Judges

Angus has over 20 years' marketing, management and operational expertise for global and UK-based brands in increasing ROI for new and existing customers within private and public sectors across B2B & B2C.

He's a multi-channel retail strategist at Royal Mail and founder of Mail Media Centre mmc.co.uk

Brian Child is one of the best known names in marketing in the Northwest of England and during his extensive career has spent a total of 25 years at McCann Erickson Manchester, ten of those as chief executive.

During his time with the agency he created a management team through which he helped to build the integrated marketing services agency in to the largest outside London with more than 300 staff working out of its Bonis Hall offices.

Since retiring from McCann Erickson Brian now runs his own company, Brain Child Marketing Ltd, specifically to help small/medium agencies to realise the full extent of their ambitions.

Brian is currently non-executive director of The Mission Group, a group of marketing services suppliers based throughout the UK, which includes Bray Leino, Big Communications, Story, RLA and BDM. He also holds non-executiuve positions with Elmwood Design and the Yes Agency. He also advises Deleinio and KMP and was
previously a Mentor for CIDS in Manchester.

Jacqui O’Beirne MIDM

Digital Marketing Manager at Dogs Trust, responsible for all of Dogs Trust’s online presence across the suite of corporate sites and social networks. She joined Dogs Trust in 1998 in the Media Communications team and moved to purely Online Communication and Marketing in 2005. Jacqui holds the certificate in Digital Marketing from the IDM.

Peter began his career in Brand Management with L’Oreal and CPC (now part of Unilever) and moved into advertising as a Board Director with Leo Burnett and then joined DDB London. As CEO he oversaw one of the biggest mergers in the U.K. at the time, building an agency with over £65m billing and 220 staff.

As CEO of Mallett McCormick, he successfully merged the business with FCB to create Publicis’s second agency in the U.K.

Joining Rapier as MD he transformed a traditional DM agency into a response driven integrated company, culminating in the £25m win of Cable and Wireless (now Virgin media) – the largest new business win of that year.

For the last ten years he has worked as a non exec director/mentor with a wide range of marketing communications businesses in London, the Midlands and the North West, helping them to grow and develop and he puts a high value in building successful teams.

Richard Hayes is Marketing Director at Warburtons Limited where he leads the marketing, innovation and customer service teams in developing and delivering the strategy and activity to maintain Warburtons revenue growth and position as Britain’s favourite baker. In 2009 he was recognized as the North West’s top marketer.

Hayes joined Warburtons in April 2007 and during his time there has contributed to value and share growth ahead of its major competitors and its award winning “Welcome to the Family” advertising campaign.

An all rounder who combines general management, sales and category experience with his marketing background, Hayes has a track record of growing brands in mature categories by placing the consumer at the heart of commercial plans.

Prior to joining Warburtons, Hayes accumulated over twenty years FMCG experience in the food and drinks industries, holding UK and international roles at major multinationals including Allied Domecq, Kraft and Nabisco.

Hayes is an ardent ambassador for the North of England and the marketing talent which resides there. He lives in Liverpool with his family where he waits impatiently for the day when Liverpool Football Club to return to their rightful position as champions of the Premier League!

Nick Button took up his role as Marketing Director of Red Letter Days in 2008 after spending 15 years working in the radio industry for brands as diverse as BBC Radio 2 and Kiss.

He has driven a number of successful brand build and rebuild projects across a wide range of markets, and on both the B2C and B2B sides of the fence. As an exiled Northerner his biggest challenge today is keeping his children’s vowels flat.

Joel Davis is the founder and Director of the UK’s first social media agency – agency:2. Founded in 2007, he has overseen the agency’s growth to become a truly global agency and has lead an array of leading brands - including Barclays, Sani Resort, Kelkoo, Dow Jones, Disney and Microsoft - into the social media arena with a range of  highly successful and diverse campaigns.
 
Delivering results for clients through social media. With over 18 years experience in social & digital media marketing, Joel is adept at helping brands identify and hone their marketing objectives, recommending compelling ideas and strategies to capitalise on what social media can do for their business and how to leverage the best possible ROI from social media activities.
 
agency:2 is a founding member of the DMA’s Social Media Council and is an active member of the DMA Legal Committee.  
 
Contact
Email: Joel@agency2.co.uk

Tel: 0207 775 5608

 www.agency2.co.uk
Brand Ambassador Network: -  www.brandvocacy.org
 

Michelle is the Digital Marketing Manager for OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations) one of the UK's largest exam boards. With over 10 years’ digital marketing experience,  starting her career as a search engine optimiser to currently managing the full digital mix for OCR, including websites, search, social, email and now extending her knowledge into eLearning.

Michelle has picked up several awards along the way for her creative approach to digital that have produced some excellent results for OCR. She is also studying towards her MSc in Digital Marketing Communications.