The Places We'll Go Marketing Show

Who is Craig Fenton? Craig is currently leading Strategy & Operations for Google in UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.   He is an investor, mentor and supporter of a range of businesses including several start-ups, where he finds great inspiration for his own personal and professional ventures.   Between all of this, you’ll find him flying, riding his motorbike, spending...

Who is Sir Martin Sorrell? Sir Martin is a British businessman and the founder of WPP plc, the world's largest advertising and PR group. Upon his retirement in April 2018, Sorrell was the longest-serving chief executive of a FTSE 100 company. Thereafter he launched S4 Capital. Two years later, it is worth £2bn.

ABOUT VICTORIA FOX  Victoria was appointed as CEO of AAR Group in 2019, which is a marketing consultancy specialising in harnessing marketing ecosystems to bring new perspectives to their clients in order to help them to drive growth.   This appointment builds on a successful 20-year career agency side, most recently as CEO of LIDA, M&C Saatchi’s global customer engagement agency. &n...

Who is Pete Markey? Meet Peter Markey, Chief Marketing Officer at TSB Bank in Redhill, UK, who has been in marketing since 1995. He’s held leadership roles in many UK brands, including TSB Bank, Aviva, and Post Office Ltd.

Who is Ben Kay? Rugby World Cup winner, British & Irish Lion, England international, double European champion and six-time English league champion, Ben Kay retired in 2010 as one of the most successful players in rugby history. At Pablo, they believe in being humble in the way they work and see the world, yet radical in the way they think and create ideas in partnership with their clients.

Who is Sue Unerman? Sue drives transformation for MediaCom, and her clients in the UK. She is part of a team at MediaCom that has consistently moved MediaCom forwards – a crucial factor in its rise to become the number one company in its sector, and proud recipient of Campaign Mag's Agency of the Decade for the second time in a row. Her last book is The Glass Wall – called the year’s most signific...

Who is Claudine Collins?   Claudine is the Chief Client Officer of MediaCom UK - a £1 billion media agency.   And has appeared annually as one of the interviewers in the final episode of "The Apprentice" on BBC1 since 2013.

Who is Claude Littner?   Claude Littner is a successful entrepreneur and businessman with almost 50 years’ experience.    A long-term business associate and friend of Lord Sugar, Claude has chaired a number of his companies including Amstrad International, Amstrad Spain, Dancall Telecom and Viglen.    Claude was Chief Executive of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. He was al...

Who is Dominic McGregor?  From dropping out of University taking Social Chain to the public markets in 6 years.   Social Chain initial success came from owning and operation multiple social channels which allowed the business to have a unique understanding of navigating social platforms for brands.   Social Chain has become a leader in the industry working with clients like Amazon,...

Who is Magnus Djaba? He has led the transformation of Saatchi & Saatchi London for the last 8 years, expanding its services to clients and ensuring the agency is focused on data, creativity, and business results.   He was appointed UK CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi in November 2011 and promoted to CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Fallon UK Group in April 2014.   Magnus sits on the Premier...

Who is Rajesh Agarwal?  19 years ago he came to London from India with £200 and a pocket full of dreams - this country didn’t let him down and now he is doing everything he can to help others achieve their dreams.   Growing up in poverty in India, he didn’t have much money but was never short of hope, dreams, determination and willingness to work hard.   When you don’t have the mone...

Who is Karen Blackett OBE? She is a business leader with 25 years of experience in the marketing communications industry.    As UK Country Manager for WPP, the global creative transformation company based in 112 countries, she oversees WPP’s second-largest market and the 14,000 people working across its operating brands in the UK.   Karen was a DIT Business Ambassador for No.10, is...

Who is Ronan Harris?  Though Harris speaks now as the UK and Ireland leader, he has the first-hand experience of the challenges facing small business owners, having worked in several start-ups earlier in his career.    With a background as an electronic engineer (“figuring out how to take a complex problem, break it down and navigate through it is probably the biggest benefit that g...

Who is Gemma Greaves Her career is framed by 14 years at the Marketing society rising through the ranks to become Chief Executive in 2017, having previously been Marketing Director and Global Managing Director.   Whilst at MS Gemma launched marketing for good in 2013 which epitomises her desire to do good in the world.  As CEO at MS Gemma raised the bar hugely on the impact of the organi...

Who is Rod Bristow?   Rod has worked in education, publishing and assessment for 30 years in universities, schools, colleges, professional training and learning technologies in the UK and internationally.   30 years of experience... and he WON'T be sharing just the highs.

Who is Karan Bilimoria? He left India for his higher education in the United Kingdom and founded Cobra Beer when he was a 27-year-old Cambridge law graduate with £20,000 in student debts.   His mission: To brew the finest-ever Indian beer and to make it a global beer brand.

Who is Andrew Bloch? Andrew Bloch is a non-executive director at Frank, the PR agency he founded in 2000.    He is a consultant in the creative and marketing services industry, and involved in a number of businesses, helping them create new business relationships, spot opportunities and add value.

Who is Tom Goodwin? He is the Founder of All We Have Is Now and his job requires him to understand how the world is and isn't changing and to advise his clients on what it means and how to best transform for the future.   He speaks around the world at industry events, written a book, featured on Global TV shows on technology and change, and started an event series and Podcast called "Interest...

On this episode, we have the popular Paul Polman who is the Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE and ex-CEO of Unilever!  Who is Paul Polman? He is Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE, a benefit corporation and foundation accelerating business leadership to achieve the Global Goals.   He has been honoured with France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, and was named an Honorary Knight Commander o...

On this episode, we have a pretty special guest... Mark Ritson!   Who is Mark Ritson? He is a professor who has spent the past 20 years teaching marketing to MBA students at some of the world’s top business schools, including award-winning courses at London Business School, MIT, and Melbourne Business School.   Not only that he has thirteen years of experience serving as the in-house pro...

Who is Rory Sutherland?  Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, an attractively vague job title that has allowed him to co-found a behavioral science practice within the agency.   Rory was previously a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988.   He writes regular columns for the Spectator, Market Leader and Impact, and a...