Agency Dealmasters podcast

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. With a mix of lead generation, board level coaching, market insights and consultancy, they help to make the future more predictable for agency Owners, Founders and Directors.

Abeed Janmohamed is the founder and Director at VOGL. He is an experienced C-Level Executive & Board Member with a demonstrable history of working with startups and high growth businesses.  He has extensive experience in Business Development, Revenue Operations, Commercial Strategy, Pricing and Investment Strategy. Experience across AdTech, Martech, Blockchain, IOT, Sport Sponsorship and Informati...

Abeed Janmohamed is the founder and Director at VOGL. He is an experienced C-Level Executive & Board Member with a demonstrable history of working with startups and high growth businesses. He has extensive experience in Business Development, Revenue Operations, Commercial Strategy, Pricing and Investment Strategy. Experience across AdTech, Martech, Blockchain, IOT, Sport Sponsorship and Informatio...

Chris Kemp is the owner of Ingenuity, a new business consultancy for agencies and brands, specialising in lead generation, new business events, pitch management, brand partnerships, PR and content.   Agency clients include BBH, MCcann, Weber Shandwick and they have also worked with a number of  leading brands, including Sainsbury’s, EE, Amazon, Aldi, Nestle, Loriel, SKY, Wilkinson and Coca-Cola. W...

Chris Kemp is the owner of Ingenuity, a new business consultancy for agencies and brands, specialising in lead generation, new business events, pitch management, brand partnerships, PR and content.

David Van Schaick is the CMO of The Marketing Practice, one of the leading global B2B marketing agencies in the country with revenues over £17 million. They have over 180 people and run global marketing programmes for the likes of Microsoft, O2 Telefonica, Xerox, Salesforce and Citrix. David has really a fascinating background not only academically but also professionally. He starts his career as...

Register for my ClientSide webinar Wednesday 9th December 3pm: Will B2B sales ever be the same again? Guests include Brent Adamson - VP at Gartner & author of Challenger Sale and Challenger Customer  Marie Bergfelt - Head of Marketing Portfolio & Communications at BOBST Geoff Phillips - Former Head of Marketing at Sage Tamara Littleton is the founder and CEO of The Social Element. They are a 300 p...

Ryan Hall has built a career transforming how B2B sales is done and how sustainable pipelines are built. He is the Growth Chief Officer at The Zeitgeist and has held leadership roles in, Karmarama , Accenture and TH_NK . Including two successful exits. He also works with a range of B2B businesses and has sold and supported over £100m of deals in his career. He is currently working with Territory S...

Ashleigh Ainsley is the co-founder of Colorintech.org and Black Tech Fest. A fascinating organisation around increasing access, awareness and opportunities to underrepresented groups in the technology industry. You may have heard of one of two of their partners like: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Deepmind, JP Morgan, Box, Tiki’s Tok, WPP, just go down the list…. We discuss:  Equal access to opportu...

Jeremy Harvey  founded Clarity in 2005 with his business partner and long time collaborator Chris Morris. Deriving from larger agency backgrounds, Clarity was formed to be a different kind of agency, with a more focussed hand picked team built around specialist sectors and with a passion for creating clear, motivating communication that cut-through in this increasingly noisy marketplace. Their cli...

This week on the podcast, we have a very special episode. Episode 100! And if you are at all interested in what Agency Dealmasters does and where it’s going, then you will find this conversation fascinating. This time the tables are turned and we get our awesome editor Chis Blaszczyk to interview me. I just want to say firstly, thank you so much for listening, subscribing, and supporting us so far...

This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Stuart Bradbury is the Managing Director of Avantgarde.  If you are at all interested in how to create world class global brand experiences for the likes of Mercedes/BMW, Porsche, Samsung and other global brands then this is the podcast for you.  They worked with Samsung on the Olympic torch relays for London 2012. Where they had a Million o...

Book your tickets for 7 priorities for rapid profitability and cost reductions for agencies Joe Hine is a Partner at SI Partners Global He has been involved some of the biggest deals in the creative services space. He was involved in the sale of Velocity Partners' stake to Next 15. The sale or 'All of us to BCG' and the sale of Market Gravity to Deloitte. He is uniquely qualified to talk about the...

Book your tickets for:  7 priorities for rapid profitability and cost reduction for agencies.    He holds no punches, he says; ‘B2B marketers have lost their way, they have chased the money and jumped on the thought leadership bandwagon'. We discuss: Why the main objective of agencies is to create fame for their clients. In his opinion, nothing is more important than that fame metric which creates...

Book your place for the free webinar 7 priorities for rapid profitability and cost reduction for agencies  James Collis is the founder and managing director of Revere agency. A phenomenally successful insight-driven B2B marketing agency with clients like Avanade, VMware, Worldpay and Sitecore. We discuss, what it takes to build a world-beating technology agency and what mistakes to avoid along the...

Chris Bagnall is the founder and CEO of Transmission Agency They are in the top 5 B2B only international agencies in the world. and just in case you were wondering, that list of 5 starts at above 25 million US dollars. They’ve been either the first or second fastest growing B2B agency HQd UK for the last 4 years in a row. They are the 42nd fastest growing business in the UK, according to the FT. T...

David Crawford is the founder of the Digital strategy unit. If there is anyone who can bring us to date and give us an accurate account of the lessons and learnings from the last 6 months, it’s David Crawford. He has actually written an excellent piece related to this on LinkedIn called 6 from 6. The link is in the description. A couple of interesting highlights from his post: 1. The steering whee...

Mandy Merron is a partner at Moore Kingston Smith. They are one of the Uk’s leading accountants and business advisors, with over 500 employees and 60 partners. Their network spans 30,000 people across 100 countries. They have been around since 1923. Mandy now runs the media business which is now over 100 people. If you are remotely interested in: Growing your services firm, value prop, new busines...

Karish Andrews is a Partner at Lewis Silkin a top 100 Uk law firm, he also spent 3 years at the Magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.  We discuss: Agency M&A Building value back into your business Who’s buying all the creative services firms today Diversity and inclusion in the legal profession  Modestly, he says wasn’t talented/creative enough so he became a lawyer. The goal of Lewis...

Ben Scoggins is the managing director of Organic Agency. He spent the early part of his career in some of the most prestigious agencies in the world. Y&R, DDB and Ogilvy. He now runs organic a 50 person agency in Exeter south Devon and delivers fantastic work for clients like HSBC, Argos and the Body Shop, just go down the list of iconic brands. He spent the first few months in the role narrowing...

James Cross is a parter at the Global Law firm K&L Gates. He is a deal junkie and loves the rush of M&A. He loves helping founders and owners sell their businesses and build some close and long-lasting relationships in the process. He spent 7 years at Reed Smith where he helped build out their private equity practice The creative services space is generally not the most attractive to investors bec...

Nick Clark is the Managing Director of Nelson Bostok. After being with the business for over 20 years and MD for 7, there is very little he doesn't know about growing B2B technology brands. Toshiba has been a client for 30 years, Cannon for 18 years. We discuss: How they got over the tricky £4 and £5 million turnover barrier.  They introduced new business process, hired some amazing people, added...

David McQueen is the co-founder of Q-Squared. He is an expert in leadership communication, workplace culture and presentation skills. He consults and speaks with senior leaders all over the country including, a certain Sir Richard Branson. We discuss the challenges for all minorities as they climb their professional careers in the UK but David pays particular attention to the challenges facing bla...

Deepa Shah is a rockstar in the world of corporate finance for creative businesses, having worked within two of the largest global advertising holding groups in the world. she was the CFO for Omnicom Emea and Apac for 13 years before becoming CFO for Publicis Sapient. She’s got an incredible history of being a tremendously successful financial advisor to agencies in a number of different areas. In...

David Hieatt is is the Co-Founder of Hiut Denim. He also founded Howies, the outdoor clothing company in 1995 which he later sold to Timberland In 2008. Howies was cited as the 6th most 'recession-proof' company in the UK at the time. we could all use some of that wisdom right now. We discuss: His start in the ad agency world, he got frustrated because he didn’t want to sell sugar water anymore an...