Angela Affinita is Director of Global Marketing, Disney Consumer Products at The Walt Disney Company. From immersive events to brand campaigns to product launches, Angela has led the creative execution of some of the world’s most beloved consumer products brands such as Mickey & Friends, Disney Princess, Pixar’s Toy Story, as well as Star Wars and Marvel. With over 25 years’ experience in broadcast and studio entertainment properties, storytelling and creative innovation is at the heart of everything Angela delivers.

With over 14 years’ experience in data, innovation and brand marketing in the technology and consumer goods space, Leïla joined L’Oréal in 2021 as Consumer Engagement & Innovation Director. In this role, she leads L’Oréal UK & Ireland’s Digital team, implementing strategies across the creator economy, consumer data and innovation to build digital edge for the company. Prior to L’Oréal, Leïla worked at Unilever, where she played a pivotal role in crafting digital strategy for the homecare business as Head of Digital Strategy UK&I and later on as Global Head of Direct-to-Consumer, re-thinking what the future of sustainable-first, commodity goods could look like. She also spent 6 years at eBay, in roles stretching from brand incubation to strategic marketing and product, igniting the eBay brand as one of the most relevant shopping destinations. Leïla has also spent time working within digitally native scale-ups and eCommerce consultancies. Outside of work, Leïla can be found as a guest lecturer, practicing yoga alongside collecting records and sharing her passion for food and craftmanship.

John-William started out in an agency looking after brand tracking and creative effectiveness across a wide variety of clients. He then made the move to a client side role, joining Sky. Over the last 8+ years he has worked across a variety of Sky's products and services focusing on Brand performance, setting up Sky's current measurement framework and building a best practice approach to creative and campaign evaluation, helping Sky's marketing teams get to better brand and campaign outcomes.

Sarah joined the Company as Chief Marketing Officer in January 2021. Sarah was Chief Growth Officer of Costa Coffee until 2020. In this role, Sarah was accountable for the Global Marketing and Growth team, which included brand, product innovation, digital, insight and key commercial categories. She has over 25 years’ experience across retail, consumer and hospitality industries, working for international market-leading brands such as Boots, Cadbury and Green & Blacks.

Paul is a highly experienced marketing leader having worked both Agency and Client side, across multiple sectors and audiences. Paul’s been at Barclays for 12 years leading teams covering Brand, Advertising, Media, Perfomance and Agency Management.

Currently leading the Media and Consumer Experience agenda for Mondelēz UK&I with a major focus on enterprise-level digital transformation in data, retail media and AI. Ex media agency.

Per Christiansen is Senior Vice President, Marketing EMEA at KAYAK for the travel brands KAYAK, momondo, Cheapflights, SWOODOO, and Checkfelix. He is Sustainability Lead at KAYAK representing KAYAK in the Booking Holding Sustainability SteerCo, and have been spearheading sustainability initiatives across travel within the past many years. He regularly contributes thought leadership to marketing events and award juries and has recently been awarded Marketer of the Year 2016 in Denmark, Top5 CMO in Denmark 2020, and Best Marketing Director in travel in Sweden 2019 a title that he was nominated for again in 2020, 2022, and 2023. He is a member of the M List 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, and has received high recognition for the campaigns 'momondo - The World Piece', 'momondo – The DNA Journey’, and ‘KAYAK – Think This’.

Tayo works as the Head of Digital Marketing at Savills. Tayo's background is a coming together of agency and client side experience, so has straddled both worlds over his career. Tayo has a passion for seeing great ideas come to life, which is why he has a keen interest in judging.

Louise has over 25 year’s experience working in the hospitality industry, spending the majority of her career leading marketing for multi-format restaurant concepts on a global and regional basis. Before joining Subway as VP International Marketing, EMEA she served as Regional Vice President for Papa John’s. Prior to this Louise was Commercial Director for Greene King, the UK’s Leading pub retailer and brewer.

Long background as Vice President Marketing & Digital from LEGO, Arla and Carlsberg. Furthermore, works as board member, investor and strategic marketing consultant for primarily marketing tech & sustainability scale-ups.

With over 20 years experience in Fashion & Apparel omni channel retailing, Nicky is an enthusiastic Marketing Expert who is passionate about delivering integrated, innovative and impactful 360 marketing propositions & campaigns that are not only Brand & Customer focused but commercially driven & data led. Nicky is currently the UK Head of Marketing for one of the world's biggest lingerie brands where she is responsible for all areas of brand and marketing.

Rich Atkinson-Toal is the Vice President of Global Brand and Marketing Communications for American Express Global Business Travel, based in the UK. Rich is responsible for the Amex GBT global brand strategy, advertising, and management. Rich also leads the team responsible for marketing communications activity across our core travel solutions, professional services, technology products, multi-segment clients and partners. Rich has over 15 years of experience in marketing leadership, leading large global teams across brand, media, communications, and digital functions. Prior to Amex GBT, Rich worked at Barclays where he held various large transformation marketing and brand roles. Alongside professional experience, Rich holds several charity trustee and Non-Exec Director roles in the UK supporting talent growth and marketing industry excellence.

As Director of Marketing, Wendy Duggan is responsible for delivering the global marketing strategy for Primark. Celebrating ten years at Primark this year, Wendy has worked her way through various positions starting in a European PR role and overseeing new market entries with a career highlight of launching the brand into the USA in September 2015. A strategic comms professional, Wendy has worked across internal and fashion communications strategies for the business most notably building global press showrooms and in market marketing capability, embedding an influencer portfolio, and introducing celebrity collaborations. Wendy was promoted to the newly created Marketing Director position in January 2021 with a team of 100+ across marketing operations, marketing communications, creative and visual merchandising. Prior to Primark, Wendy spent 10 years working in various marketing retail roles in Dublin. Wendy holds a first-class honours degree in Business Studies from Dublin City University with a specialism in Marketing.

Shyam Sunder is a strategic brand builder who has leveraged creativity and innovation to build brands across sectors and regions. His high levels of passion, integrity and hunger to break conventions has resulted in businesses gain market and mind share and work, celebrated in the industry. He is a juror, speaker and tutor at leading marketing & advertising events and institutes always seeking to learn and share knowledge. After spending several years in consumer marketing (B2C) across banking, retail and hospitality sectors, he moved to the the travel tech (B2B) space leading the branding and marketing of one of the worlds largest travel distribution platforms- TBO.COM

Over 20 year experience in leading consumer electronics firms from mobile to imaging to kitchen appliances to beauty tech. Currently leading the go-to-market strategies for the ambitious, innovative US firm SharkNinja as they expand rapidly across Europe, Middle East and Africa - a truly consumer focused innovation company who aim to disrupt traditional categories with world class demand generation that delivers sell-out products.

Gareth is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Sotheby’s, a role he has held since January 2023. He is responsible for the global growth of the brand, marketing and content strategy, alongside client proposals and business development. He also leads the recently revamped Sotheby’s Media department focused on launching a new print magazine and growing revenue-generating relationships with global luxury brands. Before this, he was the Global Chief Marketing Officer at Farfetch and Chief Marketing Officer at eBay UK. He lives in North London. Is a Gooner. And has 19 year old twins currently studying - and away from London.

As Global Head of Marketing for Škoda Auto, she is responsible for leading the marketing strategy and communications for an automotive brand present in over 100 countries and about to celebrate 130 years since inception. This native South African, has 25 years of experience in international marketing, having spent the past 9 within the Volkswagen Group. She was included in the 2024 Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO 50 list.

David formerly served on the De Beers Executive Committee as Chief Brand Officer with overall responsibility for the profile, reputation and marketing of De Beers and its brands. His experience across the contrasting luxury, lifestyle and extractive sectors gives David unique insight into the evolving expectations of consumers, the corresponding pressures on business and the power of brand purpose to propel communities, companies and clients forward.

Kerttu Inkeroinen is currently Marketing and E-commerce Director of Lucky Saint, UK’s n1 dedicated alcohol free beer. She has 18 years of experience spanning household-name brands of Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex, Andres and Huggies), The Coca-Cola Company and Union Hand-Roasted Coffee. She was selected as one of Marketing Week’s Top 100 most Effective Marketeers in 2023 and Lucky Saint was awarded ‘Brand of the Year’ by Marketing Society in 2023.

Giles is a seasoned brand marketing executive, with over two decades of experience, who has worked with some of the world's most prestigious brands on both the client and agency sides. Currently, Giles is the VP of Brand Marketing for Bowers & Wilkins, one of the world’s most respected premium audio brands, where he is responsible for all brand and marketing output.

Dionne is Chief Brand Officer at DECIEM, an umbrella of beauty brands, best known for skincare brand The Ordinary. After being with the brand for 11 years, she has experienced start-up, scale, and expansion stages of the brand.

Vishal is a Digital Marketing Director at Franklin Templeton Investments, leading social and digital strategies across EMEA. With over 15 years of experience, he has shaped marketing transformations for global brands, leveraging data-driven insights and innovative technologies to deliver impactful results.

Stephanie leads the Marketing, Partnerships and PR departments at schuh.

Stephanie has 20 years of distributed commerce and multi-channel consumer marketing experience gained in-house and agency side across fashion, fin-tech, Retail, FMCG, Utilities and Entertainment.

Adam is the Executive Vice President, Global Marketing for Sportradar, the world’s leading sports technology company (NASDAQ: SRAD) and is responsible for the management of the global marketing team. Prior to joining Sportradar in 2018, he held senior marketing and leadership roles for leading marketing agencies such as CSM, BMB and Jack Morton. Adam has led campaigns and marketing strategy for several global brands including Microsoft, Molson Coors, LinkedIn, Qualcomm, Eaton Power, Sony, Universal Pictures, Nintendo and Coca Cola.

Cindy is responsible for all aspects of global brand strategy, marketing, digital and research and development.

Cindy joined Britvic as Chief Marketing Officer in 2023 from Heineken group, where she was managing director for Beerwulf.com, the D2C e-commerce platform of Heineken in Europe. Before this, she spent four years as a Board Member of Heineken UK, leading the marketing of all of its beer and cider brands, as well as the company’s digital transformation, consumer media, innovation, and category and trade marketing. Prior to that Cindy gained deep FMCG knowledge in various commercial leadership roles at Unilever and PepsiCo.

Cindy holds a Master of Science in Economics degree from the Vrije University in Amsterdam and a Master of Food Management degree from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

Mitin is the Head of Global Brand and Marketing at Babyshop, a leading baby and kids omni channel retailer across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Known for his creative ingenuity and results-driven approach, his campaigns have earned recognition at Cannes Lions, D&AD, and Dubai Lynx. Named by Forbes as a top marketing professional in the Middle East, Mitin has served on multiple judging panels across MENA, the UK, and the US.

Award-winning marketing, brand and communications leader with over 16 years of experience leading and developing brand and content marketing strategy, full funnel campaigns, digital activations, comms, marketing partnerships and managing multi-discipline teams for global media companies across DTC and linear platforms. In my current role I am responsible for leading and overseeing innovative General Ent marketing campaigns for Disney+ to drive content awareness, attribution and acquisition across 70+ EMEA markets. Prior to joining Disney, I was at Discovery Inc (now Warner Brothers Discovery) for just shy of 13 years in a variety of roles spanning factual and entertainment genres across streaming and linear.

Simeon has over 25 years’ UK and international experience driving growth for major brands across a range of sectors including FMCG, toys & games, mobile, TV, broadband, pet healthcare.

Starting his career as a brand manager at Cadbury’s in Argentina, Simeon then to Hasbro in the UK, followed by Twinings and then a year out for a full-time MBA at the University of Bath.

After this Simeon moved into the world of tech joining Orange to lead the proposition teams, over time taking on the T-Mobile brand too. Simeon was a senior member of the core team that launched EE in 2012, leading marketing strategy and propositions for the new brand.

Simeon then took over EE’s broadband & TV business unit, turning around an underperforming operation from loss to profit and worst customer NPS in the UK to best. Following the BT acquisition Simeon became Marketing Director for BT’s £6bn UK business division running brand strategy, digital marketing, ATL and BTL campaigns.

Simeon is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Mars Petcare's UK veterinary health business unit, Linnaeus, leading the creation of a digital first customer experience.

Marketing is job but also my passion. From brand positioning to campaign execution, I am dedicated to delivering excellence at every stage of the marketing journey with a laser focus on proving ROI. My journey has taken me through diverse industries covering both D2C and B2B, from Environmental Services to Consumer Electronics, and now Education. Putting my passion and skills to work in an area which can help others change their lives is motivating and inspiring. As a leader my goal is to foster a positive and empowering work environment where my team members feel motivated to do their best work.

Christof has been growing brands by growing people for 25 years. As Head of Performance Marketing, early in 2023, he was asked to create a new team to grow iconic brands such as Andrex, Kleenex, and Huggies through uniting and elevating digital, retail, and e-commerce performance marketing. After starting his marketing career at Unilever through their graduate scheme, Christof joined Kimberly-Clark over 20 years ago and held a wide range of marketing roles in global, regional, and local markets. Known for delivering consumer-driven innovation that improves performance, one recent example of this was when he transformed Kleenex by creating “Your Pollen Pal”. This free hyper-local pollen forecast has turned into the no.1 pollen forecast website in the UK, attracting millions of visits every year since its launch in 2021. In 2023, Kleenex launched the Your Pollen Pal app, gaining the no.1 pollen forecast app within 3 months and gaining a top 10 spot in the free Health & Fitness app stores. Christof has been an active ISBA Media Leaders group member for 3 years. He is an active advocate for neuro-diversity after being diagnosed with ADHD in 2022.

Author, board advisor, industry speaker and marketing specialist with expansive knowledge of growing global businesses. A driven and highly proficient marketing leader with experience across the full marketing mix who has worked on some of the biggest global brands - Google, Huawei, Microsoft, Entain, Tesco, BA, Boohoo just to name a few.

Chris has driven growth across some of Britain's favourite food brands and is an advocate of creativity to unlock brand potential. Having taken the leap into the plant based sector a number of years ago, he's now establishing Cathedral City and Bute Island Sheese across retail and foodservice menu's around the world.

Na’ama started her marketing career as a brand manager in Procter & Gamble, where she was responsible for managing some of B2C’s most loved brands, like H&S, Always and Gillette. After spending over 7 years in leadership positions in consumer goods, she transitioned to tech with a vision to shake up and bring some spark into B2B marketing. She is now the CMO at Mondu, a leading European B2B Fintech specializing in Pay Later solutions.

Monde Twala, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Paramount Africa and Lead at BET International, is a prominent figure in the African media and entertainment sector with over two decades of experience. In his role, he drives the growth and development of influential brands like MTV, MTV Base, BET Africa, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central across the continent. As the leader of BET International, Twala promotes black culture and diverse voices in the UK, France, and Africa. His career spans various content genres, from sports to documentaries and reality formats, contributing to iconic shows like the MTV Africa Music Awards.

Twala is also known for his commitment to youth development and mentorship, embodying inclusive leadership values. He upholds the African adage "Umuntu nguMuntu ngaBantu," emphasizing community and collective growth. Holding a WBS Map Advanced Management Degree from Wits Business School, he serves as Chairman of the Broadcast Research Council of South Africa and is a Paramount Leadership Studio program alumnus. Twala is also a graduate of the 2024 GIBS Leadership Forum.

Currently the Global Brand Director for AXA XL, Allison has a passion for driving growth and forging meaningful connections through creativity. Previously, she's worked across sponsorships, brand and marketing and design across various financial services brands as well as agencies.

Currently looking after global brand and product marketing for Specsavers across 12 International markets. Previously did marketing for variety of global brands including Orange, T-Mobile, EE, Sky and Beats by Dr.Dre

Multi award-winning FMCG brand marketing professional with 15 years of experience in creating disruptive, experiential and innovative campaigns for hospitality & retail. Renowned for delivering commercial results and building brand equity in B2B and B2C. As an entrepreneurial and highly strategic, yet assertive, leader always embracing an empathetic leadership style that inspires teams and engages with audiences through lasting brand activations.

Ivo joined Too Good To Go as Chief Marketing Officer in June 2022, looking after the company's international efforts across Brand, Marketing, Creative, Communications and Public Affairs. Ivo has over 20 years experience in various Brand, Marketing and PR roles, both agency-side and in-house for consumer brands including Philips and Huawei. Ivo has a particular interest in purpose-driven brands and their ability to drive positive change.

Holly is currently responsible for overseeing the brand and communications strategy at WWF, having been with the organisation for 7 years. Holly is passionate about the power of partnerships and brands to influence popular culture and drive change on the issues that our impacting our world. She has twenty years’ experience working on communications and brand strategies for organisations in the corporate, government and charity sectors. She has lived and worked all over the world including the UK, Europe, Middle East, Australia and USA.

It is the collection of stories told by you, but mostly about you, that form your brand over time. Shaping these stories into a clear narrative requires exploration, imagination, direction and dedication. Connecting our teams, players and games through this work is why I love what we do.

Consumer, Customer and Planet centric marketing leader. Experienced in leadership roles in Private Equity and Unilever, Philips, bringing the best of two worlds together. Proven track record of growing passionate teams and purposeful premium brands. Brings creative and executional excellence to brand crafting, coupled with award-winning campaigns.

A long long time ago, fresh out of university , Dan spent a decade with Procter & Gamble in marketing and general management roles, followed by almost as long a stint at the Very Group running various departments including marketing, strategy, customer experience, change, insight and more. His next major role was at Currys where he’s been Brand & Marketing Director for more than 6 years now, also which includes responsibility for brand, advertising, social, PR, omnichannel content creation, Instore innovation, promotion planning, loyalty, personalisation and more.

With over 15 years experience in Travel & Hospitality, Katie currently leads the EMEA Consumer Marketing team responsible for the marketing of Marriott Bonvoy, Marriott Internationals portfolio of over 30 hotel brands, including marketing partnerships, content marketing, outbound communications and paid media strategy.

+ 15 Years experience working on CPG global brand in local and global roles developing and building brands. Consumer obsessed and passionate creativity to drive consumer and business solutions.

Passionate & driven marketing leader with broad brand & marketing comms experience across leading & iconic brands including McDonald's, Sky, BT, EE, Virgin Atlantic & most recently, Premier Inn.

Dynamic, fast thinker with entrepreneurial and future oriented mindset, high energy and a strong dedication to create joint success stories.

10+ years leadership experience in international work environments incl. roles in industries such as apparel, luggage, watches and advertising, plus in functions such as marketing, communication, digitalization, change management, retail marketing, brand management and license management.

Focus on holistic marketing strategies and their implementation across markets, channels and target groups – incl. responsibilities for brand CI, business planning, content marketing, digital marketing, trade marketing and sponsoring & collaborations.

Strong track record on developing and empowering teams and marketing impact through successful change management, data-driven planning and delivery, and the build-up of trustful stakeholder relationships.

Curator of "glocal brand experiences, that create shareholder value"; Liz is a seasoned pan-African brand builder. In her 14 years in FMCG, Liz has led over 10 billion-dollar brands across Africa in global, regional and local roles. She is prides herself in business turnaround, rooted in solving meaningful consumer problems better, faster and at scale. She is currently the Executive Marketing Director for Unilever Southern Africa's Home Care division. Liz summarizes her work as "giving global brands an African passport, and whilst giving African brands a global stage".

Richard Bowden is Marketing Director across No7 Beauty Company’s portfolio of brands, including No7, Soap & Glory, Liz Earle, Botanics and Sleek.

He held marketing and digital roles at Unilever and British Airways and prior to this worked Creative Agency side in the UK and Australia. He is an experienced Marketing Director, having worked across a range of disciplines including brand management, product innovation, digital, ecommerce, consumer insight, NRM. His personal highlights this year include launching No7 Menopause range and service and the multi-award winning No7 Future Renew, which has become the biggest beauty launch and franchise in the UK.

Richard is passionate about mentoring and developing talent, he is a member of Boots Diversity and Inclusion leadership group. Richard is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and currently on Marketing Academy Fellowship 2024 Cohort.

Valentina Nuñes is Head of Brand Engagement and Marketing at British Red Cross, one of the largest humanitarian charities in the world. Valentina specialises in creative marketing campaigns for cause led brands, such as ‘Here for Humanity’, which is a multi award winning British Red Cross brand campaign and the recent celebration of British Red Cross x Jaguar Land Rover Defender’s 70 year partnership. Valentina has more than 16 years experience in marketing and advertising, pushing boundaries through creative innovation and compelling storytelling.

Iain is Head of Marketing, Digital Marketing & Marketing Partnerships at Channel 4 and responsible for driving Channel 4’s transition to a streaming first broadcaster. As well as working up plans with digital platforms, creators and media owners, he also runs marketing across Channel 4’s Entertainment and Reality programming. Before Channel 4 Iain worked in a wide range of companies including P&G, Google, King, BT and FreeNow.

Rebecca joined energy technology group Octopus Energy as Chief Product & Marketing Officer (CPMO) six years ago. Her job spans everything from developing, producing and manufacturing Octopus’ first piece of proprietary hardware, the Octopus Home Mini, to leading on marketing and communications campaigns across 18 countries and 5 continents.

Prior to Octopus, Rebecca was a head of product at Centrica-funded Hive, taking it from a kickabout start-up to the leading smart home provider in the UK. She graduated from the Ogilvy Group Graduate Fellowship scheme, and holds a Bachelor's degree from Nottingham University Business School.

Since joining Samsung Electronics in 2018, Michael has been part of the leadership team who have overseen SEUK’s D2C growth trajectory from an initial 3% Share of Business to 15% in 2024. Aligning Digital & Customer Marketing strategies with overall Ecommerce best practice has allowed SEUK to maximise highly converting traffic to Samsung.com, Closed User Group sites and Samsung’s Mobile Shop App. Michael & the SEUK D2C team are now striving to continue this growth and achieve their ambition of 20% SoB in the next few years.

Nathalie is a customer led business development leader. She joined McArthurGlen Designer Outlets as Chief Marketing Officer in January 2020 and oversees all group-wide marketing, tourism and communication activities.

Prior to joining McArthurGlen, Nathalie was Chief Marketing Officer for Food and Beverage at Whitbread with accountability for the commercial plans, customer proposition innovation, the F&B development pipeline and the insight workstreams. Earlier in her career, Nathalie held a variety of roles at McDonald’s leading up to Retail Marketing Director and enjoyed being part of the leadership team who oversaw the brand’s transformation in the UK.

As a key member of the regional leadership team Peter oversees marketing efforts across EMEA for Twilio, the leading customer engagement platform.

With more than 25 years of marketing experience, Peter has played a pivotal role in the success of numerous brands in the software and digital media industries. His portfolio includes Twilio, Adobe DX, Marketo, Microsoft Surface, Xbox, MSN, and Microsoft’s developer and platform solutions.

Francesco is an innovative intrapreneur with 20 years of experience both as entrepreneur and corporate marketing leader. He has led digital and integrated marketing teams across the globe at Vodafone, Acer and JLL. Now at S&P Global ratings, Francesco leads the marketing and MarTech strategy and activation for one of most known heritage brands. Francesco read law at university and graduated with a thesis on AI applied to law practice.

Since then, Francesco has been a passionate practitioner and commentator on AI, publishing "Chronicles of Change", a newsletter on AI applied to business transformation.

Karen Owen is the Chief Marketing Officer for LIPTON Teas & Infusions, home to the some of the most loved tea brands in the world including Lipton, Pukka and PG Tips to name a few. Karen is a distinguished marketing professional with extensive experience in leading major global brands to new heights. A FMCG veteran, her career, spans some of the most recognized names in the industry.

She started her career at Procter & Gamble in sales leading the UK & Irish Sales organisation in Healthcare before moving to marketing in Beauty. She grew Max Factor brand globally to beyond one billion dollars. She then moved to Coty leading brand building and innovation for the mass beauty brand portfolio, first across Asia and then globally. She then transitioned from beauty to beverages, joining Diageo, where she drove transformation across the Luxury brand portfolio before moving to her current role at LIPTON Teas & Infusions.

Emma is Director of Marketing & Brand for Boots UK responsible for the retailers biggest marketing campaigns of the year- Christmas and Summer- the Social, Influencer & Content team and Boots' brand strategy & brand visual identity. Emma is passionate about brand strategy, marketing creative and team leadership & culture, as well as championing gender equity and women in leadership

A Sri Lankan born refugee, with a curious & creative mindset. From staring my career in my bedroom at the age of 16, designing MySpace, to working with global brands within youth culture, entertainment and tech. I am now leading marketing and partnerships for Wingstop UK, transforming the brand to become more than just about chicken!