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Yenan Wang
Head of TikTok Live
Yenan Wang
Head of TikTok Live
Creative and performance-driven Content & Influencer Marketing professional. Possess over 10 years of professional experience working in media, digital and PR agencies.
Currently leading TikTok Live monetisation with building influencer agency partnerships to drive growth.
Grace Fung
Influencer Marketing & Comms Lead (Luxury Colour & Fragrances), COTY
Grace Fung
Influencer Marketing & Comms Lead (Luxury Colour & Fragrances), COTY
Grace Fung is a seasoned PR and Influencer Marketing expert with over 13 years’ experience in luxury beauty space. Recently included as one of Talking Influence Top 50, Grace’s experience in the luxury space has led her to lead the influencer marketing and PR strategies at Coty UK & I in the luxury beauty portfolio with brands including Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, and Hugo BOSS.
Elaine Wan
Head of Affiliates, Partnerships and Influencers at tails.com
Elaine Wan
Head of Affiliates, Partnerships and Influencers at tails.com
Elaine Wan is an award-winning digital marketer with over 13 years’ experience. She has managed campaigns for brands across retail, FMCG, travel, finance and fintech, while working publisher, network, agency and brand side.
Currently she is Head of Affiliates, Partnerships and Influencers at tails.com and Republic of Cats, two leading DTC subscription tailored pet food brands. She is responsible for driving acquisition and growth for all Partnership performance marketing channels in the UK and Europe.
Prior to this she led the Affiliates and Partnerships channels at WorldRemit, a global Fintech remittance company, managing campaigns across UK, Europe, North America and APAC.
Paul Randall
Creator Development HP Custom Content, HP Inc.
Paul Randall
Creator Development HP Custom Content, HP Inc.
HP Custom Content is reinventing the 21st Century Publishing model and enabling Creators to monetise their content and turn loyal followers into paying customers.
HP Custom Content are on a mission to become the world’s #1 Social Media Publisher. Working with leading creators across the Food, Health, Diet and Wellness sectors we enabling anyone to become an Author. Not only that, we are also making the process fun, exciting and hugely profitable for creators.
Alex Payne
Sky Sports television presenter, broadcaster and host of the hugely popular 'The Good, The Bad & The Rugby' podcast
Alex Payne
Sky Sports television presenter, broadcaster and host of the hugely popular 'The Good, The Bad & The Rugby' podcast
Sophie Van der Veken
Senior Affiliates, Partnerships & Influencer Executive, Tails.com
Sophie Van der Veken
Senior Affiliates, Partnerships & Influencer Executive, Tails.com
Sophie Van der Veken is a Senior Affiliates, Partnerships & Influencer Executive at tails.com and Republic of Cats, two leading DTC subscription tailored pet food brands. She manages the three channels across the UK and Europe for tails.com and UK Partnerships for Republic of Cats.
Having been part of tails.com since 2019, Sophie has extensive experience in developing and delivering efficient marketing campaigns across a variety of channels and markets. Consistently looking for effective advertising opportunities across Affiliates, Partnerships and Influencers, she has helped shape and grow these channels to become key drivers of performance for the business.
Olivier Billon
CEO of Ykone and Campaygn
Olivier Billon
CEO of Ykone and Campaygn
Olivier Billon is the founder and CEO of YKONE. After graduating from Sciences Po Paris with a master’s degree in Marketing, he joined L’Oréal Paris as Digital Marketing Manager for the Luxury Division. In 2008, Olivier left L’Oréal in pursuit of his own business venture, YKONE – the world’s first influencer marketing agency to cater to luxury Beauty, Fashion, Travel, and Lifestyle brands. Over the past decade, Olivier has spearheaded YKONE from a French company to a multi-national brand, implanted across 11 of the world’s most buzzing cities – from Paris to Milan, New York to Dubai, and Bangalore to Shanghai. In addition to entrepreneurship, Olivier shared his passion for Digital Marketing as a Lecturer for master’s students at Sciences Po Paris. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014 by Ernest & Young, and continues to share his insights about influencer marketing as a speaker at conferences around the world.
Olivier and his team of diverse talents have mastered the art of influence through YKONE’s one-of-a-kind offering, combining cutting-edge creativity, an innovative data-driven approach, and an unparalleled network of influencers and celebrities. Through powerful imagery, mesmerizing videography and poetic storytelling, YKONE brings brand stories to life through the world’s biggest thought leaders, reaching millions with the power of social media.
Mathis Betz
Chief Commercial Officer, IROIN ® Influencer Marketing Suite
Mathis Betz
Chief Commercial Officer, IROIN ® Influencer Marketing Suite
Mathis is a digital nomad and digital native who focuses on implementing software to optimize workflows for marketers who work with influencers. Next to visiting 30+ countries in the last few years, he’s implemented software solutions in over 200 companies, which led him to have a unique perspective on the influencer marketing industry.
Sarah Penny
Content & Research Director, Influencer Intelligence
Sarah Penny
Content & Research Director, Influencer Intelligence
Sarah Penny is the Content & Research Director at Influencer Intelligence and Fashion & Beauty Monitor. Influencer Intelligence is a leading influencer marketing platform that uses data, research and expert insight to enable brands to discover relevant influencers to create, track and measure impactful influencer and celebrity-led campaigns. Sarah leads on the content strategy, including the platform’s research reports and whitepapers and has a strong interest in educating companies to practice influencer marketing ethically and to its full potential.
Mareike Hoeft
Affiliates, Partnerships & Influencer Executive, tails.com
Mareike Hoeft
Affiliates, Partnerships & Influencer Executive, tails.com
Mareike Hoeft is Affiliates, Partnerships & Influencer Executive at tails.com and Republic of Cats, two leading DTC subscription tailored pet food brands. She manages the three channels for Germany and Austria for tails.com and UK Affiliates for Republic of Cats.
Since joining tails.com in 202, Mareike established and significantly grown the Affiliate campaigns across both brands, plus launched the Partnerships and Influencer Marketing channels in Germany.
Previously she developed the growth strategy and led Partnerships in the UK and Ireland for Readly, an award winning, digital magazine platform
Madeline Orme
Senior Influencer Marketing Strategist, MediaCom
Madeline Orme
Senior Influencer Marketing Strategist, MediaCom
Madeline is a Senior Influencer Marketing Strategist at MediaCom with over 9 years experience specialising in Influencer, PR & Communications. Her role focuses on providing strategic and expert counsel to her clients including Coca Cola, Hasbro and TUI, working closely with them to produce best in class influencer campaigns that are integrated with wider marketing, media and communications strategies.
Prior to joining MediaCom, Madeline helped to lead the Influencer Marketing offering at Edelman, working across a variety of sectors including healthcare, technology, consumer and corporate providing strategic counsel and end-to-end campaign management for clients including Starbucks, Tetra Pak and Microsoft.
Madeline also holds experience working for influencer affiliate marketing platform ShopStyle Collective as well as having a strong background in PR & Communications working for three fast-pace PR agencies,
Andy Martinus
Global Head of Innovation, Team Lewis
Andy Martinus
Global Head of Innovation, Team Lewis
As Global Head of Innovation for TEAM LEWIS, Andy is leading all things innovation as part of the Creative Engineering team. Using digital and technology to solve challenges for clients across all verticals.
David Shadpour
CEO & Founder, Social Native
David Shadpour
CEO & Founder, Social Native
David Shadpour is the CEO & Founder of Social Native. Established in 2017, Social Native is the leading SaaS platform and global marketplace connecting brands to the creator economy. David is a dynamic entrepreneur, redefining social commerce and how brands conceptualize and create on-demand content.
Considered the “Uber of content,” Social Native serves the world's most prolific brands like Adidas, H&M, Airbnb, LEGO, Anheuser-Busch, and more. David has since led his team to officially partner with the world’s biggest social media platforms including Meta, TikTok, Twitter, Pinterest, and Snapchat. With fast growth and an innovative tech stack, Social Native has attracted major investors including SoftBank.
Flora Noble
Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager, Group GTI
Flora Noble
Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager, Group GTI
Flora is Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager for Group GTI, who deliver the UK’s biggest graduate careers platform, target jobs. Prior to this role, Flora was Oxfam GB’s first Digital Influencer Manager, creating an influencer marketing strategy that built on Oxfam’s status as one of the most well-known not-for-profits in the world, as well as developing a community of influencers advocating for Oxfam online.
Flora currently manages all target jobs’ social media channels, and well as developing relationships with student brands and influencers, building on a higher education career that started as President of the University of Southampton Students’ Union 6 years ago.
Stephen Farrell
Associate Director of Influencer Relations, Ketchum
Stephen Farrell
Associate Director of Influencer Relations, Ketchum
Stephen Farrell is Associate Director of Influencer Relations at Ketchum, a global public relations firm. He leads the influencer marketing offer and team at Ketchum London working with clients including Adobe, Proctor & Gamble and Philips.
During his ten years in communications Stephen has partnered with a roster of globally recognised brands on influencer marketing strategy across the fashion, beauty and lifestyle sectors with teams in the United Kingdom, the United States and China.
In 2020 he was voted by peers and by Talking Influence as one of the top 50 global influencer marketing professionals.
Vik Khagram
Influencer Marketing Lead, Ketchum
Vik Khagram
Influencer Marketing Lead, Ketchum
Vik is the Influencer Marketing Lead at Ketchum UK, with over 9 years of experience in Social Media Strategy and Influencer Marketing. He was named in the Talking Influence, Influencer Top 50 in 2020 and has also been a judge at the Influencer Marketing Awards for the last 2 years. He has strong experience in the influencer strategy and activation, helping to create high impact campaigns using his deep-rooted knowledge of wider cultures and platforms both online and offline, collaborating with an array of influencers from Mega Celebrities down to Micro Influencers along the way.
He has deep experience in influencer strategy and campaign activations, helping to create impactful campaigns using his deep-rooted knowledge of wider cultures and platforms both online and offline. Working with celebrity talent all the way down to micro influencers, Vik is a real cultural zeitgeist and understands the different nuances of many spaces such as music, sport, fashion, beauty and other facets of popular culture.
Vik has worked with a range of clients during his career including; Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever, Nike, Hotels.com, Warner Brothers, Campari Group Whirlpool Group, Tabasco, Diageo, EA Sports, Hellman’s, Samsung, P&G and many more.
Gordon Glenister
Influencer marketing and membership Strategy consultant
Gordon Glenister
Influencer marketing and membership Strategy consultant
Gordon is the global head of the influencer marketing division of the branded content marketing association, chief strategy officer for Audience2Media, keynote speaker, columnist for the London Evening Standard, Influence Podcast host and author of best selling book Influencer marketing strategy.
Mathieu Couret
Influencer Marketing Manager, Vinted
Ruby Soave
Head of Influencer Marketing, Student Beans
Ruby Soave
Head of Influencer Marketing, Student Beans
Ruby Soave has been working with influencers since 2008 - long before the term 'influencer marketing' was coined. Ruby has experience across corporate, consumer and charity brands and is currently Head of Influencer Marketing at Student Beans (the world's leading student loyalty network), delivering effective creator campaigns to Gen Z.
Marcus Foley
Co-Founder & Chief Client Officer, Tommy
Sarah Mulindwa
Creator & TV personality
Sarah Mulindwa
Creator & TV personality
TV personality Sarah Mulindwa is best known as the witty and glamorous Presenter on Channel 4’s hit show ‘The Sex Clinic’. Through her background as a qualified Nurse for over 10 years, she is part of a team of experts who cut through Britain’s sex secrets. She not only teaches young people about sexual health but encourages them to talk about issues around relationships, identity and body issues. With a background as a radio presenter, she has also contributed to stations such as talk radio, Fubar Radio and BBC Radio London discussing various topics.
Having created a unique and diverse career, Sarah is also known in the creative industry as a Fashion Influencer, Radio Personality and has carved a successful career as a well respected Stylist, Fashion Editor and published writer. Her work has seen her in publications such as Vogue, The New York Times and Grazia amongst others.
Her exceptional skill sets have enabled her to make her mark across the board in Health, Fashion, TV and Radio.
Louise Alexandra Erskine
Content Creator
Louise Alexandra Erskine
Content Creator
Louise Alexandra Erskine is a poet, artist, photographer and content creator learning through a lifetime of passion and heartbreak Louise writes about her relationships and experiences in life, love, loss, surviving domestic abuse and falling in love the right way – with herself! Louise experienced success early on writing poetry on Pinterest and has returned to writing as part of a long journey of self discovery after loosing herself in an abusive marriage. Louise is now a single parent raising three children in the English countryside and using instagram to express emotion through imagery and tell the stories of her life both through her poetry via @beautifully_defected. Her debut poetry collection All of the Ocean is available now.
James Middleton
Creator & Fitness and Mindset Coach
James Middleton
Creator & Fitness and Mindset Coach
James Middleton is a renowned fitness and mindset coach, sharing his expertise on all things fitness, nutrition and mindfulness with his ever expanding social following. Having started his career as a sports agent, James changed course and now runs an online coaching app helping thousands worldwide improve their lifestyle. He’s sponsored by Foodspring and Superdry and his profile now straddles both traditional and digital media.
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Curtis Midkiff
Director of Social Media, Weber-Stephens Products LLC
Curtis Midkiff
Director of Social Media, Weber-Stephens Products LLC
Curtis has nearly two decades of combined experience in marketing, communications and social/digital strategy. He is a highly regarded brand strategist and social media expert who has led the social engagement efforts for a range of organisations including Southwest Airlines, The American Red Cross and The Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and most recently at Kroger. His expertise has been featured in a range of media outlets including: Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC.com, TheNextWeb.com, and Mashable.com.
Over the past decade, Curtis has developed and cultivated award-winning Influencer programs that leverage a mix of celebrities, subject matter experts and lifestyle influencers to generate results. Under his leadership, Southwest Airlines developed the Southwest Storytellers Program, a first of its kind influencer program in the travel industry. He has also been a strong advocate of increased diversity and inclusion in influencer engagement.
Curtis serves on the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum and the Mayor’s Smart City Tech Task Force in Seat Pleasant Maryland.
Sophie Clarke
Director Social Media & Consumer PR EMEA
Sophie Clarke
Director Social Media & Consumer PR EMEA
Sophie has grown her career in the travel industry working across Europe - from Paris and Venice to Brussels and Rome. Starting her career on Starwood Hotels’ Vita Futura Graduate Management Program, she then went on to lead Starwood (now Marriott)'s Digital Marketing for The Luxury Collection and Le Méridien hotels in Southern Europe, and now leads Radisson Hotel Group's Social Media strategy from their HQ in Brussels. Passionate about creative content, Sophie and her team drive innovation across the brands of Radisson Hotel Group together with Social Care, Social Commerce and Influencer Marketing activities.
Jasira Zondervan
Influencer Marketing and Social Media Manager, Universal Music
Jasira Zondervan
Influencer Marketing and Social Media Manager, Universal Music
Jasira has always had a passion for marketing and therefore traveled around the world from China to, New York and from Amsterdam to Sweden to learn from the best. After finishing her masters in International Marketing and Brand Management in Lund, she dipped her toes in the music industry and never left. She focuses on developing Social Media Strategies for artists and Influencer Marketing Collaborations. Jasira has had the privilege to work with artists and influencers like Duncan Laurence, Billie Eilish, Emma Heesters, Nikkie Tutorials, Bram Krikke, Sara Dol and create influencer strategies using the latest social media tools.
Martin Jaskolowski
Global Marketing Manager Communications & Influence - Chivas Regal, Pernod Ricard
Martin Jaskolowski
Global Marketing Manager Communications & Influence - Chivas Regal, Pernod Ricard
Amisha Gandhi
SVP, Marketing, Tipalti
Amisha Gandhi
SVP, Marketing, Tipalti
Groundbreaking B2B innovator with deep marketing and communications expertise across multiple industries and geos. Currently, Amisha is Senior Vice President of Marketing at Tipalti. In her previous role, she is founded the global influencer marketing program at SAP to help drive demand gen and global marketing campaigns. She’s worked in public relations firms and marketing roles in Silicon Valley for the past 15 years from startups to large enterprises such as HP, Google, Accenture and Time-WarnerRecently recognized in PR Week’s Women to Watch 2020, Top 50 Influence Marketer by Talking Influence and Top Digital Marketer on LinkedIn
Flora Coluccia
Head of Communication, Advocacy & Influencer Marketing, Lancôme
Flora Coluccia
Head of Communication, Advocacy & Influencer Marketing, Lancôme
Flora Coluccia’s career spans over 20 years in Communications, Marketing and Public Relations for Luxury brands both in fashion and cosmetics and skin care. She’s been working for L’Oreal Group for over 13 years, where she’s currently the Head of Communication and Influencer Marketing for French luxury perfumes and cosmetics house Lancôme. Prior to this, she worked for LVMH Group as a Head of Communication and PR for the entire luxury portfolio in Italy. She has also worked as International PR Manager at Versace, Sergio Rossi and Romeo Gigli. Flora holds a Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the International University of Languages and Media IULM (Milan, Italy), and a MA in Communication and Marketing at Accademia Di Comunicazione in Milan. She’s specialised in developing Communication & Social Media Strategy to support the launch of products and their brand awareness. She considers herself a team leader with a very creative profile.
Yenan Wang
Head of TikTok Live
Yenan Wang
Head of TikTok Live
Creative and performance-driven Content & Influencer Marketing professional. Possess over 10 years of professional experience working in media, digital and PR agencies.
Currently leading TikTok Live monetisation with building influencer agency partnerships to drive growth.
Marcus Foley
Co-Founder & Chief Client Officer, Tommy
Pierfrancesco Scotti
Digital Engagement and Customer Development, Colgate-Palmolive
Pierfrancesco Scotti
Digital Engagement and Customer Development, Colgate-Palmolive
Pierfancesco started as a media professional in Italy, creating and activating media strategies that span from movies like Madagascar for Universal Pictures to the promotion of the entire Pantene range rebrand for P&G. He moved to London to join the Global Media team at Unilever working on brands like Sunsilk and Tresemme. He was also the media lead for All Things Hair, a search driven platform where all content was produced by Influencers. He then joined the Northern Europe team of Colgate, opening up the Digital Engagement role for the Oral Care professional team, before moving to Germany to keep expanding the digital capabilities and reach of the Professional team.
Maria von Scheel-Plessen
Global Head of Media, Marketing and Luxury Expert
Maria von Scheel-Plessen
Global Head of Media, Marketing and Luxury Expert
Maria is a passionate speaker and digital enthusiast.
As the Global Head of Media & Advertising at Montblanc, Maria oversees the global media and advertisement strategy for 22 markets across all online and offline channels, is dedicated to digitally transform the luxury maison while enabling a seamless user journey and full Marketing funnel.
As Team Lead Online Marketing at Amazon, Maria was responsible for the Marketing and Communications strategy for premium brands on Amazon across Germany, Italy and Spain. She managed strategic market initiatives, global promotions e.g. Cyber Week or Prime Day to improve the business while managing external partners, the Amazon Media Group relations and internal stakeholders.
Maria is an alumni of the London School of Economics and Rocket Internet where she worked as Head of Communications for Southeast Asia at Zalora (Asian Zalando), driving the business and all brand relations across 7 markets. Maria is very passionate about the digitalization across various industries - from start-ups to luxury maisons with a unique growth mindset. She has strong expertise in digital and offline Marketing, digital transformation as well as B2B and B2C consumer Marketing and management.
Flora Noble
Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager, Group GTI
Flora Noble
Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager, Group GTI
Flora is Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager for Group GTI, who deliver the UK’s biggest graduate careers platform, target jobs. Prior to this role, Flora was Oxfam GB’s first Digital Influencer Manager, creating an influencer marketing strategy that built on Oxfam’s status as one of the most well-known not-for-profits in the world, as well as developing a community of influencers advocating for Oxfam online.
Flora currently manages all target jobs’ social media channels, and well as developing relationships with student brands and influencers, building on a higher education career that started as President of the University of Southampton Students’ Union 6 years ago.
Jonathan Saccone Joly
Social Media Star, Influencer
Jonathan Saccone Joly
Social Media Star, Influencer
Jonathan Saccone Joly is part of UK’s most influential family with over a decade of online success. Together with wife Anna, their four kids and six dogs, the Saccone Joly’s have over 6.8 million combined social media followers and were listed as Sunday Times’ most influential family in 2019. Jonathan was also crowned the official Celebrity Dad of the Year 2019, beating the likes of HRH Prince William!
Both Jonathan and his wife Anna are shining examples of talent making moves and experiencing success within the commercial sector, with an exclusive documentary with Stacey Dooley, Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over which documented their family life and huge rise in popularity. With a brand new YouTube channel ‘No Kids Allowed’ already building a huge following and Jonathan’s ever-growing success on TikTok were he surpassed 1M followers in 2020 - the Saccone Joly train shows no signs of slowing down!
Ben Jeffries
CEO & Co-founder, Influencer
Ben Jeffries
CEO & Co-founder, Influencer
Ben Jeffries is the 24-year-old CEO and co-founder of Influencer, a global leader in influencer marketing. Ben founded Influencer, partnering with YouTube star Caspar Lee as co-founder and CVO. Ben has since led his team to close multiple investment rounds for Influencer, while taking on clients such as Mars, Alibaba, P&G and Ocado. Ben is an award-winning entrepreneur. Ben was named in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 2020, as well as being awarded The Drum’s Rising Star 2019, Media Week’s Rising Star 2018 and BMW’s UK Tech Founder 2018.
Claudia Tezcan
Senior Communications Manager - Dove Global, Unilever
Claudia Tezcan
Senior Communications Manager - Dove Global, Unilever
Claudia started her career in Communications almost by accident, taking up an internship at award-winning agency Ketchum. Claudia soon developed a passion for Public Relations and was there through the rise and continued evolution of influencer marketing – bringing an intrinsic understanding of what works and what doesn’t. Claudia is a beauty specialist having worked across luxury and mass brands such as Olay, Pantene, Carita, Decléor and Topshop Beauty but, 4 years ago, made the move in-house to Unilever and Dove, to help on build an award-winning internal Global Communications team. At Dove, Claudia works across Dove purpose, brand action and innovation, building global communications strategies across several categories.
Oisin Lunny
Journalist, Event MC and Fortune 500 Podcast Host
Oisin Lunny
Journalist, Event MC and Fortune 500 Podcast Host
Oisin Lunny is an award-winning marketer, mobile expert, public speaker and journalist. His professional experience includes roles as Global Product Manager, UK Country Manager, Technical VP and Chief Evangelist. He holds a position as the Professor of UX Driven Business at Barcelona Technology School, where he is also a member of the Academic Board.
Oisin has hosted, moderated and given keynote presentations at over 200 conferences in every corner of the world, including TEDx, MWC and six times at SXSW. He is a regular contributor to Forbes.com, has written for The Guardian, and been featured on CNN, BBC, The Observer, The Telegraph, Business Reporter, The Drum, Customer Experience Magazine and CMO.com.
He sits on advisory boards for SXSW, DMWF, DTS, MxTE, CEW and CXFO, and was named the #5 most engaged marketer in the UK by LinkedIn. He is also the music editor of PHOENIX Magazine and maintains a parallel profile as a film composer, producer, and DJ.
Liisa Ennuste
Influencer Marketing Manager [Global], Bolt
Liisa Ennuste
Influencer Marketing Manager [Global], Bolt
Experienced marketeer with a background in working for some of the most inspirational brands like Nike. Previously as part of the brand marketing teams, executing campaigns [across digital/comms/retail/social] in diverse regions: Penfield in London, Nike in the Baltics and the Middle East. Currently, I'm part of the Growth division at Bolt [a leading mobility platform in Europe & Africa], leading the performance-driven Global Influencer Marketing efforts.
Josh Sellers
Head of Social Media, The Bicester Village Shopping Collection
Josh Sellers
Head of Social Media, The Bicester Village Shopping Collection
Josh is Head of Social Media for The Bicester Village Shopping Collection, one of the world’s leading luxury shopping destinations with a collection of 11 Villages across Europe and China.
Previously working in luxury automotive at Jaguar Land Rover, he joined The Bicester Village Shopping Collection in August 2016 to create & implement the businesses social media strategy.
Currently leading the influencer programme across 9 European shopping destinations & relevant source markets including China, Russia & Middle East. Working with a diverse mix of influencers across fashion, travel & lifestyle, as well as supporting up and coming content creators.
Hannes Santana
Head of Growth, Affable.ai
Hannes Santana
Head of Growth, Affable.ai
Hannes Santana combines extensive knowledge of markets across 3 continents and a deep understanding of business growth, media management and strategic partnerships. Before joining Affable, Santana gained experience building marketing and business development teams in the tech & startup industries with a strong focus on growth tactics involving amongst other business drivers, influencer marketing
Emily Trenouth
Head of Influencer Marketing, MediaCom
Emily Trenouth
Head of Influencer Marketing, MediaCom
Emily started her career working in Financial Services. However, whilst blogging as a creative outlet she recognized the opportunity for influencers to collaborate with brands. In early 2016 Emily turned her passion into a career in Influencer Marketing and joined Takumi – one of the UK’s first Influencer platforms.
After leaving Takumi Emily worked with influencer & content marketplace TRIBE to help launch first their UK operation and then spearheaded their US Operation in New York, leading partnerships with the likes of P&G, Unilever, Nestle, Diageo and Comcast. Upon her return to the UK, she joined MediaCom as Head of Influencer Marketing, one of the fastest-growing specialist divisions within Creative Systems.
Her role is to lead the Influencer Marketing division for MediaCom Globally, working with clients such as Coca Cola, Mars, LVMH, Sky and many more. In just two years she has affected transformational change in building a world class Influencer product and team through her commitment to integrating Influencer Marketing with traditional media in order to robustly measure and prove effectiveness for clients.
Maira Genovese
Founder and President, MG Empower
Maira Genovese
Founder and President, MG Empower
Maira Genovese is an Entrepreneur, Speaker, Founder and President of the digital
marketing powerhouse MG Empower.
Before founding MG Empower in 2017, she held marketing positions with industry titans
American Express, Kering, and Value Retail.
Throughout her career, Maira has been driven by her vision to empower people. This vision,
combined with her passionate belief that excellence can only be achieved through
meaningful purpose, forms the bedrock of values upheld through every facet of MG
Empower- a new-age digital communications agency that has ripped up the rulebooks and
reframed how brands connect with global communities. Within just five years, in 2021, MG
Empower was acquired by the US-headquartered Amyris Inc. Maira continues to lead the
agency as President, focusing on innovation development and global scaling.
A trusted advisor to some of the world’s most inspiring brands, including TikTok, Chopard,
Ford, Porsche, Bumble, Biossance, StarzPlay, SnapChat and Deliveroo, Maira is
internationally recognised as a driving force in shaping the future of marketing through digital
innovation grounded in her unprecedented understanding of cultural insight and social
intelligence.
Lauren Spearman
Head of Social & Advocacy, MADE.COM
Lauren Spearman
Head of Social & Advocacy, MADE.COM
With over 13 years of experience in digital and consumer marketing, Lauren now leads MADE.COM's global Social and Brand Advocacy teams from the London HQ. Lauren oversees a Europe wide team responsible for social content creation, community management and UGC generation alongside building MADE's share of voice through relationships with content creators, customers and employees.
With a host of experience in digital marketing at brands including Sky Media and Netmums, Lauren then started at Benefit Cosmetics in 2016 where she oversaw digital advertising and influencer marketing for the make-up brand, generating a new collective of brand advocates.
Lauren joined MADE in May 2019, setting up the in-house advocacy team, and has since expanded her remit to lead both the Social and Advocacy teams across 9 European markets
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Flora Noble
Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager, Group GTI
Flora Noble
Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager, Group GTI
Flora is Social Media and Student Partnerships Manager for Group GTI, who deliver the UK’s biggest graduate careers platform, target jobs. Prior to this role, Flora was Oxfam GB’s first Digital Influencer Manager, creating an influencer marketing strategy that built on Oxfam’s status as one of the most well-known not-for-profits in the world, as well as developing a community of influencers advocating for Oxfam online.
Flora currently manages all target jobs’ social media channels, and well as developing relationships with student brands and influencers, building on a higher education career that started as President of the University of Southampton Students’ Union 6 years ago.