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This is the BIMA 100 of 2019 Of all BIMA’s many events, the BIMA 100 is one of our favourites. Alongside our Awards, this is our biggest celebration of talent across the digital and tech community - a chance to recognise the incredible talent and commitment individuals bring to our industry.

Every year we recognise people at different stages of their careers, working in distinct areas and on many missions. These people are challenging themselves. Often, they’re also challenging the industry, helping digital and tech in Britain move forward.

Natalie Gross Tarek Nseir Presidents

The BIMA 100 is made up of talented people from across the spectrum of digital. Some are building big reputations with global brands, like Zaynah Din of Facebook or Microsoft’s Jodie Rogers.

Like Richard Brisley of Sagittarius they may be working in cutting-edge Ai. They could be setting new standards in leadership, like Digirank’s Karen Pearce.

Or perhaps they are championing the rights of the neurodivergent and helping more people into tech careers, like Paul Davenport of Abbots Lea School.

Take a look at our 100, and you’ll find a wonderfully rich and diverse cross section of our community. That’s particularly appropriate this year as we highlight the critical work led by our Diversity and Inclusion Council.

The Voices of Our Industry – BIMA Tech Inclusion & Diversity Report 2019 shows that whilst the growth and potential of our industry is indisputable, our industry is not without its challenges.

We know diverse backgrounds are critical to our industry achieving its full potential, yet under-representation, discrimination, mental health, stress and anxiety are all having a profound effect, and are all challenges we need to work together to overcome.

By truly understanding and addressing those challenges, and by celebrating the incredible individuals who are working in our digital community, we can break barriers to ensure ours is an industry for all and a model for wider society.

And that’s what makes this year’s BIMA 100 so poignant. Because not only do we get to celebrate having an abundance of industry-changing talent. We also get to take heart from the fact that, just when we need real champions and role models to help pave the way for change and to encourage more people from the most diverse backgrounds into our phenomenal industry, we get to celebrate 100 of them.

Congratulations to our BIMA 100 2019.

Natalie Gross & Tarek Nseir Presidents

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Meet the BIMA 100 Judges

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

RISING STARS

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

Alex Goat CEO Livity

Alex Price Founder & MD 93digital

Alexandra Willis Head of Communcation The Championship, Wimbledon

CEOS & LEADERS

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

Andy Kent CEO Angel Solutions

Anna Rafferty Global Director Digital Marketing BBC Studios

Carla Raven Strategy Director SHARE Creative

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ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

CEOS & LEADERS

RISING STARS

CLIENT SERVICES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

Chris Averill CEO We are Experience

Ete Davies Managing Director AnalogFolk

Giulia Merlo Service Design Lead Cancer Research

Gregor McQuattie MD Digitas

Jillian Moore Head of Digital Atos

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

CLIENT SERVICES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

STUDENTS & APPRENTICES

Jiri Bures Global Creative Director Imagination

Joanna Hinchcliffe Client Partner Amaze

John Treacy Executive Creative Director Proximity London

Lauren Pleydell-Pearce Executive Creative Director PwC

Matt Clark Senior Manager, Content and Commerce Deloitte Digital

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CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

Nadya Powell Co-Founder Utopia

Nancy Rowe Head of Inclusion & Diversity Publicis Sapient

Nicola Rosa AR & VR Strategy Lead Accenture

Peter Barker Chief Technology Officer Rufus Leonard

Richard George Global Head, Digital, UX and Marketing Technology Refinitiv

ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

STUDENTS & APPRENTICES

STUDENTS & APPRENTICES

Sam Booth Founder & CEO Just After Midnight

Tash Willcocks Head of Schools Hyper Island

Tiffany St James CEO Transmute Worldwide

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BIMA 100 2019 Index

Al Morris

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Cristina Vigano

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Alastair Eilbeck

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Damian Proctor

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Alex Pym

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Dan Berry

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Alisdair Gunn

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Dan Moran 20

Amali de Alwis

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Dan Willis

Amy Williams

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Daniel Gilbert 21

Andrew Bruce

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Daniel Rae 21

Ann Higgins

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Danielle Bassil 22

Anne Bienia

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Danielle Haugedal-Wilson 22

Anne Grieve

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David Lockie 23

Artur Fiedorowicz 13

Dipa Thanki 23

Ashleigh Cameron 13

Don Smith

Cally Russell 14

Dorothy Hui 24

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Duane Holland 25

Carlos Eriksson

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Carole Logan 15

Elen Parry

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Caroline Keep 15

Emil Blum

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Cat Leaver 16

Emily Hewitson

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Catherine Vaughan

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Emma Cooper 27

Charlotte Hamill

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Emma Hopkins

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Chi Onwurah 17

Emma Lawton 28

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Ete Davies 28

Christel Wolthoorn

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Kevin Gibbons 39

Priya Lakhani 50

Georgie Barrat 29

Leigh Dobson 40

Richard Brisley 50

Gemma Emmett Hannah Owens

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Lindsay Herbert

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Richard Friscuolo

Ingrid Olmesdahl

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Liz Ashall-Payne

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Richard Robinson

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Lucy Weston 41

Isabel Farchy

Rob Verheul

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James Dellar 31

Maddie Crawford

James Hall 32

Mark Colling 42

Sam Cox

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James Hilton 32

Matt Lodder 43

Sam Fenton-Elstone

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James Wilkinson 33

Matt Roberts

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Sam Hoyland 54

Matthew Read

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Shona Gold 54

Jennifer Arcuri 34

Melissa Rynn

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Simeon Quarrie

Jillian Moore 34

Michael Olaye

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Sunny Kumar 55

Jodie Rodgers 35

Mike Tapp

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Umesh Pandya 56Â

Nathan Fulwood

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Victoria Morrison

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Jonny Tooze 36

Nick Scott

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Warren Hutchinson

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Josh Akapo 36

Nikki Parkins 47

Josh White 37

Nina Jasinski 47

Jared Thomas

John Tafe

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Paul Davenport

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Karen Pearce 38

Pharaoh Woghiren

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Katie Mills 38

Phil Beaman 49

Katie Street 39

Phil Stuart

Josie Klafkowska

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Russell James 52

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Zaynah Din 57

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The ability to evolve is one of the most important and powerful skillsets needed in our constantly changing digital world.

Al is the Transformation Lead with Glasgow based business transformation consultancy This is Milk. He leads operations for the Digital Transformation Programme (winner of the BIMA award for innovation by a consultancy 2018) and supports This is Milk with their wider goal to help organisations navigate strategic operational change globally.

STUDENTS & APPRENTICES

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

AL MORRIS

ALASTAIR EILBECK

Transformation Lead This is Milk

Creative Consultant Meyouandus, Liverpool University, AmazeRealise

@morris_al

@Alastair_E

Al is aiming to change the world one person/project/organisation at a time by giving people the skills for the future, tackling big problems, generating creative ideas, telling great stories and giving a voice to those with something to say.

His motto is: Constantly evolving - forever learning.

At school I... was known as being the kid that was never at school.

I hated it!

Alastair bridges the gap between the creative industries, digital arts and academia. Juggling his time between a PHD in Architecture at Liverpool University, Creative consultant at AmazeRealise and pursuing an art practice with Meyouandus, an arts company he founded with James Bailey.

At the heart of everything is his desire to bring artistic and creative experiences into the fabric of society and into people’s everyday lives and interactions.

The last 12 months have seen Alastair lead the Fantasia Express, commissioned by the Department of Transport. The project re-imagines train journeys. using Augmented Reality and locative media to connect passengers to the locations they pass by. The prototype was publicly trialed by LNER on the East Coast mainline during February 2019.

Relaxation is... zoning out playing African Xylophones.

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CEOS & LEADERS

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

ALEX PYM

ALISDAIR GUNN

Managing Director Huge London

Founder & Director Framewire

@alexpym

A leader who champions creativity, inclusiveness and the power of digital. Under his watch as Managing Director, Huge London was voted by the industry as ‘2018 Best agency to work for’ by Creativepool and also contributing to ’Working Not Working’s ‘Top 50 company’s creatives would kill to work for’.

force and Alex led the business to a faultless pitch win record against both larger digital agencies & consulting firms winning eight new household brand names. He is a supporter and active champion of a whole host of activities to promote young talent, returnships and grass roots diversity and flexible working programs.

Alex took over leadership of Huge in April ’18 and in less than a year has more than doubled the size of the agency. The agency has gained a growing reputation as a progressive

Not many people know that I... have competed in the X-Games.

@aligg

Alisdair is accredited as one of Scotland’s leading sector-specialist advisers, tech ecosystem builders and innovation experts amongst the digital, data, creative and deep tech industries. Focused on developing the service transformation and agile growth of businesses, organisations and market-listed companies, Alisdair is recognised for his experience and dedication to developing Scotland’s Digital, Technology and Creative Ecosystems including the development of many of Scotland’s prominent digital and technology businesses. Experienced in designing

and delivering Tech Accelerators and Innovation Labs, Alisdair has recently been focused on developing a range of Global Partnerships dedicated to growing the International Trade for Scotland’s Digital, Data and Technology Industries and was also the co-founder of the internationally acclaimed Turing Festival (now Turing Fest).

Not many people know... that I am a qualified BASI Ski Instructor.

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Amali de Alwis is CEO of Code First: Girls, a multi-award winning social enterprise that works with individuals and companies to increase the number of women in tech. As part of their mission they delivered £2.5 million plus of free coding courses in the last year alone, and helped clients and partners such as BT, Twitter, and Thoughtworks hire more diverse tech talent.

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

RISING STARS

AMALI DE ALWIS

AMY WILLIAMS

CEO Code First: Girls

Founder & CEO Good-Loop

@amali_d

@ala_swimmily & @GoodLoopHQ

Outside of the day job, Amali is a Board member at Ada National College for Digital Skills and a London Tech Week Ambassador for 2019. She was recently named The Most influential woman in UK IT and was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list 2019 for Services to Diversity and Training in the Tech Industry.

The innovation that has excited me lately is... Boston Dynamics’ Handle Robot (imagine a hummingbird on wheels that packs boxes!)

Amy Williams is the founder and CEO of ethical advertising platform Good-Loop.

The team behind, among others’ things, the world’s first ethical ads on Snapchat for Unilever, Good-Loop work with the likes of Nestlé, Coca Cola and TOMS to convert people’s attention into donations to charity.

Formerly at Ogilvy Advertising, today Amy is one of Forbes 30 under 30 for media & marketing and a regular commentator on the use of technology for good and the growth of profits-withpurpose business models.

My favourite quote/saying is...

Knowledge is Power. France is Bacon.

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Andrew is a creative planner in emerging tech fields for innovation practice at Screenmedia. In 2018 Andrew led the design and development of The Human Test for Channel 4 and 4Creative. It went on to be the top customer acquiring custom skill on Alexa with 50,000 users in its first week, was chosen as a staff pick by Amazon and has won multiple awards. Andrew has also issued whitepapers, public talks on voice and emerging technologies, and been featured in industry publications.

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

ANDREW BRUCE

ANN HIGGINS

Senior Producer Screenmedia

MD, Consulting Principal, EMEA Ogilvy Consulting

@screenmedia

@ann_higgins

Andrew also set up the R&D team at Screenmedia to explore and develop emerging technologies including AI, voice, and AR, resulting in Screenmedia becoming a recognised partner for Amazon Alexa and Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services.

The innovation that has excited me lately is... Anki Vector, it packs so much personality into a robot.

As Managing Director and Chief Consulting Officer, Ann led the expansion of Ogilvy Consulting into EMEA in 2017, and heads up the regional team in the UK, delivering brand strategy, digital transformation and innovation consulting solutions for clients ranging from established brands to disruptive technology players.

In January, Ogilvy Consulting was named a UK Leading Consultancy by the Financial Times for the second year running and recently published ‘The CMO and the Opportunity of an Era’,

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a paper about galvanising enterprise transformation around a vision for brand experience.

With a career spanning multiple digital roles in Ogilvy and in WPP, Ann is also passionate about the development of people and tackling challenges like diversity and mental health.

The film/book title that describes my life is... ‘How to Fail’ by Elizabeth Day, a brilliant articulation of the strength to be found in surfacing our vulnerability.

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Anne manages technology strategy at Cancer Research UK as part of a 300+ strong team. She recently lead the development of a new tech strategy for the charity taking an iterative and collaborative approach to the work to make sure it’s done with people, not to them.

Anne’s work means that leaders at CRUK are now making digital and technology a priority, embedding it into their operational plans, and are challenging themselves,

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

ANNE BIENIA

ANNE GRIEVE

Senior Strategy Manager, Technology Cancer Research UK

Associate Creative Director AmazeRealise

@annebien

@AmazeRealise

their teams and third parties to adopt a test & learn approach and agile and lean ways of working.

Before joining CRUK she spent a number of years in various digital publishing and content strategy roles at global organisations in the B2B and consumer goods sectors.

My favourite quote/saying is...

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Anne is a passionate and unwavering champion for change in our industry.

She has been a key partner in delivering the Daydream Believers pilot with Edinburgh College promoting creative and critical thinking at school level.

She also ensured her mostly female Creative Team in the AmazeRealise Edinburgh office have felt empowered to lean in and take on new and challenging opportunities. She was one of the participants in TRC’s Special Edition Training Course.

The fact she won one of only eight places is a testament to her drive to fulfil her potential and give back to the digital community. She also became a Digital Trustee on the Board of an Edinburgh-based social innovation charity called People Know How.

My desert island luxury would be...

A kindle with everlasting books and battery power.

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Artur is a technology enthusiast, developer and maker, with a passion for excellent service, innovative ideas and is fascinated with the latest and coolest products. When not building or breaking new gadgets, he is busy thinking about how to make tech more intuitive and easy to use for everyone. As a Tech Lead at GPJ, he is mainly responsible for prototyping, R&D, coming up with new ideas and leading the dev team when creating brand new and amazing experiences for the clients.

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TECH TRAILBLAZERS

CLIENT SERVICES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

ARTUR FIEDOROWICZ

ASHLEIGH CAMERON

Technology Lead GPJ UK

Senior Digital Producer & Product Manager After Digital

@techyinnovator

@ashecameron

When not in the office, you can find him snowboarding on a snowy mountain or kitesurfing till sunset with his friends.

The next big thing in digital will be... easy to use augmented reality glasses and AI that will help us to speed up how we solve many of the top problems.

Leading delivery teams in Glasgow and Manchester, Ashleigh’s focus on agile project delivery has seen the team evolve their way of thinking to facilitate better working practices.

Working with organisations across the UK and US, Ashleigh has built a loyal following of clients. This includes the University of Colorado, The Honolulu Museum of Art and the Royal Academy of Dance. Her strategic approach, coupled with a passion for data-driven results, accompanies her empathetic nature to launch 1st class solutions;

it also makes her a much-valued extension to client teams.

Ashleigh’s links with Founders4Schools, a charity connecting school children with business leaders, has seen children being mentored by an exemplary female leader in digital.

My favourite quote/saying is...

With brave wings, she flies - without having the courage to challenge yourself you’ll never know what you’re capable of achieving.

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Cally Russell, 31, started Mallzee, the UK’s leading multi-retailer fashion shopping app, in 2013 in Edinburgh.

Downloaded over 1.5 million times and featuring 150 plus high street retailers the unique product preference data generated powers Mallzee Insights, the B2B element of the business.

Mallzee Insights provides pre-release product testing and retail insights to help retailers maximise the profitability of every product.

ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

CALLY RUSSELL

CARLOS ERIKSSON

Chief Executive Officer Mallzee

Inclusive Design Lead Studio 24

@CallyRussell

@fiinixdesign

Originally from Dunoon and a Dundee University Graduate, Cally has grown Mallzee to employ 26 people, raised over ÂŁ5m in investment and won a range of tech, fashion and entrepreneurial awards.

Selected by Forbes for their prestigious 30 Under 30 European influencers list, Cally has also been named by Drapers as one of their 30 Next Generation.

My one wish would be... that Liverpool would win the Premier League and Champions League double this season!

For the past twelve months, Carlos has continued his decade-long quest to make the web better for everyone, not just the people it is easy for.

From working with country-wide reshaping major projects, such as HS2 and Heathrow Expansion, his impact can be seen in the barriers-to-entry he has removed.

He has collaborated with charities, such as the Internet Watch Foundation, and educated stakeholders and teams at agencies of the Cabinet Office with paradigm-shifting lessons and workshops in which his stories always comes back to people.

Because at the end of the day, the web is still built by people, for people.

At school I... was the first kid to ask for my curriculum to change from woodshop to sewing, eschewing gender-roles at an early age.

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CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

CAROLE LOGAN

CAROLINE KEEP Director, Spark Penketh Physics Teacher, Penketh High School

Development Team Leader Equator @crgrieve

Carole is a team leader, developer & community meetup organiser. With an interest in web & IOT technologies, Carole has a passion for how to use technology to solve real-life problems.

As well as software development, she has an interest in the “people” side of tech, how we make the industry a better place to work for everyone and ultimately build better products.

Based in Glasgow, at digital agency Equator, she organises local meetups including Ladies of Code Glasgow & Glasgow Umbraco. She’s an advocate for women in development & feels it

is important to show women leading technical conversations at work and in the digital community - recently speaking at conferences in Scotland and Europe to show women this is a role they belong in.

Relaxation is... a long run listening to a good podcast.

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@ka81

Caroline teaches physics at Penketh High School, Warrington and is Director of Spark Penketh, a school makerspace dedicated to embedding digital skills across the curriculum. Through the first digital creative pathway of its kind in the UK, she has taught hundreds of students Industry 4.0 skills and this year won the TES New Teacher of the Year award for her STEAM/digital learning work.

maths and maker-education for young people. Now in its fifth year, the festival attracts 6,000+ visitors annually and Caroline has co-authored the framework to roll out Makefests nationally.

Caroline also co-founded Liverpool Makefest, a festival promoting science, technology, engineering, art,

At school I... was a trouble, but I had patient teachers. It’s one of the reasons I got into teaching myself.

Caroline believes passionately in providing diverse, rich learning environments in which the creativity of students as “makers” can flourish.

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With a remit to establish a team and infrastructure of cross-agency talent, Cat heads up Brand Scotland and leads the bold, new #ScotlandIsNow campaign, looking to deliver a strong nation brand that positions Scotland for sustainable growth, resilience and future prosperity.

With talent from across VisitScotland, Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise, Brand Scotland aims to activate partnerships across the public and private sectors to drive reputational value and awareness of our progressive nation. The

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

CAT LEAVER

CATHERINE VAUGHAN

Director VisitScotland (Brand Scotland)

Marketing Director Nomensa

@C_Leaver

@LadyVaughan77

team have already achieved staggering results and been shortlisted in some of the nation’s most prestigious awards.

Formerly, Cat ran the strategy and marketing teams for a multi award-winning digital agency, After Digital, for seven years and outside of her day job she was one of five who lead on TEDxGlasgow, building it to be one of Europe’s most established TEDx organisations.

The innovation that excites me is... anything in the realm of data science and technology meeting medicine.

Through strategic thinking and the smart use of technology, Catherine has played a pivotal role in transforming the Nomensa brand, positioning it as one of the most respected European digital UX agencies with a growing international presence.

She’s an unstoppable force, showcasing the brand’s next-level thinking and promoting the agency’s exemplary work through clever campaigns.

Committed to continuous innovation, Catherine has also integrated tracking across the business to support client

wins using behavioural insights that shape marketing activity in real-time. As a result, Catherine has been instrumental in changing perceptions and raising wider awareness of design, customer experience and UX in the digital industry, while also increasing Nomensa’s new business conversion rate by 39% in the last year.

My desert island luxury would be...

Earl Grey tea – after all, what’s an island life without a quintessentially British cup of tea!

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RISING STARS

CEOS & LEADERS

CHARLOTTE HAMILL

CHI ONWURAH Labour MP, Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovaton UK Parliament

COO Born Social @bebornsocial

Charlotte was one of Born Social’s founding team. Today, it is an an award-winning social media agency for businesses that think like David, not Goliath, with a team of over 40, a 50:50 gender split, no pay gap and world class clients.

As COO, Charlotte has successfully scaled every part of the business from process to people. The last twelve months alone involved: restructuring the business; creating five new teams; 20+ hires; creating company values; an admirable wellbeing

initiative; a learning & development programme; and a company-wide incentive scheme.

Charlotte won Women In Marketing’s ‘One to Watch’ award, completed The Marketing Academy Scholarship Programme, mentors young women in industry and was listed on 2019’s Forbes Under 30 in Media & Marketing.

I’m where I am today because...

I didn’t follow my dreams of being a Sky Sports reporter.

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@chionwurah

Chi Onwurah MP is the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science & Innovation.

Chi has also been Shadow Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy; Shadow Cabinet Office Minister leading on cyber security, social entrepreneurship, civil contingency, open government and transparency; and Shadow Minister for Innovation, Science & Digital Infrastructure, working with industry on broadband issues and the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.

Prior to her election, Chi was an electrical engineer in hardware and software development, product management and strategy for companies in the UK, France, US, Nigeria and Denmark. Chi is a Chartered Engineer with a BEng in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London and an MBA from Manchester Business School.

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Christel’s passion for influencing change can be traced back to her early school years in Denmark where she campaigned for students right to influence education. Today, she has made it a career spanning marketing, organisational change and digital strategy; leading cultural transformation at Deloitte and launching Digital at KPMG in the UK. Her move to Epam was driven by a curiosity to approach change from a technology perspective, and she now dedicates her time to working

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CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

CHRISTEL WOLTHOORN

CRISTINA VIGANO

Principle, Experience Consulting EPAM

Senior UX Designer Cyber-Duck

@Christelw

@crvigano

with senior leaders as they navigate the complex, but exciting, challenges brought by digital.

She is an Apps for Good Mentor, a mother of two young daughters and a knowledge hunter with a huge passion for Karaoke.

Not many people know that I... trained to be a ballroom dancer.

Drawing on her fascination with the human mind, usability and humancomputer interaction, Cristina has worked on a wide range of projects to achieve the best experience for users across industries and contexts. Her most recent success at Cyber-Duck was a huge, complex digital transformation project for a global medical and travel security company. Cristina also enjoys blogging and public speaking. In 2018, she spoke about the discipline of UX, ethics of design and positive friction, at events including UXPA UK, Leeds Digital

Festival, UX Cambridge, Ladies that UX, Coventry University and Northumbria University. She also enjoys giving back to the community by running the BIMA Digital Day and careers panels at local schools, growing the next generation of designers.

I got into digital because... I want technology to be people-centred and solve problems instead of creating new ones.

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CEOS & LEADERS

DAMIAN PROCTOR

DAN BERRY

Head of Strategy Redweb

Managing Director Kagool

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@randomapricot

Damian is Head of Strategy at independent digital agency Redweb, where he leads the agency alongside the founder and CEO. An award winning digital polymath, he has built his career by helping organisations to build competitive advantage through design thinking and transformational strategy.

Over the last year he has led Redweb to a new proposition, visual identity and evolved structure by reimagining the agency/client relationship as a partner model based on mutual value, disrupting the established industry status quo.

Damian leads by example, continues to push boundaries and supports others to grow by creating an environment where everyone is genuinely part of the drive to create change - for themselves, Redweb’s partners and the industry.

Relaxation is... a paddle, pedal or plod around the New Forest I call home.

Dan is the Managing Director of Kagool, an award winning digital agency and Sitecore specialists. Under his leadership Kagool is now an established Econsultancy top 100 agency and 41st in the Drums list of independents.

Dan is passionate about culture. Under his leadership Kagool is one of the highest rated UK agencies on Glassdoor, holds Investors in People Gold status and is also recognised by Best Companies, with an inclusive working environment focused on its people.

An IOD Director of the Year winner, Dan has also been recognised by Sitecore, a Digital Experience Platform leader, as a Most Valuable Professional for the past 2 years.

Away from Kagool also volunteers as a Trustee providing digital consultancy to charitable organisations.

I’m where I am today because... of the support and encouragement of my family.

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Dan jointly leads Creative Products, which has quadrupled in size during his time with the business. After several years running tech start-ups Dan joined Nice Agency in 2013, shaping their Agile Development proposition ahead of the acquisition by Karmarama and the subsequent move in to the Accenture Interactive family.

Dan’s remit is to build the User Interfaces that enable progressive customer experiences; combining human insight and data with brand creative and tech driven design.

CLIENT SERVICES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

DAN MORAN

DAN WILLIS

MD & Head of Creative Products, Part of Accenture Interactive Karmarama

Managing Director Why Digital

@danmoranuk

@Daniel_willis

As well as running diverse product programmes for Sky, Deutsche Bank and AstraZeneca, recent work includes a Stroke application to reduce patients’ long-term brain damage and identifying potential product opportunities to improve the standard of life for the visually impaired, on behalf of Guide Dog’s for the Blind.

Not many people know... that I launched my own social network before Facebook. Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s was better.

Dan runs business growth and brand agency Why Digital. This past year has seen Dan driving change in the business he’s worked on growing; as well as encouraging new talent to engage and collaborate with the wider agency community.

With hugely successful community engagement pieces, including leading another Do It Day, Dan has overseen agencies, brands, charities, educational establishments and freelancers working together to solve challenges from employee wellbeing to children’s

mental health services in both the Dorset area and nationally.

His culture-led growth strategy has seen multiple businesses grow and drive profit, whilst creating successful and healthy cultures. His mentoring of young entrepreneurs has seen them go on to win awards for emerging talent and young business leadership.

My one wish would be... to live in a world where people no longer fear talking about mental health.

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Daniel Gilbert is founder and CEO of Brainlabs, the smartest performance marketing agency on the planet.

In 2018, Daniel was named #1 in PPC Hero’s Most Influential PPC Experts in the World list, crowned Biddable Media Professional of the Year at the Biddable Media Awards, and was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award London. He was a keynote speaker at Hero Conf London 2018 and spoke at events such as DMX Dublin, Friends of Search, and Campaign Breakfast Briefings.

On top of his contributions to publications

CEOS & LEADERS

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

DANIEL GILBERT

DANIEL RAE

CEO and Founder Brainlabs

Strategy Director Hydrogen

@dangilbertppc

@iamdanielrae

including City A.M., Campaign, Econsultancy, and The Drum, Daniel was also a judge for the Campaign Media Awards.

A jack-of-all-trades, the role of Strategy Director at Hydrogen fits Daniel Rae to a T. Daniel is hands-on and loves to continually hone his skills: most recently as a 2018 delegate on TRCmedia’s exclusive Cross Creative programme for senior digital professionals. He also contributed to marketing book Think Video, providing insights on video marketing and social media influencers.

My little-known hobby is... gymnastics.

As well as supporting those already in the industry Daniel is keen to help

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the next generation and headed back to his old school for BIMA’s Digital Day to highlight VR, AR and digital as career options. He is currently working with 3rd year Glasgow Caledonian University design students, creating a course project to help them understand design in the digital world.

The next big thing in digital will be... brands using one-to-one messaging and bots to provide more information and build deeper relationships with customers.

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CEOS & LEADERS

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

DANIELLE BASSIL

DANIELLE HAUGEDAL-WILSON

CEO Digitas

Head of Technology Co-op

@dannibass

Since taking the helm at leading digital agency Digitas, in June 2018, Dani Bassil has already delivered a new digitally-focussed proposition, led on the organisation’s rebrand and shifted the agency to create even stronger digital experiences, that go beyond the expected. And all this in her first few months.

The future of the agency is certainly bright with Dani in the hot seat, with one eye on the present and one in the future, she recently appointed a new senior executive team, made up of a

cross section of digital and creative talent, not only the best of the best but also the right fit for her future vision, those committed to the team and to take the agency into its next era.

I’m where I am today because... of my amazing family, friends and colleagues who supported me and all those who didn’t (fuel to the fire).

Danielle has worked in technology for over 15 years and is Head of Technology at the 150-year-old Co-op, responsible for technology ranging from the Co-op membership and data platforms to the new Co-op Health and Insurance Distribution businesses.

Danielle has worked in the digital space at the Co-op since 2001 and has worked across a multitude of sectors ranging from food to funerals. Danielle is a prominent figure in the North West technology community, regularly speaking, running events and judging technology competitions locally and

globally. A well known passionate, active champion of diversity in technology, she is a Non-Executive Director of Innovate Her which is an 8-week, after school programme dedicated to giving girls aged 12-16 the self-belief and skills they need to pursue a career in technology.

She is a Board Director of the Co-op Credit Union and co-founder of @MapClubMcr.

Relaxation is... reading my collection of Isaac Asimov books.

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CEOS & LEADERS

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

DAVID LOCKIE

DIPA THANKI Senior Digital Designer Wunderman

Founder and CEO Pragmatic @divydovy

David’s a technophile who loves helping people understand the tech landscape and plan their approach to success.

In addition to his role running WordPress agency Pragmatic, he is leading a sister blockchain agency Dcent.tech, co-chairs the BIMA Blockchain Council and is an international speaker.

@DipaThanki

Dipa started her career in the fashion industry, working on digital design and art direction for brands such as Burberry, Warehouse, TOPSHOP and Ted Baker. She also made her mark across the revamped Crabtree & Evelyn brand redesign.

I’m where I am today because... I was lucky to be born a white man in twentieth century Britain.

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Now Senior Digital Designer at Wunderman, her work across a broad sector base doesn’t just start and end at design. She fully immerses herself into the strategy and UX teams striving to find the best design solution possible and feeding into customer experience.

Since leaping into the ad agency world, she has broadened her skillset to work across more digital tech-led projects such as apps, AI and VR. You can see some of Dipa’s work in the recent Fund Female campaign as well as across the Selfridges ecommerce experience, style guide and online look and feel.

Given the chance, I’d tell... my younger self to trust my own instincts and take more risks!

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Don Smith is an inventor and has his own invention and disruption practice called One Hundred Flowers. He consults on innovation, invention, disruption and creative strategy and also runs a business developing his respiratory invention, The 1nhaler.

Until 2016, Don was an award-winning Creative Director in digital marketing, which he then left to begin a new career as an inventor, looking to bring his philosophy on innovation and invention into the fields of health, energy, environment and sustainability.

ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

DON SMITH

DOROTHY HUI

Inventor One Hundred Flowers

VP, Digital & Audience Development Sony Music UK – 4th Floor Creative

@donsmithb100m

@ruffian

He has recently been involved with projects relating to Artificial Intelligence in life sciences, business modelling in financial services, blockchain technology in healthcare, data-driven innovation in transport and travel, and marine conservation in tidal energy.

Not many people know that I... invented a revolutionary new, compact, respiratory inhaler, designed to deliver dry-powder medicines to remote parts of the world.

Hui’s focus in 2018 centered on driving an audience-first approach across Sony Music’s UK labels to ensure marketing strategies continue to adapt to ever-changing consumer habits.

Her leadership helped Sony move early into podcast development and voice activation. Sony Music became the first UK label to launch artist Amazon Alexa Skills with projects from Paloma Faith and Little Mix.

Hui also served as Chair of The BRIT Awards Digital Committee 2017 – 2019, working with UK music trade organization BPI and content agency Somethin’ Else to expand the show’s digital footprint and boost online viewership throughout her tenure.

My little-known hobby is... photographing street art around the world for my blog http://graffitilanes.com

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Duane is a strategic polymath, accelerating ‘edge thinking’ from emerging culture, science and tech into brand futures exploration and creative experimentation. His cross-discipline work in 2019 saw him: explore new-age sustainability with BLOCKTAIL, a concept cocktail powered by blockchain, showing full traceability of each ingredient’s own supply chain; explore retail through a human-first lens using the psychological concept of FLOW; see a Buddhist Monk, a neuroscientist and an Immersive Theatrical Director share unexpected insights into how

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

STUDENTS & APPRENTICES

DUANE HOLLAND

ELEN PARRY

Founder & Strategist DH READY

Student MSc in Industrial Digitalisation

@dhready

@elen_parry

Connected Retail can absorb shoppers in the moment through immersion and personalisation; and be selected as one of only a few content partners at FUTUREFEST, Europe’s largest festival of the future, exploring how multisensory and interactive design is changing the rules and future behaviours of flavour.

Not many people know that I... run an experimental supper club called Ready Meals.

Elen’s work aims to create improved situations and reduce exclusion by design both physically and socially.

She uses human-centred design methods to create designed products that are current and inclusive.

With a background in Three Dimensional Design, specialising in product, Elen has worked directly with a wide range of materials helping to develop her creative problem solving skills. She is confident in pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

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Currently studying a Masters Degree in Industrial Digitalisation, Elen’s focus is on using digital processes to innovate everyday products and services. She uses digital technologies combined with design thinking to improve the efficiency and desirability of the products with which we are surrounded with, in particular assistive technologies and medical devices.

My greatest idea is... to innovate assistive aids and medical devices – essential for some, desirable for all.

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CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

RISING STARS

EMIL BLUM

EMILY HEWITSON

Designer & Art Director www.emilblum.com

User Experience Researcher hedgehog lab

@emilblum

@emilymhewitson

Life is short, so Emil decided that family should always come first and the work should only be done with people who care for others. Through trial and error he’s trying to find his way in this world, always experimenting and never conforming.

Emily joined hedgehog lab in early 2018 as a UX research intern working alongside the team. Upon completing her masters in Research Psychology she joined the team permanently.

Relaxation is... essential.

With 2+ years of practical psychology research experience in varying fields, Emily has quickly adapted and applied her skills within the design industry.

Her psychology knowledge and background has helped hedgehog lab create and implement a more formalised structure ensuring scientific user research is incorporated into

projects. Emily works with hedgehog’s design team to empower them to inform their work with effective and reliable research.

Emily is passionate about discussing and teaching about psychology in user research and design and has written blog articles and delivered presentations within the local design community.

My little-known hobby is... baking, I almost always ‘accidentally’ bake enough cookies to feed a small country.

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Emma is an interactive producer, she’s spent well over 15 years giving audiences agency to explore stories in exciting new ways. She cares a lot about the people at both ends of the process, the makers and the users. Emma loves anything that grabs attention, drives education and makes voices heard.

She has produced games for marketing, entertainment, learning and social change, working on a few BAFTA winning projects along the way. Currently working with Cooperative Innovations helping them to grow the business, to create and define best practice for

CLIENT SERVICES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

RISING STARS

EMMA COOPER

EMMA HOPKINS

Business Development & Product Manager Cooperative Innovations

UK Creative Lead Spotify

@em_cooper

@emmahopkins

immersive content and also produce tools to help developers make the best of all the newly emerging hardware. Emma is also Executive Producer of Sheffield Doc/ Fest’s Alternate Realties programme.

Not many people know that I... have one leg longer than the other.

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Emma leads the Creative team at Spotify UK, which exists to help companies and brands best utilise Spotify’s advertising products.

Before joining the Spotify team, she was a Creative Specialist at Snapchat and prior to that a Creative Specialist at Twitter. Her role is an amalgamation of creation, co-creation and consulting.

Co-creation is at the core of what she does; working closely with agencies and brands, with their creative campaigns, and advising on the best ways of using Spotify within those campaigns.

Relaxation is... running along the East London canals on a crisp sunny day.

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Emma is a creative, author, blogger, vlogger, budding stand-up comedian, five times TEDx speaker and regular on the tech conference circuit. After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the age of 29 she made it her mission to raise awareness about the condition and continue her life as she planned.

She featured in the BBC2 documentary The Big Life Fix where Microsoft’s Haiyan Zhang created a bespoke wearable device that allowed Emma to write and draw for the first time in years.

ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

EMMA LAWTON

ETE DAVIES

Creative Lead Parkinsons UK

Managing Director, AnalogFolk Co-Founder, WeAreStripes, CultureHeroes

@ems_lawton

@CultureHeroesUK

This year Emma is doing something new every day and blogging about it at www.thef---itlist.com to shine a light on the importance of investing in our own development and happiness. Emma is also Creative Lead at Parkinson’s UK and last year spearheaded the creation of their Devices and Apps library to help those with the condition discover effective and safe tech.

My favourite quote/saying is...

‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ Andre Gide

Appointed Managing Director in 2016, Ete has led AnalogFolk to unprecedented growth and creative excellence. Placed 29th in Econsultancy’s Top 100 Digital Agencies 2018 and ranked amongst it’s ‘top four’ creative agencies, AnalogFolk also placed 2nd for Campaign Magazine’s ‘Digital Innovation Agency Of The Year’ and was IPM COGS ‘Service Agency of the Year’. New business wins have taken AnalogFolk London from a UK-centric business to a regional European offering, culminating in recognition as an ‘outstanding allrounder’ in the FT’s ‘UK Future 100’, for

UK companies making a positive longterm impact on their sector and wider society, and achieving exceptional financial performance.

Away from AnalogFolk, Ete is a leading protagonist in driving diversity, inclusion and equality across the industry.

The innovation that is exciting me lately is... 5G because it will disrupt how software is done, and the lower latency could change almost every sector.

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Gemma started a global movement that encourages and celebrates the achievements of IT architects, with a particular focus on women, who are vastly underrepresented.

In 14 months, over 2,000 people globally have been inspired to start progressing towards technical project leadership roles. Thanks to this movement, Gemma has helped a small corner of IBM cover new ground in the salesforce.com technology space.

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

GEMMA EMMETT

GEORGIE BARRAT

Senior Solution Architect Bluewolf, an IBM Company

Presenter The Gadget Show

@gemziebeth

@georgiebarrat

Gemma also writes a blog that provides exam tips and tells the personal story of her fight with breast cancer. Gemma values learning and now strives to become a technical authority, having recently attempted the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect exam.

Only 5% of the 250+ certification holders worldwide are women, so she is keen to show others that it’s achievable.

At school I... was often in trouble, because I wanted to know why the rules existed in the first place.

Georgie Barrat is a technology journalist, broadcaster and presenter. At the beginning of 2017 she joined The Gadget Show’s new presenting line-up.

Alongside her work as part of the Gadget Show team, ITV Tonight, Good Morning Britain, ITV Weekend and is a regular on The Jeremy Vine Show and James Martin Saturday Morning. She often comments on breaking tech stories for the likes of Channel 5 News, BBC Radio 5 live, talk radio & BBC Radio 2.

She has contributed to reviewing the latest apps and devices for The Mirror, Tech City News, The Guardian, Marie Claire & The Metro.

Georgie is passionate about women working in technology and devotes time to encouraging more girls to be involved in STEM subjects.

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RISING STARS

CLIENT SERVICES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

HANNAH OWENS

INGRID OLMESDAHL

Account Manager Livity

Client Services Director Red Badger

@LivityUK

Hannah believes a job will only be done outstandingly if you truly care about it.

In the last year, she’s been the driving force behind talent programme, Digify, supporting emerging talent into the digital creative industries.

Through this, she’s presented her views on skills training alongside Sadiq Khan as well as showcased best practices to inclusivity to the Deputy Prime Minister of Hong Kong.

Aside from developing businesses through talent, Hannah believes in the power of co-creating alongside your audience. She’s led and executed global creative projects for Netflix, Facebook and most recently NGO Better Care Network on an international behavior change campaign targeting volunteers and encouraging them to think differently about voluntourism.

At school I... was always getting in trouble for chatting and passing notes. That’s a big part of my job now so it worked out well!

@ingridolmesdahl

Ingrid has spent the last year working at Red Badger helping win new client accounts, growing existing accounts and implementing processes designed to scale in the future. Working with a fantastic Badger pitch team, key client 2018 wins include News UK and Tandem Money. She has also helped develop and implement new sales and account growth processes, which have been rolled out and are being used across the business. As part of her continued drive to ensure happy clients and sustainable growth, she is now focused on creating and

launching Red Badger’s partnership strategy, designed to develop strategic partnerships with leading technology providers, to ensure that Red Badger continues to deliver best-in-class work for a range of new and existing clients.

My desert island luxury would be... a great sound system and big selection of music.

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CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

ISABEL FARCHY

JAMES DELLAR

Founder & CEO Creative Mentor Network

Creative Director Onespacemedia

@isabelfarchy

Isabel is Founder and CEO of Creative Mentor Network, a charity which mentors young people into creative careers. For four years Isabel was a Teach First teacher, then she trained incoming teachers for Teach for Lebanon.

In 2014, back in the UK and noticing a lack of opportunity in the creative industries for young people from low-income backgrounds, Isabel established Creative Mentor Network. The organisation has helped 400+ young people into jobs across the industry, and partners

with 40+ creative businesses including Soho House, Sky, Sony Music and M&C Saatchi.

Named the 2018 Major Players Diversity Champion, Oystercatchers Industry Leader, and Campaign Magazine’s Future Trailblazer, Isabel’s mission is to ensure the industry includes young people who don’t start out with the right network.

I’m where I am today because... I never understood ‘no’ to mean ‘no’.

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@dellar

James works with some truly inspiring clients that are changing the world one day at a time. Whilst being supported by a talented team, he’s enabled these clients to tell their engaging and powerful narratives and assisted in pushing their organisation’s objectives forward.

Working closely with Anglia Ruskin University, James plays a considerable role in preparing students for life in the industry. He’s helped sculpt a module for the Graphic Design BA (Hons) course to give students an insight into working on a professional level multi-discipline project whilst getting helpful feedback from a real agency.

At school I... was told I should give up my dream of becoming a designer.

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TECH TRAILBLAZERS

CEOS & LEADERS

JAMES HALL

James is a director and developer at Parallax. He’s been working on developing city-wide IoT streetlighting projects, smart city and in-store experiential projects.

JAMES HILTON

Technical Director Parallax

Global CEO M&C Saatchi Performance

@mrrio

@mcsaatchiperf

His interactive media work includes in-store activations for major shoe brands. Using touch tables for data collection, customers’ can build a photo collage that is then printed on a photobooth printer.

He’s spent his time using data to save councils’ money on energy bills by building a dashboard, an over-the-air-update protocol and testing tools, which were quickly rolled out across multiple cities.

I’ve never... liked toasted crumpets.

James Hilton is founder and Global CEO of M&C Saatchi Performance. In 2006, dissatisfied with the lack of quality and marketing knowledge when looking for a mobile marketing supplier, James made the decision to found his own company Inside Mobile.

Over the past decade, James has led the agency to keep pace with the rapidly evolving digital industry. In 2018, this meant taking the necessary step to more accurately reflect the direction of the agency by rebranding to M&C Saatchi Performance, with James

identifying performance as the next frontier in digital.

James’ steadfast belief in the power of performance has seen the agency grow at an exponential rate, employing more than 150 staff in 11 locations globally.

The next big thing in digital will be... overcoming the complexity of multichannel attribution which will create yet another surge in digital media expenditure.

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MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

JAMES WILKINSON

JARED THOMAS

Marketing Director CTI Digital

Data Scientist Atos-Google AI Lab

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@jamesWilkinson

For 10 years, James Wilkinson has been bridging the gap between digital marketing and web development.

Specialising in producing multi-channel digital marketing campaigns, he believes in the competitive value of digital-centric organisations. From this standpoint, James modernises and increases clients’ reach across any industry, from charities to B2C commerce.

Since joining CTI Digital as Marketing Director, James has grown a client service marketing team from the ground up. The team has been enhanced by

James’ dedication to investing in the professional development of those around him. More recently, James has increased his focus on client empowerment. By leading training courses, he teaches clients to take control of elements of their own marketing and, ultimately, the future of their brands online.

My little-known hobby is... meditation. I think it’s extremely important to take time away from work and learn to focus inwards.

Jared is a data scientist at AtosGoogle AI Lab a global leader in digital transformation. Having joined as a graduate in 2016, he has quickly established himself as an expert in the areas of machine learning and AI. Passionate about technology, mathematics and data, he has delivered many innovative solutions to clients from a diverse range of industries.

In 2018 Jared put a number of technologies to successful use, from using machine learning to power recommendation engines, to

working with genetic algorithms to solve complex optimisation problems.

Recently Jared has been working in the Atos-Google AI Lab alongside AI experts from both Atos and Google to show clients the power of artificial intelligence and how it can be applied within their organisations.

I am where I am today because...

I’ve had an amazing family supporting me who I strive to make proud, in particular my little brother.

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Jennifer has been an integral part of various cyber skills campaigns across the UK including working with government and corporations surrounding the issues of ethical hacking, cyberbullying, and what to do in case of a security breach. Through her efforts in legislation, events, and security, Jennifer started Hacker House as a community of hackers in East London in 2014 and since then has launched a training portal to help

ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

CEOS & LEADERS

JENNIFER ARCURI

JILLIAN MOORE

CEO/Founder Hacker House

Head of Digital UK & I Atos

@Jennifer_Arcuri

@jillian_moore

bring more students into the industry of cyber security. In the last year she has trained students all over the UK and has expanded her work to the west coast of the USA to help encourage companies to adopt the same strategy of endorsing cyber skills.

Not many people know that I... can recite copious amounts of Shakespearean text.

Atos brought Jillian into the business in 2017 to establish and grow the UK&I Digital Practice. Leveraging her expertise from leading business units at Logica, Sapient Publicis and Slalom, she focused her team on solving clients’ business problems with digital solutions that were truly effective at scale.

all industry sectors connecting these services to design, build and deliver everything from innovative prototypes to multi-million pound engagements, which, in turn, led towards Atos Digital Services’ recognition as #3 in eConsultancy’s Top 100 Digital Agencies 2018.

Today the UK&I Digital Practice is made up of over 160 colleagues providing services ranging from Industry 4.0 and IoT to data, analytics and AI, customer experience and business digitisation.

The team partners with clients across

Relaxation is... hovering at 30m down in the ocean, taking photos of passing manta rays and sharks.

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RISING STARS

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

JODIE RODGERS

JOHN TAFE

Cloud Scale Analytics Lead Microsoft

Head of Digital University of the West of Scotland

@jodieerodgers

Jodie leads Microsoft’s Cloud Scale Analytics business in the UK, shaping their Big Data & Analytics strategy across Product, Marketing, Sales & Partner.

She’s a firm believer that with better data you’ll make better decisions.

Prior to this in her role as a technology strategist, Jodie played a vital role in shaping an entirely new partner ecosystem for Microsoft. She engaged digital agencies around the UK, evangelising Azure’s Data & AI capabilities through roadshows and workshops.

Jodie brings a vivacious and infectious energy to everything she does with a particular passion for championing and recruiting female talent. This is demonstrated through her mentoring of early in career females, speaking at partner events and through social media.

I got into digital because...

I had an incredible school teacher called Miss Farmery who supported and inspired me.

John has worked in the digital sector for almost 25 years and leads largescale creative and digital solutions for major international brands.

As the head of a team that won a 2017 BIMA award for a new e-learning platform, he now works at the UWS as Head of Digital where he is applying his years of digital experience to the exciting challenges and opportunities facing Higher Education in the digital world. Over the past 12 months he has applied a strategic perspective to the digital activity and promotions to help

move to a digital-first approach across platforms, services and promotions.

John was previously Digital Director and a Co-Managing Director at Front Page and before that worked in User Education for Adobe.

I got into digital because...

Digital (along with a healthy dose of critical thinking) can help solve so many problems.

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Jonny is the founder and CEO of LAB, the independent digital agency that uses a blend of consumer neuroscience, psychology and behavioural economics to design, build and market digital brands and experiences.

Jonny has overseen a standout 12 months for LAB, in which it has moved to a new, bigger space in the heart of Soho and hired Gocompare.com’s Adrian Webb as Chairman, as it looks to its next chapter of growth.

CEOS & LEADERS

RISING STARS

JONNY TOOZE

JOSH AKAPO

Founder and CEO LAB

Youth Marketing Assistant Hype Collective

@jonnytooze

@jalekapo

Under Jonny’s leadership in the last year, LAB has been named a ‘One to Watch’ in Econsultancy’s Top 100 Agencies; placed at number 6 in the Wirehive League Table; and featured in The Drum’s Top 100 Independent Agencies for the second year running.

Not many people know that I... refuse to take my phone / laptop with me on holiday.

Josh Akapo is a multifaceted creative who has immersed himself in the digital space. In his growing career, he’s worked with Lovebox Festival, the NHS, Stormzy and many more – all by 21. Working at student marketing agency Hype Collective, he set up the Hype Mentoring programme which connects talented young people with the creative industries at large, and he also aids the team in creative strategy and research. As youth mentoring not-for-profit Joined Up Thinking’s marketing lead, he has been instrumental in curating inspirational

events, as well as helping to launch campaigns such as the NHS Blood + Transplant collaboration, tackling organ donation within the black community. He also has a clothing company, ARCHTYPE, and finds time to study at KCL.

The innovation that excites me lately is... the ‘water box’ device used to clean contaminated water in Flint, Michigan.

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In six years, Josh has risen from a graduate trainee at the Jellyfish Academy, the agency’s in-house training programme, to become PPC Director. Responsible for leading client strategy, developing the team around him and continuously improving the agency’s paid search offering, he oversees a team of 17 paid search specialists and leads the strategy across some of the agency’s most long-standing accounts.

RISING STARS

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

JOSH WHITE

JOSIE KLAFKOWSKA

Director, Paid Search Jellyfish

Director of Marketing Cognifide

@JellyfishAgency

@JosieKlaf

He was one of only four industry experts invited to speak at Google’s Firestarters event on performance marketing. Coinciding with Google’s 20th birthday, the theme was ‘Twenty years on: The present and future of search’. Josh’s talk focused on technology and his belief that it will enhance rather than hinder the role of the future search practitioner.

The film/book title that describes my life is... Happy Feet.

As Director of Marketing at WPP martech agency, Cognifide, Josie champions CSR and sustainability.

Over the last 2 years, she has coordinated the establishment of a strategic sustainability framework that allows colleagues across the organisation to determine where and how they make a difference. Last year alone, the company supported 13 individual projects, involving over 100 staff and over 390 hours of volunteering. Josie oversees all UK initiatives and has personally advocated for several, with a particular

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emphasis on gender balance and inclusion. In 2018, these included working with the charity Hestia to help women suffering from domestic abuse; with #techmums, to reconnect women with technology and with the charity, You Make It, to help transform young lives.

My desert island luxury would be...

Friends. Is that allowed? I can’t imagine being stranded anywhere on my own for too long.

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As Client Strategy Director, Karen Pearce has shaped Digirank into what it is today: a people-powered, insight hungry, award-winning, and strategic digital marketing agency.

Karen leads our team of talented digital experts. Her knowledge, guidance and support enables the team to help make local and national clients market leaders in their sectors through strategic digital marketing.

Aside from growing the business, Karen is passionate about involving the

CEOS & LEADERS

ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

KAREN PEARCE

KATIE MILLS

Director of Client Strategy Digirank

Co-Founder & Director StateZero Labs

@karenhowells1

@KatieMillsSZL

local community in digital, nurturing talent and opening doors for the next generation of digital as part of Digirank’s ‘Digiskills’ programme. 2018 was a whirlwind year, with Karen inspiring record business growth. 2019 is shaping up to be even bigger, she will be heavily involved in exciting business changes and will be working towards a ‘mini MBA’ run by Google.

I got into digital because... anything is possible. It’s shaped by people and creativity, there really are no limits to what can be achieved.

Katie is Co-Founder and Director of StateZero Labs, the world’s first solution-led Blockchain Lab for startups. Having spent her entire career working with startups in emerging tech in the UK, Europe and Latin America, she now focuses on educating the tech market on genuine business use cases for blockchain, and the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workforce.

The innovation that’s excited me lately is... the shift in focus on blockchain for enterprise solutions rather than just cryptocurrencies.

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MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

CEOS & LEADERS

KATIE STREET

KEVIN GIBBONS

Sales & Marketing Director Etch Group / Big Radical

CEO Re:signal

@katiestreetmate

@kevgibbo

Passionate about new business and marketing, Katie has had a busy year focusing on developing a new proposition to market for the ever growing Etch Group.

Already seeing great success, Katie has focussed on driving a sales and marketing strategy that increases the agency’s reach and drives new business opportunities by developing a robust marketing strategy and training the heads of department across the agency group to drive outreach and sales.

Kevin is co-Founder and CEO of specialist SEO and content marketing agency, Re:signal, leading a team of 15 people and ÂŁ1.5m in revenues.

At school I... spoke even more than I do now! Known for speaking up, I have always voiced my opinions and challenged the status quo.

He has founded and grown one of the UK fastest growing companies (Deloitte Fast 50 UK and 500 EMEA 2017), working with clients including Expedia, Auto Trader and ASICS. Re:signal has won 5x industry awards for its work in 2018, with Kevin voted the prestigious Search Personality at UK Search Awards, totalling 20x for the agency since launch in 2012.

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Kevin initiated the voluntary SEO support for PrideMatters and Make a Wish foundation. He is also a judge for the US Search Awards, MENA Search Awards and Interactive Awards.

I got into digital because... I was told journalism was too competitive and I should find something different!

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Leigh Dobson is the Client Service Director at Signal. Part of Cello Group PLC, Signal is a full-service digital & CRM agency with over 250 staff and offices in Edinburgh, London and Cheltenham.

She has responsibility for the client, commercial and cultural health of the agency in Edinburgh. This equates to the happiness and satisfaction of a broad, diverse and ambitious staff group and an equally demanding set of clients that include The Royal Bank of Scotland, The Edinburgh Fringe, The British Red Cross, Baillie Gifford and Nando’s.

CEOS & LEADERS

ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

LEIGH DOBSON

LINDSAY HERBERT

Client Services Director Signal

Inventor & iX Innovation Leader UKI IBM Instant Checkout

@leighdobbers

@digital_lindsay

Day-to-day, she manages a 20+ team comprising Account Management, Project Management and Marketing Operations and leads the operational decision-making of Signal Edinburgh as part of the Senior Management Team.

My favourite quote/saying is...

“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”

Elizabeth Taylor

Lindsay Herbert is an IBM Inventor, as well as the iX Innovation Leader.

Among Lindsay’s IBM inventions is IBM Instant Checkout, a ground breaking system that detects shop items without needing to individually scan them, and then enables quick, secure payment.

Lindsay is also a Governor for the Museum of London, as well as the author of the book Digital Transformation, which published with Bloomsbury and has received international praise for its no-nonsense approach to innovation in major organisations.

A sought-after speaker, Lindsay draws upon her own insider insights leading major innovation with a diverse set of leading brands. Lindsay’s core message is that real digital transformation means to become more adaptive to change itself, and that it’s accomplished by leveraging the new ways of working brought about by the innovation age.

My one wish would be... that science and technology can release the wisdom of human minds from the constraints of their malfunctioning physical bodies.

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Passionate about the opportunities that technology and particularly apps offer to improve health and care efficiencies and outcomes, Liz founded ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application in 2015, determined to present a way to offer guidance to app developers to help raise app quality, as well as helping the public and professionals to confidently find and apply apps that could genuinely improve public, patient and organisational outcomes.

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

LIZ ASHALL-PAYNE

LUCY WESTON

CEO ORCHA

Senior Art Director Great State / Two Girls Co

@LizAshallPayne

@lucy_w_shrimp / @twogirls_co

Initially a Speech Therapist, Liz has 20 years NHS experience. She has successfully led innovative change and service transformation in complex health economies. She has led national and European change programmes and networks to deliver transformational shift and has experience of working collaboratively with public sector, industry and academia.

I’m where I am today because... of tenacity, tenacity tenacity! I will not give in!

Lucy is a senior art director at Great State and one half of Two Girls Co with her wife, working on everything from websites, video content, campaigns, product design to print.

At Great State, Lucy conceived and art directed the UNHCR’s Step with Refugees – a global campaign launched in 2018 that syncs with fitness applications, where users can ‘donate’ their miles to match the 2 billion kilometres covered by refugees each year.

In early 2019, Two Girls Co launched the Girls Who Design enamel pin to empower women in the design industry to feel proud of what they do. This pin is a perfect conversation starter to help bring more diversity to creativity, something Lucy is incredibly passionate about.

I’m where I am today because... my wife forced me out of the humdrum and made me create my graphics portfolio.

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A digital marketing student from Bournemouth, Maddie specialises in paid search marketing. She only joined the digital industry around 18 months ago but in that short period she has discovered that she has a talent for it, and “absolutely loves” delivering formidable results.

STUDENTS & APPRENTICES

CLIENT SERVICES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

MADDIE CRAWFORD

MARK COLLING

Paid Search Executive Adido

Digital Programme Manager IBM iX

@Madison_C64

@markc303

Outside of work, Maddie applies her marketing abilities (and her addiction to social media) to fundraising. In the last two years she has raised money for Dorset Mind, The Alzheimer’s Society, and We Do Ethical, all causes she strongly supports, and all of which have benefitted from her digital skills.

Maddie loves... spending time with her friends and family, reading, listening to music and finally her cats!

Mark led digital transformation programmes for large enterprise clients at IBM iX. He is passionate about creating high-performing, digital design and development teams that help iX’s clients get closer to their customers and increase their pace of delivery; two key ingredients for dealing with the disruption many industries are facing.

In 2018, Mark lead a new partnership between IBM iX and Audi UK, to bring Audi’s digital experience in line with the intelligent and beautiful cars the brand is known for. To achieve this, Mark lead the creation of an Agile development hub, where iX, Audi and Audi’s partners work side-by-side to build, test and learn about the ‘best digital experience, bar none’.

Relaxation is... playing with technology, just for the sake of it.

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CEOS & LEADERS

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

MATT LODDER

MATT ROBERTS

EVP Managing Director R/GA EMEA

Digital Designer Sightsavers

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@the_other_matt

Matt is responsible for the continued commercial success and strategic evolution of R/GA in EMEA. As R/GA continues to scale its teams, client portfolio and offerings in the region, Matt’s decade of industry experience ensures that the right working practices and culture are in place to allow the agency to act as a trusted partner to its global clients. Over the last year, Matt led the EMEA launch of R/GA’s new Transformation at Speed model, resulting in significantly increased revenue from 2018. During this time the agency also won 13 major

new clients, delivered award winning work for clients such as Google, Nike and McDonald’s, and culminated in R/GA London being named Digital Innovation Agency of the Year by Campaign Magazine – for a record fourth time in the last six years.

I got into digital because...

I believed in a more human future.

Matt is a digital designer at Sightsavers, a non-governmental organisation that works in developing countries to treat and prevent avoidable blindness and promote equality for people with disabilities. His experience spans creative disciplines including branding, UI/UX design, illustration, animation and art direction, and he now focuses on accessible and inclusive design, for which he is a keen advocate.

He has written for Creative Review about being a colour-blind designer,

and he helped to create Sightsavers’ Perspectives exhibition at the D&AD design festival in 2018, which encouraged designers to make sure their work is accessible for everyone.

He has also worked with global banknote manufacturer De La Rue to develop a more inclusive approach to designing banknotes around the world.

My one wish would be...

To have just one day a year where the internet is switched off across the world.

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Since taking over as Head of Digital Marketing for Jellyfish Connect, Matthew has transformed the way the digital marketing team works, both structurally and with regards to its progressive approach to technology and growth. Under his leadership, the team have been able to deliver 22% year-on-year growth across its 3 core products whilst still being able to reduce costs, streamline procedures and work more efficiently.

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

RISING STARS

MATTHEW READ

MELISSA RYNN

Head of Digital Marketing Jellyfish Connect / Magazine.co.uk / Pocketmags.com / uOpen.com

Digital Innovations & Insights Director Wire

@matthewread88

@secretcelebrity

Key to this success over the last year has been down to Matthew bringing all channels into one central team, moving away from a siloed approach and moving towards an omni-channel strategy that allows for greater expansion across all channels and has now set the framework for continued future growth.

My favourite quote is...

‘A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time.’ Henry Ford

An experienced brand and innovation specialist, Melissa leads digital strategy and audience-first thinking at WIRE; one of Scotland’s foremost creative agencies.

Her passion for finding new ways to connect technology with stand-out creative thinking has been instrumental in some of organisation’s biggest wins; from Highlands and Islands Enterprise to the Communicorp group. Industry accolades in the last 12 months have included Best Digital Strategy, Best Social Media Campaign,

Best Low-Budget Campaign, as well as a personal listing in The Drum’s 50 under 30.

Melissa regularly acts as a thought-leader at events and in the media. After a sold-out talk on artificial intelligence last year, 2019 has seen her feature on BBC’s Good Morning Scotland and STV’s Scotland Tonight.

The next big thing in digital will be... the disappearance of the word digital. Online and offline will find new ways to connect.

BIMA 100

CEOS & LEADERS

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

MICHAEL OLAYE

MIKE TAPP

CEO, Dare CTO, Inside Ideas Group

Lead Data Scientist SHARE Creative

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@magicTuscan

Michael Olaye is CEO at Dare, a digital agency with hub offices in London and Stockholm; and Chief Technology Officer at Inside Ideas Group.

His experience has seen him named one of The Drum’s 100 most influential people in UK digital. He was also recently named one of the 100 most influential Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) leaders in the UK technology sector, in a House of Commons and Financial Times-backed list.

In his spare time Michael mentors, helping up-and-coming industry candidates and supports local communities in the UK & Sweden. He also advises digital businesses and is active as a guest speaker in the wider digital & technology sector.

The innovation that excites me is... driverless cars – it’s the next best thing to having a chauffeur.

Mike has forged a career making data science as accessible and impactful as possible - spending the last year focussing on innovative applications of natural language processing to help businesses make the most out rich text data in the digital space that was previously under-utilised.

Establishing and growing the data science offering and team at SHARE to develop and deliver novel data solutions whilst championing transparency and ethics in applied AI, Mike has worked to help build the reputation of data science in the wider digital marketplace and enable clients and colleagues to make data powered decisions.

I got into digital because... I’m a huge data nerd and no other industry offers the wealth of data to do cool stuff with!

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BIMA 100

Nathan has been steadily growing CreateFuture’s client and project base as they enter their third year, working most recently with Adidas, FreeAgent, Penguin Random House and The Macallan. CreateFuture’s headcount has grown to 10, as they develop and refine their hybrid model, pointing client/ agency teams at brand, marketing and product design. Highlights include helping established clients take two new financial services businesses to market.

He has also been active in supporting BIMA’s Scottish council work.

STRATEGISTS & CONSULTANTS

CEOS & LEADERS

NATHAN FULWOOD

NICK SCOTT

Strategy Director / Co-Founder CreateFuture

CEO Big Group Limited

@kidcamel

@biggrouplondon

My great idea is... Gladiators meets Love Island – looking for backers if you’re interested :)

With previous careers in law & advertising, Nick founded Big Group in 1991 as an integrated communications agency. 2018 proved seminal with the acquisition of two agencies in Amsterdam to form Big Amsterdam and winning 14 creative industry awards. Nick has driven the agency forward with a 1st class management team and as CEO, he is ambitious for new digital opportunities alongside developing a strong culture across it’s locations in London, Bath, Newbury and the newly

opened Amsterdam. Outside of executive responsibilities, Nick co-founded The MOBO Awards, relaunched The Prince’s Trust Fashion Rocks and received the 1st ever honorary Brit Award in 2018 for managing a successful 20 year partnership between Mastercard and the Brit Awards.

Relaxation is... weeding the drive at my home in the South of France.

BIMA 100

RISING STARS

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

NIKKI PARKINS

NINA JASINSKI

IT Business Partner Unilever

CMO Ogilvy UK @ninajas

Nikki joined Unilever in 2012 through Unilever Future Leaders Programme Business and Technology Management Graduate. This is a business and technology management graduate scheme that runs in a series of 6-month placements. Then she took the role of R&D IT Innovation Manager and since 2017 she has been IT Business Partner for Global Marketing at Unilever.

Nikki studied Astrophysics at University of Liverpool.

Nina Jasinski is the CMO of Ogilvy UK. She has helped shape the proposition for Ogilvy’s world-class capabilities from a marketing perspective, bringing in new clients in need of not just advertising solutions, but overarching marketing transformation.

Not many people know that I...

Once skateboarded really well (I know!)

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With 18 years experience working in SEND education, mainly with children with Autism, 2018 saw Paul see the fruition of several years of work in aiming to improve the employability and career choices for his students in digital industries.

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

PAUL DAVENPORT

PHARAOH WOGHIREN

Head of Sixth Form / In Training Head Teacher Abbots Lea School

Founder / Design Director Neworks

@pauldav1975

@neworks

Paul continued to champion the rights of the neurodiverse in employment as a guest speaker at BIMA’s ‘Importance of inclusion and diversity in digital industries’ breakfast briefing in March and through developing digital training projects for his students.

With 75 students taking part on the day, several teams of students from Paul’s school made the finals of the BIMA Digital Day competition, with one team winning the Vodafone challenge. They are the first SEND school to achieve this.

I’m where I am today because...

I’m a dreamer with a bit of luck.

As part of Toptal’s 3% global design talent, Pharaoh’s skills in the field of Digital Product Design have helped many startups and brands to create world-class digital experiences.

After founding his own design studio in 2016, he received a BIMA Award nomination for his outstanding design work on ‘Now’, a pioneering social matchmaking app that grew weekly by 270% after its initial launch in 2018.

Whilst operating as one of the Directors of Now, Pharaoh also forms part of

InVision’s Design Leadership Forum and serves as the Chief Design Officer at Appello, an international full-service design and development agency.

With a wealth of experience in digital, Pharaoh continues to be an advocate of holistic design, with an emphasis on thoughtful reduction, mindfulness and craftsmanship.

Not many people know that I... am into quantum mechanics.

BIMA 100

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

PHIL BEAMAN

PHIL STUART

Technical Director VCCP iX

Creative Director PRELOADED

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@philstuart

Phil joined VCCP iX in 2016 and oversees a talented engineering team based in both London & Prague. His true passion lies in technical innovation, and it is his time spent working with creative disciplines that has driven some truly unique products and platforms, such as easyJet, Look&Book.

Agencies and clients require a new type of Technical Director who are as comfortable and effective in the delivery of corporate developments as they are in the creative use of emerging technology and innovations. Phil fits

this bill perfectly and provides a reassuring, confident partner for clients trying to navigate the unpredictable, morphing world of technology.

Relaxation is... Inbox Zero.

Phil is Founder and Creative Director of BAFTA-winning game studio PRELOADED.

Currently he is working with Magic Leap on a new MR educational experience.

Since 2000 he has worked with game-based technologies to create playful, purposeful experiences for adults, young people and kids.

Outside of PRELOADED he sits on BAFTA’s Games Committee and BIMA’s Immersive Council. In 2019 he also gave his first TEDx talk: Games with Purpose - a manifesto for the role of games beyond entertainment.

Over the past 18 months he has focused on bringing purpose to immersive platforms; working with WITHIN on their voice-based AR story platform, exploring accessibility in AR with BBC R&D and partnering with VIVE Arts and Google VR on landmark factual experiences.

The innovation that’s excited me lately is... mixed reality. We’re witnessing the birth of a new medium, which will change the way we see our world forever.

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Priya Lakhani OBE is Founder CEO of CENTURY Tech, the award-winning AI teaching and learning platform.

Launched in 2015, CENTURY creates personalised learning journeys for students in schools across the world.

This year the company agreed a landmark partnership with the Belgian government to use CENTURY in all state schools in the Flanders region, the first state-level rollout of AI in schools.

Last year Priya, alongside Professor Rose Luckin, Director of EDUCATE and Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

PRIYA LAKHANIÂ

RICHARD BRISLEY

Founder CEO CENTURY TECH

Tech Lead Sagittarius

@priyalakhani

@richardbrisley

of the University of Buckingham, established the Institute for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Education, which aims to tackle potential threats to young people from the rapid growth of new technology.

Priya regularly comments on world news, politics, business and technology for BBC World News.

At school I... sold Chomp bars and Curly Wurlies to the other students.

Richard has gone over and above his everyday role to support the Sagittarius Marketing team and has been instrumental in the agency’s survival as it has evolved from a team of 36 to an 85-strong company. It is his mission to ensure all the developers, across the globe feel supported and well-informed on client projects whilst also leading into new digital frontiers.

When it comes to innovative agency projects he leads the way in tech on client proof-of-concepts including a Virtual Concierge (Microsoft Chatbot) for travel giant, Red Carnation Hotels.

As well as being the first developer to write Augmented Random Search in C#; a cutting-edge AI technique like Google DeepMind and can teach a robot to walk by experience.

My favourite quote/saying is... let one walk alone, committing no sin, with few wishes, like elephants in the forest.

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Since joining the team last year, Richard has helped redefine several core internal processes; from improving communication to greater oversight on cost and time tracking.

Always keen to get to the heart of the project from the first meeting, Richard quickly builds strong relationships with key project stakeholders. Coupled with his technical knowledge, this has enabled him to investigate new opportunities for J B Cole’s client base. Richard has also forged a great working relationship with the studio

CLIENT SERVICES & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

RICHARD FRISCUOLO

RICHARD ROBINSON

Digital Project Manager J B Cole UK

Managing Partner Econsultancy

@richardjcole

@londonrobinson

team, supporting and motivating to ensure they are able to focus on creating the best solutions. J B Cole has worked on some exciting and complex projects recently, and they are looking forward to see where Richard and the team can take them.

The innovation that has excited me lately is... AI. There’s some incredible, ground breaking work being done in this field that will truly benefit future generations.

9-5: Richard leads change and makes good things happen between brands, agencies and talented folk. He specialises in accelerating modern marketing and enabling digital transformation.

5-9: Richard is an award-winning advocate for diversity, inclusivity and equality. Named by the FT & Management Today as one of the top 30 men championing women in the workplace and a ‘Campaigner for increased diversity’ by Huff Post.

Chair of The Ideas Foundation, Board Member of Creative Equals, BAME2020

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& Token Man, the first male SuperMomma for SheSays and an Ambassador for The Marketing Academy Foundation.

My favourite quote/saying is... that digital transformation is 90% people and 10% tech.

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Rob has been running Graphite Digital since 2009. He has steered the agency’s growth and they work in partnership with some of the world’s biggest organisations to deliver exceptional digital customer experiences. Clients include Pfizer, Costa, BP and Harvey Nichols.

Rob has dedicated much of his time this year to running BIMA Young Talent Council initiatives and creating a Future Talent Programme to drive change, alongside his Graphite team.

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

ROB VERHEUL

RUSSELL JAMES

Managing Director Graphite Digital

Digital Engagement Director The FA

@rob_v

@jamesrm

Rob is the South East ambassador for BIMA’s Digital Day and this year he helped to onboard the 150 agencies & schools taking part. He continues to help digital professionals connect with young people, striving to bring diverse talent into the industry and giving young people the support they need to flourish.

My great idea is... To reinvent the work experience model, so it’s more informative for students and more sustainable for companies.

Having previously led the marketing function he stepped into a newly formed role to lead the development of the organisation’s digital programme - building direct relationships with the fans, grassroots volunteers and players in the game. The work so far has involved the development of a single customer database and a stepchange of The FA’s digital platform to directly support engagement in the game across both men’s and women’s football from elite to grassroots. The launch of Matchday with PayPal and FA Superkicks apps are at the heart of

a modern engagement approach.

The future potential of OTT, wearables and how technology innovation will shape the football experience for all is also a key part of his focus.

My favourite quote/saying is... “If it matters enough to you, you’ll find a way to get it done, if it doesn’t then you’ll find an excuse.”

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As a Creative Technologist, Sam works to blend digital and physical spaces.

This year, he’s created an assistive AIdriven music-box for dementia patients and an ‘Internet of Things’ solution that teaches children how to properly maintain and look after their first plant.

He’s concepted and overseen the development of a LEGO ‘shop’ on Snapchat, where users can look around and purchase clothing via AR. According to Snapchat, it’s one of the leading examples of what’s possible on the platform.

TECH TRAILBLAZERS

CEOS & LEADERS

SAM COX

SAM FENTON-ELSTONE

Senior Creative Technologist We Are Social

CEO & Co-Founder Anything is Possible

@SamuelCox

@sjfe

Sam also designed and built wearable tech to help support him on his climb of Kilimanjaro, which helped track his heartbeat, blood oxygen levels, altitude and GPS location. The data he captured is currently being translated into a data visualisation art piece.

The innovation that has excited me lately is... The emergence of “calm technology”.

According to their website, anything is possible. They believe it so much they made it their brand.

It’s been quite a year for Sam and the agency he co-founded in 2018.

Multiple awards, client wins and rapid growth followed, proving integrated media, creative and consultancy services deliver a compelling proposition.

Sam is challenging the traditional client/agency model and bringing back client trust in their agency partners.

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Success is measured by their impact on a client’s triple bottom line - profit, people, and their impact on the planet.

They link their payment models directly to success. His introduction of development funding for life and a tech innovation fund supporting selfbuild projects has made Anything is Possible a great place to work.

Not many people know that I... gave up my job and spent a year on honeymoon, travelling the world with my wife. It was the initial spark that inspired Anything is Possible.

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BIMA 100

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

SAM HOYLAND

SHONA GOLD

Global Director of Commercial Operations & Marketing Centrica Business Solutions

Director of Sales & Marketing Vue @vuecinemas

Sam has a track record of delivering growth and change through innovation, and is an expert in brand, product management, channel development and commercial operations. In 2017 he was behind the creation and launch of the FTSE 100-listed Centrica Business Solutions, a start-up consisting of six existing and acquired businesses and brands.

He has since launched the company’s fully integrated digital demand generation platform in eight markets, delivering in 2018 a 9-point increase in

NPS and orderbook growth of over 50%, with indirect channels on track to deliver over 25% of OI for 2019.

Prior to his success at Centrica, Sam was Global Digital & Marketing Operations Director for Vodafone Group Enterprise and Global Marketing Director for Cable & Wireless Plc.

I’m where I am today because…

I’m lazy.

Shona Gold is Director of Sales & Marketing at Vue Entertainment, she sits on the executive team, and is on a mission to deliver the best big screen entertainment on the planet. She thrives on building teams and working with people who are razor sharp, ambitious and a great laugh. Shona has redefined Vue’s role and positioning, and has utilised research and insight to shape the company’s strategic initiatives, keeping customers at the core of what Vue do. She has developed a stellar digital team with whom she has defined

Vue’s digital strategy, built a market leading web and mobile capability, accelerated key initiatives such as PPC, CVM, social media as well as adopting new technologies in payments and personalisation to enhance customers experience.

The next big thing in digital will be... a flash in the pan.

BIMA 100

Simeon Quarrie is a renowned storyteller and international speaker using story and interactivity to drive change. The owner of VIVIDA is a Canon Ambassador and GTeam member. Listed as one of the world’s most influential creatives, he works to tackle issues of diversity and inclusion with Canon across Africa and Europe and played an instrumental role in creating Burberry’s new Burberry Inspire programme. His agency VIVIDA added VR to its storytelling toolkit and works with brands like

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

CREATIVES & DESIGNERS

SIMEON QUARRIE

SUNNY KUMAR

Founder VIVIDA

Head of Experience Design Tribal Worldwide London

@simeonquarrie

@sunnyk88

Barclays and Merck to use story and interactivity to nurture resilience and innovation. He was selected to Keynote on creativity at Apple HQ in San Francisco. He has also personally funded projects designed to change perceptions of blindness and mental health.

I’m where I am today because...

I believe everyone has a story worth sharing.

From consulting at adidas to launch a new running brand last year, Sunny provides the direction and connected UX strategy for Tribal Worldwide.

He has helped shape the entire digital customer experience for Volkswagen UK, an enormous responsibility given its position as the most visited automotive website in the UK. The pinnacle of Sunny’s contribution in 2018 came when he helped the DDB group retain Volkswagen’s business in the UK and Europe. His customer-

centric militancy and his advocacy for digital experience - in the middle of a global advertising pitch - was a huge success. He brilliantly represented experience design and creativity, garnering accolades from VW clients and agency network colleagues alike.

My desert island luxury would be... a couple of cases of Flying Goose Sriracha Hot Chilli Sauce, it makes anything taste good.

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CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

MARKETING DIRECTORS & CMOS

UMESH PANDYA

VICTORIA MORRISON

Co-Founder Wayfindr

New Business & Marketing Director EPAM TH_NK

@the_ume

Umesh (uMe) Pandya is driven by using design and technology to solve problems that matter, he has been working as a practitioner in the digital sector for over 18 years, conceiving and launching inclusive, human-centred, digital products, services and ventures.

In addition to co-founding Wayfindr, a multi-award-winning, social tech, not-for-profit that empowers vision impaired people to navigate the world independently, uMe has been transferring and adapting tools, process and methodologies from the design

and start-up sectors to help accelerate product and service innovation in the social impact sector. He is currently developing the Social Venture Canvas - a free to use tool that supports social tech entrepreneurs on their journey in creating purpose-driven, impact led, sustainable digital businesses.

My favourite quote/saying is...

“Design needs to be plugged into human behaviour. Design dissolves in behaviour.” Naoto Fukasawa

@weevics

As Marketing and New Business Director, Victoria is responsible for driving Think’s growth, brand, marketing and technology partnerships.

She’s part of a leadership team that has helped steer the agency through an incredible year. As well as winning a host of awards including The Drum’s Digital Agency of the Year, Think saw a 60% growth in revenue YoY – with Victoria driving highly competitive wins for Liverpool FC, Shop Direct, LV=, The Adecco Group and Knight Frank.

To top a defining year, Think was acquired in 2018 by EPAM, one of the world’s largest engineering firms.

Victoria played a crucial role in the acquisition’s success; bringing all of her responsibilities together to enable Think to not only dream big for its clients but deliver big too.

The film/book title that describes my life is... Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

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Warren has been working in experience design for 20+ years, working for Yell, PA Consulting, Oyster, Framfab, LBi and Universal Music. He founded experience design consultancy ELSE in 2010 to specialise in behaviour change, new product development and service innovation.

ELSE works with multinationals and start-ups and includes UBS, Adidas, Boehringer-Ingelheim, T. Rowe Price and Kodak as clients. ELSE has a strong focus on its culture, employing a 4-day work week, protected R&D time and a generous training budget.

ENTREPRENEURS & VISIONARIES

STUDENTS & APPRENTICES

WARREN HUTCHINSON

ZAYNAH DIN

Founder & Chief Experience Officer ELSE

Digital Marketing Apprentice Facebook

@snowbadger

@zaynahdin

Warren is a guest lecturer at Brunel University, delivering the Experience Design module on the MSc in Digital Design, and he’s also lectured on the MBA at Cambridge. ELSE is also involved with Northumbria University and Imperial College.

I’ve never... had the desire to leap from a plane, go to Vegas, or listen to Radiohead.

Before joining Facebook, Zaynah studied at The Global Academy where her passion for tech grew. Previously she attended a grammar school, an environment she could not thrive in.

Even though facing societal and family pressure, she took a risk and decided to build a new path for herself. She set up her own business using Instagram called Zaynah’s Bakes, a home-sale cupcake business where she reached 16,000 people within the first 2 weeks.

Zaynah also built a strong portfolio through various work experience and internships.

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She is now working in the marketing team at Facebook where she is responsible for managing regional campaigns which run across Facebook & Instagram. Currently she is working on a program which supports oung BAME women in Tech & Apprenticeships, which she wishes to launch in the near future.

Given the chance, I’d tell... my younger self: “You’re doing great sweetie”.

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