The Future of OOH

Nicola Mullett

Deputy Managing Director, Mediatel Group

Nicola is the Deputy Managing Director of Mediatel. She leads the OOH team who created SPACE and the Route API and works closely the OOH Standards Committee on industry initiatives. Nicola has held non-executive director roles in several other Adtech and Events companies and is on the Board of Trustees at a Multi-Academy trust.

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Kate Tovey

Director of Commercial Sales Strategy and Transformation, JCDecaux UK

Kate Tovey is Director of Commercial Sales Strategy and Transformation at JCDecaux UK, working closely with the Executive Board to define the strategic direction of UK commercial activity and ensure it is aligned to market needs. Kate was previously Head of Agency Sales at JCDecaux UK and has fourteen years’ commercial experience in Out-of-Home media. Kate is chair of JCDecaux UK’s Sparking Conversation initiative which is an exciting social impact project to tackle loneliness within UK communities: https://www.jcdecaux.co.uk/sparking-conversation-resource-hub. In 2020 Kate became a WACL Future Leader Award winner. She is also a member of the ‘Balance in OOH’ committee that was set up to nurture talent from a diverse range of backgrounds within the sector and she is passionate about driving positive cultural change through the power of mentoring.

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Oliver Deane

Director of Commercial Outdoor, Global

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Louise Stubbings

Creative Director, Clear Channel UK

Louise is Creative Director at Clear Channel responsible for inspiring, driving and delivering the most creative OOH ideas and executions for clients and agencies. An OOH expert with 13 years in the industry under her belt, she joined Clear Channel 6 years ago as Sales director working on super premium digital product, Storm. Louise is an enthusiastic fledgling skier and wakeboarder with a flare for baking. Prior to joining Clear Channel, Louise’s career in media spanned press, cinema and outdoor with various roles at the Telegraph, DCM and Primesight.

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Phil Hall

Joint Managing Director, Ocean Outdoor UK

Phil is the Joint Managing Director of Ocean Outdoor UK, an Out Of Home business specialising in digital, super-premium iconic screens. His role is to grow and future-proof the business and ensure that Ocean are at the forefront of the innovation that is taking place in OOH. Phil has been at Ocean for 1 year and prior to that spent 19 years agency-side, as Head of TV, Head of Investment and finally Chief Commercial Strategy Officer of MediaCom UK.

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Matthew Dearden

CEO, Alight Media

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Natalie Bell

Managing Director, MG OMD

Natalie is responsible for the strategic direction of MG OMD, its capabilities and what it delivers for its enviable client list which includes: HM Government, John Lewis & Partners, Waitrose & Partners, Apple, Virgin Media and Specsavers. Natalie is a regular speaker at key industry events, and spearheads the agency’s diversity and inclusion programme – OPEN@MG. More recently, Natalie has been named Co-Chair of Omniwomen UK, an Omnicom initiative dedicated to empowering women in the workplace. In her previous role she led the agency’s 160-strong digital offering, developing a breadth of new services including the highly awarded search, mobile and social teams.

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James Murphy

Co-Founder, New Commercial Arts

James is one of the co-founders of New Commercial Arts, an agency bringing together brand and customer creativity that launched in May 2020. Prior to that James was a Founder and CEO of adam&eveDDB from launch in 2008 until 2019 when it became the largest agency in the UK.

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Louisa Harrison Walker

Founder, Benchmark, Interim Director, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce

Louisa Harrison Walker is the founder of award winning Sheffield based ethical recruitment and retention firm Benchmark, currently in an interim director role at Sheffield Chamber of Commerce She is the Chair of The Sheffield City Growth Board, the private sector board working alongside Sheffield City Council to support and promote economic development in the City. Regional Chair for Leadership Development Organisation Common Purpose, a global leadership organisation devoted to developing leaders who can cross boundaries, both at work and in society. A board member of The Higher Education Progression Partnership (Hepp) which works across the Sheffield City Region to encourage more children, young people and adults to consider higher education opportunities, jointly funded by Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield. Advisory board for Sheffield Business Together (SBT) which unites like-minded businesses to collaborate, connect and share resources with charities to support the people and communities of our great city And finally a trustee at St Luke’s Hospice whose mission is to deliver the best possible palliative care in Sheffield, whilst developing and driving continual improvements for everyone affected by terminal illness. A registered charity and all of our services are free. An active member of the business community committed to using her networks for the social and economic benefit of her home city. Married with two children, a keen veg grower and amateur women’s cricketer in whatever spare time is left!

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Ben Zloof

CEO, UniLED

Ben Zloof founded UniLED to provide a best in class service solution to the digital signage industry. Together with his passionate team, Ben has built UniLED, UniHUB & UniLIVE from the ground up over its 10-year journey. As CEO, Ben is responsible for defining the strategic vision of the business and managing the successful day-to-day implementation of that vision across sales, operations and finance.

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Paul Sambrook

Global Marketing Director, Rapport

Paul is the Global Marketing Director at Rapport, sitting on the UK & Global management teams and responsible for Rapport’s brand, marketing & comms, and product development. Paul has spent 20 years working in OOH across a number of planning and marketing roles.

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John Moulding

Editor-in-Chief, Videonet

John Moulding is Editor-in-Chief at Videonet, where he has been covering the evolution of multiscreen TV, connected TV and advanced advertising, among other things, since 2010. He has been reporting on television business and technology since 1999, when digital multichannel TV started to take root in Europe.

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Liz Duff

Head Of Media, Investment, Total Media

Liz is Head of Media & Investment at Total Media, who are The Behavioural Planning Agency. She runs the media divisions of the agency, ensuring that behavioural planning principles are applied across everything we do. Total Media’s understanding of human behaviour helps improve marketing effectiveness for our clients. We achieve this by recognising the full range of influences that affect people’s decision making, combined with best in class media, data and research. Starting her career at Carat as a TV buyer, over the course of 20 years Liz has worked in both the independent and network sectors, and across all media channels. She is passionate about the power of integrated channel planning and approaching media planning in a channel agnostic manner.

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Neil Tookey

Commercial Trading Director, Essence Global

Commercial Trading Director at essence with over 12 years experience in OOH.

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Emma Withington

Head of Planning, Manning Gottlieb OMD

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Michaela Jefferson

News Editor, Mediatel News

Michaela is news editor at Mediatel News. Contact: michaela.jefferson@mediatel.co.uk / 020 7420 3252. Twitter: @mejefferson_

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Dan Dawson

Chief Creative Officer, Grand Visual

One of the founders of Grand Visual in 2005, Dan has designed, developed and directed projects that have been seen by hundreds of millions of people globally. He has directed hundreds of campaigns for OOH including Angels landing on station concourses for Lynx, created ads powered by real time changing conditions, augmented Mickey Mouse into Times Square, and even directed Aliens to descend on London for Pepsi. He was part of the inter-agency team which successfully delivered the first fully programmatic DOOH campaign for Google in the UK. Over the years, he has helped fill a cabinet full of trophies - which includes a pride of Cannes Lions covering Outdoor, Media, Cyber and Mobile. More recently he’s the founding co-host host of Behind the Billboard, a podcast series that tells the creative stories behind some of the greatest OOH ads of all time.

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Curtis Weir

OOH Group Director, Publicis Media

Curtis has spent last 14 years working as a Channel Specialist and as Comms Strategist. After specialising in Digital Display, Video, Mobile and Social Media, he moved into OOH in 2011 around the influx of innovation into the channel driven largely by digitalisation and data. He’s the OOH Group Director across Publicis Media UK, reporting into the Head of OOH. His role is focuses on driving OOH innovation and integration across the Publicis Media’s Agency brands (Starcom, Spark Foundry and Zenith) and Group Practices. He’s recently joined ‘Media For All’ (MEFA) as a mentor Young Media Talent from BAME backgrounds and to support efforts that campaign for a more diverse and inclusive media sector.

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Emily Hyne

Business Director, Talon Outdoor

A Business Director at Talon, Emily has been in the OOH industry for 10 years. Having worked across 7 different agency groups she’s worked across a number of huge brands such as Coca-Cola, Uber and Sony Pictures. Working in planning, as well as being the expert in the medium, she’s responsible for the complete end to end process for every OOH campaign from strategy through to execution.

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Helen Miall

Chief Marketing Officer, VIOOH

Helen has spent over 20 years in the marketing industry, and has experience both client side and media side. As Chief Marketing Officer at VIOOH, the premium marketplace for digital out of home (DOOH), Helen is responsible for VIOOH’s global marketing strategy, thought leadership and supporting the expansion and adoption of programmatic DOOH worldwide by media owners and advertisers. She is committed to helping OOH transition to programmatic, avoiding the pitfalls faced by the publishing industry, by developing and driving the adoption of global standards. She has also held senior marketing roles at O2, Turn, Microsoft Advertising and Air France and was previously Global Head of Marketing at Parkopedia. Helen joined O2 as it was expanding Weve’s proposition, and was responsible for repositioning and rebranding Weve to move it from a pure mobile media to a unique telco-derived data offering. Prior to O2, Helen set up and ran the marketing for advertising technology company Turn, across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. She was appointed Turn’s first non-US based marketer, charged with building the brand and ensuring Turn was top of mind and a thought leader within the programmatic and data-driven marketing industry. A large part of Helen’s role at Turn was helping educate marketers to recognise the opportunities around harnessing big data into actionable insights, and how this impacts not only advertising, but also wider marketing strategy. Whilst at Microsoft Advertising, Helen managed the EMEA Propositions and Go To Market team with responsibility for launching and communicating the value proposition around advertising opportunities across the Microsoft portfolio, including MSN, Xbox and Microsoft Ad Exchange. Helen spent the first 9 years of her career in the airline industry, starting with various roles at United Airlines, after which she headed up Marketing for Air France in the UK & Ireland.

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Mike Fletcher

Contributing Editor, Mediatel News

Mike Fletcher has been writing extensively about media and advertising trends since 2008. Prior to that, he was an editor at Haymarket Media Group for almost ten years. He currently runs his own content agency, Slippy Media, catering for a wide-range of client requirements, including editorial consultancy, social strategy, event photography, videography, reports, blogs and ghost-written material.

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Sophie Pemberton

Group Strategy Director, Talon Outdoor

As part of Talon Outdoor's leadership committee, Sophie heads up the analytics, strategy and insight team and oversees the continued evolution of Ada, Talon's proprietary data management platform. Having spent 10 years in communications and strategy leading the charge on more intelligent planning, this year Sophie won the prestigious WACL Future Leaders Award 2020. When Sophie isn't studying Out of Home audience behaviour and data planning, she is writing tech strategy and solving client challenges and is a regular industry speaker and commentator.

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Gill Huber

Chief Client Officer, Posterscope

Gill has more than 20 years’ experience in media, communications, and business development. She joined Posterscope, PSI and MKTG in 2015 as their Head of Marketing and Communications. In 2018, Gill was appointed to the newly created role of Chief Client Officer of Posterscope. She is responsible for leading growth initiatives to foster agency and direct client relationships, to drive understanding of the full scale of OOH and how it can make a positive impact on brands. She is also responsible for ensuring that the medium has an ever-stronger voice within a wider context such as content, digital, brand building and creativity. Prior to joining Posterscope, Gill worked at Starcom MediaVest Group, as Marketing and Communications Director. Gill started her career in media planning and client management spending time working on brands such as Heineken, McDonald’s Boots the Chemist and Peugeot in her time and worked at media agencies including OMD and Vizeum. Outside of work Gill lives in Chiswick with her husband, son Harry and dog Trevor. She enjoys seeing friends and family, holidaying in Brittany, entertaining at home and tries to get to the gym as much as possible.

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Nicole Lonsdale

Chief Planning Officer, Kinetic

Nicole Lonsdale is Chief Planning Officer at Kinetic, and forms part of the UK Exec Co. As well as helping shape the strategic direction of the business, Nicole leads the Activation Department, who are responsible for client service and the execution of innovative Out of Home advertising solutions. Nicole also oversees Kinetic’s insight, data and creative solutions teams, leading the development of our strategic planning framework and setting best practice. Nicole is a member of WACL and founder of BalanceOOH a network of businesses who champion diversity and inclusion across the OOH sector. Nicole featured in the top 100 FT HERoes in 2018 and 2019.

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