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Speakers from the previous Rethink Pink!
Conference- 13th October 2004
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Michele Miller has been an explorer her entire life and has great stories to show for it. A classical musician by training, she holds degrees in education and business administration. She has worked for companies as small as Diapers Unlimited delivery service (where she discovered the true meaning of customer service and loyalty) and as large as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Sirius Satellite Radio. She also devoted seven years to growing her own public relations firm in New York.
Michele is now a Wizard of Ads partner working with extraordinary people and having the opportunity to merge her professional background with her personal principles.
"Michele Miller is the author of "The Natural Advantages of Women" (Wizard Academy Press), the audiobook that has been hailed for its concepts, principles, and new scientific information that explains how the female brain is "hardwired" for personal greatness." |  |
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Dr Glenda Stone is CEO of Aurora, an organisation that helps companies understand where women want to work, spend and invest. Glenda also chairs the Aurora Women's Network with 16,000 members.
Glenda was recognised as the 2002 European Woman of Achievement for her continuous energy and efforts in working for the advancement of women, and in 2003 was appointed by Her Majesty The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh as a "Pioneer for entrepreneurism and campaigning for women".
Glenda sits on the DTI Gender Expert Group on Trade and is regularly quoted in the press weekly regarding the economic advancement of women. |  |
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Becky Barry began her working career as a media planner working across Guinness, The Samaritans and Dalgety. She then switched to Account Planning and continued working on Guinness for Publicis.
During her time there she fell in love with the FMCG market and worked with big brands such as McVities Jaffa Cakes, Penguin, Phileas Fogg, Nestle, Muller, Coca Cola and Diet Coke.
Having developed this interest Becky then wanted to add a big retail name to her experience and joined Leo Burnett London to work on McDonald's. 18 months ago Becky changed direction again and now is responsible for the government's new anti-drink drive campaign, child and teenage road safety as well P&G's Aussie Haircare, Daz, Fairy and Bounce.
Becky is gobsmacked by our industry's inability to adapt to an ever changing world and wants very much to listen, learn and ultimately prticipate in developing a better and more posperous future that no longer marginalise Britains biggest segment - Women.
Becky's passions include all reality TV shows, any home make-over programmes, gossip magazines, fashion magazines, movies and a new found interest in the hugely dramatic world of American politics. |  |
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| Catherine Moustou is a Board Account Planner at DDB London. She joined DDB in 2000 having spent the first 5 years of her career at Leo Burnett London. During this time she has worked on a diverse range of local and global brands with a core target audience of women - from food to fempro, from skincare to petcare and from cosmetics to fashion. |  |
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Jonathan Mildenhall started his career in advertising as a graduate trainee, at McCann-Erickson, in 1990. Whilst there he worked on the Nescafe Gold Blend account as well as Unilever's Birds Eye Walls and Van den Berg business.
In 1993 he moved to Bartle Bogle Hegarty to work on the high profile Audi, Coca-Cola and Alfred Dunhill accounts.
In 1996 Jonathan joined Lowe Howard-Spink as Account Director on Smirnoff worldwide. He was promoted to the Agency Board of Directors in 1997, taking responsibility for the Vauxhall account in June 1998.
Jonathan joined HHCL & Partners in January 2000 as head of account management responsible for a discipline of 33 account managers and account directors.
Jonathan joined TBWA LONDON as a managing partner in September 2001.
In October 2002 Jonathan was promoted to the role of Joint Managing Director. He was made the sole Managing Director of TBWA LONDON in December 2003.
Other industry responsibilities include:
The co-chair of the IPA's Ethnic Diversity campaign.
A council steering member for the IPA.
A trustee of the Arts and Business Council.
A member of the British American Project. |  |
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Emma Laney graduated from Downing College, Cambridge, in with an MA in French & Italian. She then worked for several years in brand consultancy, working on projects for a range of clients including Coca-Cola, GM, GSK, Levi's©, Unilever and Manor Bakeries.
She has also spent time clientside brand managing Fanta, in the year when the brand was voted fastest growing fmcg brand by Marketing Week. Since joining McCann-Erickson in 2002, she has worked for Cereal Partners, Maybelline, L'Oreal and Premier Foods. Last year, she re-established McCann Pulse, which runs insight and trends led projects for the agency. |  |
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Jasmine Montgomery joined FutureBrand in 2003. She is responsible for supporting key clients in brand strategy, naming and identity projects.
Prior to joining us she was VP Group Branding and Marketing at DBS Bank in Singapore in charge of overseeing the implementation of a new brand positioning and identity for this leading bank in the region, working closely with FutureBrand's team on the project.
Prior to this Jasmine spent two years at Interbrand advising clients such as GM, Sparq, BMW and Credit Suisse and four years at Fitch in London advising Royal Doulton, Procter and Gamble, BT, Cyprus Popular Bank, Barclays and ING. In the travel sector her clients included BAA, Luton, and Belfast International Airports and Starwood Hotels.
Earlier in her career she worked as team leader in the fields of qualitative and quantitative research at Hall and Partners and Millward Brown International.
Jasmine has lived in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Laos, America and France and she speaks French and Indonesian.
Jasmine obtained a BA in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1994. |  |
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Fiona Jack is Managing Director of Green Light International, an international qualitative research company established in 1998, and recent winner of the BMRA Research Effectiveness Award for Innovation.
A linguist by background, Fiona's interest has always been in the field of international research, and she has specialist expertise in conducting research not only in Europe but on a global scale.
During the course of working globally for a number of multi-national clients, she has gained insights into marketing to women. |  |
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Zalpha is a planning consultancy that specialises in tuning consumer insights into customer proposition to maximise the impact of marketing communications.
Prior to joining ZALPHA, John worked on the Client side for 4 years, with Canon UK in product management and direct marketing. He then spent over 3 years with a US Management Consultancy working principally in the areas of predictive modelling and data analysis to augment direct marketing strategy for financial services and catalogues.
This background has proved invaluable in helping ZALPHA to develop leading edge direct communication and business strategies for our Clients, particularly in the financial services sector, telecoms and healthcare.
Most recently, John has been involved in developing a global business strategy for a large multi-national. This strategy has been developed as a result of identifying and understanding market specific characteristics cultural dimensions, data and brand insights within each market. Markets covered range from South America; key European countries and major Far East economies.
John's experience includes significant work across a number of business to business clients helping them to develop appropriate data driven business strategies and customer focussed segmentation.
John has worked on a number of strategic initiatives for Clients including Pfizer, cahoot, Worldcom, Abbey National Bank, Sainsbury's Bank, Prudential and Sage. |  |
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After completing an English degree at Cambridge where she tried to pass herself off as a lefty-feminist type, Lindsey alienated her friends, abandoned her principles and confounded expectations by selling out to take the advertising dollar.
She has worked in the industry for 16 years at a range of agencies and across a range of disciplines from sales promotion, direct marketing to advertising. During this time she has always retained a strong interest in issues related to women in communications.
She has been at J Walter Thompson for 7 years where she has had the opportunity to immerse herself in brands with a female target audience: as consumer, purchaser, influencer or provider. She has been involved with everything from Calpol to Cornflakes to Kit Kat and most notably was responsible for the "It's not for girls" campaign for Yorkie, which is either one of the most sexist campaigns ever produced or an enlightened post-feminist triumph - depending on who you're talking to.
Lindsey is also a mother of 2 (girls, obviously) works 4 days a week and is a keen proponent of work life balance. For fun, she tries to convince others that having a life is achievable in the communications industry. |  |
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Sue Daun's current clients include SAB Miller, Vodafone, Audi, John Lewis, Oskar Mobil and Pilsner Urquell. Sue joined Enterprise IG as Design Director of our specialist Brand Experience team, a team of experts who blend strategy and creativity to conceive relevant and effective brand experiences for our clients. Her projects range from retail environments and live events through to strategies for the creation of new and rejuvenated brands.
Sue has worked extensively in brand experience having been involved in the development of many existing retail brands and the creation of new ones across a variety of sectors and regions around the world.
Prior to joining Enterprise IG Sue was Design Director at Fitch where she worked on a wide variety of projects including work for Premier Automotive Group, P&G [Olay colour and Max factor], WHSmiths, Jaguar, ING Bank, Segafredo, Diageo, Coca Cola, Royal and Sun Alliance, 3G for Hutchison Whampoa, One2One, Park 'n' Shop Hong Kong and Safeway. |  |
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Rebekka Bay established herself several years ago as an independent future forecaster, and recently joined Enterprise IG as head of consumer trends. Rebekka has considerable experience in the area of trend forecast, and has worked with a host of different clients.
Rebekka's expertise are found in areas as varied as luxury, well-being, food and retail trends and she is an expert on consumer behaviour. Rebekka's recent clients include B&Q, M&S, L'Oreal, Dunhill, Vodafone, Premium Automotive Group and Harrods. |  |
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Wendy Gordon is a co-founder and partner at Acacia Avenue, a research and strategy consultancy formed in September 2002. Previously she was a founding partner of The Fourth Room - a strategic brand consultancy and before that a founder of The Research Business International one of the most innovative qualitative specialist companies in the world.
Wendy is a Fellow of the Market Research Society, a visiting professor at Birmingham Business School and has been honoured by the Women's Advertising Club as one of its "Women of Achievement". She has written two books, is a frequent speaker at conferences, teaches "Goodthinking" master classes world-wide and has published papers in many industry publications.
Acacia Avenue was founded to give businesses a vivid connection to people's everyday life and then answer the big So What questions to turn insight into strategy. They do this for companies such as Coca-cola, American Express, Channel Four, Camelot, WCRS, Australian Tourist Commission, Interbrand and BP. |  |
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Jan Adcock started her career in media in 1986 when she joined Ulster TV as a sales executive. After two years of selling airtime to London agencies, Jan turned to the world of women's magazines. Her first magazine appointment was with Carlton Magazines on Options, which later become part of the IPC Southbank group. After three years with Carlton/IPC, Jan went to work on the Murdoch magazine launch, Mirabella, as advertisement manager.
Jan then joined Hachette Magazines in 1991 as the advertisement director on British ELLE and after two years moved to the National Magazine Company in 1993. Within a year she had been promoted to publisher on Company, before moving to the parenting titles, M and Having A Baby as group publisher in April 1999.
In 1998 Jan was short-listed for PPA Publisher of the Year and Company magazine was shortlisted for Magazine of the Year. Jan was made publishing director of the Cosmopolitan group in September 2000. She joined the National Magazine Company Executive Committee in June 2002 and became a Company Director in April 2003. |  |
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After leaving Birmingham University, Sam Baker started her journalistic career at Chat magazine, where she rapidly rose from Practicals Assistant to Deputy Practicals Editor before becoming a Features Writer. She then became Senior Features Writer of Take A Break. In 1993 she joined Emap as Features Editor on New Woman and, in 1995, she was promoted to Deputy Editor. During this time she also worked on the initial dummies for Red magazine. In September 1996, she was made Editor of the ailing teen weekly Just Seventeen. By April 1997 it had become a teen style monthly and sales had risen by 220%. She subsequently became editor of Emap's young women's style magazine Minx.
Sam was previously the editor of National Magazine's Company magazine between November 1998 and December 2003. Sam presided over a period of unprecedented success at Company, increasing circulation by 50% but left to work on her first novel, 'Fashion Victim', which is now complete.
Sam returned to National Magazine Company to become Editor of Cosmopolitan in July 2004. |  |
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