Katy Woodward

Planning Director, MediaCom North

I have been in Communications Planning for just over a decade. In this time, I have worked with multiple clients across an exciting range of industries including entertainment, consumer electronics, FMCG, professional services, retail, travel and automotive.

As Planning Director my role is to connect and challenge teams to deliver more effective communications for our clients. We do this through our visionary approach to planning which sees the bigger picture, challenging the brief and execution at every stage to ensure we are always helping to grow brands and accelerate performance in a digital age.

I am responsible for ensuring we retain a keen focus on actionable audience insight, innovative idea generation and agile measurement to deliver industry leading work that grows our clients' businesses.?

Over the last 18 months I have also shared responsibility in leading an Agile business transformation across MediaCom alongside our CTO, Sue Unerman.

Geoff De Burca

Managing Partner, Head of CID

I have 20 years’ experience in the industry, starting out as a market researcher in 1997, before moving into media planning in 2000.

I’ve been at MediaCom since 2010 and been head of strategy since 2015.

I've planned across a wide range of categories, but I have a particular interest in helping to change behaviour for a wide range of charities and public sector clients. I also have extensive experience in Retail, FMCG and Motors.

I’ve spent the last two years developing my retail experience as lead strategist on Tesco, helping them on their journey of turning their business round and returning it to growth. Areas of focus throughout my time as a strategist include planning to drive behaviour change, and brand response planning.

Nick Henthorn

Sales Director, InfoSum

InfoSum is the world’s leading data collaboration platform empowering companies to deliver better customer experiences while prioritizing customer privacy. Using patented, privacy-first technology, InfoSum connects customer records between and amongst companies, without moving or sharing data. Since launching the platform in 2019, global customer-oriented companies across financial services, CTV, retail, healthcare, gaming, and entertainment trust InfoSum to seamlessly and compliantly deliver better customer experiences. InfoSum was founded in 2016 with a vision to connect the world’s data without ever sharing it. The company has multiple patents, protecting its invention of the ‘non-movement of data.’ InfoSum is based in the US, UK and CE, with offices across Europe and North America. The company is poised for continued growth following a Series B investment in August 2021, and a rapidly expanding client base.

Should that be too long, feel free to use the short version: InfoSum is a data collaboration platform that uses patented, privacy-first technology to connect customer records between and amongst companies without ever sharing any data. Customers across industries such as financial services, CTV, retail, healthcare, gaming and entertainment, trust InfoSum to seamlessly and compliantly help deliver better customer experiences through privacy-safe, permissioned, data networks.

Jason Spencer

Business Development Director, ITV

As Business Development Director since 2011, Jason has led the growth in revenue of ITV’s commercial teams across the UK outside London through delivering creative business solutions by working closely in partnership with advertisers and their agencies. After starting his career at Manchester Evening News, Jason went on to spend 12 years at media agencies prior to joining ITV – from media planning roles at Carat and PHD in London to running PHD North in Manchester.

Simon Lloyd

Chief Marketing Officer, Icelolly.com

Simon, has over 20 years experience working with some of the World's most iconic brands including Nokia, Kellogg's and AXA. He is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of Ice Travel Group home to the UK’s leading holiday and deals comparison sites, icellolly.com. and Travelsupermarket. Formerly the Chief Marketing Officer of Virgin Atlantic, Simon has years of experience being at the forefront of creative and innovative marketing. Prior to this, Simon was Director of Media Engagement, Marketing and Audiences at the BBC where he had responsibility for the distribution of all marketing content across all platforms. Simon was also responsible for the strategic marketing and brand leadership of BBC Sport, Radio 5Live, Children’s and Learning. Prior to joining AXA he worked with international clothing company Supergroup Plc to develop the Marketing Strategy for the Superdry brand.

Jo Baker

Agency Industry Head (WPP), Google

Nicola Marsh

Managing Director – MediaCom North & Google Practice UK

Nicola has worked in media for 26 years, most of which has been in digital marketing. Nicola joined MediaCom eight years ago with a wealth of digital experience and as a Digital Board Director, Nicola then became the Head of Digital and was integral to the growth of the digital proposition MediaCom offers its clients today.

Nicola is a fully accredited personal performance and corporate coach and has a keen interest in training and development. Her passion in supporting the EXCO to achieve People First, Better Results involves a focus on providing a fantastic working environment for our people with a real emphasis on creating opportunity for all.