OUR MENTORS

As a marketer for over 10 years, Andrew Kyreiko from New York, has put strategy to work shaping brands and experiences that drive actions. At GPJ, he collaborates with teams of colleagues and client leaders to design whole experiential portfolios for a changing world.

As a Brand Strategist in the advertising world, Ankit Vohra has helmed strategy teams at JWT, Ogilvy and McCann.

As a Social and Behavior Change Communication consultant in the development sector, he helps governments, charities, foundations and NGOs.

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Abhishek Shastri found his calling mid-career. Building brands and designed communication for brands in Healthcare, AlcoBev and OTT.

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Adam Eastabrook is a VP, Group Account Director at Orchard NY. He provides client solutions for B2B marketing problems in regulated industries including financial services, animal and human healthcare.

Ashwin Dravid , has 12 years of experience in brand and digital architectures, integrated communications planning, and best-in-class digital-first marketing frameworks. His endeavor has been to make brands "more human".

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Adam Crandall is a brand strategy consultant with over a decade of experience working at amazing places from Fallon to DDB and target.

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Andres Gonzalez is a Brand Strategist with global view and latin soul. Wide experience working on multinationals like TBWA, DDB or INNOCEAN for lovely brands as McDonalds, PlayStation, Purina or Hyundai. He likes to work on diverse projects: from Brand Strategy to Service design.

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Amanda Fraga is VP, Research & Insights at Mastercard and is fuelled by an insatiable curiosity for understanding human behavior .

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Adam has worked for over 20 years in international B2B brand management and activation. Now focusing on the intersection between business and communication strategy he is happy to share his experience.

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Alex has 15+ years of international experience in holistic brand consulting and co-founded his own brand consultancy.

Unique expertise in identity driven growth.

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Alexander is an ECD who lives and works in Vienna as a creative with a background in writing, branding, advertising, marketing, business, and finance.

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As head of innovation Aurelie Plessier urges you to don't wait for your brand/products/services to be in pain, to be ageing or to be in struggle.

Make the most of its energy, stature & potential. Now.

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Alex Bradley is a strategy director from London. He will tell you how it is to work with brands like TikTok and many others.

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Adrian Langford is Director of Strategy and Planning at Jaywing, an agency connecting the worlds of brand and performance.

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Aaron Bateman, is your man, if you want to learn creativity.

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Abhinit Agarwal is Regional Planning Director at Publicis Groupe in Singapore.

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Abhishek Chaturvedi is the SVP at Digitas India and has worked for some of the biggest brands in the world.

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Abhishek Hariharan, our Head of Strategy who worked for famous agencies as well as client side.

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Abraham Varghese is Associate Group Head - Copy at The Glitch and a man or more than a few words.

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Adela Garcia Chavez is a specialist inin Neuro- and behavioural science and from LA works with brands in the Biotech, Biopharma and Personal Care industries.

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Originally from SaoPaolo Brazil and based in toronto since 2018 Adriano has done it all from brand strategy to digital and CRM.

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From Mekanism to Golin: AJ Livsey is really good at using analogies to make sense of the world, people watching, finding the interesting in the banal, capital-A Adventuring, Wheel of Fortune.

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Alessandra Luise, Associate Strategy Director in AKQA Italy. Mainly focused on Brand & Comms. She also comes with proper experience from working as a university researcher.

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Alex Goh is Chief Strategy Officer at Naga DDB Tribal

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Alexa Knight is Strategic Research & Insights Leader from New York.

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Alfonso Arbos is a Creative from Spain in Finland and loves to build brands and experiences that engage people, generating affinity to the brands and manage to turn heads and generate earned media.

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Allison (MacLeod) Canagasaby, our brilliant strategic mind from DDB in Canada.

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CSO at McCann Amanda Jones loves nothing more than finding a real problem, unearthing a tasty insight and developing a simple but compelling strategy.

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Ambrish Chaudhry is strategy head at Super Union Asia Pacific and has decades of experience brand strategy at places such as ‘The brand union’.

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Amelia Torode loves the job that she does, which is at the commercial and strategic intersection of brands, people, technology and culture.

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Amy Daroukakis, our cultural strategist, lives in 3 cities and works for clients Globally on everything from cars to couture..

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"And we have Ana Camargo from New York with quite some design pedigree."

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Anant Maheshwari is a digital marketer from India passionate about how words and visuals come together to become one cohesive unit.

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Andreas is a TED presentation Coach, specialist in Storytelling topics and Co-Owner of BRIDGEHOUSE.

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You want to learn about social media & content strategy than Andras is your guy !

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There is BBDO's Head of Planning in Asia,Andy Wilson, a legend I had the humbling experience to work with for a couple of days.

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Anirban Ganguly is our expert on innovation.

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Alina Kessel is Global Client Leader at WPP. Before that she ran Team P&G, held various positions at Grey and was CEO at DDB in Germany. In short: she has seen it probably all and is, according to Gordon, a career defining mentor.

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Anirban Roy Strategic Planner. PhD dropout. British Council Scholar. Currently at Ogilvy.

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Aniruddha Khandekar has 17 years of advertising, media and digital and is today EVP brand and experience planning at VMLY&R in Mumbai.

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Anish Gutka is brand strategy consultant from Mumbai, building some very influential CPG brands at Tata Consumer.

He formerly worked for Go Desi Foods, FurtureBrands Consulting, Strawberry Frog, Ogilvy, McCann.

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He comes with years of experience in building leading brands on social and digital media through strategic and creative solutions - for brands such as playstation. Fun anyone?

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Anna Witkowska from Paris is there for you with all her strategic knowledge.

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Anne Kaerst, strategy director from London who worked for AKQA among others.

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Annie Havlin designs creative and strategy for brands and start-ups. Her work bridges research, strategy and storytelling to design meaningful experiences for people.

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Arpita Shah is a Director Communication at MullenLowe. Previously, was running social at BBH in India.

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Audrey Dahmen is our ad agency strategist turned brand strategy consultant, building the most influential brands of our time at Twenty First Century Brand. A mix of mainland Europe view and global scale standards.

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Bruno is the founder and creative director at Portland - a Brazilian independent agency with social impact which build creative project with purpose to brands at the same time that find out and develop new talents to the creative market based on diversity.

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Bakinam Sherif is a Social Director at AKQA in Dubai and knows everythign around content and the power of social.

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Bradley Spitzer, an expert in healthcare from Nashville, is fiercely curious. In fact, he considers it his superpower.

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Balpreet Kaur is a connection strategist

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Béla Ziemann is global CSO at LePub (formerly Publicis Italy), the world’s most creative agency for the 2nd year running.

Born in Berlin, living in London, Béla is leading a team of 25 strategists across brand planning, data, culture and comms.

He is an expert in helping CMOs of the biggest global brands in FMCG, sports, luxury and automotive to understand their role in culture.
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Benjamin Pleissner is our European planning director from Germany with extensive knowledge of cars.

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Benjamin Sandelstein from Copenhagen is an experienced strategist currently working as a senior strategist at Advance. Previously, Benjamin got experience with international projects at the independent agency Vertic.

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Brendan Brown is a VP Strategy and a well versed expert in experience marketing based in Boston.

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Brian Wakabayashi is the head of strategy in San Francisco.

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Christina Holland is passionate about being a self-employed strategic marketing consultant for companies and agencies with over two decades of experience. She has been working in the advertising industry for ages, is still eager to keep things rolling and to pass on her knowledge.

Chris Barbee is CSO at CDM and formerly ran planning globally for BBDO and Edelman.

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Charlie Quirk Senior director of brand marketing at Upwork and formerly worked for companies like google and paypal. Innovation? He's your mentor.

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Christopher Stemborowski is the Global Strategy Director (Digital Acquisition) at ServiceNow. He enjoys particularly to help brands behave more humanly.

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Craig Stead is a communications strategy director at Anomaly in London.

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C Michael Shedd is a strategist who works in San Diego, US. In his account you will find a bunch of crazy projects. Including a Hollywood movie concept.

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With will over a decade of experience at great agencies and creative strategy there is not much Carolyn Bugg can't help you with.

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Caspar Mason is a hybrid creative and strategy lead who has worked across B2B and B2C. He has expertise in experiential, content and more and spent his formative years at the BBC.

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Catherine Gaudry is an executive at one the top agencies in DACH, trainer and coach.

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Catherine has 20 years experience leading brand strategy teams across APAC, USA and EMEA. Working with both agencies and internal client marketing teams to lead brand, business and cultural transformation through developing future forward brand platforms/campaigns/content for the likes of Instagram [Meta], TBWA\Chiat\Day, M&C Saatchi, McCann Worldgroup, HUGE and Edelman.

Most recently Global Head of Brand Strategy and Management for Instagram at Meta, Catherine now runs her own global brand consultancy "Once Upon a Time Brands"

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CJ from NY is hell-bent on unearthing brand insights that spark, inspire and elevate creativity and adds media experiene on top.

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Charlotte Bunyan, with tons of experience in strategy, research and also starting up your business.

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The fantastic Chase Donahue, from BBDO Chicago, Inc, whose pitches Gordon always admires from afar.

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Chris Baumann, has plenty of experience from an agency called Forsman and Bodenfors, whose work we are probably all jealous of.

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Christian Anhut from Germany is your fabulous ECD ffor all creative questions/

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Christina Friese not only worked clients-side at BMW and Siemens and also at R/GA. Yet is still incredibly nice.

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Christophe Muesser is in the brand communication business for twenty years, still curious and passionate about people and brands.

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Claude-Henri Galbois tries to help brands design their way forward in a disrupted environment at DDB in Paris.

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Colin is a hugely experienced Strategy Director with a proven track record spanning creative and media agencies; B2C and B2B brands from the UK and worked at places like VCCP.

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Colton Canava lives and breaths the work that he does do, it’s my hobby, it’s his passion, and somehow he lucked into making a living out of being a creative.

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Conrado Braga is our Customer Experience Strategist and Product Design Consultant from Sao Paulo well versed in agencies like R/GA or Sapient.

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Courtney Berkery is an enthusiastic brand strategist with ten years of experience connecting brands, consumers, and culture to deliver breakthrough work and business-driving results.

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Craig Mawdsley as well as Bridget Angear, who are legends, I would say.

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Looking for planning excellence like Fallon? Looking for someone who knows a thing or two about starting up? And how to connect research and strategy? Dan Carlton is a man who knows more than most of us.

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Daniel Berkal is SVP Research @ The Palmerston Group in Toronto.

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David Erhard is an experienced Games Industry veteran having lead marketing teams at Electronic Arts for brands such as EA Sports FIFA and managed the player experience for the most successful mobile game ever created: Candy Crush, at Activision Blizzard King. Now transforming digital communication and ways of working at German tech company Siemens.

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Des Bateman from London is the Head of Strategy for PHD for the VW brand. He is mostly a strategist, knows a thing or two about into innovation, client development, performance, and new business.

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Dimitris Tsoutsos is the Head of Strategy with a digital background at Publicis Athens.

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Daniel Convents, who can tell you all about insights and global jobs client side.

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Daniel Packness has done strategy all over LATAM.

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Say hello to Daniela Hoffmann-Hofmann , who is an account-lady genius, turned client and coach.

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Darby Hughes brings over a decade of strategy experience from the US.

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Learning what creatives need? And how to get more out of them? How to make them your friends? David James Kennedy from Norway is your mentor of choice.

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David Murray, who besides delivering great things for Ford of Europe, has also worked at some other agencies called Wieden, Adam and Eve, as well as BBH before coming to BBDO.

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Debbie Preston is Head of Planning & Strategy at Rock Kitchen Harris in England.

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Dentsu, Havas, Ogilvy, DDB, McCann with 17 years of experience Debopriyo is a freelance strategy constultant who has worked in India, Malaysia and Kenya.

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Debra Nita R. is Head of Growth at Paywatch, who works with organizations on growth strategies.

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Dennis Kam our Planning director from DDB.

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Denzil J. Meyers has decades of all-round strategy and research wisdom.

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Devi S is our comms planning expert from wavemaker in India.

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Diego Cerrone Managing Partner, Global Strategy Lead for Sony PlayStation at MediaCom

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Dirk Frohnert is Co-Founder and Partner at the investment fund Smart Infrastructure Ventures trying to predict what’s next in energy, proptech, security, or health

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WARC winner, Effies Grand Prix winner AND National Geographic Photographer Divya has definitely a couple of things to teach you.

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Dora Riverais SVP planning in New York and a champion of the people, that we wrongly call consumers.

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Erika Brenner from Norway is head of planning at kitchen but has also a wealth of experience working in China.

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Erica Donolato is our digital strategist from AKQA in Italy.

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There is also one of our most popular as well as most experienced mentors, Edward Cotton.

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She is the definition of cool. Emily has designed Converse shoes, wrote about music and fashion and is currently Global experience Lead at Reckit.

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Emma Marie Lea is a Senior Planner at VCCP, specialising in healthcare. EML made the leap from client services to strategy a few years back and is formally trained in behaviour change / COM-B from UCL.

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Eric, formerly running Microsoft’s advertising, also ex-Wieden Kennedy and now running Savanta.

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Essi Nurminen, Head Of Strategy at Born Social, with experience from being an account manager to strategist! Ask away!

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Ethan is founder & president of Applied Brand Science. Past lives: CP+B, 72andSunny, PhD ecologist, writer of musicals, grasshopper.

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Eva, both an academic and a brand professional, comes with agency/brand consulting experience from the UK, Switzerland and Hungary. Her work lately also focused on sustainability and employer branding. She loves to work in multi-disciplinary teams with creatives, designers, developers, data scientists to create something unique.

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Falk is a global strategist with more than 20 years of experience in growing businesses, building strategy teams, and developing marketing strategies for clients across the globe.These days he runs his own business consultancy in Shanghai and teaches at the China Academy of Art.

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Fabian Nöthe is a German manager, entrepreneur and creative living in Hamburg. Fabian is currently building a better plant-based based future as Head of Media & Digital at Upfield.

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Florian Langer offers a decade-long track record in the automotive industry and is currently working in the transformative Chinese market on behalf of Audi. His wealth of experience in brand management, marketing strategy and communication, is enriched by a fresh and global perspective.

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Franck Vinchon is a brand and communications strategist since 20 years, andworked in France, UK, Spain, Russia and Netherlands on brands like Snickers, Google, Toyota, PepsiCo and many others.

Franck is involved since a few years in the VR/AR and web3 ecosystem and its possible integration to brand and communication strategy.

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Aid worker turned strategist. Francois Servranckx is a global communications, public affairs and campaigning expert with 15 years of experience in driving change in health, education and social issues.

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Felipe Moulin, from Brazil, but also Germany.

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Filippo dell'Osso is an international brand planning director with over 20 years of experience at Wieden&Kennedy, TBWA and Publicis. His clients included Nike, McDonald’s and Nissan. He is happy to share his experiences on international brands, across local offices to one strategy and learning to act as an insider across cultures.

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Filippo Mutanti is CSO at Leagas Delaney in Italy. But also a photographer.

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Floyd Hyes sells imagination. From New York he provides clients with Big Ideas, Guerrilla, Experiential, Digital Marketing tactics, stunts, campaigns and creative development workshops.

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Francesco Abbatescianni, your mentor for all things data and strategy and how to get them together.

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Frank Pynenburg, former client and also content specialist.

Frederique Pirenne, as former global CMO of AEG as well as start up guy.

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George Moreira is Group Strategy Director at Accenture interactive. Business? Strategy? Marketing? George is your mentor.

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Guy Goldavis is Head of Strategy at Vitro in Los Angeles - an inspiring strategic leader building brands and businesses for over 20 years. Combines rigor with human insights to deliver brand, digital, product and go-to-market experiences that move people.

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Gary J. Nix is an award-winning strategy executive & consultant who knows all about brand building, branding strategy, business strategy and cultural intelligence.

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Gabriel Caramelo Carmelo is doing amazing creative work client side at Inbev.

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Gautham Narayan is a strategic adman who started at AMVBBDO, ran BBDO across Africa, Wieden + Kennedy in India and has partnered some of the most iconic brands in the world.

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Gayatri Sapru is interested in understanding how technology & global influences are interpreted, recontextualized, and used in uniquely native ways. Sounds like an interesting person to chat with?

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Star Wars in Hollywood, BBH in London, Mazda in Tokyo, Lego in Denmark : It would be easier to list the cool jobs he has not taken yet. Georges is the founder of Red Spider a Global Consultancy. He is also teaching an award-winning advertising course at Edinburgh Napier University.

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Gillian Rightford has founded and run various ad agencies and her last formal position was Group Managing Director of the Lowe Bull group of 9 companies. Since then she has founded Adtherapy (which aims to help marketers work better with their agencies to get better output) and created numerous training platforms: the Business Marketing Academy for corporates and The School of Thought, an online community for the advertising and marketing industries to share knowledge and grow talent.

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Goodness knows all about digital strategy, innovation and technology. Do you?

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Graeme Murray is a Brand Therapist based in Prague with 20+ years as an international strategist working in Western Europe, South East Asia and Central Europe. Combines brand therapy sessions with university teaching and mentoring.

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Graham A. R. Phillips is chief marketing and experience officer for Intent HQ, an AI Customer Analytic Platform. They are one of the fastest growing companies in Europe.

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Gregg Harper from Sweden is you global creative mentor with 20 years of experience in London, New York, Amsterdam, Prague and Budapest and more.

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Helen Davies is our Strategic Communications and Transformation Specialist with almost 2 decades of experience.

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Hilmar Pfister is the founder and CEO of PR mit Haltung, working on communications of the future.

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Harriet Kindleysides is a Senior Brand Strategist and writer of ‘A Strategist’s Guide to Art’

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Hatem el Akad is a creative/Copywriter At Mischief, Drummer, Advertising Nerd, Motivational Writer, Pep-Talker, Empathetic Human.

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Hayley is a group strategy director at design led creative agency Jones Knowles Ritchie, with a background in brand consulting, new brand creation and design strategy. She’s from London and made the move to nyc 10 years ago.

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Hunter is currently a Chief Marketing Officer in SaaS tech. He is an ADCOLOR Leader, and former advertising brand strategist for brands like Mercedes-Benz, Johnnie Walker, AT&T, Alaska Airlines, Lyft, and more.

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Isabel Victoria runs all things brand for Covestro and is convinced: No brand is an island but always part of a bigger story.

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Ines Saraiva from 72andsunny knows it (almost) all: From managing PR for beers, food, tech & education to leading all Comms for one of the biggest music festivals in the world (Rock in Rio) in Brazil, US & Portugal to a current stint in advertising.

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Ian Adams from Detroit comes with Decades of experience and is ready to bring his passion for storytelling and leadership to Huge!

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Originally from Germany, Ingo Kessler has a bunch of experience with international network agencies. These days he specialises in family and kids marketing.

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With experience at all the famous agencies from Brazil Irina Didier is especially well versed in digital strategy.

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Irina Pencea is a founder of an agency, and also has been judge at the Effies and Cannes.

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Iris was trained as an art director and has founded Arouse a creative agency based in Berlin. She has 130K followers on Tiktok.

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Juliano Lorenzino is a researcher and strategist with more than 14 years of experience in agencies, consultancies, start-ups and innovation labs. Based in Copenhagen and former mentor of Singularity U, he is passionate about innovation & social impact.

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I'm Janos, my home turfs are videos and social media strategies. The three of us matured together over the last decade.

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Joanna Stone, a founder of Bespoke Coaching, has over a decade of experience in working with people in the Creative Sector. She can help you find your way in this exciting industry.

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Jennifer Costello is CSO at Chiat Day in Los Angeles. And it shouldn't come as a surprise that she is brilliant.

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Judy Abel from Seattle is an award-winning brand strategist with significant experience creating both brand and creative strategies for all types of businesses, from start-ups through Fortune 500 companies.

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Justin Peyton is Chief Transformation & Strategy Lead of Wunderman Thompson APAC, acting to galvanize people, motivate action, and deliver impact.

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Jenna Taffet from Berlin is Purpose-driven, curious, and interdisciplinary strategist with global experience. She focuses on building greater business and social impact through communications platform.

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Jakub Cabejšek is Creative Group Head at Ogilvy in Prague.

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Jeff Thomas is currently Senior Director - Brand Strategy at Dentsu Creative India. Previously, he has built strategy teams from scratch for independent agencies and worked with over a 100 brands across MENA and the Indian subcontinent. He also works with a handful of early to growth stage startups as a marketing consultant developing GTM strategies, conducting frugal market research and conceptualising brand building initiatives. As a sociologist turned marketer, he spends most of his time at the intersection of brands, culture and communication.""

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Jacopo Apo Bordin our Head of Strategy from Italy.

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James is a senior creative leader within The LEGO Group's internal creative agency: leading a team responsible for creating best-in-class digital content across The LEGO Group's owned digital ecosystem.

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James Griffiths is proven business leader with a wealth of general management and strategic brand communications experience.

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James Macaskill is a senior planner at an agency called Adam & Eve in London. You might have heard of them ... a lot.

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James McLintock is brand strategist and consumer researcher, who also teaches strategy and scenario planning at London College of Fashion.

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James Miller, planner on one of the campaigns I am most jealous of – you are not you when you are hungry.

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James Turner is the EMEA strategy lead at Dentsu - Developing simple strategies and planning agnostically to address the business challenges of clients.

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Janine Klenke is our digital strategist from Berlin.

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Janine Lade, is a proper HR person and coach.

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Jason Chebib is head of strategy at 180NY. And is a former client at Diageo. Which means he is brilliant.

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Jay Morzaria is your mentor for all things creative.

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Jeffrey Bustos is VP of Programmatic+Data at the IAB leading measurement, audience, data and retail media strategy and standard.

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Jen Jeng is a business designer from London and helps established companies and start-up brands to grow through brand, innovation and business design.

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Jens Dorn does all things AI at German online retailer Otto. Who wouldn't want to be introduced in the dark arts?

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Jesse Unger is Head of Strategy at Mother LA.

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Jimmy Quinones is our copywriter turned strategist form Canada. So basically he can mentor you on all things you will need. Ever.

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Joanna Watson has worked for probably the best brands in the world. Ever.

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Joe Prota, agency side, client side – Joe has seen it all in the USA.

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Johanna Schramm is a strategy director from Hamburg and know all things about data. Your clients will love it.

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Johannes Gertz is a digital project management specialist with 15+ years experience in the advertising industry.

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We got the rather well-known John Griffiths, who worked at London’s best agency there ever was, CDP, and went on to do more great things.

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After being Head Of Planning and Deputy Chairman at Lowe for 10 years, John has co-founded and currently runs Malatesta a brand consultancy.

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Jonathan Faerber is strategy director in Berlin.

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Jonathan Rodrigues from New York knows all things strategy.

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Joram Helmer great strategist from Amsterdam and also the founder of here.

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As well as Jye Smith form Australia, who is not only a strategist but also nows a thing or two about doing your start up and is a proper coach.

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Kate Walters is an integrated Strategist for San Francisco with 20+ years of experience across nearly every channel and category. She loves thinking about brands as patterns and love helping other strategists progress in their careers.

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Kevin Langdon leads the strategy team at UM San Francisco. Throughout my career, I've helped to build brands like GoPro, Fitbit, Levi's/Dockers, Charles Schwab, Ubisoft, and Zillow Group.

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If you want to learn about PR you should get a session Kash.

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Kendy Smits is not just a freelance brand strategist from Belgium but also a coach for introverted entrepreneurs. So let’s talk brand and mind!

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Karni is the lead strategist at BCB Strategic Consulting in Toronto, Canada.

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Kate McElroy has a diverse background in research and insights, communications strategy, product / service innovation and brand transformation. She now leads a strategic design agency in Frankfurt.

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Kalyan... has a very strong professional background in brand consultancy with intuitive expertise in effecting behaviour change.

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Kiril Filipov is client foodpanda and has plenty of experience at all channel communication.

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Kirti is responsible for creating brave and progressive strategies for brands. Her ambition is to be an integral part of the brand development and brand building process across industries and imbibe a valuable learning experience.

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Kristie Lee from San Francisco can bridge creative and comms strategy - learned by some of the best agencies.

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Kunal is a seasoned brand, digital and CX strategist with extensive global experience between Dubai, Singapore, Indian subcontinent and Spain (Iberia).

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Kyle Babson is an award-winning digital, content, and brand strategist who sits at the intersection of creative, media, and strategy.

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Kyle Matthew Duckitt, who has travelled three continents already on the pursuit of strategy.

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Lars Bendels is our Expert for Purpose Marketing. Applies Strategic Storytelling to transform brands based on promises to brands guided by Purpose. He comes with more than 15 years of experience in Agencies and Companies.

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Lars Blochlinger's expertise is both creativity as well as business administration/corporate strategy (not communication strategy) - as well as on startups.

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Lateef Mauricio is your choice for all things digital and tech.

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Lena Schmitz, a strategy director who also has experience in leading clients.

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We have Leo Simonsmith who does ideas at no other place than the mighty BBC.

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Lianne Sheffy from Anomaly New York can wise you up about Innovation-Strategy.

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There is Libby Anderson, strategist with more than a decade of experience in probably the largest market in the world.

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Lindsay Strouse from Google is with us too.

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We got the amazing Lisha Klopper, global strategist from New York.

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Former CSO/CCO at global communications agencies Porter Novelli and Devries and previously McCann and Grey strategy leader. Loretta recently started her own agency Sēd which supports startup brands.

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Lucia Barba is your spanish speaking mentor and knows all things digital.

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Lucinda is a freelance strategy director and founder of a advertising, branding, and marketing strategy consultancy in London.

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Lukas Großebner from Vienna and Berlin, who knows all about Creativity. And even starting an agency.

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Monica Duran helps unlock pockets of growth through shopper, brand, and communication strategies. A university lecturer in advertising strategy and consultant to medium and small agencies, her latest assignment have been on US multicultural consumers in categories like FMCG, Food, health & beauty, small finance.

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Martha Rzeppa is Executive Business Director at PACIFIC. She loves the business side of marketing – developing long-lasting client relationships, building teams and a fun work environment and pushing clients & agencies forward.

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As a Strategy Director Marcin Pyszora is helping brands to drive growth by partnering with musicians. He has connected over 40 artists with brands like PUMA, Zalando, Hennessy, Pizza Hut, McDonalds to develop thumb stopping content and culturally resonating campaigns.

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Marco Dávila Ocampo is CSO at BBDO in Mexico with vast experience as creative and planner in helping brands from almost every category glow and succeed.

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Matthew Osborne is an experienced account director who moved into strategy with a focus on experiential and comms planning.

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Malte Delbrück is well versed in the dark arts of comms planning.

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There is Mani Sian from London who can tell you everything about comms planning.

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Marcelo di Franco is a multidisciplinary brand marketing strategist with a unique background in the creative arena from the US and with 20+ years of experience.

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Marcelo Peretti Kuhn is founder of the strategy dojo in Londn and has been running strategy at many shops before.

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And Marcus Bunar, offers also plenty of client wisdom.

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Maria Claudia Conde is Group Strategy Director at BBDO Portugal and a full strategist not only seeking for effectiveness but also to mean something to people at a deeper level.

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As a mentor I can help you detect by storytelling what data is essential and which one you can let go of. Storytelling is the best way to make sure that clients will approve your ideas and thoughts without leaving time for hesitations.

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Marialejandra Urbina has excellent experience in building brand strategies in the advertising world. Can share her expertise in the Latin American market.

Mariana Cotlear Vega is a Strategy leader with a passion for helping people and brands grow at Edelman in Washington. She works on global branding initiatives, product launches and consumer campaigns with clients including HP, Victoria’s Secret.

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There is the incredibly creative in all aspects of work and life Mark Chalmers.

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Mark Hadfield is creative Partner at craven and an experienced integrated strategist with skills that span across business, marketing and communications strategy.

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After 15 years as a creative for entertainment media channels, Markus Hard can offer you a different view on a strategic process; owned by the Creatives and responsive to what your audience actually wants.

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Martin Bailie Baille, of glue fame and well versed in digital strategy, start ups as well as venture capital.

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Martin Karaffa, who is an expert on global brands and how to utilize culture. He is also one of our most popular mentors.

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Márton Martos Martos is an advertising junky from Budapest. He will definitely share some good tips about concepts and production.

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Matt Bamford Browes is a head of strategy from London. He helps brilliant brands to become more inclusive.

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From BBH to the BBC Matt Hoban brings 14 years experience in marketing, branding, strategy, content, data and creative thinking.

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You want to know what it is to be a Marketer and run your own tea startup? Matt Chong is your man.

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Matteo Sbarra is you man for business strategy.

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Matthias Breitschaft from Germany works at the intersection of consultancy and planning.

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Maximilian Weigl is the Deputy Executive Strategy Director at 72andSunny Amsterdam developing impactful strategies that help ambitious brands do better.

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Meenakshi Shunmugham is a CMO from Singapore with plenty of agency experiecne as well. Oh, and even start ups.

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Michael Doody is there to help you out on all things insight.

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One of my former clients, Michael Falkensteiner, is one of the cleverest people in the business you will find.

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We got Michael Reinicke from KNSK in Germany. He has developed his strategic skillset in German various agencies - media, creative and digital ones - always looking for bigger problems that needed solving.

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Michael Schuld, is one of the coolest marketing leaders in Germany. As he should, running an entertainment business.

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And if you think about bringing account and creative thinking together and how you can take both further, Michael Ukstins.

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Michael Weber

- 20+ years of brand strategy

- Perspective on transitioning from agency leadership to CMO

- Loves to talk about learnings in SaaS, B2B marketing"

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Started as a TBWA trainee in 2012, Michelle has worked for the coolest Omnicom agencies in Germany and is now strategy director at BBDO.

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Romania, Switzerland, Germany Mihaela is a pan-european Planner turned researcher and is now a Senior Consultant at Nielsen Germany.

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Mikael Greelief is head of planning at GSD&M in Austin and brings also a wealth of media strategy experience.

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If you want to learn something about comms planning, look no further than Mimi Lu Liu.

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Miriam Plon Sauer is Executive Strategy Director at AKQA. What does she do? Building brands that add value.

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Molly Aaker is our brand strategy director from New York

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Monish Odrani know strategy not just for communication but also on the design of services and products.

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If you're curious about sports marketing, Moritz will help you. And not only. He has plenty of experience in brand & comms strategies. Look out for him.

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Nadine Muller Eckel is an amazing Strategy Director who brings experience in strategy in Germany's leading creative agencies.

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Natasha Jakubowski, who is great as well as Chief Innovation Officer at Anomaly.

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As speaker coach and a member of the curation team at TEDx Kingston upon Thames, Tara help shortlisted speakers tell their story or bring their idea alive.

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Nikita Walia is a cultural and creative strategist with nearly a decade of experience; with her consultancy BLANK, she collaborates exclusively with category defining and creating brands.

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Neil Godber is Joint Head of Strategy at Wunderman Thompson in London and a Lifetime Fellow at the well-respected IPA.

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We have Neil Schambra Stevens, who was CMO of the sneakers brands we all love - and is a coaching pro.

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Nick Taylor is our strategist from England providing critical thinking about people shopping and making decisions.

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Nicole Ingra is freelance strategist from Amsterdam with over 7 years of international experience, working with agencies and clients in the US, the UK, Europe, Brazil, and Asia.

Nils Diezemann is our strategist with two decades of experience in communication, brand building and digital transformation. Agencies range from big network to digital boutique; assignments from Paris to West-Africa to Berlin; industries from chewing gum to high-speed trains; clients from Allianz to Wrigley. Great intuition for brands, communication, content and culture that matters. Currently beefing up his political communication skills at ressourcenmangel in Berlin.

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Looking for an idea how to present to get C-Level people hooked? Learn that from one of the best creatives Gordon ever worked with? Nils Haseborg it is.

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Nina Bomberg is a sourcing director (yes, she knows what companies buy) and an advocate of lifelong learning with an EMBA on top.

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Nina Bressau is our VP Strategy from the US with global experience in healthcare, retail, and DTC and is particularly interested in behavioral science, brand development, and experience strategy.

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If you don't know who is Ninad Satpute, you should need to look into his astonishing experience. He will definitely challenge your thinking.

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If you are on the lookout for creative advice (and general entertainment) please look no further than Nuno Melo Cristino.

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Nuria has a long and wide experience as brand strategy director and would love to see a more inclusive industry so is eager to help strategists from all over the world (and can mentor in Spanish).

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Owen Dowling is Chief Strategy Officer at draftLine Europe and previously worked at Wieden+Kennedy, Leagas Delaney and ... no, who needs an and here :-)

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With 15 years of experience in advertising serving latin american brands Otto Poncelis Cardoso is currently head of strategy and efficiency at Anonimo Mexico City.

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Oliver Hacke is one of the few people who are so good in digital, that they don’t need buzzwords.

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Ozlem Tuskan is a former Head of Strategy at The Future Laboratory, and now founder and CEO of TheResilient.co.uk

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A brand, comms & business strategist with 12 years of experience building iconic brands like Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Netflix, My last assignment was heading strategy for Apple India. Currently I'm building one of India's hottest creative shop - The Glitch, A VMLY&R Co.

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Pallavi Chakravarti has recently founded indie agency Fundamental, of which she is also the CCO. Previously Creative Head-West for the DDB Mudra Group, advertising is the only profession she has ever known and loved. And she believes that if you enjoy talking to people and observing them, you’ll never run out of ways of getting through to them.

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Pablo Balaz is a former client and runs a strategic brand development consultancy in Argentina. He is also a professor at business school.

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Philippe Deniger is your mentor for all things creative.

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Partha Iyengar has over three decades of experience spanning sales, advertising, and financial services. Now he is running Asia's First Fee-Only Women Advisers Network.

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Patrick Henderson is a Canadian-based, internationally award-winning strategist and writer. They have shaped brands and creative work at agencies including VERB Interactive, Critical Mass, and TAXI. Now, Patrick is the Integration and Comms Planning Director at Theo.

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Paul Claude Vary Kinney is a strategy director from New York. With a strategic approach that's part behavioral science, part anthropology, part asking the right questions.

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If you haven't heard of him before, Paul is one of Ogilvy's legends. ECD and Co-Chairman EAME Ogilvy & mather for more than 20 years.

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Pearl {she / her} comes with 16 years of advertising as well as B2C and B2B marketing experience. As a strategist she’s helped shape the course of several brands of Fortune 500 companies including Abbott, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, Discovery Inc., Meta, GlaxoSmithKline, Kimberly Clark, Philip Morris, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever. In addition, her client-side experience in global marketing roles at Unilever & now Schneider Electric means she’s a powerhouse of both B2C and B2B marketing strategy.

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And if you look for creative advice, there is Pedro Americo – he manages to question and re-question every single brief Gordon wrote – with the result that I work harder to please him. You will find him at McCann Germany as ECD. And as a judge at Cannes Lions this year.

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Peter Kiefer, is our expert on data driven creativity.

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Best creatives are great planners, and before launching his own agency Péter worked as creative director for the biggest agencies in Hungary.

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Philip SLADE, former managing parter at, yes, CP+B London.

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Pit Kho always tries to combine categories, knowledge, innovations, departments AND people’s minds for multidisciplinary creativity.

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We got Polly Buckland with a wealth of knowledge on data, CRM and consumers.

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Pradeep Nair is a senior strategy and transformation leader with multi-industry experience in a mix of global management consulting and industry roles.

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Puneet Thadani is currently and Entrepreneur running a Advertising and Marketing Agency called Pop Communications. His specialisation has been Business and Account Management. He has experience working with brands across industries while working with the largest global agencies like Ogilvy and Mather, J.Walter Thompson, Lowe Lintas and Leo Burnett. Can help you in account management and strategy

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Rahul Mathew is CCO at DDB Mudra and sees creativity as a Lego block. You can build anything with it-big brands, famous campaigns, great agencies. You just got to keep collecting blocks of all shapes and sizes through your career.

As a Strategy Director in MRM Brazil, Rafael Bouhid's the leader of the team responsible for Chevrolet's CX/UX/CRM strategy in Latin America. He believes that you can tackle any problem with enough strategic thinking, willingness to learn and sense of oportunity.

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Raghhu Chaitanya Koorella has a decade long experience of solving problems for Businesses on Digital crafting solutions on the client/agency side and a brief stint in Academics shaping the school’s Digital specialization module.

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Rima was born in a family of artists but has grown up to become a data & analytics expert. She is the head of digital media at brave new world communications in Bangalore.

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Robert Martin Murphy knows that "Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." - L.Carroll. Want to learn that too?

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Richar Kirk is joint CSO at EssenceMediacom UK. And if you want a chat about media and how you might get ahead in planning, he can tell you at least some massive errors to void.

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Rukmini Sengupta is a creative communication specialist for brands like H&M, Reebok, McDonald’s, Delhi Airport, IndiGo Airlines, 7UP, etc.

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For the past decade, Rafik Belmesk has showed an impressive work across different strategy disciplines in North America and APAC.

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Rajas Rane is a Researcher, Design Thinker, Explorer, and Creative problem solver from India.

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Raquel Langknecht is a Director of Strategy for a healthcare agency with experience in brand strategy and activation strategy.

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Raquel Sztejnberg, a strategy director that has worked in more countries and cultures than most of us have travelled.

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Developpers rule the world. Ravi is one of them. Software developper turned strategist and is currently strategy lead at Google.

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Reema is a brand strategy director based in Chicago and a Northwestern University graduate she is also a mentor @Women Who Create.

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Rene Hentschel is our innovation strategist from Berlin, creating products and services for actionable insights and impactful strategies.

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Based in Rotterdam, Richard has a proven history behind many of the world’s leading brands and is the founder of Monturo marketing.

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With over 10 years of work experience in digital marketing and a foundation in technology, Rishi Sharma from New York helps brands grow their online presence.

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Rizek is an experience planner based in Jordan. He is the head of strategic planning at Omincom's Adpro.

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Rob Fuller is Head of Planning at McCann Health London, a global healthcare communications agency.

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Rob Scotland loves to talk about his mistakes - which got him the Head of Strategy job at McCann & Hyper Island faculty position.

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Robin Chan knows the art of comms planning - connectin the dots between audience, brands and platforms.

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Rohan Sachar is our mentor from google.

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Based in Dubai Rohit is a Globally Awarded Marketing Strategist. He has led regional planinng departments for agencies such as Y&R and Grey. He is currently the General Manager of LIWA the first and only video-marketing specialist in the region.

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There is Roman Koenigsmark, from the digital agency

Denkwerk.

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Ronnie Thomas has led strategy teams in media and creative agencies, and can give you a unique perspective on how you can become a more well-rounded strategist.

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Ruben Theva MBA BSC JHONS DIC PG, one of our most sought after menotrs.

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Ruth Blair is our strategy director with experience from some of the best agencies and also in the realms of innovation.

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Sylvia Zohm, Film school graduate, chronic learner, punk by nature, writer and creative director by choice. Romania/USA/Germany. Started working in advertising when Linkin Park was ruling the charts and still knows all the lyrics to Hybrid Theory. Loves words, rules and believes no project is too small to create something big.

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Sanchari Chakrabarty, Sr Strategy Director-DDB Mudra Group, has built a rich understanding of brands across FMCG, content & banking. She enjoys digging into how people behave, and exploring the ‘why’ behind their behaviours. She loves pop culture - finding meaning in things people love to share."

Stefan Tetzlaff is a historian and political scientist with work experience across Asia, Europe and the US. He helps companies use their history to build stronger brands, improve public relations and emerge as market leaders.

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Siddhant Lahiri is a brand and creative strategist with 14 years of experience across categories, brands and markets. A winner of 15 strategy awards, and he is with Forsman & Bodenfors Singapore.

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Sonal Jhuj works at LEGO and lead global brand strategy here. And if that wasn't impressive enough, she formerly ran corporate strategy at DDB in India. She is fab :-)

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Scott Jensen is a strategy consultant from Santa Monica. I’m a change agent.

He believes business transformation happens when we as humans, clients, creatives all trust one another

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Sulagna Das is a copy-lead and author from Dehli. Creative? Yes!

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9+ years of Advertising professional.

Currently a one-woman arm helping brands tell their narratives through compelling stories.

Creating a safe space for managers to create toxic -free workplaces.

1:1 coaching company managers about happy work cultures.

Hit me up

1. if you are building a brand and want to tell your story

2. Want someone to manage your social handles

3. Want to build your brand presence on LinkedIn

4. Wish to book a training workshop for your employees on best mental health practices at workplaces

5. Wish to just chat with no agenda ( coffee is a great choice)

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Siim Sainas is Social Insights & Measurement Lead APAC at google and your mentor for marketing measurement (1), insights generation through research or analytics (2) and marketing strategy (3).

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Before joining VMLY&R as Chief Creative Officer, Santiago Cuesta worked for DDB in their Chicago, Miami, NY, Puerto Rico, and Colombia offices.

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Saumya Chattopadhyay is Senior Vice President at MullenLowe Lintas. A cultural strategist who lived & worked in 6 countries.

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Sumeer Mathur has been head of planning at some of the biggest and best agencies in India.

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Shinal Pancholi is Head of Social and Digital at M&C Saatchi London.

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Sylvia long Tolbert is a Marketing expert co-exists with decision makers working at the intersection of consumer research, innovation and brand strategy at The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School.

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Shantesh Row is an experienced CCO who has worked with the world's best brands, and yet he always keeps an open space to be an eternal student.

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Sahana Chowdhury is our research specialist from PWC with a sharp focus on understanding consumer behaviour and their psyche.

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Whether just starting out, at leadership level or looking to make a lateral move, Sally Neilson can give you a considered career perspective. She’s a specialist strategy headhunter, and an ex-agency practitioner.

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Sam Renbarger was raised by Creatives (a filmmaker and writer). Is a lifelong gamer and technology tinkerer, who went from working in retail as a Mac Genius for Apple and being IT for Tornado Chasing scientists (in college). To Head of Strategy at Pereira & O'Dell and DDB Worldwide (Adam&Eve London, Chicago, NY, SF), gaining two decades of experience in brand and creative strategy – while leading brands like: Amazon, BMW/MINI, BlackRock, Call Of Duty, Deloitte, Google, Honda/Acura, JetBlue, Pedigree, PlayStation, Netflix, Madden, and NBA 2K.

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Samhita Chaudhuri is a full blooded strategist.

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San Vu is a very experienced planner who can share a ton of wisdom about Asian markets.

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After 20+ years working as a strategist at major media agencies, Sarah is now Global Media Director at the world's coolest client : Oatly.

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Saritha Iyer is a human-centered marketing consultant with over a decade of experience working with Indian and Global brands.

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Saumya Sharma is a Research Consultant at Poocho|| Independent Visual Ethnographer.

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We got Shahvez Afridi with decades of experience at the great agencies in Singapore. And a black lion in effectiveness.

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Shea Warnes is a Head of Strategy at Dentsu Singapore.

Over a decade of digital and brand experience working for top-tier agencies in London, New York and Sydney.

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Siddesh Naik crosses the bridges of strategy, UX design and innovation. Where else can you go?

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James Calvert is Chief Data Strategy Officer at M&C Saatchi London. Can you afford not to talk to him?

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Simon Neate-Studson is a freelance brand strategist based in Amsterdam, and was previously at agencies such as Wieden + Kennedy, Strawberry Frog and Saatchi & Saatchi.

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Sneha Tiwari is a passionate qualitative researcher who likes to decode people, cultures, and behaviors.

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Sophie Cox – mentoring on all things research.

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We have Stacey Lesser, who is CSO of Merkley + Partners – I can’t think of anything I don’t think she knows.

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We got the head of brand from Zalando, Stas Ivnitskiy.

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Stefan Kluss can tell you all about brand and product architecture.

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Stephan Schoneberg will share with you a ton of knowledge about media and in-house consultancies.

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Brutally brilliant creative strategy? There is no better mentor than Steve Walls.

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Subramanian Krishnan is CSO at TBWA in India.

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Suma Nair is a passionate & driven professional who has excelled in Strategy as well as execution-driven roles.

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Sushobhan Mukhrjee catalyze growth for brands through persuasive impactful ideas, rooted in data and insight.

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Based in Berlin, Sven has worked as a planner for the coolest German agencies (S&F, Heimat, JvM) and currently leads strategy at BBDO Berlin.

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For the past decade, Tamar Dan has specialized in crafting business-driven brand identities for leading local and international companies. Working with a diverse range of industries, both in agency, and internal settings, she has developed a unique skillset to design customized brand and communication strategies that effectively resonate with audiences and address the challenges of the future.

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Tonnit Thomas is an awarded design and advertising entrepreneur, with a degree in Fine Arts and over 26years creative experience both local & international., Tonnit is also a founder member of Artry, a Dubai-based art & design forum and has a great good will within the creative fraternity.

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Tejasvi Suvarna is a Sr. Commercial Technology Manager at Bayzat. She is your mentor for new business, sales, and people skills

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Tarun Aggarwal is a Consumer Goods Specialist with more than 12 + years of FMCG Sales and Marketing experience with Top FMCG companies ( Colgate & Marico)

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Tany Singh is the Chief Manager for Policy for Reliance Retail. My background is Growth, Marketing and Product at SaaS and E-commerce startups in India, with a focus on Global expansion.

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Till is the CCO at BBDO Germany and teacher at Miami ad school Hamburg.

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Thiago is an international strategist with work experience in Sao Paolo, LA, London both on the client and the agency side. He is currently Group Strategy director at VMLY&R Miami.

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Thom Binding on the edge of creativity and strategy in the UK.

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Thomas Waegemans currently co-leading the Business and Service Design craft in Accenture Interactive. His role consists of bringing thought leadership on Design & Innovation to clients.

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There is Toby Donaldson our consultant from London.

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There is Toby Harrison who used to work for an agency called Adam & Eve, you might have heard of them.

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Based in the UAE, Tom Romanski is brand strategist turned tech-entrepreneur. He is the founder of Barbarian-fit a fitness app for gamers looking for a fun way to get in shape. He is also chair of the MENA Fintech Sustainability Alliance.

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And Tom Sigelski - Realising Human Potential from Sydney ran insights on Red Bull globally for decades.

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Ton Hollander is a well versed creative who has won all the awards you know of.

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Tony Clement leads Brand Marketing at Culture Amp.

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Trevor Mark Fernandes, business strategist extraordinaire formerly of Deloitte.

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Tristan McInnis is a Canadian in Shanhai and insights manager at Disney. Fun anyone?

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Based in Bucharest Tudor is a Strategist and Creative Director at Waio Studio but has also co-founded Above Reality a startup that creates custom 3D product configurators that help businesses increase their sales & conversion rates.

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Tyrone is currently the head of strategy at Iris Munich. He started his career in Johanesburg and has worked for many global brands both in Germany and in South Africa.

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Uri Baruchin is an award-winning Brand Strategist based in London with experience across B2C and B2B. He also teaches strategy at SCA and D&AD.

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Urvi Parikh (She/Her) delivering human insights in Singapore.

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Vanessa Daly (Dos Santos) / she / her / ella is our cultural strategist form Texas.

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Wiebke Dryer knows how to run strategy and how to run agencies. For decades.

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With a bachelor from Harvard Yamna Anwar is a SVP strategy in New York with a ton of knowledge in health marketing.

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Yvonne Chung our mentor from Canada has worked for some of the best agencies there and is unfailingly armed with bold ideas that just might work

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Yasmina Falcone Memarian is a Global Senior planner who works for the LEGO group. Interesting chat guaranteed.

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Zuzana Kabelkova is your mentor for the world of brands and innovation. Previously she was a cultural attache in Sweden but today works at Ogilvy Germany - Ingo.

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Carly Ettinger is a Trend Analyst studying the consumers and culture of today, and tomorrow. She helps clients translate trends into smart business.

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"For more than 20 years I have been working as an UX concept developer and manager at the intersection between digital interfaces, companies and strategies, with a special focus on people in their role as social beings.

I concern myself with questions about how communication works in the digital age and how digital technology can be made more people-friendly. My aim is to understand people as individuals as well as part of society. For this, I look for inspiration in current research in sociology, psychology and economics.”

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Priyank Sharma is an engineer turned education researcher who helps Edtech companies in building equitable and inclusive products for academic excellence.

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He is a Chief Product Officer, Head of IMO/IGO Operations - MetaLauch, Asva Labs. He is an expert in Blockchain, Product Management, Design Thinking and Business Process Management. Top 12 Chief Product Officer from CEO Insights and Indian Achivers Award holder from iafindia.com. Advisor,SportsMan, Cricket Club Owner and part of management of CCUSA (Cricket Council USA).

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With experience in both boutique shops and some of the best agencies worldwide like Publicis Italy and (former) JWT London, Carlotta Monzai's career developed across London, Milan and Dublin.

She has several years of practice on all things brand strategy and innovation, and more recently research, too; her work has covered trend forecasting and cultural insights, behavioural economics and neuroscience on top of brand planning. So, she's happy to talk about all these things - and how to relocate one too many times 😬

Aaron Francois is a creative strategist, who is fueled by the ability to fuse culture and data to create impactful work. His passions have led to strong campaigns for brands such as Samsung, Ally Bank, & HBO Max. He's also a side-hustler like many of us, as he is the founder of Black Visionaries a non-profit organization geared towards democratizing access for Black Professionals.

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Alexander Kippel has experience in large 10k+ people manufacturing companies as well as medium-sized ones with skills in project management, CAD and mechanical engineering. In addition Alexander achieved my PhD in chemical safety engineering during my time at a public research institute.

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Andrea Cascante Morales is an Innovation and change mindset facilitator for positive impact seekers with Experience on digital transformation, strategic marketing and digital innovation.

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Aimee Bida is a Creative Exec from NY, passionate about crafting meaning and sparking business growth. She helps companies large and small define their purpose, vision and identity through human-centered design and experience management (XM). Skills: Tech • Startup • SaaS • CPG • B2B • B2C • eCommerce

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Anja Schmidt is a content professional with 15 years of experience in journalism, marketing, public relations, and social media. Brands hire me to develop and create high-reach content and engaging stories.

She is a nerd by heart. Always happy to chat about Godzilla or Japanese arthouse movies. Former German Kendo Championships participant. Got attacked by a goose. On Christmas. On her balcony. Vegetarian.

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As an experienced crypto marketing advisor with expertise in leading crypto domains, Ashish Kumar is the CMO of& blockchain.Linkedin Asva Labs LLC. Devising marketing strategies for different Web3 projects- Metaverse, NFTs DeFi, IGO, IDO, IMO, etc. A total of 13 years of experience in marketing & 5 years in crypto & blockchain.

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Agha Fasihullah is a multi award-winning storyteller and big-idea man with 18 years of experience building, advising, growing, and coaching brands. Agha recently converted into an entertainment-tech entrepreneur building a metaverse, nfts and content rocket-ship in the web 3.0. He is passionate about workforce diversity and gender equality causes and spends time advising and volunteers pro bono.

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Arindam Biswas is a bilingual (English, French) Multi-Experienced professional with 14 years of

experience across Marketing, Brand management & Communications

Strategy across commercial as well as social sector. This cross sectoral

experience equips me to apply various management and innovation tools to

practice sustainable development across businesses. I strongly believe in the

power of Business and Social Entrepreneurship to start and manage a

transformative change-making process in an Individual and the Society.

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Arik Leeb is Director of Sustainability Engagement at the LEGO Group. Before focussing on sustainability, he worked as a comms strategist at various ad agencies from Shanghai to Zurich, for brands in FMCG, sportswear, and consumer electronics.

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Ahmad Assem Hemmat is a sociocultural creative and communication strategist who believes advertising and marketing are an art and a social field which has been populated by natural science rhetoric. Once you see socio-culture is a gate to strategic creative communication, you will appreciate the holistic and inclusive concepts and directions they bring.

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3M’s that define our latest mentor, Amrutha Ananth’s life –

Mom. Marketing Communications Professional. MBA ’21.

Amrutha creates and executes joint global marketing communication programs with technology alliance partners at Dell Technologies. A passionate advocate of a #womeninclusive environment, she loves to enable her peers to achieve their goals at each point in their career journey.

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Archana Mahadevan is a VP, Strategy Director at DDB Chicago . She’s a passionate advocate for DE&I in advertising and works hard to bring the “immigrant gaze” to the world through the work she does.

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Andres Sanchez has worked in sales for 10+ years and managed international corporate sales for companies like Cirque Du Soleil, Bell, Rogers, Meltwater in English, Spanish and French. Currently he's the Sales manager for the Latam Region with Meltwater growing the presence of this marketing software.

"I love motoring others who seek a career in sales, who are passionate about helping companies using technology or a service and sharing sales success stories that will encourage professionals to achieve their goals."

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Andrew Tan Wei Aun works at the intersection of brand, innovation, and product strategy as a Director of Strategy at Code and Theory NYC. He was at Interbrand before that and used to run a strategy function for a design studio in Kuala Lumpur. His burdens include racialized experiences, praxis, and working within capitalism. Please reach out for an earnest, candid, and personal conversation.

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As a Sales Professional and Entrepreneur, Anderson Benino lived at Europe and Latin America countries and worked at big company’s and has introduced your strategies and point of view of business in your projects, always with the used of innovation and digital solutions. Your vision is in the necessities of today but he knows a simple or complex solutions can change the world, so him focus is innovation, because, if we can change our mindset and starts innovate, we will can make a difference for our and next generation future.

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Amelia Stevens is an accredited member of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) and has over 15 years experience working in agencies.

She is based in Cardiff, Wales, and worked across public sector, third sector and not for profit clients.

Predominantly from a paid media background, she loves innovation and the fusion of digital into the traditional media space. It’s now more important than ever to have the right message in front of the right audience in the right moment.

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Aaron Cole is currently partner at studio everywhere, the world's creative consultancy. Previously he worked agency side at Fallon, Mother, W+K, Exposure and also co-founded Common Industry. Aaron is all about connecting the dots between strategy, creativity, culture and business.

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Ananda Rieber is a Freelance Strategy Director with 10+ years experience.

He can help with Brand Planning, Brand Positioning, Creative Strategy & Comms Planning.

Also talk to him if you're curious about exploring new ways of working for the creative agencies.

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Aysu Senyuz is a Consumer Behavior researcher with a PhD in marketing. She studies emotions in advertising and the role of romantic partners in consumption. Ask her about marketing research in academia vs practice.

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Ajay Tawde is the Head of Experience in Ogilvy Indonesia.

He helps some the biggest brands in the world build their brand by leveraging data, analytics, CRM and eCommerce.

Unravelling, understanding and simplifying modern technology is where he gets his kicks.

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Angelica Garcia has worked in marketing and advert-sing over 30 years both in Mexico and the US. Amplifying the voice of multicultural segments strategically and finding the way to bring those insights into an overall strategy.

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Anindya Ghosh always wants to find and present the truth in brands, products, culture and consumers. Trying to understand the world as it is so that we can change it to what it can be.

He's ever curious in why people do the things they do, and tries to decode them through mythology, movies, music & mannerisms!

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Strategy chief at Heimat Ann-Kristin Sterba is passionate about people and problems. she never used the word consumer in ten years of advertising.

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Alireza Assobar is Deloitte Germany's voice of diversity and inclusion in a “breaking bias podcast”, and Deloitte Consulting's first elected Diversity Ambassador. As a program manager in consulting he helps his clients with their CFO strategies, digital transformations, carve-outs, post merger integrations, SAP analytic strategies and other complex implementation projects. He has leadership as well as mentoring competencies.

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Ann-Katrin Rahe comes with over 15 years of experience as a strategist with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing, advertising and branding industry. Paving the way for effective communications for corporates and start-ups alike, facilitating collaborative workshops on a regular basis and generally just getting things done.

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Andie Wexler is a Senior Strategist currently working at Design Studio NYC. They help build and evolve all different types of brands – from start-ups to fortune 500's. While her specialty is strategy, she's also experienced in copywriting and naming. She believes that our best insights come from deeply understanding and interpreting others' words and perspectives. Assuming she knows nothing is always her first step.

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Creative Director, designer and digital native.

Björn Burkey looks back on several years' experience crafting advertising campaigns and digital strategies for national and international clients. His career includes positions at creative agencies such as TBWA\, DDB and Scholz & Friends.

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Bjoern Bauermeister is co-founder of Smart Infrastructure Ventures, an early-stage private VC fund. He invest in pre-seed & seed-stage startups and help them to find their product/market fit.

Prior to that he worked as a market maker in investment banking for more than 10 years.

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Bastian Bärenfänger is a creative mind, always interested in new ways of working and strongly fostering collaboration, a neo-collectivism, to deal with modern day complexity. To enable & empower the teams he is an expert for soft skills, which are in fact, the new hard skills!

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Bruno Frankel has spent the last 17 years as a strategist at some of the world’s leading advertising agencies (Wieden+Kennedy & Mother) before arriving at Netflix to lead strategy across all of the partnership programs.

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Caroline Griffiths: ‘Once described as ‘the Paula Yates of podcasting’, it is fair to say that as a seasoned mentor of 12 years, I offer inquisitive, bold, and often creative challenge, with a penchant for straight talking and a genuine desire for my mentees to achieve.

If climbing glass mountains, getting swept up in rivers, and crashing against rocks, is all part of your joy and journey, I have 25+ years in industry, and 10 years of baring the entrepreneurial scars, late nights and fervour of someone who has both excelled and failed at creating start ups, and running companies.'

Fellow of the ‘Royal Society of Arts’.

Lead associate of the ‘Fellowship of Responsible Business’.

Mentor for the UK Governments initiative to ‘Help to Grow Business’.

UK Registered Learning Provider.

Member of ODIN (Organisational Development Innovation Network)

Winner of the Creativity and Human Potential Consultancy Award - Management Consulting Awards 2022.

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Christiano Rocco is a highly conceptual and strategic Brazilian Creative Director living and working in Berlin and supporting clients across Europe.

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Christiane Wiemann is a versatile strategist with 20 years of experience for national and international clients. As a generalist who has worked on topics like brand development, target group segments, creative processes, workshop concepts, trends, comms strategy, digital strategy, leadership and employer branding she might have 1 or 2 answers for your need.

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Christian von Jakubowski is Head of international Campaigns at BMW and a firm believer in the power of courage, passion and creativity. With plenty of agency experience she is the perfect mentor for a full view on marketing.

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Christophe Rolland is a Brand Strategist with international experience in mass market brands, services, luxury, corporate branding and innovation.

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Dhruv Aggarwa is a processes consultant at SAP and passionate about learning from and bringing in value-adding technology into businesses the right way.

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David Webster: ""I spent the first 20 years of my career between Europe and Asia working with some of the world’s best people and brands, including Nike, Netflix, Red Bull, Samsung, Riot Games, Audi, McDonald's, and many more.

Now I like to spend my time building businesses and projects which I believe can have a positive impact on people’s lives.

I believe that opportunities exist all around us if we look hard enough, and that with the right dose of optimism and humanity, anything is possible."

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Dickon Bonvik-Stone is a marcom expert who uses his skills to address the climate crisis. With a background in digital media and advanced degrees in sustainability, Dickon currently works within the circular economy, mentors startups in the ocean and climate space, and hosts the "Communicating Climate Change" podcast, exploring practical insights to empower others in making a positive impact.

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Deepshika Narang is currently working as Brand Planning Director in FCB Ulka, Mumbai. She started her career 8 years back in Account Management and moved into planning and strategy due to her keen interest in human behaviour and culture. She has worked in agencies like Ogilvy, Lowe Lintas and JWT. She made a switch to brand side in Consumer Insights but my love for advertising brought me back into the mad land. Amazon, One Plus, Nerolac, Zee and Domex are some of the brands She has worked on.

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Diana Alvarez Salvatierra used to be a graphic designer and used to be so curious and always questioning the way brands I worked with use to sell. This is the main reason why she became a Strategic Planner, or better said: a brand, category and consumer specialist. In every job she does, she sees the opportunity to make people happier by making smarter choices when they shop brands. Just by getting to know the needs and demands of the consumer to later align then with the product offer. It looks easy but there are many cases, situations or moments where you have to dig harder.

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Daniel Felipe Cuervo is Chief Strategy & Growth Officer at Buentipo Anchor for all the US, all Latin American and Caribbean countries. He particularly enjoys creating brands from cultural insights, much more human and culturally relevant. Expert in strategy and business.

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Daniel Tolentino is an award-winning Brazilian Senior Art Director based in Germany with over 10 years of experience in advertising agencies such as Accenture, DDB, VMLY&R, Publicis, and BBDO working on multidisciplinary projects to develop integrated campaigns.

He has worked for many global brands such as J&J, AB InBev, McDonald's, Walmart, Whirlpool, Caltex Chevron, HSBC, Intel, Zespri, Heineken Group, and Ford.

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After being a designer for several clients in the sustainability and social area David Hesse started

as a brand strategist and strategic planner at Metadesign and Heimat Berlin. With „changing to the client side“ he accepted responsibility for the bigger social campaigns of Sparkasse. Now - in his current position at dm - he is responsible for all campaigns on sustainability as a team coordinator.

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Dina Brandt from Germany advises companies in strategic communication through LinkedIn - some call it personal branding.

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Ed Watts is an Integrated Brand & Experience Strategist (director level) with a fascination for ideas that work at the intersection of technology, culture and business.(Edited)

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Eliza Erskine is the founder of Green Buoy Consulting, a sustainability consultancy that provides ESG consulting, strategy and B Corp certification to high-growth companies. She has a Master’s in Sustainability from the Harvard Extension School and a BA in Business Administration from Boston University.

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As Chief Strategy Officer of The Martin Agency for 30 years Earl Cox recruited and coached a department 30+ brand and UX strategists, helping them to become self-sufficient and confident to do the best work of their lives.

In this thought leadership role Earl helped develop brand positioning and marketing communication strategies for 100s of companies including GEICO, Mercedes-Benz, UPS, Saab, Discover Card, Hanes and Mount Gay Rum.

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Eva-Maria Bauch is a Senior Executive with 25 years of experience in the digital and media industry with focus on (digital) transformation, digitalization of business models, profitable sustainable growth and implementing innovation - currently she is into the field of management consulting at Deloitte.

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Ethel Sanchez, Head of Insights and Intelligence at Nuworks Interactive Labs, Manila following a planning career stretching from Saatchi & Saatchi, through McCann Worldgroup, Lowe Singapore and BBDO Guerrero. She is a part-time university lecturer and an executive MBA candidate at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.

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Elena Zhigalina – Head of Brand & Comms at zolar.

10+ years of experience in Marketing and Media management.

My passion lies in integrated Brand campaigns, building, and growing Brand and Creative teams.

Working for several years in tech Companies on Brand Marketing strategy, creative tests and experiments, I am happy to share my experience in leveraging Brand performance and finding the right positioning for the Brand.

Elena Al is a senior leader with 17 years experience of growing and expanding business all over the globe. Extensive expertise in SaaS , RPA, Iot, SaaS, CRM, Enterprise systems domain, commercial and governmental business.

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Farris Baharom has over 20 years experience in advertising, mostly in planning, plus memorable stints as a journalist, marketer and startup co-founder. Big time sci-if and fantasy geek as well as tech nerd.

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Fiona Lovatt has experience on both sides of the marketing fence - client and agency, across a wide range of sectors including alcohol, soft drinks, personal care, snacks and well-being. She specialises in turning insight into action to drive growth for brands, via strategy and innovation work. She’s also a qualified NLP practitioner, with significant experience of effectively managing all kinds of stakeholders.

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Francesco Sala is an adventurer and an explorer. Co-founder of dreamercycling.cc and marketing leader with 20+ year experience, he wants you to drop everything, ride and explore.

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Fran Zambrano digital doer, her purpose is to help woman to use strategy and creativity to bring their projects into digital, her online course Think CAN Do is helping 110 woman to run their business on a strategic way and digital doer mindset.

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Fabio Andreosi is natural curious person that found in design a way to solve problems and made this the way that he faces the world. Moving forward goes to industry world and since 2013 works with industry 4.0 initiatives, first in Brazil and right now in Portugal.

Always with an eye in the business impact of the new revolution likewise the social movement that this brings.

Teaches and speaks about innovation, industry 4.0, product development and new business models

Nowadays he is Head of Innovation and Industry 4.0 in PTC Group a Portuguese company with global actuation.

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Our creative mentor Gary Willis is happy to meet you: ""Hello all, I’m Gary, a senior concept creative/Art Director/Creative Director. I’ve driven award-winning campaigns, created by myself or directing and inspiring teams, groups and departments as a Creative Partner, CD and Head of Art (twice).

Huge experience in all sectors and channels; ATL, integrated, DM, digital, content, social, experiential, shopper, brand activation, events, PR stunts - for both B2C & B2B.

Let's chat."

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Giles Horton held Senior Board Positions within global Consultancy, Client side and Agency side organisations in the UK, EMEA, North America, LATAM and Asia Pacific. He has communications and management experience on high profile global and regional businesses with most development in Technology, Fintech, Prodtech, Adtech, Finance, FMCG, Communications and Automotive business.

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Based in LA, Gordon Gerard McLean is the founder of Fear No Truth; an independent brand strategy practice, that helps agencies and creative companies everywhere, to find, tell and manage their brand’s true story.

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Gidyon Thomas is a philomath. He loves to learn from everyone and everything. He also loves to share from his decade long brand practice. He believes in linear, organic and sustainable growth both at an individual level and at a business level.

As a student of the Ochams philosophy he emphasizes simplicity and clarity.

And also loves Afrobeats music so much.

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Gurpreet Kaur: Learner. Motivator. Self-motivated person with work ethic . Curious for new learnings. She has worked not just as a designer but also as a Faculty of Design . Guided students for good colleges and how a design College works. Currently working with ImaginXp as Faculty of Ux at Chitkara . Guiding students in their projects and helping them throughout .

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Gilda Valle is from Ecuador, she has 25 years loving and ""hating"" advertising, She started as a copy, then creative director and finally “married” Planning. She considers herself Effie addict and adnerd, she has worked for global brands and in several agencies such as Y&R, Mccann and now BBDO. She is also a storyteller, she writes personalized stories for people, she likes to write their love stories and transform them to fairy tales

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Gonzalo Ramos Lazaro a psychologist from Spain that happens to be the head of strategy of an agency in Mexico. I help brands such as Coca Cola, Kellogg, Colgate or Mattel to deploy their brand strategies in digital environments.

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Giang Tran is an Associate Strategy Director at Ogilvy Vietnam with almost a decade of expertise. She is the first Vietnamese to be awarded an ASEAN Fellowship for English poetry. Interestingly enough, Giang is also a biker that likes wearing full black and doing solo trips with her classic motorcycles across Vietnam. All of these experiences combined have made her journey as a strategist a vibrant one. In recent years, she has designed and delivered free training workshops to young strategists and marketers. She hopes to mitigate time constraints, financial struggles, and lack of mentorship that often hinder them from effectively progressing in their career. Talk with Giang if you’re in the early years of your career, and want to: become a more competent strategist, switch from other disciplines to the strategy dept., discuss mental health or burn-out at work, or know how you can become a better strategist ­­­­­­­-- by taking a break from it. If you’re into books, Giang reads widely from poetry to non-fiction.

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Hans Ulrich Reitzel mentoring knows no bounds: PodCast "The CIO-Playbook" (to come soon) & Masterminds for CIOs & for Agile Practitioners; Executive Coach accompanying Digital & Agile Transformation processes and People Skills building; Digital Leadership training; Negotiation & Conflict Coach / Mentoring & Reverse Mentoring / Team building in Strategic Alliances / Company culture & People Skills @ M&A / Business Partnerships & Market Entry

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Hashem Kotby Dual, 26 years of international working experience in telecoms techs, media (TV anchor & journalist), and as an entrepreneur, working closely with C-Level clients, on business development, marketing, driving sales, defining strategy, strategy

implementation, assessing digital business needs to develop optimal digital business solutions, to ensure successful digital business transformation for customers, amassing top-performing innovative teams.

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Hannes Gärtner is a strategic thinker, curious about cultural developments and loves to collaborate with people across disciplines.

Hannes started his career as a digital strategist.

In recent years, Hannes then moved into management at renowned agencies.

As part of the management board of MetaDesign, a leading brand consultancy, he is jointly responsible for agency development, among other things.

Previously, he built and led international teams, including at C3 and TLGG.

Hannes is looking forward to exchanging ideas with you, especially in areas such as #Leadership #BrandExperience #Marketing"

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Hans-Friedrich Bünte has six years in agency strategy with focus on customer journey and digital experiences. Then he switched to client side to build up several brands and recently took over a small marketing team.

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Hemant Joshi is a big fan of this quote - 'Passion never lies' and that's exactly what he's been doing. Currently pursuing his advertising passion and the only time he's looked back is to learn from his mistakes. Just remember, 'No start is small.' Hemant is currently living and loving his advertising dream at Taproot dentsu, Mumbai as Senior Brand Director. He is available to share his Advertising journey so far and willing to hear your story too. 30mins sounds less but worth it!

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Harmeet KAUR is a seasoned marketer with 13+ years of experience, across India & China. She is an Ex-LÓreal & Ex-Unilever, where she worked in Brand Development & Innovations. She currently runs her own Growth Advisory firm in Shanghai, where she helps B2C start-ups grow and scale-up on a long term strategy. She is an active startup mentor in SEA, including China, India, and Singapore.

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Irmak Atabek Ndungu is a media and entertainment professional, with 15+ yearsʼ of experience in animation and children’s media industry. She is co-founder of Mako and recently, based in Nairobi/Kenya, producing two African preschool shows with local creative teams.

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Iris Coldibelli believes innovation and effective strategic solutions come from the combination of diversity of thought, unexpected data sources, and honest collaboration. Having worked as a Creative, UX Designer, and Brand Strategy, Iris has developed a distinctive skill set. Iris had worked across South America, Europe, and Asia, helping iconic brands like Nike, Nestlé, MasterCard, Pfizer, Intel, Microsoft, Kraft, and Chevrolet as a strategy lead at Mccann, Martin Agency, and AKQA. These days, in addition to running her consulting business and two personal projects (a podcast and her book), Iris is a Head of Strategy at Ogilvy New York.

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Isa Ette is a strategist at heart working at Accenture in Berlin in a Management Consultancy role. She believes women will make consulting better - the world even if they set their collective mind to it. Happy to help get female professionals started.

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Professor Julia Milner has been named in the World’s ‘Top 40 Business Professors under 40’. As host of a YouTube channel she looks into 'How to Make Work a Happier Place'

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Juan Pablo Close says: ""I consider myself as passionate and enthusiast about discovering new ways to fulfill a high quality for our lives for ourselves and for those loved ones, and helping others to achieve their goals, through business administration, business intelligence, and data analytics field, to create a positive impact in my own environment and those who surround us"

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Joanna Benn specialises in communicating and campaigning on international environmental issues. She currently works as a Director of Comms for The Nature Conservancy and until recently was Editor-In-Chief for Nature4climate – an initiative which brings together 19 partners that aim to increase investment and action on natural climate solutions in support of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Having lived and worked in six countries including the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Kenya, the USA and Belgium, Joanna considers herself very much a ‘global citizen’. She began her career as a broadcast journalist and has since worked for various non-governmental organisations and led projects and communications for think tanks and the United Nations Environment Programme, as well as for international news networks, foundations and print outlets.

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Juan Bernárdez is an award-winning and recognized strategist born in Argentina and based in Costa Rica with more than 15 years of experience in strategic planning, non-traditional research and understanding of consumer behavior.

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Julian Wichmann is an assistant professor of marketing whose research tackles digital platforms, customer relationships, and retailing. His insights have been published in the leading journals of the discipline as well as the Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Manager.

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James Cunningham has over 25 years of experience understanding business challenges and helping find the answers. At Canvas8 this is all about people, who they are, what matters to them, the relationships they have with people, media and the brands in their lives. We believe if you can understand your audience you can make great work. This is true for communications, products and media. To get there we combine behavioural science, cultural analysis trends and market research."

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Over his 20 years of experience, John Manley has cultivated expertise in the art and science in modern strategic planning at notable shops: Martin, Ogilvy, DDB, Geometry, and Starcom. He has helped position brands and products for Google, General Mills, BP, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and Kimberly-Clark. He has helped launch significant marketing platforms for McDonald’s, State Farm, Alfa Romeo, Miller Lite, Jim Beam, Nike, Pizza Hut, and Gillette. He has helped win awards including Lions, Effies, Clios, and Chiats.

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James Methven is a brand and marketing change agent who has lifted brands around the globe with multinationals and smaller growth-stage companies. Ex-Coty, Electrolux, Rubbermaid and Unilever.

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For anyone new in their position the first 90days are exiting and challenging.

What you do will influence most of the rest of the game. Building strong relationships. Leading meaningful conversations. Learning and leading. Jürgen Margetich has guided several starts successfully. His characteristics: a strategic mindset. talent for communication combined with the typical viennese wit.

Jürgen shares two decades of management consulting in innovation and business coaching. His main domains are IT, Automotive and Telcos.

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Johnny Vulkan. Founding Partner of Anomaly. He says: ""For the record I’m not actually a ‘strategist’, having done most jobs in advertising apart from ‘strategy’ but most people would think I am one 🤣I’ve got away with just being ‘Johnny’ for the last 20 years, but it’s a terrible title to put on a business card :)"

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Josh Roth works at the LEGO Group, where he’s focused on marketing their owned digital experiences. Previous to this role, he led Chelsea FC’s comms in APAC. And before making the move ‘Client Side’, he worked as a strategist at agencies in both London and Singapore, across a range of clients and sectors.

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Jake Katz is founder of Waiting In The Sky, a pop culture focused strategy agency.

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During the last 20 years Javier Ferran has worked for many national and multinational advertising and promotional marketing agencies, in Madrid, Spain, and remotely.

Creativepool, the social network that connects the global creative industry, has included him in their ""The top 25 influential, inspiring and more talented Art Directors around the globe"" in November 2021.

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Jochen Fischer is a Data driven marketeer with plus twenty years of experience in different functions.

Most comfortable where consumer insight, brand and technology meet.

Likes to build, learn and see things grow.

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James McNicholas is an in house strategist covering business and marketing strategy at Virgin Media O2, diggin into customer research and data to unpick complex business problems and find customer-centric solutions that deliver business performance.Before this role I worked agency side in social and digital. Outside of work I’m a big music fan and and self-guided student of the future of the internet.

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Juan Guillermo Tamayo Sanchez is an anthropologist and Master in Journalism with 15 years of experience in Strategy and Planning. Expert in narrative theory (what they call storytelling), and curious about artificial intelligence.

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Jesús Manteca is a Senior Strategist with a wealth of experience in Social Media and Digital strategy, which he uses in his not-so-secret agenda to push for more diverse representation around the roundtable. His career in working on large brands like AT&T, Miller Lite, Coca-Cola, Jack Daniels, Nissan, and many others have given him a seat at many tables where he is more often than not the only one to say the things that others aren't saying, like, ""general market = multicultural"". 🤯

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Let's briefly perceive brands as people; perhaps they suffer from an identity crisis or simply can't find their place in everyday life. Together, let's put any brand on the couch of Senior Strategic Planner Katharina Gröller; with 2 Bachelors, 1 Master, experience in different ad agencies and loads of creativity, she is more than a traditional strategic planner, but a creative strategist with practical know-how and psychological understanding.

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Kathryn Ellis is a strategist, PHD academic and mum. She relishes seemingly insurmountable problems, loves thinking in an unexpected manner and is unapologetically honest. She has 20 years’ experience leading communications strategy at UK creative agencies, and helping clients succeed. Now she embarks on a new journey as a DEI consultant, researching the link between diversity and creativity in the advertising industry. She is eager to share her life experiences and professional expertise.

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Kevin Chesters. CSO. Co-Owner/Strategy Partner at Harbour / Co-Author of "The Creative Nudge" (thecreativenudge.com). TEDx speaker. MA Lecturer in Creativity. Keynote speaker: chartwellspeakers.com as well as former CSO of W+K, Ogilvy and Dentsu.

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Karinna Rojas is an accomplished and solutions-focused Senior HR professional and Thought Leader with a proven track record of success in executing people initiatives across diversified industries, leveraging extensive HR experience in strategic and operational oversight.

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Karena Law had over eight years experience in data science and marketing across Apac, Europe and Americas markets. She is keen on pinpointing pain points and gives out practical actionable insights. Also specialize in website, digital transformation, data architecture, strategic planning and UX/UI design.

Kirti Jhaveri a creative person with innovative ideas and solutions!

With a good sense of Integrated Marketing with touch of advertising with hand on all little babies of it: Branding. PR. Creativeness. Leadership. Marketing & Sales. Knowing the people of different minds. Help people to get their goals accomplished. These are some of them...

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Kyle Durston is a lead creative strategist/planner at Ladder.io working on creative and growth strategy for startups and scaleups in the tech sector.

Starting as a copywriter, he found a passion for problem solving and strategy in the startup space while running projects in East Africa.

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Coming up on 20 years’ experience in strategy, Kelsey Hodgkin has worked in London, Buenos Aires, Boston and Los Angeles

for brands as varied as Google and Amazon, Target and The Me Too movement. She has helped create both Super Bowl campaigns and internet sensations, and through it all is an avid believer in helping diverse storytellers find their voice.

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Louise Ward has 20 years experience in qual & quant market research. Since 2020 she has had a deep interest in Behavioural Science and interviewed over 100 people in the field and more recently is particularly interested in advertising effectiveness research and the Cannes Lions talks.

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Luisa von Reumont is our strategy director. Having worked in Germany, Thailand and France, I have more than 10 years of experience in strategic brand planning, creating brand building and (digital) communication strategies for big global players in sports, automotive, FMCG, tech and fashion.

As a trained behavioral economist, I spent 2+ years in economic research. My approach for gaining deep consumer insights is data-driven, but I also go out on the street and talk to people – there's no match to hearing real genuine insights.

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Louise Sonne-Bergström has international experience as a brand and creative strategist. Louise is based out of Denmark currently at TBWA\Copenhagen as Strategic Director, COO and partner.

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Luis Miranda is a LA-based brand strategy consultant with a strong accent and even stronger ideas. He has +18 years of experience leading teams and strategies at AKQA, Kajabi, Deutsch, R/GA, and Trailer Park, among others.

With a focus on multicultural and entertainment strategy, Luis is a regular instructor at Miami Ad School, a speaker, and a former Effie jury.

When Luis is not influencing people’s behavior in the market, Luis’s alter ego is doing it on the dance floor as a top-charting international DJ & music producer.

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As Global Head of Marketing for GALE, Lindsay Bennett oversees Communications, Marketing and New Business across the business agency’s nine offices. She specializes in building agency brands through creative communications, content development, and strategic storytelling.

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Laura Radcliffe has managing director level experience in an insight agency and a wealth of planning/strategy experience across global clients and cultures. Particular experience in the beauty sector.

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Lorena Balestrieri is an Argentinian living in the Netherlands. 10+ years experience in the hospitality industry and 10+ years leading commercial/operational teams in a Tech company. Now leading my own business helping people identify and position their strengths to land their dream job. And acting as consultant to startups & teams to uncover & develop their talent.

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Luca Vergano is a design and innovation strategist. He worked across four continents helping organizations craft meaningful ecosystems for people to experience their offering.

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Lopamudra K is Partner at Slant agency in Dubai. Replace "why is this happening to me" with "what is this trying to teach me" is the attitude she has towards life. And believe me, it's a game changer. Manifest.

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Laura Scofield from Brooklyn is a creative director, strategist and graphic designer. She works with ambitious startups to create meaningful stories & experiences.

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Lisa Divett is directot at Director at Happy Thoughts Consulting and formerly part of the famous Clemenger BBDO.

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Mario Norby is a strategist with over 20yrs experience advising some of the world’s biggest and best loved brands including Mastercard, McDonald’s and Nestle CPW. In that time he has learnt that great strategy is built on instinct, empathy and outrageousness.

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Mike Yershon started in media in 1960. Became media director of three top agencies. Then set up my own media agency in 1980 before selling in 1988 to help create Aegis. Rejoined McCann in 1992 to help them separate out media.Went below the industry radar in 1994 where I remain active today.

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Michelle Hausen is an entrepreneur and focuses on the core of everyday life: Experiences. She is an accomplished and solution-focused user experience designer with a proven track record of success working for international agencies and clients turning insights into actions for growth and better experiences. If you’d like support with UX/UI Design, landing a job in product design or running your own business, reach out for a chat.

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Marco Obermann is a creative (with copywriting background) working at the intersection of advertising and entertainment.

His belief is that our world is shaped by stories – and he tries to contribute with stories, that make it a bit better. Naja, at least not worse 😊

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Megan Kapalla is a Brand Strategy Director at Traina in San Diego. A creative-turned-strategist, she's always down to talk career paths, big ideas, brave brands, or fly fishing.

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Megan Weizel is a true connector. As a Managing Director & Career Strategist at Salmela, she is in the business of people. Her high level of engagement, insight into the market, and genuine character leave a strong impression. Individual career wellness & team development expert with a personable, high-engagement attitude.

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Maximilian Hausmann started out in agency land and transitioned to client side at one of Germany's most innovative retail chains. Here he pushes all things from media to data-driven marketing. So if you want to shape the future, he is your mentor.

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Mohammad Hossein Tavangar is an EU Commission Investor and Independent Expert with a background in management consultancy and venture capital that has recruited and coached 240+ talents. He now focuses on growing web3 and sustainability startups.

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Michael Ash has worked on campaigns across 7 different countries and proven that integrated strategies can help brands grow in any market. At the heart of his approach is combining the fundamentals of brand and communications planning, because he firmly believes one should not live without the other.

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"I'm Matthew Bunting, I'm director for communications strategy at Anomaly Berlin. My job is about understanding cultural & people and finding creatives ways to change the way they think and act. I've done this with a range of organisations, from HIV prevention charities, to luxury brands, to big FMCG businesses."

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A UK native, now based in Toronto, Mark Tomblin has worked for 30 years as a planner in Europe, Canada and the US. His abiding interest is in brands and how people relate to them. He also has extensive experience as a team leader and senior manager in agencies large and small.

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The biggest problem in the creative industry is being seen by your dream clients. Marko Pfann positions creative professionals where their dream clients are looking for help. He trains the owners in sales pitches & negotiations. Yet the biggest opportunity in the market clearly is marketing. How many studios can you name that have a good content game? Probably none. So, he shows how studios can stand out through their marketing game.

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Mandar Gore is an award-winning brand strategist with more than 17 years of experience across agencies such as Ogilvy, FCB, Sideways Consulting, Tilt Brand Solutions. He has received numerous Indian and international effectiveness laurels such as Effies India/APAC and AME.

Mandar prides in being a minimalist, be it home decor, holiday packing or slides.

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Martin Wolf is a Evangelist for People & Communication at @Dynatrace developing a Talent ecosystem, that creates both value and awareness for talents.

Bringing together broad experience as strategy consultant, and a background in organizational psychology - makes him an leadership experts for “the human factor in times of change”.

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Matias Estrin graduated in Marketing. Specialist in Business Management, Innovation and Development of SMEs.

Directed and/or was part of the marketing and commercial departments of

recognized national and international companies.

For a few years, it has been developing markets for important technology, esports, gaming, data and customer experience platforms.

He is currently Readers Strategy Manager at Editorial Perfil.

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Hola! Manuel Hoffmann is a Bilingual Creative Director with over 15 years of international experience in advertising.

His work has been recognized by his mother and the most prestigious award shows in the industry. Let’s do this!

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With a passion for financial management and accounting Dr Marilene van Biljon develops academic modules for universities, lecture, conduct various research projects, and consult widely on business matters.

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Canadian Mike Ulmer helps people write their business books. Mike has written or co-written 16 books. Just don't tell him you can't write a book.

https://youtu.be/1IHM1IbSKmY

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Mike Hynes leads people from imposter feelings to recognized genius, teaches how to shine near brilliant jerks and guides leaders through the hybrid office dilemma of new normal

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Marco Frugiuele was born and raised in São Paulo, but currently lives in Milano. He has a passion for the intersection between creativity and innovation with a drive for social impact. 10+ years creating brands, campaigns and award-winning content. Data-driven insights with a human-first approach.

He is currently working in Spotify as a creative strategist, whilst he works as a brand and marketing strategy advisor for game-changing-startups like Chimnie and Kopernicana

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With a background in city strategy, urban design and placemaking, Michael Stott has led numerous award-winning, high profile projects at multiple scales across all levels of government and the private sector globally. He combines a unique balance of strategic thinking and creative expression to drive meaningful results and experiences for clients and communities. As a recognised industry leader, Michael is regularly called upon by the media to comment on urban issues and give keynote presentations, masterclasses and lectures on a variety of city-shaping topics.

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Marco Maria Moioso is our integrated strategist who can help with both creative and comms strategies, especially from a model/structure point of view.

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Markus Hammer is a digital strategist and creative director with a lot of experience in building brands and designing digital services.

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Makarand Shastri is rofessionally working in IT domain into service delivery handling various domains. Passionate about sports and loves interacting with people.

Looking forward for learning and sharing my experience from intersting people.

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"Alkisti Stolp - cofounder and chief business officer at twentyrising- brings over fifteen years of brand, publisher and agency experience having worked across EMEA and global markets. Before twentyrising, she was Chief Client Officer at Wunderman Thompson and Managing Director of Media.Monks Berlin.

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Nicole Moore spent her entire career (over 28 years) on the agency side leading client teams. A passion for cultivating the expectations of leadership through the power of partnership. Using each day to Identify solutions that not only grow client business but grow people closer together. And proudly coaching internal teams through empowered leadership—Know your client and your colleagues as people first and the possibilities are limitless.

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Ming-Ti Chan and have around 7 years experience from Boutique & Network Agencies in Malaysia with a focus on FMCG brands through Comms Planning & Brand Building.

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Nicole Yershon - 30 Years of Insight In 30 Minutes

“I'm doing a series of 30 minute 1-1 sessions to share my insights and hacks for those wanting to accelerate their career in ad agencies or more broadly in any business. I guarantee a roller coaster - a blizzard of valuable stuff.

25 years experience working in 4 of London's most awarded advertising agencies was a massive privilege. The good, the bloody awful and the seriously deformed. Two stand out and great journeys - GGT (Gold, Greenlees & Trott) and SPDC&J - (Simons Palmer, Denton Clemmow and Johnson.

Founder of Ogilvy Labs for 16 years and Founder of The NY Collective.

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Nessim Cohen is a teacher in experience design, a corporate culture and strategy consultant. He can give you insights on how to uncover your client's corporate culture and build a long lasting brand identity.

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Nicola Rowan is an avid tech supporter who has worked in advertising technology for most of her career. From search engine to programmatic buying, it's like a family all trying to achieve the right content in front of the right person.

If you'd like support with sales, marketing, account management or more technical assistance, please reach out for a chat.

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Nikki Crumpton is the Global CSO of Been There Done That. She is passionate about the power business has to create a more sustainable and equitable world. Her personal mantra is ‘a problem well defined is a problem half solved’ and a belief that every opportunity to grow starts with a well-defined problem.

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Noopur Tiwari is a design educator and a qualified communication designer with hands on experience in the media production and creative industry. She considers herself as an imaginative creator whos forte lies in giving voice to ideas and sharing the imaginative energies of her students to find new and interesting ways to learn and grow together intellectually. She is a doglover, a retro music buff, an avid doodler who also loves to travel solo and explore the world whenever she can get a chance.

Being a designer she also has a keen interest in sustainable futures and slow fashion and an understanding of applied ethnographic research.

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Natasha Bohra brings in the rigour in creativity and using data to demonstrate effectiveness, for brands with widely differing goals, needs and challenges. This summarises Natasha's 14 years of working as a writer, entrepreneur, strategist and marketer.

With roots in the the world of start-ups and building digital-first brands, Natasha is uniquely skilled to give an all-round perspective on building brands for the digital-age.

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Niharika Verma: A Junior strategist working at DDB, Chicago with over 3 years of experience working in the advertising industry across India, Dubai, and the US. She has worked on the agency, media, and brand side and actively helps international students find their footing in the US.

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Nehal Vora heads marketing for billion dollar Dairy Brand in India. With extensive global experience in CPG, Lifestyle Retail, F&B and E-commerce spaces, he is happy to share his knowledge in any field mentioned above.

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Olga Sobieraj is a former CEO at Ogilvy and today a Sales & Marketing consultant. She‘s also a certified mentor and business coach of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, with over 100 hours of mentoring per year. She advised corporate leaders and business owners, entrepreneurs and and and.

So we can’t think of a sales & marketing leader who can’t learn with her.

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Oliver Gibson is passionate about identifying and solving brand issues with creative ideas, which are not limited to the world of advertising. His work has been awarded at D&AD, Global Effies, NA Effies, and Cannes, including the Black Lion for Creative Effectiveness.

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Since more than 20 years Oliver G Miller engages with Brand Strategy and Customer Experience, always striving to inspire resonating ideas, bringing people, brands, and businesses together, creating 360° value. The core of his work has always taken place at the intersection of Insight, Relevance and Engagement, born from an in-depth understanding of the diverse customer perspective – regardless of whether the brief is around creative, media or ad-tech.

Oh, and he has been CEO of one or the other media agency.

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Paul Cackett has worked his strategy magic for 20 years and always looks for the unexpected insight.

From tech, automotive, fashion and entertainment brands, his work brings thought, simplicity and engagement to the consumer.

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Pascal Schulze's background is in engineering and he has worked for a typical German hidden Champion. He transitioned then into Sales for a global software company. After working in a mobility startup in Berlin he started to offer his business development and sales skills as a freelancer. In addition he has finished his MBA at the WHU and launched a platform business for Luxury watches. He is more than happy to answer as well questions non expertise related and show the value of a strong network.

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Pieter Korff: 20 years business development and analysis experience turned serial entrepreneur. In the past five years launched three businesses and developed a love for the SME environment.

What's better than doing what you love so now my primary focus is to mentor and assist new entrepreneurs.

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Pawel Kowalski is Assistant Professor at the Univerity of Lodz (Poland) and experienced consultant specialising in the field of marketing research, business analytics and marketing management in the FMCG sector for over 30 years. He was responsible for designing and implementing international sales and marketing projects in Poland and some East European countries for international companies and corporations.

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Poroma Pant is currently a mid-weight copywriter at Sweden’s oldest agency (Stendahls). She had a non-linear introduction to advertising: prior to becoming a copywriter she worked in radio, fashion and tech. She has also worked both in-house and agency side from writing scripts for tvcs to producing 150 banner headlines in 48 hours.

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Phan Quynh "It’s amazing how the unrelated-beautiful elements, like soil, water, seed, insects, could combine to create a beautiful flower.

In the same manner that true love is defined by elements unrelated to love – like relationships you share with family, friends, nature or even animals

Happiness in career is also built from happy, unrelated elements. If you want to share a different perspective of happiness in your career/job including but not limited to communications, advertising, marketing …and even leadership, please feel free to reach me- A listener and servant leader in an Ad agency based in VN."

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Richard Bell is a former Omnicom Planning Leader, now a global research executive at PRS IN VIVO (Board Member, MD, USA). Recovering attorney, entrepreneur, neuromarketing pioneer, political campaign manager, certified yoga instructor, and helpful guide to those who want to make a difference.

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Rodrigo Pozo Graviz is an experienced strategist and entrepreneur who has worked as a Creative Director at Weber Shandwick and is currently working at MYTelescope as a co-founder , CEO to help people make informed decisions through the search engine for market perspectives.

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Rodney Tanner - VP Director of Account Planning J Walter Thompson

VP Planning and strategy director Latin America for EURO RSCG. Strategy coach at the Miami Ad School. Digital strategist Honda. AI development at OneBrand+AI strategy consultants. Automotive, Financial services, CPG, Telecom, Tech.

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Rob Lough is an accidental agency founder with a passion for brand, people and all things new. Best approached to talk early-stage business growth, scaling small teams to medium-size, why mistakes are important and how to grow from them.(Edited)

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Richard El Hachem spent over 23 years with Ogilvy Worldwide supplying businesses with marketing and communication solutions that enable their sales around MENA, EMEA and Globally. And for the last 3 years he is enjoying one-on-one conversations with many clients and partners to make their clients' omnichannel experiences convert into behavioral changes that lead to sales.

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Rahul Kumar is working as a Product Owner at Solifi. Has a rich experience in building SaaS applications and B2C products. An MBA from Goa Institute of Management, he has been featured as India's 30 under 30 Emerging Industry Experts 2023 by Business Mint.

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Ross MacDonald is a senior strategist at MadeBrave in Glasgow. He has 8 years experience working on public sector behaviour change campaigns and private sector branding projects.

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Rajesh Mehta is an award winning strategist, with more than 2 decades of experience across India and South East Asia. With agencies like JWT, FCB(India, Jakarta).

Currently working as Chief Strategy Officer at Medulla Communications, a specialist Healthcare agency.

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Ryan Dwana used to work at TBWA as strategic planner for around 6,5 years before jumping ship to become head of marketing at 2 giants start up in Indonesia, Sociolla (The biggest beauty commerce) and Bibit/Stockbit (One of the biggest fintech in Indonesia.

Now, he works as Business Director at Initiative, Media Agency under IPGMediabrands, handling Reckitt Benckiser, Nike (Soon to be), Lego, and some other local clients.

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Ravindra Chavan is a self taught & self learned brand designer with over 15+ years of experience and on a learning licence for a lifetime. Expertise in the formulation of Brand Campaign Designs from idea to executions with detailed and contemporary ways and various medium of communications like traditional to digital.

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Rakesh Ningthoujam is a content strategist, skilled in turning scrollers to readers. His expertise lies in helping business craft content that their audience remember and retain.

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Romeo A. is a futurist. He is bored of operations but understands its role in bringing strategy to life. He thrives in the connections of things.

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Ruairi Curran started out as a Brand Planner at Lowe. Today he he is Executive Strategy Director at Gravity Road, Campaign's Digital Innovation Agency of the year in 2020 and 2021. In between he worked for the BBC in Marketing roles for BBC Two and News, and as the Development Producer on Blue Peter.

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Ruari Elkington is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries and a Chief Investigator at the Digital Media Research Centre at QUT. His work investigates screen distribution, film festivals, independent cinema business models and the enduring appeal of theatrical film exhibition.

Glib comparisons between Netflix and Cinema really boils his carrots.

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Reena Jagtap is a Manufacturing Engineer and has studied an MBA specialising in Brand Communication. She have worked in the fields of Digital Marketing, Corporate Communications, Public Relations, IT and Manufacturing. She was earlier leading the digital marketing responsibilities for Audi India and currently is responsible for Digital Media, content and campaigns for Henkel Adhesive technologies.

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Ruta Paranjape - a Marketer by passion and profession - helps transform businesses into brands by using marketing as a tool. She has over a decade of experience spanning branding, marketing, digital and communications. She is currently Head of Marketing & Communications for UAE and Oman, with Holcim.

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Sven Doerrenbaecher, Start-up side (various ventures & invests), client side (ex CDO Mercedes-Benz), agency site (Co-CEO antoni) + therefore enthusiast in Branding, Digital as well as People. And BBQ.

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Sarah Costello is creative director based in Portland, Oregon. She is also either an exceptionally creative strategist or a surprisingly strategic creative. It really depends on who you ask.

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Stefan Laengin is a seasoned business leader with over two decades of visionary and dynamic leadership experience across the USA and Europe, His competencies include Go-To-Market strategies, Sales, Performance Marketing, eCommerce, and Software as a Service/SaaS, with a focus on energy savings and reducing carbon emissions companies. His unique perspective and skill set come from his background in digital marketing and advertising. With his expertise as a multi-market agency leader, he understands what triggers customers in both B2B and B2C markets, enabling him to develop effective strategies for organizations to sell more products or services. He is happy to help and share his experience."

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Sven Metz: 10+ years of programmatic and ad-tech experience. leadership experience and interested in knowledge exchange with media youngsters. stations in several media networks and agencies like for instance Ogilvy, groupM, Mediacom and independets like Crossmedia Deutschland and now add2.

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Simon Moss is a product management leader for digital, subscription and SaaS businesses within scale-ups and mid-size companies. He has a passion for developing others and setting up product teams for success.""

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Sasanka Dascomes with over a decade of solid experience as a Brand Strategist working on brands ranging from start-ups to fortune 500s across industries. He is also a Musician and has been releasing original music since 2018. You can find his music across all streaming platforms.

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Selonica Perumal is a Sri Lankan marketing and communications professional, driven by a passion for people, brands, and creativity. From Junior Account Executive to Chief Executive Officer, her journey to the C-Suite has given her insight into what makes brands and people tick and how they can be empowered to perform at their best.

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Sascha Schmid is passionate about building value-driven, people and product-centered organizations in mobility, fintech, consulting and cross-industries. His focus areas are business agility, organizational development, digital transformation and corporate Innovation.

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Stalin Segovia is Director of Creative Art with 13 years of experience in advertising agencies such as: LUCKY PERÚ, NORLOP JWT, MARURI GREY, VERITAS DDB, IKONOZÚ COLOMBIA, MULLEN LOWE, handling national and international accounts.

“My creative portfolio includes awards and finalists at national and international festivals such as Condor de Oro, Wina festival, Adobe Awards, Effie awards, Caribe Festival, El Sol de Bilbao, having publications in one of the most prestigious magazine advertising luerzers archive."

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Sujit Patnaik has close to 15 years of experience in brand planning with special interest in semiotics and behavioural science. Sujit has worked across categories. Currently he works with Ogilvy India on auto brands.

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Sumit Kumar Gupta is a Chief Product Officer, Head of IMO/IGO Operations - MetaLauch, Asva Labs. He is an expert in Blockchain, Product Management, Design Thinking and Business Process Management. Top 12 Chief Product Officer from CEO Insights and Indian Achivers Award holder from iafindia.com. Advisor,SportsMan, Cricket Club Owner and part of management of CCUSA (Cricket Council USA).

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Siddarth Loyal is former planning and agency head within the APAC region with extensive experience across global brands, helping add meaning to performance led marketing… And now co-founder of BrandNewType, a creative company specialising in typography, design and brand strategy.

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Shafagh Dastjani Farahani - Phd in physics, did work as data scientist, was mostly in finance and now at Deloitte try to fit on healthcare. Iranian, came to Germany for studying, don’t know about Bitcoin and etc but want to learn it seriously and live sports , teach classes and dance ( classical).

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"In a world of what can be done, I look for what should be done. That's why clients come to us for strategy and stay with us for it." Shehan Samarasinha is the Chief Strategy Officer at Triad. He was awarded South Asia Strategic Brand Planner of the Year in 2021 and 2020 and was the 1st in South Asia to make it to the shortlist as Global Strategic Planning Leader at Campaign's Agency of the Year Global Awards 2021. Shehan was also instrumental in Triad becoming Sri Lanka's 1st Independent agency to be awarded South Asia Independent Agency of the Year 2021.

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Shesha Shukla currently leads Integrated Communications Planning at Weber Shandwick India and is also a part of the APAC Creative Leadership Team. She is responsible for developing messaging frameworks and creative propositions for brands.

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Smith Mehta is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Industries (2021) from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia and specialises in media industries studies, creator cultures and production cultures. Smith has previously worked in Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd as a content producer and was selected as a UNESCO Asia Pacific creative specialist in 2018–2019.

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Sarah McManus has nearly 20 years experience working across London creative, digital and social media agencies. She made the switch from CS to strategy so can offer support here as well as managing small strategy teams as a lone wolf. Big brand, to startups, FMCG to charity. Strategy experience across sectors, genres and markets.

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Si Clancy is a global creative strategist, designer and polymath. A curious self-learner, his mission is to transform business with the power of creativity. He has lived in five countries.

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Sarah Fleming is Comms Planner, 13+ years experience with a focus on working in the cross-section between creative and media to get the best out of every piece of communication - creatively and commercially . Worked previously at one of the biggest integrated agencies, now runs own consultancy helping brands and businesses join their creative with media, data and everything that comes with the challenges of being truly integrated.

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Samira Rafi is a multicultural Creative Director from Casablanca / Morocco with more than 20 years of experience in advertising, She's committed to work that inspires and drives a positive change.

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Santi Lucero is a CCO who worked in traditional creative agencies, starts up and tech companies across Latam and EMEA

He has experience as an account man, creative leader and Co CEO and founder, and believes strong brands comes from strong brands understanding and strong points of views.

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Snigdha Mathur currently works as a Group Director, Strategy & Insights at VMLY&R. She is a Northwestern grad who specialized in consumer insights and brand strategy and has been working on the agency side of business since then working with several clients, with a primary focus on CPG.

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Seth Gaffney is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Austin-based creative company, Preacher. There, he helps Spread the Good Word about great brands such as Knob Creek, ESPN, WeTransfer, Fanta, The Container Store, and Vital Farms. He has won multiple EFFIEs for his work and lectured on brand strategy at universities like Columbia, UT, and VCU Brandcenter. Before Preacher, he co-headed the strategy department at Mother where he met his two (Texan) partners. Previously he worked at Wieden+Kennedy, Deutsch, Fallon and DiMassimo after graduating cum laude from Georgetown University.

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Sanya Deshpande has spent time in both worlds, media and creative agencies and brand, most recently in the wearables space where she’s helping Oura Ring break into culture, develop marketing strategies, and embrace new types of communications.

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Sylvain Lierre is an independent brand executive with 20+ years global experience in brand management in creative agencies, corporates & startups.

He is passionate about culture and has lived in 6 countries in Europe and Asia, raising a family of third culture kids along the way.

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Shilpa Chaudhary is an advertising creative professional made the switch to mentor young girls and women in India to take on the streets with the power of running. "To claim the power over our bodies, our expression gave us the biggest sense of independence. But most of all, it gave us a sisterhood.

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Shirley DCosta, shifted from strategy to heading new business at a digital startup, and is now Chief Business Officer at India’s leading content collective comprising Supari Studios, Post Office Studios, and Vitamin Stree. She is passionate about investing time in growth - of team members, of clients, as well of organisations.

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Growing and changing has always been a part of Stuart Cunningham's career, from Test Manager for 14 years, joined Telekom as one of the first Scrum Masters, Kanban Trainer and a Brand Ambassador and a member of the Core team. He is also involved in teaching Behaviour driven development, improve user story writing linking up with Personas to deliver a better product for customers.

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Sandra made the switch from account management to planning because she always challenged the briefing. She is Senior Creative Planner at Ogilvy Germany and looks forward to your topics related to brands, comms strategy or personal development.

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Talya Frost is a global recruiter specializing in strategy/creative connecting strategists with both brands and ad agencies. ""I'd love to offer my expertise regarding building your resume, interviewing, and figuring out how to tackle a new job search.""

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Thomas Wagner is a marketer and strategist with 12+ years experience in making a difference to brands through human understanding and creativity. Lover of the art and the science of marketing.

Currently leading a team of Googlers across APAC.

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Tom Darlington is Global Group Strategy Director at PHD. With 15+ year of experience under his belt including a stint as client at Channel 4, he can tell you all about comms strategy.

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Taryn Smith is Creative Director + Branding & Strategy + Global Studio Team Builder Her strength is branding and hiring creative on and offshore teams. She says:

"I consider creatives a football team; I hire specialized rockstar positions so we can win together. I then hire the second and third strings as we grow. I also put my teams above me. I've passed up raises to ensure my team could get more. I'm nothing without them. I still have past employees who hit me up regularly for advice. Man, I'm getting old."

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Toru Jhaveri is a former psychologist and strategist-by-serendipity. Her career has been a 15 year adventure in taking brands from idea-to-market, rebooting global & Indian brand franchises, and setting benchmarks for business impact and creative excellence. Having headed strategy at one of India’s largest agencies, she’s launched her own strategy studio - www.thestuffoflife.in - where she explores how people and brands navigate the everyday, setting up both opportunities and obstacles for each other.

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Tammena Siingh is a global Investor and Entrepreneur. She helps startups and women entrepreneurs in particular with funding, guiding on strategy, operations, and global expansion.

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Tim Lucas is a curious human with 20 years global experience to bring anthropology intelligence into agencies and brands in different roles. Usually trying to connect strategy, planning and creativity to an understanding of human beings, behaviour and motivation. Currently heading up Hyper Island in North America where I work as consultant and head ups courses like this

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Tim Ryan is a brand and communications planner with 12+ years experience partnering with leading brands like Apple, Samsung and HPI. Formerly he was Director of Research and Strategy at PSFK Labs, helping clients improve their products, services and marketing initiatives.

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Nguyen Duy Thang is a Professional coach & mentor, who hold strong belief that helping the young generation to be better version is always an interesting journey.

Through 16 years of experience, he has gained various experiences in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Excellence, Automation R&D, Learning & Growth, and Young Talent Development.

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Uwe Munzinger is an experienced leader and consultant across industries. Skilled in Brand Experience, Brand Development, Brand Driven Transformation, Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior, Customer Insight, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Service Industries and B2B. Author, speaker and lecturer. Strong entrepreneurial professional, graduated from Ludwigs-Maxilians-Universität München.

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Ulrike Krämer is long term advertising professional passionate in giving young professionals lessons as lecturer in campaigning, branding, corporate communications, CSR. She's been in leadership and CEO functions in small, middle size and big companies. National and international networks. Nowadays she works as a general consultant for all kinds of industries and also for state organisations.

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Utymo Oliveira, our well of creativity from Bazil.

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Volker Heine is an award-winning creative director that has been exploring the boarders of communication, branding, digital and strategy for more than 12 years. He follows his believe that creativity is more valuable than just for ads.

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Valerie Busse can give you deep insights into sales and marketing strategies, not only from a business and consulting perspective, but also from an educational and academic perspective as a university lecturer. Having lived in several countries under different circumstances, she can also offer advice on how to quickly adapt to new environments.

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Venkata Bhonagiri is currently serving as Group Director, leading the strategy and analytics practice at Mindshare in Chicago. He has over 13+ years of experience in media and audience strategy, insights, and analytics. He built capabilities and solutions to guide his clients on how to find, engage, and win their most valuable customers by employing the latest evolutions in data and technology.

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Varun A R is an expert in delivering growth by developing winning consumer brands. Currently heads the marketing function at Livspace, a fast paced startup in the home space.”

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Vanita Sharma’s a successful entrepreneur, change agent, an acclaimed thought leader, traditional ayurvedic doctor and prolific writer.

Her pioneering work in this domain has transformed many patients’ health and lifestyle for better and also won her the IABCA2018 ‘Business Woman of the Year’ award, Women Entrepreneur 2019, Women Achievers Award 2020, Community Services Award and won title of ‘Inspirational Woman 2022’.

There is a huge excitement about her body-of-work in Australia as evidenced by the extensive coverage of her interviews in several Radio Channels, TV Shows, Magazines and a host of high impact media including National Newspapers.

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Vaishnavi Lotlikar is a biotechnologist turned brand strategist and marketeer. With 7 years of experience in building brands, she has learned to work with consumer insights to deliver outstanding campaigns, stakeholder management and build brands.

Currently, she’s working as a Production Specialist at Girl Effect India, a creative non-profit organisation helping young and adolescent girls access information on Sexual Reproductive Health, Mental well-being and more, using innovative digital multimedia formats.

Project planning, social media content creation and how to crack a brief is what you can reach her for.

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Vicky Perperidou is a marketing professional with a 7 year experience in B2B marketing in fast paced tech companies in Europe and beyond! Her specialisation is in marketing automation and digital Marketing!

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Virginie Briand is a Business leader with a demonstrated history in delivering positive change for companies over the last 20 years. From BMW to Palo Alto to starting her own agency.

Want positive change? She’s your mentor.

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Viktoryia Vlasauchuk works at Coca-Cola Company as a Media expert with over 10 years experience in accelerating business growth through Marketing Strategies for national and international Brands. On a mission to create consumer centric media strategies with value for customer and consumer & deliver seamless experiences.

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Vrudhi Doshi is a brand strategist at Leo Burnett, India. Prior to this she has had digital experience on both sides - client + agency. Vrudhi also has a Master’s in Marketing from Northwestern and can share her experiences of being an international student in the US and more.

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Willem van der Horst has over 15 years of international marketing strategy experience with agencies and clients based out of London, Singapore, Chicago, and now Paris. He studies play as a behaviour and integrates play and game-like elements in client workshops.

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Formerly from an agency called Droga5, there is Will Poskett. Founder & Strategy Partner @ Defiant 🔥 and an allround super person.

Ximena Diaz Alarcon is really passionate about the understanding of humans in their cultural contexts, and how we as companies, startups, and brands, can design products, services, and experiences considering this deep understanding. That´s what she's been doing for leading global brands in Latam over the last 20 years.

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Yoshitaka Matsuura's personal mission is to solve issues by leveraging his branding/marketing wisdom, and contributing to Japan and the globalizing world.

Yoshi has 20+ years of strategic planning experience in the marketing communication industry, providing insights and solutions for 100+ brands and many of the Fortune 500 clients. He has lived and worked in US, Japan and China, hence enjoys having a lateral perspective

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Zartaj Ahmed is a tech entrepreneur, passionate about empowering the youth with skills based education and an innovative mindset through career growth opportunities on QriosityNet.com

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"Call me Zaca, I'm a Brazilian planner with thirteen years of experience in communication projects for brands such as Google, Mobil, Hertz, Roche, BMW - Mini, Pizza Hut, Subway and Continental Tires.

I believe I can have good sparks and perspectives to share about the creative process, finding insights, problem definition, applied semiotics, error culture and first steps in a leadership position."

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Marco Maria Moioso is our integrated strategist who can help with both creative and comms strategies, especially from a model/structure point of view.

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Diana Hammoud is a curious social entrepreneur by heart with a forte ’in healthcare Mgm;
A communicator! Sharing 20 years of experience in strategy & business architecture in FBM Mgm. Experience in succession planning, corporate governance.

A natural talent at formulating customized CSR to align with corporate strategy.

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Daniel Jäger is an award-winning senior marketing professional with over 20 years of international work experience; reliable, dynamic team player & driving force to innovate and create excellence.

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Damayanti Purkayastha is a hybrid strategist, having straddled consulting and agency worlds. Over her 20-year experience, she has advised clients ranging from global brands like Visa, Unilever, Nestle, KFC, to regional powerhouses like First Abu Dhabi Bank and Dubai Holding Entertainment. For Damayanti, great strategy comes from curiosity, being unafraid to have a point of view, and never losing sight of who we are ultimately trying to connect with: real people.

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Daniel Edmundson is a Managing Director at SYLVAIN, a strategy and design consultancy, where he leads the development of the design practice. With experience at both creative agencies and design companies, Daniel’s focus lies on bridging the gap between business intent and creative expression, applying his thinking globally with the likes of Apple, Nike, the New York Times, IBM, PayPal, Marriott, and Noma. Previous to SYLVAIN, Daniel founded and head the strategy practice at Gretel and also worked as a strategy director at Mother in New York.

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Emily Hauptle is a creative strategist with experience across industries and types of business problems, with her current role at FCB working on Kleenex and Cottonelle for Kimberly Clark.

Corin Targan is a born and bred strategy consultant helping FSI clients to better understand and serve their consumers for 15 years. He's passionate about supporting his clients from the insurance and banking industry to provide REAL customer centric and value creating sales and customer service!

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Colin Lamberton has worked as a Creative Director for 20 years at agencies like Chiat/Day, St.Lukes, Fallon, Arnold & Grey.

He’s been based in London, Amsterdam and Prague, with a few shorter stints in New York and Paris.

He’s currently running Dark Arts, a small creative studio, creating concepts that attempt to entertain, engage and persuade.

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Christian Underwood is co-host of the leading German strategy podcast "Hoffnung ist keine Strategie" and co-author of the book of the same name. He is an entrepreneur and consultant with more than 15 years of experience in strategy consulting

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Claudia David is the founder of Opportunity Catalysts, a network consultancy helping people turn change into opportunities, and partner at Building Corporate Soul. Before starting her own business, she had a successful string of more than 20 years in leadership roles at major creative agencies such as DDB New York, TBWA Chiat Day Los Angeles, M&C Saatchi Sydney and DDB New Zealand. Her work style is characterized by providing clarity, being solution-driven and inspiring others to do better.

Christoph Krick comes with more than 20 years of experience from leading roles in marketing, brand and advertising on both corporate and agency side as well as self-employment.

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Ilija Brunck. Founding partner at animation studio Woodblock. Driven to nurture creative fulfillment, happiness and long term stability

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Jenna is a brand planner, business owner, creator, creativity champion and start-up business mentor. With over 10 years working for large network agencies in London and New York under her belt, and a further 5 years creating her own businesses, she is passionate about using brand strategy to drive business growth in as simple, human and creative way as possible.

Jenna Mulroney's entrepreneurial spirit and passion for planning has driven her to launch a dynamic Brand Planning company with a unique and trademarked product at it's core: P.U.L.S.E.™ Planning.

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Jem Golden is our Dublin-based lecturer, consultant & analyst on disability & social inclusion. Global research, expert interviews analysis, focus: ageing in place; ‘empathic’ cities for all; overlap science & creative arts; cognitive resilience in older adults for health and fun.

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Jo Royce worked at some of the best agencies. And ran them. Jo woeked at some of the best clients. And some of the fastest growing companies. And. And. and. She is really nice too.

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Kai Heuser is a strategic creative thinker and maker at the intersection of brand, storytelling, technology and design. After more than 16 years on creative agency side (Jung von Matt, Heimat, R/GA), Kai is currently enjoying working in-house as Global Executive Creative Director at the mobile bank N26.

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Mila Loncar is a senior producer in the advertising industry, working with global brands to bring best in class creative to life.

She has been freelance for the last 8 years, in which time she has had the pleasure of doing both short and long stints at companies, picking up valuable learnings and experience from each contract.

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Michele Colombo is a long experienced brand strategy and communication professional, mostly with WPP agencies around the globe.

Now he's Managing Partner of brandstory, a strategic brand consultancy that specialises on the Strategic Brand Story™ - the human face of brand strategy, a multi-purpose business solution.

Maurice Quek established and led strategic teams in 2 agencies in APAC. Currently advises startups, consulting clients on their demand generation strategy, training teams and creating internal strategic initiatives.

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There is Martin Brücher, founder of one of the hottest fashion start-ups in German Fashion Cloud.

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Nicole Ferraz is a storyteller of the Information Age - an ECD with over 14 years of work experience across agencies like Leo Burnett, Sapient Razorfish and Blink Digital. She loves advertising with an open heart, but also use both left and right brains to deliver useful data-driven advertisements.

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Nadine Ethner loves change & transformation projects, so if you need a sparring partner for brainstorming, an energetic ideation workshop, or an agile coach for change projects, she is glad to bring all in. She founded VTph editions and VTph magazine – an online platform for contemporary fine art photography. Nadine is collaborating with various companies, agencies, and teams from different fields, including e-commerce, art & culture, publishing houses, travel, and automotive, as well as artists, photographers, designers, institutions, and cultural associations.

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Philipp Frenz is a commercial leader with 10+ years of experience in digital advertising especially in the fields of e-commerce, retail media and streaming services.

He's responsible for building partnerships with partners & agencies on international level as well as growing performance-driven teams.

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Pritesh Kotech is a Business, Marketing and Brand consultant (former Grey, Havas and Duda), Lectures at European University and ISCTE Business School. Investor and Entrepreneur, tries to wash the Ad-world consumption force-feeding with a group of startups of Business 4 Good – Happiness Business School (Workplace Culture and Performance), GoParity (Impact Fintech – Green Finance), Geras (Longevity Community Marketplace) , Amplicercanias (Renewable Powerplants)

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Shaurya Tyagi - More than 11 years of experience in digital marketing and integrated marketing communications. Adept at creating and implementing campaigns to improve brand awareness and business impact. I have worked with multiple start-ups and educational institutes to deliver workshops on digital strategy.

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Suzanne "Monty" Montgomery is a Strategy Director who came up through Account Management. She's worked at creative agencies in SF, NYC, New Zealand and Berlin, and is always happy to help members of the next generation navigate the industry and find their voice.

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Su Ling Chan is Head of Strategy in Malaysia with 13 years of intergrating Media + Creative as I'm head of Strategy creative agency and media agency hence leading through the funnel marketing experience.

With over 15 years of experience in marketing communications, he is excited to share his knowledge and expertise with mentees. He has led global marketing campaigns, diverse teams, and developed and executed successful marketing strategies in both B2C and B2B industries. He is well-versed in content creation, agency management, and change management.

He has 12 years of marketing experience in various companies (J&J, Unilever, Nestle, Pizzahut, Grab...) He can provide the understanding of marketing across categories & industries from B2B to B2C, big clients vs. agency, food retail to tech companies. His passion is also about leadership development, new thinking to solve problem & social impact mindset that he'd love to share & learn.

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Victoria Kirk is a seasoned global design researcher and exec planner. As part of that skills set, she coaches teams to work together more effectively to create better products and less waste.

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Vanita Sharma’s a successful entrepreneur, change agent, an acclaimed thought leader, traditional ayurvedic doctor and prolific writer.

Her pioneering work in this domain has transformed many patients’ health and lifestyle for better and also won her the IABCA2018 ‘Business Woman of the Year’ award, Women Entrepreneur 2019, Women Achievers Award 2020, Community Services Award and won title of ‘Inspirational Woman 2022’.

There is a huge excitement about her body-of-work in Australia as evidenced by the extensive coverage of her interviews in several Radio Channels, TV Shows, Magazines and a host of high impact media including National Newspapers.

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Virginia Albert works at DDB NY as an Account Supervisor with experience on brands such as Amazon, Microsoft, with a dedicated passion for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work.

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Vivek is a thought leader in the digital marketing and advertising industry with over 11 years of working with several brands in India. He is currently EVP of Growth and Paid Media at Social Beat, India’s leading digital marketing agency. He overlooks the performance marketing PAN India across their branches in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai in his current role.

Vivek's forte is his ability to drive exceptional results for his clients across sectors given his flare for data analysis and love of numbers. He has scaled performance for multiple brands in the real estate, FMCG, online retail, medical, BFSI, and fintech industries. He has worked with household names such as Malabar Gold and Diamonds, Himalaya Wellness, Sundaram Mutual, Prestige Constructions, Aravind brands (Nnnow), and Casagrand etc to name a few.

Vivek’s passion for growth media and programmatic advertising keeps him abreast of the latest ad trends and he believes in using the best platform for his clients in this ever-changing digital jungle.

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Ximena Diaz Alarcon is really passionate about the understanding of humans in their cultural contexts, and how we as companies, startups, and brands, can design products, services, and experiences considering this deep understanding. That´s what she's been doing for leading global brands in Latam over the last 20 years.

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Zaca is a Brazilian planner with thirteen years of experience in communication projects for brands such as Google, Mobil, Hertz, Roche, BMW - Mini, Pizza Hut, Subway and Continental Tires. He aims to share good sparks and perspectives about the creative process, finding insights, problem definition, applied semiotics, error culture, and first steps in a leadership position.

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Alex Zapadinschi is CEO & Founder of the award winning content company WELLBE and illustration agency MOV. He has 10+ years of experience in events and project execution.

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"Andreas Neef is a CMO with a proven track record in large scale digitization projects, digital and data-driven marketing. He has been Director Media at L’Oreal in Germany, Austria & Switzerland as well as Global Director Advertising at Metro Group. He was CMO at Europe’s #1 D2C Platform for Bath & Living and lately appointed to the Global Digital Advisory Board at Cosnova. So if you want to learn about team building in the digital space and delivering results at large scale and agile organizations, he’s your mentor.

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Anca Rhone is a senior executive with over 20 years of marketing and advertising experience, with a great understanding of both global and local challenges. During her career, she developed strategies that infused brands with meaning and propelled them into culture, resulting in business growth for clients such as Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, Kimberly Clark, McDoanld's, Coca-Cola and won multiple awards, including Cannes Lions, Effies, Addys, Clios and One Shows.

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Alejandro Meza Tudela graduated in computer sciences who decided to change his life by going to live in Japan, adapting to the culture and dealing with the search for employment in a different society.

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Aye Cofalka is working on the intersections of technology and marketing. He likes solving business problems and exploring new technologies and ideas.""

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Alina Buzatu is a Brand Strategist with 15 years experience in global and local advertising agencies, for FMCG, retail, banking, telecom, media & entertainment clients. 5 years of academic background as Associate Lecturer, teaching Intercultural Communication, Consumer Behavior, Advertising Theory.

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"Amanda Dea's (not-so-linear) path made her a proud hybrid strategist. Originally from Brazil, but based in Berlin, she flows between communication, branding, and innovation to find creative solutions.

She is passionate about subcultural behavior and connecting the dots with simple but effective methodologies. Her work-dopamine gets high when she feels like Marie Kondo, paving the way out from the diagnosis and finding the best creative path.

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"Ben Teeuwsen is a Brand Strategist, Mexico Aficionado, Tequila Blogger and organiser of the first Fuckup Nights in Germany. Now located in Düsseldorf, he worked 10 years in the industry including jobs at TBWA, Serviceplan and DDB to move things forward by leveraging his brain, guts and sense of humor, while inspiring people to do the same.

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Barbara Costa is a brand strategist, originally from Brazil but currently based in Qatar. Her 15+ years of experience extends across a diverse range of sectors, including automotive, telecommunications, banking, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, entertainment, and non-profit organizations.

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Carmen Bălescu is a consultant in strategy and creative communication with over 20 years of experience in BTL marketing.

Over the years, she has developed hundreds of campaigns (strategies and creative concepts) for companies and brands such as PEPSI, DANONE, DISNEY PARIS, CHEETOS GREECE, REXONA BULGARIA, COCA COLA ROMANIA, and and and.

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Corina Catrinoiu is an experienced marketing consultant, committed to research, user experience, and sustainable growth. Excels in cross-functional teamwork, and delivers results-driven campaigns for both local and international brands.

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Meet Cristiana Belodan, Brand Consultant & Strategy Director, crafted in almost 17 years of brand development on top level brands, in international & local agencies.

Extensive experience in: Brand Audit & Brand Positioning, Brand Strategy and Multichannel Brand Ecosystem.

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Elena Perez Cortes is down to earth and open to learn. 10 years of experience in a tech company;

- operations, leading teams, customer service and Organisation Design

She has a special interest in Organisation Design and Strategy. She likes to think about the outcomes and behaviours that arise from our decisions, in other words, connecting the dots.

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"As a marketing consultant with advanced fluency in Japanese and 20+ years in the country, Ed Thompson provides multinationals with strategic advice covering disciplines of public relations, market planning, business development, customer loyalty and CRM.

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Ginelle Marie Howard's proven strategy instincts have been key ingredients in keeping brands ten steps ahead of the innovation curve. From emerging brands to Fortune100 and 500 companies, her talent for pushing brands outside their comfort zone has paved the way for more to become disruptors, especially in the fashion, ecom and tech space. She has a true passion for championing women in taking a seat at the leadership table and owning their voice.

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Gareth Turner is the founder of Big Black Door - a strategic marketing consultancy - working with scaling food and drink business to get big brand thinking into their marketing to stop them making rookie mistakes. All based on the experience gained in marketing leadership roles at Weetabix, Arla Foods and Heineken.

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After years of experiencing all kinds of marcom roles, Ioana Ciudin had the chance to lead the digital strategies for some of Romania’s biggest online businesses, from OTAs, pure e-commerce or marketplace websites, to consumer goods and b2b brands.

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Industry Unlimited / Emma Perrett has beenaround the beautiful block of strategy for quite some time now, having worked in management consultancies and all kinds of comms and creative agencies. She now runs her own independent strategic studio, working direct to clients and as part of agency teams, helping brands big and small fundamentally understand why they exist and how they can most influentially show-up by delivering powerful, transformational brand ideas that sit at the heart everything.

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"Ivan Polojac is a freelance tech and generalist journo turned PR professional, with 25+ years experience in media and public relations, working with companies such as Microsoft, Samsung and vivo, shaping the corporate and product narrative. Storyteller at heart and long-term strategist.

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John-Oliver Breckoff is a Strategy and Transformational Consultant, Selfmastery Coach and Yoga teacher that serves upper and C-level Management, Entre- and Solopreneurs and Professionals for 20+ years. He combines strategic business advice with performance and mindset coaching, especially in moments of personal, professional or organizational transformations.

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"Jacob Pritchard is a London-based mid-weight creative strategist, who worked as a freelance to working with the industry big dogs like McCann and BBDO, as well as independent agencies. Experienced in shopper, Experiential, B2B, and ABL. Here to help and share insights with those starting their careers or looking to engage in insightful industry conversations.

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Jonathan Erickson is that cross-cultural insights hunter that's all about outsights and cultural intelligence. Raised in Bolivia, educated in Spain, and back in the US, he's managed ethnographies to multi-country segmentations. Which means you leveling up your insights gathering off his 7 years of research design.

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"Joanna Radoslawska is a conscientious mentor accredited by EMCC, thanks to her work ethics, empathy, and the ability to embrace challenges, she enables her mentees to fully leverage the mentoring process. Her soft skills, business knowledge, and listening ability help her mentees look at their current projects with a completely fresh perspective.

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"Jonathan Staines is a brand strategist with over twenty years’ experience of creating, naming, launching, and rejuvenating brands. He has worked for or on some of the world’s most well-known brands and for much smaller businesses.

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Jeff Scaman is a lifelong entrepreneur in real estate andLinkedin later technology with expertise in Intellectual Property from concepts through trial from inventor standpoint. Startup experience with some wins and some losses. That’s the life of an Entrepreneur, if you dare.

"For the past 20 years, Karl Isaac has been giving brands chiropractic adjustments while client-side at Microsoft, Adobe, Ebay, and Apple and agency-side at Razorfish, Landor, and the global brand studio he founded Hi It’s Us. Now, as a Fractional Chief Brand Officer and Advisor he’s helping companies and marketing leaders define, grow and accelerate brands by better connecting to culture, embracing digital, and uniting through a common vision on a global scale.

As a leading brand spokesperson, he has presented at SXSW (2x), DMEXCO, AIGA National Conference, Digiday, and Interbrand events and has been interviewed and published in Wall Street Journal, AdWeek, AdAge, Inc., Forrester, CMO.com and beyond"

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Maral purmandi is a marketing and Communication strategist with 10+ years of experience in the fields of brand positioning, consumer engagement, Omni channel campaigning and B2B marketing. She worked in agencies and is now exploring the digital nomadic new work world as a freelancer, with clients ranging from corporate to start-up and personal brands.

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Mali Palazzi is a Marketing and Communication Strategist for the Healthcare segment in Latin America and an entrepreneur teaching small businesses and junior marketers to accelerate their careers in strategy.

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Mihaela Bourceanu comes with 18 years experience in advertising, building brands, businesses, both local and international. Passionate about creativity and how it can drive business results.

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Marco Pumptow carrer started working at BBDO and after a couple years he switched to working freelance as a digital Art director For clients and international creative agencies. After 3 Years freelancing he opened his own independent agency in Barcelona Called @gambaagency. Bringing together the freshest talent around the world to build brands people love to follow.

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"Nikolai A. Hauser looks back on a decade of agency experience, transitioning from Junior Account Manager to Head of Strategy, serving clients ranging from small regional businesses to large multinationals such as Google, Nike, and UniCredit. Currently, he holds the position of Head of Marketing & Brand at JACOB, one of Germany's leading IT retailers.

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"Nahida Coelho is the Founder of DiscoverU, an online Career Coaching Platform for Students, Career Changers & Professionals. Nahida has 20 years of experience in a variety of disciplines, including Advertising & Public Relations, Ad Film Production, Operations, Sales & Marketing, Educational Counselling, and Mentoring.

Her career journey has taken her from heading operations for a scuba diving company to leading sales and marketing (South Asia & Middle East) for an online travel publication. A certified Early Childhood Educator (ECE), Nahida has spent seven years counseling students and professionals in early childhood education courses. In addition to multiple Career Coaching certifications, Nahida holds a Global Career Counsellor Certification(GCC) from University of California (Los Angeles Extension) and Univariety."

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Ozge Sargin is a cultural intelligence writer and award-winning brand strategist who recently relocated to the US with an Individual with Extraordinary Achievement visa. Here to answer all questions about relocation, culture, and strategic storytelling for influence.

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Ozzie Fuentes is an award-winning advertising executive that bridges brand strategy, communications planning, and design thinking. He has served global and national clients spanning diverse industries such as automotive, banking, cybersecurity, and magnetic energy at Leo Burnett, DDB and HAVAS.”

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"Rahul Mandal is an advertising professional specialising in strategy and creative solutions with 10 years of experience, and has worked across multiple advertising agencies in India like Dentsu, Network Advertising, Chimp&Z Inc, and Kreativ Street.

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With extensive experience as VP of Product at auxmoney, Rainer Utsch possesses strong skills in product development, digital innovation, people management, and change management. With a background in product management and E-Commerce/FinTech, he emphasizes user experience and team leadership for success and financial inclusion. His expertise lends itself to mentoring and guiding individuals in product management and aiding companies or startups in building effective product organizations and optimizing development, team management, and innovation strategies.

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"Richard Swaab spent half a lifetime heading the strategic planning for big brands on global and local stages- Guinness, Aviva, Pepsi and BT among them. He worked at BBDO, Ogilvy and a host of other well known agency names. He has got heaps of experience, a few awards and rather fewer grey hairs to commend him.

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Rafael Gi is the Managing Director at Bell Curve, a Story-Led growth agency working with ambitious scaleups—with 13+ years of experience in brand strategy, communication planning, and pragmatic experience as an operator. His experience extends across retail, fashion, CPG, finance, eCommerce and education.

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Rene Brunner is a leading data and MLOps expert in Germany with over 15 years of experience in developing and analysing distributed large-scale systems. He is also a successful online educator, blogger, podcaster, book author and speaker on data science topics.

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After twelve years across five countries, Sid Nair is now a happy camper and the Creative Director at Dentsu Malaysia. He continues to live under the notion that he’s in a giant theme park, riding a rollercoaster in pursuit of 'Aha!' moments for brands to entertain people. While he admits that his brain often yawns at his own thoughts, the suspense of what’s to come coupled with eternal optimism, motivates him to lead a far smarter team on this creative journey.

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Sofya Shmatova (Gorkis) comes with 25+ years of working in multinationals like Publicis, FCB, BBDO, Ogilvy & Mather. A strategic professional with multibranded and multicultural experience - Mondelez, Masterfoods, Diageo, P&G, K-C, Unilever, Wrigley’s, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, BAT, Ford, Bayer, etc. And plenty of experience from creating brand platforms to verbalizing multi-channel communication strategies and everything in between.

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Steph Matthews is an independent brand and culture consultant with over 20+ years’ experience shaping major purpose-led transformation programmes. Steph founded Guillemot Consulting to help people and organisations on the cusp of change take wild leaps to define their why and transform with purpose and soul. Alongside her consulting practice, Steph is an ICF-accredited Transformation Coach and a member of the EMCC (European Mentoring & Coaching Council). She was previously Head of Engagement at Interbrand (London), Director at BrandCap and Partner at Yonder Consulting).

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"Timo Erdmann is an experienced brand consultant with extensive knowledge of managing large brand processes for many years. He also has a strong passion for anti-racist work and established an initiative to teach collegues about systemic racism and critical whiteness.

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Tim Gingrich heads up strategy at WE Communications. He's led B2B and B2C brands--like Intel and KFC--from insight to big idea, and developed unconventional campaigns that earned a place in culture.

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I, Tonja Hughes, specializes as a Comms & Media Strategist, as Founder of mediagenie. I connect strategic insights to guide implications, and occasionally lead teams to create compelling story worlds. How strategy weaves Comms, Media, Creative, and Brand takes a mindful balance of art and science of frameworks. My focus lies on driving optimal audience engagement to foster growth through various channels and connections — both paid and earned. With a strategic emphasis on brand voice for community-building, I cultivate meaningful connections across owned and shared platforms. With advanced skills in cross-functional strategies, I co-create messages for data-driven campaign implementation. I have successfully managed co-marketing partnerships to raise public awareness and drive behavioral change. Through human-centered thinking and inclusive approaches, I strive to build bridges and foster authentic connections within diverse communities. Stories have the ability to unite diverse people and create a shared experience that earns beyond media as resources or tools. I thrive in bringing bold and courageous ideas to life, celebrating nuance, and amplifying voices. Being curious and an anthropologist is how I view my role in the prospering of the human ecosystem.

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