Tracy de Groose

chief executive

Elizabeth Fagan

marketing director

Neil Mortensen

research and planning director

Neil Mortensen is Research and Planning Director at Thinkbox where he has responsibility for Thinkbox’s research and planning teams and sits on the Thinkbox board. He is a long-standing member of the Media Research Group committee and an Honorary Fellow of the IPA. He formerly represented the IPA on the BARB Board and UKOM Technical Group.

Prior to joining Thinkbox in 2011, Mortensen was Research Director of OPera OMG for five years providing information and research to create value in the Omnicom group across all media. He is also a former Director of Research for ITV where he had responsibility for research across the company, from advertising effectiveness to programme development.

Mortensen’s fields of expertise cover all mediums and a broad range of media research with a core focus on BARB; television trading; broadcasting and platform strategy; and advertising forecasting and effectiveness.

He is married with four children and lives in Brighton. He is a life long Liverpool fan and collector of rare soul records.

Rufus Olins

chief executive

Rufus is Chief Executive of Newsworks, the marketing body for the national newspaper industry.

Previously he was Chief Executive of Warc, the marketing intelligence service and Managing Director of Haymarket Brand Media where he ran a portfolio of brands including Campaign, Management Today, Brand Republic and Media Week.

A former journalist, at 29 he joined The Sunday Times as its first Advertising & Marketing Editor before becoming Deputy City Editor of the paper. As Editor of Management Today, he was voted Business Magazine Editor of the year by both the BSME and the PPA.
Rufus is a trustee at the Almeida Theatre.

James Tye

CEO

James Tye joined Dennis Publishing in October 1992 and spent six years on the editorial teams of various titles including the editorship of market-leading PC Pro. In 1998 he became a Publisher. He joined the Executive board in 2000 as Operations Director and became the Divisional MD for the Dennis Technology Division in 2004. In the same year he oversaw the launch of the Dennis Gambling Division.

In 2006 James Tye became the Chief Executive of Dennis Publishing and in that time has developed the company from its traditional print publishing roots to a true multi-platform, 21st century media company. In 2012, around 50% of the company’s advertising was derived from its digital activities. Under Tye’s leadership, Dennis Publishing’s UK turnover has risen from £50m to £80m, despite challenging economic conditions.

Tye is part of a new generation of CEOs: focussed on the future, as well as the bottom line. He values excellent editorial quality and has an in-depth understanding of technology and the importance of discoverability.

Dennis Publishing brands include The Week, Auto Express, Carbuyer.co.uk, evo, Men’s Fitness, 3PM, Viz, PC Pro and Knowyourmobile

Arif Durrani

head of media, Campaign & editor

Jed Glanvill

EMEA regional leader & chairman UK

Jed Glanvill started in the industry as a graduate trainee with BBJ (now Vizeum) Media,
part of the Aegis Network rising to board Planning Director.
After eight years at BBJ, the desire for a fresh challenge took him to Mindshare UK in 2000, as a Managing Partner with primary responsibility for their digital and interactive division.

In 2003 he was appointed Managing Director and then CEO in October 2005. At the start of 2011 he was promoted to EMEA Regional Leader responsible for Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and South Africa whilst remaining CEO of the UK, moving up to Chairman UK in January 2013.

Jed is Deputy Chairman of the UK IPA Media Futures Group. He is married with two children.

Colin Gottlieb

CEO EMEA

Jim Hytner

G14 CEO & president of global clients

Following leadership roles at UM in Europe and Initiative around the World, Jim Hytner is the new CEO of IPG Mediabrands, G14& Global Clients. This role sees him lead all 3 global brand networks – UM, Initiative and BPN – together with Mediabrands assets across all G14 markets. Additionally, he is responsible for all global brands headquartered outside of the US, including Unilever, AB InBev and BMW.
Before arriving at IPG Mediabrands, Jim had a successful 5-year tenure as Global Marketing Director of Barclays from 2004 to 2009. In this role, Jim was responsible for the UK marketing operation and the direction of the Barclays brand across the world.
Jim has held several roles in television. He worked as ITV Commercial and Marketing Director, responsible for all consumer and customer marketing. Before that, his first senior management position was at Coca-Cola working on its red can marketing and spearheading its push in the UK into music and football sponsorship for the very first time.
Jim is a graduate of the prestigious Wharton Business School, a proud Trustee of Comic Relief, the Chairman of Logan Sports, a member of the Commercial Committee at BAFTA and a 35-year Manchester United season ticket holder. He is blissfully married with 4 children ranging from 2 to 18 years old.

Mark Earls

author and founder

Mark Earls (AKA Herdmeister) is that rare thing: a marketing strategist who is passionate about consumer data, how we collect and interpret it

Previously a senior planning executive at leading creative agencies, he now writes and works independently under the banner of HERD Consulting. His main focus is helping people and organizations come to terms with the insights into human behavior and how to change it which contemporary behavioral science is revealing. His clients range from corporations such as Unilever, Converse, Sony & Bacardi & the UK’s influentlal Channel 4 TV to government and security services and 3rd Space organizations such as The School of Life and Greenpeace.

Mark’s work has won lots of awards [including Best New Thinking at MRS 2003, Best Overall Paper at the 2007 ESOMAR Congress in Berlin & the prestigious Emerald Insight Awards for top 50 in the world in management science articles in both 2004 & 2008].

His last book, HERD [Wiley 2007/2009] continues to win new fans - ‘like Malcolm Gladwell on speed” [the London Guardian], His next, I’ll Have What She’s Having [MIT Press}, a collaboration with Professors Alex Bentley and Mike O’Brien, is out this Fall.

In the last year, Mark has given keynotes in Rotterdam, Johannesburg, Capetown, Dublin, Amsterdam, Basel, Prague, New York, San Francisco, Leeds, Chicago, Paris, Shanghai, Bonn and of course, London where he lives. His blog is on Brand Republic’s top 150 and Ad Age’s Hot 150. www.herd.typepad.com

Philip Smith

head of content solutions and studio

Philip Smith is Head of Content Solutions and Studio, Haymarket Brand
Republic Group. He runs the successful content solutions team which
produces branded content, including web sites, events and print specials
and supplements, for clients which want to connect with influential
media, marketing and advertising audiences .

Since the start of the year, his role has expanded to oversee production
of all editorial and commercial content, including online, print and
video content, at the marcomms publishing group, which includes the
following business magazines and brands: Campaign, Brandrepublic.com,
Marketing, Media Week and Pr Week.

In 2010, Smith headed up the online publishing for several of
Haymarket's key business-to-business titles, including Management Today,
PR Week, Planning and Regeneration & Renewal. He successfully relaunched
the web site for MT, Haymarket's market-leading business and management
title Managementtoday.

Having spent the best part of a decade at Haymarket, the largest
independent magazine publisher in the UK, Smith was, for three years,
the head of digital content at Brand Media, home of Campaign, Marketing,
Media Week, Revolution and Brandrepublic.com, the online marketing,
media and advertising portal.

Prior to his move to BR, Smith edited Media Week for 18 months,
overseeing the acquisition of the title by Haymarket and the integration
of its team and print and online operations into the company.

He has also edited Haymarket's digital marketing magazine Revolution for
four years, establishing it, after the troubles of the dotcom bust, as
the only UK title dedicated to online marketing and media.

Smith has successfully completed the PPA's diploma in Publishing course
and originally trained as a journalist on the post-graduate journalism
diploma course at the University of Wales, College of Cardiff.

His first book 'Directing Web Traffic', which is about the design and
function of web sites, was published in 2003 (Rotovision).

Smith is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures & Commerce.

David Norris

client director, media planning

Asad Rehman

global communications planning director

Unilever for 5 years, prior to which he worked with MindShare/GroupM in various parts of the world, and in various capacities- including roles in which he managed local offices, regional teams and global client relationships. Asad has done assignments in Asia, Europe, and LATAM and considers himself a fortunate “internationalist”. He is a technology enthusiast, likes to photograph as a hobby, and is an avid Performing Arts follower. Asad lives in London, UK with his wife who is a documentary film maker.

Pippa Glucklich

managing director

Jonathan Lewis

head of digital and partnership innovation

Danny Rogers

editor, Campaign & editor-in-chief

Jennelle Tilling

vice president marketing

An experienced, award-winning marketing executive with twenty years’ experience, Jennelle has been VP Marketing at KFC UK & Ireland since 2006, overseeing marketing, communications and CSR, and new product launches.

She has helped the company achieve 27 consecutive quarters of sales growth, and was named Yum!’s Worldwide Marketer Of The Year 2011.

Prior to joining KFC UK, Jennelle served as Chief Marketing Officer for Yum! Canada, with responsibility for the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell brands. She also worked as Director of Product Marketing for Pizza Hut US, and Director of Marketing Strategy for Pizza Hut UK, as well as working with McVities in the UK and Nestlé Dairy products in Australia.

Jennelle is a member of the Marketing Group of Great Britain, Fellow of The Marketing Society, and sits on the Executive Committee of WACL (Women In Advertising And Communications In London).

Thomas Laranjo

managing director

Tom is responsible for agency management across Total Media with a focus on client service, media team development and performance delivery. As the architect of the agency approach, Tom has been instrumental in ensuring we deliver insightful, business focused solutions for our clients. With a background in international media, Tom brings a cross-market and cross discipline thinking to his role, and is always pushing the team to find a better way of doing things.

Tom’s entry into media was anything but traditional. With an academic background in anthropology and economics Tom was drawn to the potential that media has to blend these disciplines and thereby deliver solutions that put consumer behaviour and economic fundamentals at the core.

Cameron Hulett

executive director, EMEA

@cameronhulett

As Executive Director, EMEA, Cameron Hulett is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of Undertone’s business outside the US, primarily in Europe.

Cameron has a wealth of strategic experience in the digital technology, marketing and media space, which spans many countries including the US, UK, France, Germany, Australia and South Africa. Prior to Undertone, he served as Executive Head of Solution Strategy, Sales and Marketing at Acceleration. His broad educational background includes bachelors and honors degrees in engineering, a master’s degree in technology, and an MBA from the University of Cape Town.

Gavin Stirrat

managing director, EMEA

Gavin joined Millennial Media in early 2010 and is responsible for the growth of the company’s European business. He works closely with Millennial Media’s key strategic partners to ensure that they are taking advantage of all the opportunities mobile has to offer.

Prior to Millennial Media, Gavin served in executive leadership roles at Clash Media, Advertising.com, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gavin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Studies with Marketing from Glasgow Caledonian University.

Spencer Berwin

managing director – sales

Spencer Berwin is Managing Director - Sales at JCDecaux, the UK’s market-leading Outdoor advertising company, part of the world’s largest out-of-home advertising company.

JCDecaux is the number one provider of advertising opportunities across Roadside, Retail, Rail and Airport environments with an expanding digital portfolio offering tactical and time-sensitive campaigns for clients.

Spencer joined JCDecaux in 1992 when the company entered the UK market. He began his sales career at LBC Radio, later joining the Outdoor advertising company More O’Ferrall/Adshel (now Clear Channel Outdoor) as Group Sales Manager. In 1988 he joined Lowe Howard-Spink, moving in 1989 to their Out-of-Home Media Specialist, IPM as Account Director and member of the Management Board.

In his free time Spencer likes to tinkle the ivories and is currently learning to play golf.

Andrew Mortimer

director of brand and media

Andrew is the Director of Brand & Media at BSkyB, responsible for the communications planning and management of Sky’s £100m+ above-the-line advertising budget, the relationship with the media buying agencies and for managing Sky's brand identity. He joinedSky, as Director of Media Planning & Strategy, in June 2010 from Manning Gottlieb OMD, where he was the board director responsible for running the Communications Planning department and for clients including Virgin Group, Virgin Atlantic, John Lewis, COI, Marston’s and Google. Andrew started his advertising career in 1996 in the media department at Saatchi & Saatchi, working on Toyota, Hewlett Packard and Army recruitment. He moved to Vizeum in 2000, where he worked on clients including Bass/Coors Brewers, Coca-Cola, BMW and Heinz, before joining Manning Gottlieb in 2005. In his time in media Andrew has been lucky enough to win the Grand Prix at both the Cannes Media and Media Week Awards, as well as three Campaign Media Awards.

Benedict Evans

consultant, Enders Analysis

Benedict covers mobile platforms, digital media and electronic publishing. He has worked in strategy and business development for NBC Universal, Channel 4 and Orange, and previously worked as a sell-side equity research analyst covering European telecoms companies. He has an MA in History from Cambridge University.