Where do you draw the line?

Biography

Stephen leads the Advertising Association, which is the UK representative for Cannes Lions this year. As such, Stephen will be playing a leading role in the UK advertising’s involvement and activities at the festival.

Stephen was appointed CEO of the Advertising Association in September 2016. Having held management roles in three agencies (Leo Burnett, WCRS/Engine and DDB/adam&eveDDB), Stephen currently chairs youth marketing agency Livity. He was recently Chairman of Lexis PR and a founder and director of U, a challenger to conventional banks.

Stephen is a past President of NABS and serves on the board of the History of Advertising Trust. He was IPA President (2003-05) where he led both their first ethnic diversity initiative and transformed its professional qualifications for new industry entrants, which over 15,000 people have now sat and passed.

In Cannes

Stephen spoke at the ‘House of Commons in Cannes’ event on Tuesday 18th June and the ‘Where do you Draw the Line’ and ‘Rebuilding Public Trust in Advertising’ events on Wednesday 19th June.

Biography

Alice is Head of Communications for IPG Mediabrands EMEA. After starting her career in the creative industry as a copywriter, she moved into the media world to join IPG agency UM in 2010. She has spent the last ten years working in UK-based communications roles across the IPG Mediabrands network, and now heads up marketing and communications for the group across EMEA. Over the past 18 months, IPG Mediabrands has put a huge amount of emphasis on employee welfare, flexible working and diversity and inclusion initiatives – and has been a key collaborator in championing the timeTo initiative.

Biography

Ollie Easthope is an award-winning creative at RAPP who brought his love of all things Copy to the London agency in 2017. Over six years in advertising he has created campaigns for a host of household names, including Krispy Kreme, PayPal, Virgin Media, Dulux and Intel. Since joining RAPP he has also become an ardent supporter of #timeTo and was instrumental in kicking off an agency-wide discussion about the code of conduct earlier this year.

In Cannes

Oliver spoke at the ‘Where do you draw the line?’ event on Wednesday 19th June.

Biography

Despite a degree in biochemistry and a family hell bent on her becoming a doctor. Katie found her way into advertising through work experience at CDP over 20 years ago. No career advisor had ever told her that jobs existed where you could simultaneously use your left and right brain and Katie was sold. She worked at Saatchi & Saatchi and BBH, before arriving at Leo Burnett where she worked on McDonald’s, Homebase and COI before becoming Marketing Director and latterly Managing Director. She left big agency world fascinated by the world of small, ambitious start ups with a different offering and perspective on the world. She was Gravity Road’s first Managing Director, helping to grow and structure the business as it became a respected independent agency. She then worked at Sunshine. She had a disastrous 21 days at Y&R before it merged with VML but never have the words ‘everything happens for a reason’ been truer because Katie is now CEO of Lucky Generals. Probably the best job in the world.

In Cannes

Katie spoke at the ‘Where do you draw the line’ event on Wednesday 19th June.