Agency Dealmasters podcast

Robin Jaffray is the founding Partner at R&D Associates with Tim Doust. This is a masterclass on the new network agencies and growing brands. We talk about their growth planning & business development services, strategic leadership consulting. Robin has built a Stella career, starting at Leo Burnett in the 90s then onto McCann where he became global strategy director and worked o...

Robin Jaffray is the Founding Partner at R&D a strategic business consultancy that helps creative businesses and brands develop and flourish.  They offer growth planning & business development services, strategic leadership consulting, as well as a range of off-the-shelf solutions to in-housing, global insights, IP development and networking. They have also created a holding company p...

Ricky Abbott is the President of Americas for Transmission. He works with clients across the technology sphere to help them link inbound, outbound, and marketing technology together to unify their marketing activity and identify the value it's delivering. He has worked with many large fortune 500 brands to build true revenue-generating marketing engines, whether that's combining brand with demand-...

Ricky Abbott is the President of Americas for Transmission. He works with clients across the technology sphere to help them link inbound, outbound, and marketing technology together to unify their marketing activity and identify the value it's delivering. He has worked with many large fortune 500 brands to build true revenue-generating marketing engines, whether that's combining brand with demand-...

Peter Czapp is the Co-founder of The Wow Company, an accountancy practice that specialises in working with growing agencies. Peter also co-founded The Agency Collective which is the world's best peer support community for agency owners and he also runs Benchpress which is the largest benchmarking survey of independent agency owners in the UK, and this year it has gone global. Take part in the Benc...

Peter Czapp is the Co-founder of The Wow Company, an accountancy practice that specialises in working with growing agencies. Peter also co-founded The Agency Collective which is the world's best peer support community for agency owners and he also runs Benchpress which is the largest benchmarking survey of independent agency owners in the UK, and this year it has gone global. Take part in the Benc...

Chris Hirst is Global CEO of Havas Creative – a multi-disciplinary marketing services group. After a decade in CEO positions, he has a proven track record of leading transformation.  He believes in the principles of an open culture – where people are given permission to take risks and make mistakes.  He is actively engaged in broadening the appeal of the advertising industry and sees div...

Chris Hirst is Global CEO of Havas Creative – a multi-disciplinary marketing services group. After a decade in CEO positions, he has a proven track record of leading transformation. He believes in the principles of an open culture – where people are given permission to take risks and make mistakes.  His book, No Bullsh*t Leadership was the  Business Book Awards Winner for 2020. This...

Sherilyn Shackell is the Founder & Global CEO The Marketing Academy. They identify & develop exceptional talent in the field of Marketing, Media & Advertising.  Their coaches and sponsors are leading CEOs, CMOs, Marketing Directors, Agency Heads from some of the biggest companies in the world.  They include Salesforce, BT, KFC, Mars Wrigley, Accenture, ITV, Google, and Facebo...

Sherilyn Shackell is the Founder and global CEO of The Marketing Academy, a unique 'not for profit' dedicated to inspiring and developing talented stars from emerging leaders to CMOs to become the leaders, Board Directors and CEOs of tomorrow. The Marketing Academy programs are highly-selective but totally FREE of charge.

Take part in the BenchPress agency survey 2021 wowco.uk/ benchpress2021 benchpress.uk.com   Charles Courtier is the Chairman at MSQ Partners and a legend in media and advertising. He’s been in the industry for 30 years and has had a fascinating career. He became the Global CEO of MEC (Wavemaker) for 14 years, responsible for 5000 people across 80 markets. Over that time MEC quadrupled in size and...

Charles has had a 30-year career in advertising. He initially wanted to be a 'suit' in any of the big ad agencies. But they all turned him down; repeatedly. Eventually, a small London agency, Connell May & Steavenson, offered him a job in the media department. He took it. From there he did get his 'big agency' break and joined Young & Rubicam. By the time WPP acquired Y&R in 2000, Charles was thei...

Take part in the BenchPress agency survey 2021 wowco.uk/ benchpress2021 benchpress.uk.com   Laurence McCahill is a Co-founder of The Happy Startup School.  He is on a mission to inspire, empower and connect entrepreneurs and leaders that want to create lives and businesses rich with purpose.  After running a digital agency for 10 years, Laurence and his co-founder have devoted themselves to realis...

Laurence McCahill is on a mission to inspire, empower and connect entrepreneurs and leaders that want to create lives and businesses rich with purpose.  After running a digital agency for 10 years, Laurence and his co-founder have devoted themselves to realising their vision for The Happy Start-up School creating experiences, programs and an accidental community of like minded people.

Take part in the BenchPress agency survey 2021 wowco.uk/ benchpress2021 benchpress.uk.com   Jonathan Trimble is the CEO of And Rising. They work with the world’s fastest growing scale-ups, helping them to become universally loved brands of tomorrow. He has some strong opinions about the future of brands. He says ‘five years from now, we won’t recognise most of the brands we see as universal’. This...

Jonathan Trimble is the CEO of And Rising, a creative partner to the world's fastest growing scale-ups, helping them to become universally loved brands of tomorrow.   

Take part in the BenchPress agency survey 2021 wowco.uk/ benchpress2021 benchpress.uk.com   Kate Kallot  is the Head of Emerging Areas at  NVIDIA , the largest AI company in the world. She builds large complex AI ecosystems and developer communities to drive forward innovation focused on solving real-world problems. Kate believes in the power of AI to drive social change. Using tech innovation she...

Kate Kallot is the Head of Emerging Areas at NVIDIA. She builds large complex AI ecosystems and developer communities to drive forward innovation focused on solving real-world problems. She believes in the power of AI to drive social change. Using tech innovation she helps to accelerate economic development in emerging markets. She has won multiple accolades throughout her career being named Busin...

Take part in the BenchPress agency survey 2021 wowco.uk/ benchpress2021 benchpress.uk.com   Patrick Collister is the former Executive Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather UK. In 2013 he became creative director of The ZOO, Google's client-facing creative think-tank. He is also the author of How to use innovation and creativity in the workplace. He is now a Non-exec CD at Ad-Lib. The only UK based...

Patrick Collister is currently a non-exec creative director at tech start-up Ad-Lib. He was previously creative director of Google ZOO (NACE). He has also been ECD and Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy and Mather.

Take part in the BenchPress agency survey 2021 wowco.uk/ benchpress2021 benchpress.uk.com   Katy Howell is the CEO of immediate future.  She has run the company for almost 17 years where everything they do is underpinned with social data. Campaigns are built around four main skills to break the social boring: If you are interested in anything to do with: 🔸 Social media 🔸 The issues that divide u...

Katy Howell is the CEO of Immediate Future.  She has run the company for almost 17 years where everything they do is underpinned with social data. Campaigns are built to break the social boring and hit the social sweet spot with your customers.

Andrew Wilkie is a board Director at Touch Associates. He spent around 20 years at Saatchi and Saatchi and became Managing Director at GUM the branded content division creating some breathtaking films, TV documentaries, events and music. He started his career when advertising was still adverting, not the watered down version we have today. He started in the industry in 89 when the Berlin Wall came...

Andrew Wilkie is a board Director at Touch Associates. He spent around 20 years at Saatchi and Saatchi and became Managing Director at GUM the branded content division creating some breathtaking films, TV documentaries, events and music.

Kimi Gilbert is the Managing Partner for The Future Factory. They are one of the UK’s leading business development consultancies. They work with Creative, Comms and Digital agencies. Since 2011, they have helped to shape the future of more than 300 agencies, contributing to new business wins in excess of £100m. Kimi is a fascinating person with the most interesting career path, which gives her a v...