responsible for future proofing dentsu’s approach to products, platforms, and partnerships in APAC. He has an established track record of using technology coupled with commercial viability to provide innovative brand solutions and generate novel revenue streams. His foresight on emerging industry trends and ability to radically collaborate has enabled him to build game changing products & strategic partnerships which continue to elevate and strengthen dentsu’s go to market offerings. In his previous roles, as VP – Commercials & Partnerships, Sunil oversaw billions of dollars in media investments for dentsu APAC and prior to that he was the General Manager for dentsu Programmatic where he built one of the strongest digital and programmatic practices in the region alongside managing global clients like adidas, SCB, Paypal, Disney, Accor Hotels. Sunil has mentored 20+ women entrepreneurs on ‘how to leverage digital marketing for business’ and is a prominent industry speaker on topics related to marketing and technology for IAB, IAA, AVIA, Workforce Singapore & EDB. He was awarded ExchangeWire’s APAC AdTech Personality of the year 2020 and very recently recognized as Campaign Asia Pacific’s Most Valuable Professional in Tech for 2022. Outside of work, he is a loving dad who enjoys badminton, travelling, listening & making music and reading about self-improvement !

Surabhi Pokhriyal is the Chief Digital Growth Officer at Church & Dwight, a leading consumer goods company with iconic brands like Arm & Hammer, Oxiclean, Trojan, Vitafusion and Waterpik. Church & Dwight is one of the fastest growing consumer packaged goods companies that has outpaced Standard & Poor’s by more than three times over the last ten years. Surabhi leads Church & Dwight’s charter on digital transformation & eCommerce acceleration across cross functional teams as part of the Executive Leadership Team. Through her career she has led transformation for many consumer goods companies like P&G, Johnson & Johnson and Colgate Palmolive across commercial sales and marketing teams.

Her expertise and passion is around elevating Digital IQ and driving P&L across multi geography teams to transforming digital marketing and frictionless commerce. She is a champion for raising the bar, challenging the status quo and grooming teams towards a growth mindset. Surabhi is a member of CGT/RIS executive council and Digital Shelf Institute, co-creator of Women in eCommerce executive forum and mentor, advisor to several marketing technology providers and entrepreneur roundtables

Tejal is Digital Senior Director at Cisco. She is an integrated marketing leader with an expertise in digital marketing and demand generation. She has worked across several verticals, including retail banking, telecommunications and technology. She is passionate about humanising B2B marketing and has a soft spot for challenger brands.

Chris is Managing Director of LEAD Consulting, an independent digital transformation consultancy, who work with some of the world’s leading brands such as HSBC, Sony, Farfetch, Holland & Barrett, to accelerate their digital marketing capabilities across the pillars of people, process and technology.

Chris’s focus is on continuing to evolve LEAD’s business to meet their clients changing needs.

Prior to leading LEAD’s consultancy business, Chris had various roles across ad tech and data operations, working with large brands such as John Lewis, Jaguar Land Rover and Natwest.

The combination of technical skills and commercial acumen facilitates the connection between business strategy and marketing transformation which is present throughout all LEAD’s programmes.

Chris’s passion for Organisational Psychology puts people at the heart of driving lasting transformation within the programmes LEAD deliver.

Neika Colbourne is the VP of Creator Partnerships and Integrated Marketing at BFA (Beauty For All) Industries, a beauty innovation platform that is home to the largest beauty subscription brands in the world, IPSY and BoxyCharm, as well as brand incubator Madeby Collective, and personal care essentials brand, Refreshments. BFA’s mission is to inspire individuals around the world to express their unique beauty and extend access to beauty for all.

Neika has spent her entire career building brands and working with talent across sports, entertainment, lifestyle and beauty – on both the agency and brand side of the business. She is responsible for the creator strategy across all BFA brands and leads the development and execution of the 360 marketing campaigns that drive brand awareness to new heights.

Neika is the recipient of multiple awards and recognitions including Glossy 50 Beauty Innovators for her impact on beauty, Influencer US Top 30, and an Ex Award in 2022. She is a thought leader whose work has been covered by multiple publications including Glossy, E! News, People Magazine to name a few.

Neika earned her BA from Duke University and her JD degree from the University of Miami, School of Law. Neika recently made the move to NYC, and in her free time enjoys exploring her new city.

Danielle Tiedt is the Chief Marketing Officer of YouTube, responsible for all global marketing efforts for the world’s most popular digital video platform. Under her leadership, YouTube Marketing has focused on establishing YouTube as a place where people can come to explore and express their passions, have fun, and feel a sense of belonging, while empowering creators and artists to connect with their audiences and make money in new ways. During her tenure, she has launched and grown new services like YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, and YouTube Kids. Prior to Google, Danielle worked in a variety of roles at Microsoft for over 15 years. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and now lives in Stinson Beach, California with her husband, daughter, and son. Outside of work, Danielle enjoys great music, great art and anything outdoors, and is a board member of the 4H Foundation.

Katherine is the Managing Director for TZ APAC, the leading Asia-based blockchain adoption entity supporting the Tezos ecosystem. She champions innovative Web3 projects in Asia to build on Tezos through TZ APAC’s Ecosystem Growth Grant and EGG Web3 IIncubator program, powered by a strong Asia deal network. Katherine is passionate about accelerating the creator economy in Asia with NFT art communities. 

Previously, Katherine was the Global Marketing Head for Liquid.com, the world’s first global cryptocurrency platform regulated in Japan, that provides high performance trading and exchange services for digital currencies (acquired by FTX). She currently sits on the Board of the Singapore Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Industry Association (ACCESS), advocating for financial inclusion through blockchain technology. Katherine held Senior Commercial Director roles in Luxola Indonesia (acquired by Sephora-LVMH) and GrabTaxi Indonesia (now known as Grab). Katherine supports women empowerment in Web3, mental health advocacy and currently serves as a volunteer carer at Assisi Hospice.

Suraja believes empathy and emotional data is the new way of building brand and scaling business. He loves to work with like-hearted people who value doing good for people and planet as good business.

Prior to BBDO, Suraja has worked with McCann Erikson, Publicis and Lowe Lintas. Suraja loves juggling logic & magic, it is evident in his journey first as a copywriter, then as a strategic planner followed by leading business and clients. He has worked on some iconic campaigns like Ariel #ShareTheLoad for P&G, #WhatAnIdea for Idea telecom and #It’s between you for WhatsApp. Having worked with Unilever, VISA, Marico, P&G, Nestle, Godrej, Tata, Idea Cellular, Citibank, Ford and WhatsApp to name a few he has, over the years, built an enviable reputation in Indian advertising & marketing industry.

A graduate of TISS – Tata Institute of Social Sciences, he has conceived and executed India’s first creative program in copywriting & art direction at MICA, Ahmedabad. He keeps his interest in academics alive as a visiting faculty to a few reputed management schools. ‘Nurture talents to grow business’ is his secret of success. A long-distance runner Suraja finds running meditational and he finds clarity while running that he shares it with the world on Instagram @skrunningthougths. He believes food is edible philosophy and that we are gifted a brand-new life every day. 

Nnamdi Oputa brings over 20 years of experience in relationship management, sales, operations, customer growth, and client services strategies for global customers. He is the Vice President of Digital Marketing Solutions for North America at LinkedIn, where he leads an organization that helps customers adopt innovative measurement, marketing technology, brand, content, and insights solutions to help them achieve their business goals.

Previously, Nnamdi was the Vice President of Sales for North America at Dell Technologies, where his organization helped drive strategies to enable customers’ workplace, cloud, and security transformation. A Detroit native with a passion for manufacturing, he was formerly the Business Operations Strategist at Ford Motor Company, Consultant at Accenture, and Manufacturing Engineer at Visteon. Nnamdi was also the former Director of Client Services at American Express.

Nnamdi holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and dual master’s degrees of Business Administration and Operations from Kettering University. He is a Board Trustee for the Boys and Girls Club of America and resides in Chicago with his family.

Gah-Yee is currently serving as Head of Media Innovation and Growth Marketing, CG Canada at Intuit, working primarily on TurboTax. As part of this role, she oversees the creation of mass media marketing campaigns including creative development, full funnel paid media strategy and execution, as well as campaign analytics and attribution. She also leads the team charged with managing the brand advocacy platform and oversees product ratings and reviews.  

Previous to Intuit, Gah-Yee was Director, Account Management, Agency Operations and Marketing Channel Strategy at Scotiabank where she oversaw their in-house creative agency account management team, agency relationship management, in-branch marketing strategy, Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM), media partnerships and paid media strategy. 

Gah-Yee sits on the IAB Canada Board of Directors and serves on the Executive Board as Secretary. 

An award-winning creative leader with more than 20 years of integrated advertising, communication and branding experience in the MENA region. Before joining RAPP as MD/ECD, Ramzy spearheaded the creative teams of some of the region’s top tier agencies like Wunderman, Y&R, Publicis, M&C Saatchi, and Webedia Arabia.

Holding a Master’s degree in advertising and communication arts from the prestigious ALBA university in Beirut. With more than 128 international awards and recognitions, he is a creative evangelist, a forum speaker, and a sitting jury member for many international advertising and design festivals.

At RAPP, he’s building a multi-cultural environment, rooted in local insights, and fueled by empathy, with a fierce team that uses refined analytics and data to create groundbreaking memorable ideas that spark new conversations.

In a parallel life he is a proud dad, a techie, trekie, a sci-fi fan, and art addict.

Michaela is a Digital Strategy Business Director with 10 years’ experience working in Northern Europe and North America in media strategy, planning and buying. She has a wealth of experience in the FMCG category having worked with Haleon (formerly GSK), Kimberly Clarke and Unilever. She has a proven record in delivering effective, award-winning campaigns that drive in digital acceleration and link to the business challenges of her brands.