RENEW 2022

Biography

Nina Hossain is an award winning journalist and ITN newscaster.

Nina is lead presenter of the ITV Lunchtime News and also presents News at Ten. She presented the series Coronavirus: Q & A for ITV, throughout the lockdown period of the COVID-19 crisis. She has also co-presented ITV’s Election Live coverage for the 2015, 2017 and 2019 elections.

She joined ITN 15 years ago after being poached from BBC London where she was a launch face of their evening programme.

Born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire she studied at Durham University before gaining a post-graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire.

She is the RTS Presenter of the Year for Regional News, and has picked up three RTS Programme of the year awards when anchoring ITV News London and the ITV Evening News.

She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield.

When not writing and presenting daily news she has worked on documentary programmes, Exposure and On Assignment, has hosted countless awards ceremonies and chaired a range of conferences for both charities and the corporate world.

She has three children, loves travelling and music.

Biography

Peter was appointed to the Board as Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. Peter has extensive experience in digital businesses and a dynamic leadership style. He was previously CEO of Just Eat and before that was Chief Commercial Officer at easyJet and Marketing Director of Audi UK. Peter started his career in banking, holding positions with Barclays, Yorkshire Bank and TSB. He is a Non-Executive Director of Close Brothers Group plc, where he is a member of the Risk Committee. He is currently President of ISBA – the UK trade body for British advertisers.

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Alessandra has an international background in advertising and Marketing and is obsessed with developing people and growing brands, seeing these as the ultimate levers to a successful business.

She joined Tesco in March 2017, as Chief Customer Officer, where she brings together all of the disciplines of marketing, advertising, innovation, loyalty and insight to create strong and distinctive brand proposition – putting customers at the heart of Tesco.

Prior to Tesco, Alessandra worked for Unilever for over 20 years, holding different board-level positions in Marketing and General Management in Italy, Central & Eastern Europe and the USA.

Alessandra started her career in Advertising at JWT Milan, as an apprentice straight out of School. She worked in Advertising for 12 years in Italy and the UK.

She has two grown up children, lives in London travelling around town on a baby-blue Vespa.

Alessandra is the Chair of Teens Unite, a charity helping young adults facing cancer, live their best life.

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Julian Douglas, or Dougie as he is better known, is the Vice Chairman of the VCCP Partnership. He joined the agency in 2008, having previously worked at WCRS, BBH, TBWA, and Grey London twice. With over 20 years experience, he has created some of the world’s most successful campaigns, both in the UK and internationally, for brands including Audi, Lynx, O2 Telefonica, Domino’s, Nationwide and Shell.

He holds a BA and MA from Jesus College, Oxford, an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Fellow and Council Member of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. As the Chair of the IPA’s Talent Leadership Group, he originated Advertising Unlocked, the annual joint industry open-day welcoming thousands of young people into the industry from right across the UK.

Outside of advertising, he is a Founder of Lucky Voice, the UK’s premier chain of karaoke bars and online karaoke. His latest venture is Parent Pool, a social enterprise on a mission to transform the childcare market through collaborative parenting.

Dougie was awarded 2018 Account Person of the Year by Campaign Magazine.

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Shez Iqbal is the Director of Publisher Partnerships and BIPOC EMEA Community Leader at Criteo. With over 16 years of industry experience, he has held various roles across adtech and publisher organisations. Shez is also a mentor at MEFA and BFS, and supports the All In working groups organised by the Advertising Association.

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Kathryn is the CEO of Pearl&Dean, the cinema advertising company, famous for its “Pa, pa, pa, pa” sonic logo.

In previous roles Kathryn has worked in national newspapers, magazines, radio and in a cross media role at Scottish Media Group. As well as having the opportunity to watch films for a living, Kathryn sits on the Development Board of RADA, the Board of AOC Sport (which offers sport opportunities to college students), the Council and Board of the Advertising Association and the Executive Council of SAWA. She is a past president of WACL.

In 2016 she the book she co-authored with Sue Unerman, “The Glass Wall” was published and since then they have given over 150 talks about the book. In October 2020, Sue and Kathryn joined forces with Mark Edwards to write another book “Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion and Equality at Work”. Esquire called it “The most important business book of the year”.

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Andrew is responsible for ISBA’s relationships with agencies, ensuring our agency services are up to date and reflect ISBA’s new remit, particularly in media.

Andrew has an extensive background in media and marketing. Most recently as an ISBA member, he had responsibility for procurement of global media and marketing services at Associated British Foods.

He started his career in procurement at GlaxoSmithKline, leaving to take up the role of EMEA Commercial Director for MediaEdge:CIA . Andrew then formed his own consultancy and went on to deliver Marketing Procurement solutions for organisations including Novartis, Philips, J&J, Nokia and ABF on a global basis.

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Kate is Director of Client Strategy and Planning at ITV and 2021-22 WACL President. A Creative Strategist by background and with a keen interest in behavioural science, she has worked across a wide range of sectors and issues including public health, sustainability, finance, retail and FMCG as well as contributing widely to the industry through the APG and the IPA. At ITV, Kate leads a team of creative, comms and data strategists with a remit to support ITV’s advertisers, advising on everything from the latest mainstream cultural trends, to building more engaging partnerships, measuring campaign effectiveness and using TV for the first time.  As WACL President, Kate’s agenda is around ‘leading for change’ – encouraging WACL’s 220-strong membership to use their influence within their organisations and across the industry to build a fairer and more equitable post-pandemic working world.

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Sebastian Munden is the Executive Vice President & General Manager, Unilever UK & Ireland and joined Unilever in 1990 as a marketing trainee at Lever Brothers in the UK after completing his MA in English Language and Literature at Oxford University. After several brand management and customer team positions in Home and Personal Care, he was appointed category director for Laundry UK in 1997.

Sebastian then went on to hold various senior roles across the US and Europe before being appointed Vice President of the Laundry Category for Europe in 2008 and head of Global Marketing Operations in 2012.

Sebastian now leads the UK & Ireland business, a position he has held since 2017. Sebastian has pioneered new ways of working across Unilever to accelerate the agility of the business, helping to respond to the challenges of today’s competitive environment in an ever more connected world. He champions the sustainable packaging  agenda and the inclusion of more diverse young talent in the workforce, and into Unilever. He is married to Elisabeth and has two children.

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Nicola Kemp is Editorial Director for Creativebrief, where she oversees consumer trends, innovation, and interviews with industry thought-leaders from across the creative industries for all areas of the business. She is a member of the Associate Board and focused on growing the reach, relevance and reputation of Creativebrief and BITE. She started her career as a financial journalist before specialising in technology, social trends and marketing. Her work has appeared across titles including Campaign, WGSN, M&M Global, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Guardian and The Observer. A passionate advocate for diversity in all its forms she won The Women in Marketing Journalist of the year award for her work championing diversity in the creative industries, and was featured in Timewise’s Power 50 for her work on flexible working. She was named as one of the 200 women redefining the creative industry by The Dots an #EverydayAction award winner by Bloom, a Pitch 100 Superwoman and a Campaign Trailblazer of the future. With a 5-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son, Nicola is always on the look-out for new feminist fairy-tales to add to their ever-increasing book collection.