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Allyship Award
Amanda Azeez
Girlguiding
Director of Marketing, Fundraising and Communications
Amanda Azeez exemplifies allyship through her unwavering commitment to gender equality, inclusive leadership, and empowering others. With over 30 years of experience across charity, public, and commercial sectors - including senior roles at Girlguiding, NSPCC, and the BBC - Amanda has consistently championed environments where women an...
Charlie Carrington
Mastercard (UK&I)
Senior Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Communications UKI
Charlie Carrington is a standout force in driving gender equality, using her senior leadership position at Mastercard to redefine how a global brand shows up for women and girls. With more than three decades of marketing experience, Charlie has transformed sponsorship from brand visibility to meaningful action, placing women’s sport an...
Charlotte Read
PRcentric
Director
Charlotte has worked in PR for over 20 years and in 2018 she founded PRcentric, a PR consultancy specialising in creative industries. During her career she has worked with well-known agencies such as Ogilvy, Interbrand, Momentum Worldwide and VCCP, providing strategic guidance and expertise to leadership teams and creatives campaigns. ...
Charlotte Schreurs
Open Justice For All
Founder
After my trial for coercive controlling behaviour and rape left me feeling powerless and disbelieved, I became determined to understand what had happened in the courtroom. I soon discovered that accessing transcripts could cost over £20,000. It was shocking. It exposed a wider culture of closed doors. Instead of accepting it, I launche...
Gill Hardy
WPP
Head of Executive Talent, EMEA
Gill Hardy is a transformative force in marketing, consistently shattering barriers and forging pathways for women with unparalleled vision and dedication. With over two decades of experience, including co-founding a successful executive search firm, serving as MD at Hill & Knowlton Strategies, and driving strategic communications at U...
Lauren Whyman
Generation Media
Director of Client Services
Lauren Whyman is an accomplished media leader and a powerful advocate for inclusion, wellbeing, and female empowerment within the industry. As Director of Client Services at Generation Media, she oversees an award-winning team and has built a reputation for exceptional client stewardship, strategic leadership, and dedication to nurturi...
CEO of the Year
Emma Harman
Whalar
Co-CEO
As a flag-bearer for the power of Creators and the Creator Economy, Emma was invited to 10. Downing Street to present her keynote to the government's New Media Unit. And then again for the Prime Minister. It was another example of the standout year Creators have had in the creative industries and beyond. But for Whalar, under Emm...
Jennifer Quigley-Jones
Digital Voices
CEO
Jennifer Quigley-Jones is the founder and CEO of Digital Voices, a global Influencer Marketing agency at the intersection of culture and commerce. Since launching the agency in 2017 with just £500, she has grown it into a global business delivering culture-led, data-driven campaigns for brands such as DoorDash, General Mills, Amazon...
Karen Martin
BBH
CEO
Karen Martin stands out as a leader who pairs vision with action, restoring creativity to the centre of the industry’s future. As both CEO of BBH and President of the IPA, she has spent the past year on a mission to champion creativity as the most powerful engine for commercial growth. Her mission to reposition creativity at the hear...
Louise Johnson
Fuse International
Global CEO
As the first female UK CEO in the sports marketing industry – and the only global female CEO in the category – Louise Johnson is redefining modern leadership. Transforming Fuse into one of the most influential agencies, doubling its size to 450 people, delivering over 20% year-on-year growth, and achieving industry-leading client satis...
Rebecca Crook
MSQ DX
CEO UK
Rebecca is proving what many doubt: that employee-centric leadership and commercial excellence aren't just compatible—they're inseparable. Understated and quietly confident with a focus on commercials, client relationships, and employee wellbeing, Rebecca leads with substance over style—approachable, genuine, and focused on outcomes ra...
Sachini Imbuldeniya
House of Oddities
CEO
Sachini Imbuldeniya is a frickin’ unicorn. She’s a woman of colour from a working-class background, living with a disability – which makes her representative of the four most underrepresented groups in the UK’s creative industry, and one of just 0.01% of women of colour to own her own creative agency. And not just any agency. Sh...
Suzy Ryder
OMD UK
CEO
Now at the end of her second year as OMD UK’s CEO, Suzy Ryder is leading an agency at the top of its game - with record employee engagement and the highest client billings in its history. Her digital-first perspective has kept OMD one step ahead of the fast-moving landscape and her commitment to industry-wide collaboration has seen her...
Conquering Creativity
Alexandra Taylor
Creative Director, Creative Consultant, Founder of the Art of Art Direction Masterclasses, Keynote Speaker
Alexandra is a trailblazer in British advertising, breaking barriers for women in the industry. She was the first woman worldwide to receive the D&AD President’s Award for outstanding contribution to advertising (2014). The first woman in the UK featured in the D&AD Masterclass Art Direction book, she is recognised among a...
Blair Cooper
Seen Studios
Creative Director
Blair Cooper is the Creative Director at Seen Studios, leading the creative vision, spatial strategy and experiential direction for global brands across retail, sport, fashion and culture. Known for work that is “impression-making, carefully curated and materially expressive,” she guides multidisciplinary teams to create environments t...
Gemma Phillips
Pregnant Then Screwed
Creative Director
With twenty years in advertising, including eight as a Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, I have built a career at the intersection of world-class creativity and meaningful cultural impact. My work is driven by a clear ambition: to use creativity as a force to change systems, shift policy and transform how society sees women, pare...
Georgina Hurcombe
Pop Paper City
Founder/ Producer/ MD
Georgina Hurcombe is an award-winning producer, director, and creator of Pop Paper City a globally broadcast craft-adventure series that inspires millions of children around the globe to make, create, and imagine. As the founder of a Dorset-based independent studio, Georgina has built an original children’s IP from the ground up, reach...
Katie Hunter & Jo Lumb
Wonderhood Studios
Co-Founders & Managing Partners, Wonderhood Makers
When Katie Hunter and Jo Lumb were asked to launch a new social-first content arm by Wonderhood Studios in 2023, they had never worked together before. And, in under three years, the duo have built a seven-figure business, creating something very special in the process. Their vision for Wonderhood Makers was clear from the start:...
Sarah DelloRusso
Amey
Group Head of Marketing
Sarah DelloRusso, Group Head of Marketing at Amey, is redefining what creativity means in one of the world’s most complex and risk-averse sectors: critical infrastructure. In an industry traditionally governed by precision and technical caution, Sarah has elevated creativity from a peripheral “nice-to-have” to a strategic force that dr...
Diverse Inclusive Workplace
Catherine Falla
Medialab Group
Director of People and Culture
Over the past year of rapid growth at Medialab, Catherine Falla has ensured that inclusion becomes more deeply embedded in how the agency hires, supports and develops its people. As People & Culture Director, her focus has been on widening access, strengthening representation and building a culture grounded in trust and psychological s...
Janita Lakhanpal
Ketchum UK
Board Director and Inclusion Chair
Janita Lakhanpal is a values-driven leader whose influence has reshaped both Ketchum UK and the wider communications industry. As a Board Member and Chair of Ketchum’s Inclusion Council, she has made inclusion inseparable from business success, embedding equity, belonging, and wellbeing into the fabric of organisational performance. ...
Kate Higham
Born Social
Managing Director
In a year marked by global backsliding on DEI, Kate Higham stepped into the role of Managing Director at Born Social, determined to prove that inclusion, commercial growth, and creativity don’t just coexist; they fuel one another. When she joined, Born was a 25-person start-up. Today, it’s a 180-strong, B Corp-certified agency across L...
Paige Warnes
isobel
Account Director, Marketing & New Business
Paige Warnes is the driving force behind inclusion and positive culture at isobel. As our DE&I Lead, she has transformed how our agency, and those we work with, think, talk and act around diversity, equality and inclusion. Through agency-wide training and discussion sessions on topics from Female Leadership and Racial Diversity to Ne...
Sachini Imbuldeniya
House of Oddities
CEO
According to the UK Government APPG for Creative Diversity there are four massively underrepresented groups in the creative industries. Women. People of Colour. People from working class origins. People living with disabilities. As an example, the number of women creative directors in the UK sits around 11%. Women who own and ru...
Entrepreneur of the Year
Adrienn Major
POD LDN
Founder
Adrienn Major is a phenomenon; a female entrepreneur who has been shaking up the post production industry and pioneering a new way of working since launching her own company, POD LDN, in 2020. Having worked in virtually every element of the production process, Adrienn believed the industry was ripe for a shake-up and started POD...
Hannah Blake
dmg media
Managing Director, Commercial - New Media & Creator Media
Simply put: Hannah Blake is rewriting the rulebook for media entrepreneurship. Recently made Managing Director, Commercial — New Media & Creator Media, she's built a £2.5m revenue business from scratch while fundamentally reshaping how a legacy publisher approaches digital content. Her entrepreneurial journey started with foundi...
Hannah Mirza
Responsible Marketing Advisory
Founder & CEO
Hannah Mirza never planned to become a founder, she became one because she saw a gap no one else was filling. After two decades leading global media innovation at MediaCom, Mindshare and Isobar, she realised brands were striving to act responsibly but lacked the tools to turn intention into impact. So, she built them. In 2022, H...
Jennifer Quigley-Jones
Digital Voices
CEO
Jennifer Quigley-Jones is the founder and CEO of Digital Voices, a global Influencer Marketing agency at the intersection of culture and commerce. Since launching the agency in 2017 with just £500, she has grown it into a global business delivering culture-led, data-driven campaigns for brands such as DoorDash, General Mills, Amazon...
Health & Wellbeing Award
To Be Announced on the Night
Making Media Matter
Caroline Buckingham
Croud
Planning Director
Caroline Buckingham is redefining what modern media leadership looks like – fusing creativity, strategy, and innovation to deliver tangible business and cultural impact. As Planning Director at Croud, she has spearheaded two pioneering initiatives that are reshaping how media is planned, measured, and optimised. Future Fit, Carol...
Holly Dewsbury
Amazon Ads
Principal, Global Agency Development
Holly stands as a distinguished leader at the intersection of technology and Media, with a proven 15-year track record of driving transformational change across the industry's most influential organizations. Her strategic vision has consistently advanced the evolution of Media, particularly through leadership roles at X, Meta, and curr...
Laura Rowe
OMD UK
Managing Partner, Head of Decisions Science
“You can be a commercial, inclusive AND effectiveness-driven powerhouse.” From building a research programme—The Real Britain Series—to drive authentic representation in client work, to uniting the industry in challenging outdated socio-economic profiling through reCLASSified, Laura Rowe is pushing media forward. Coupled with del...
Sangeetha Mahadevan
Omnicom Media Group- OMG UNITE
Managing Partner
For 14 years, Sangeetha has built an international career, across South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and the UK, focused on making media matter, as a driver of equity, inclusion, and commercial impact for her organisations and clients. Her media journey began in India, where she led the Tata Group’s Cannes-shortlisted campai...
Mentor of the Year
Alissa Khan-Whelan
Happy Yolk
CEO and Founder
Alissa Khan-Whelan is the Founder and CEO of Happy Yolk, a creative agency that specialises in strategic social content and storytelling for brands. She leads with the belief that mentorship can be life changing and has created an organisation where confidence, clarity and development are central to the culture. Her commitment to...
Jo Blake
MI Media
Head of Investment
Jo Blake embodies what it means to be a mentor, empowering others to grow with purpose, confidence and resilience. With over 30 years of experience in media with leadership roles at Zenith, Carat and Havas, Jo now sits on the senior leadership team at MI Media as Head of Investment and Head of People. Her dual focus on commercial excel...
Tara Innes
Croud
General Manager, Shrewsbury & GMP Operations Lead
Tara Innes exemplifies what it means to be a mentor who transforms potential into performance. As Head of Croud’s Shrewsbury office and global lead for data and analytics operations, she combines deep technical expertise with a people-first approach, creating an environment where others can truly thrive. Her vision is to make Shr...
Transforming Technology
Alex Dalman
VCCP
Managing Partner and Head of Social & Innovation
Alex Dalman embodies a rare blend of creative vision, innovation and organisational expertise. Alex, as our Head of Social and Innovation, thrives on turning challenging briefs into impactful, contemporary work. Alex leads VCCP’s AI agency faith. Having worked with Virgin Media O2 for 6 years, O2 came to Alex with another conundr...
Cara Walker
adm Indicia
Global Chief Technology Officer
“I’m not a techy by trade, but I believe in how technology can transform a business.” Cara Walker neatly encapsulates her positive, human-first approach to technology leadership. As Global Chief Technology Officer at adm Indicia, she works tirelessly to position technological change as an enabler, rather than a threat, driving the adop...
Donia Baddou
Lumen Research
Global VP of Partnerships
Donia’s Moroccan parents moved to France after she was born, working hard to provide for her under tough circumstances within the Parisian social housing system. She was the first in her family to go to university before moving to the UK to pursue her dreams. But media, and tech in particular, is vastly under-represented in terms of wo...
Dragica Kostic-Perovic
Ricardo
Chief Engineer
Dragica has over 25 years’ experience gained within automotive electric powertrain, defence and industrial automation. She has led the development of breakthrough technologies for electric powertrain and industrial applications, in a range of businesses, including working with innovative start-ups, Tier 1 and Tier 2 and global OEMs to ...
Ester Marchetti
Bolt Insight
Co-founder and Head of Innovation
Ester Marchetti built her career on a strong international academic foundation, studying Business Administration at Università Bocconi before earning a master’s in International Business at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. This mix of analytical training and global exposure shaped her strategic mindset and her ability to approach marke...
Jacqui Merrington
Mail Metro Media
Director of AI
Jacqui Merrington is leading a cultural transformation that positions AI not as a threat to journalism but as a catalyst for creativity, efficiency, and commercial growth. Her strategy is rooted in storytelling, not engineering. As a lifelong journalist and editor, Jacqui brings a unique lens to technology. This year, while commuting...
Julie Woods-Moss
Thoughtworks
Chief Marketing Officer
Julie Woods-Moss is a pioneering business leader who is fundamentally redefining how marketing and technology intersect to deliver measurable business impact. As Chief Marketing Officer at Thoughtworks, she has architected an award-winning AI strategy (AI4GTM), a blueprint guiding enterprises to harness AI for unprecedented growth, eff...
Visionary Business Leader
Emma Beckmann
Landor
Group Chief Growth Officer
Emma Beckmann is Landor’s global growth architect - an entrepreneurial leader with deep experience in building offices, expanding client relationships, and driving transformation across regions and sectors. With 30 years at Landor, including leadership of the EMEA business, she is now focused on shaping Landor’s global global commercia...
Kate Hardcastle MBE
Insight with Passion/ Future Stores
Founder / Global Head of Consumer Engagement
The future belongs to the consumer and Kate Hardcastle MBE is their voice.” Fifteen years ago on BBC Newsnight, Kate Hardcastle MBE argued that the high street wasn’t dying, it was evolving. Ten years ago, she fronted her own prime-time ITV documentary showing how years of inconsistency had failed consumers. Today, as Global Head...
Katie Mitchell
Seen Studios
Managing Director
Katie exemplifies visionary business leadership: delivering exceptional growth, redefining understanding of female leadership, and extending her influence both within Seen Studios and the wider industry. Her innovative thinking has transformed Seen Studios' positioning and capabilities, leading to the agency's most ambitious year yet, ...
Lucy Daramola
Microsoft Advertising
EMEA Group Account Director
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder. This quote captures Lucy Daramola’s 18-year journey as a visionary leader committed to commercial excellence, equity, and representation. Born in East London, Lucy forged her path through resilience and bold decisions, creating opportunities rather than waiting for them....
Munnawar Chishty
Carlsberg Britvic
Chief Marketing Officer
As Chief Marketing Officer of Carlsberg Britvic, Munnawar Chishty exemplifies visionary leadership in the FMCG sector. With over 15 years of experience, she has redefined marketing through emotionally resonant, brand-led storytelling that drives both cultural relevance and commercial growth. Following the January 2025 merger of ...
Shazia Ginai
Lumen Research
VP of Consultancy
Shazia has been a business growth and transformation leader across multiple marketplaces for 20+ years. From P&G, ghd, Catalyx, Neuro-Insight, and now VP of Consultancy at Lumen Research she harnesses a rare blend of sharp commercial acumen, deep empathy, and neuroscience-backed insight to understand human behaviour to drive best in cl...
Stephanie Brimacombe
VCCP
Global Chief Growth Officer, CEO EMEA, VCCP and CEO, VCCP Roar
Steph Brimacombe has spent 15 years helping to shape VCCP into one of the world’s leading integrated agency networks. As Global Chief Growth Officer, EMEA CEO and CEO of VCCP Roar, VCCP’s newly launched PR offering, Steph has been the driving force behind the agency’s international expansion, securing key client wins and oversee...
Rising to the Top
Rising to the Top - Advertising
Alba Abello Balmes
Twitch Brand Partnership Studio
Senior Creative Strategist
Alba Abelló’s journey into advertising has been shaped by curiosity, resilience, and a love for creativity. Originally from Barcelona, she took a leap of faith during two of the most uncertain moments in recent history—moving abroad amid the pandemic and Brexit. That bold step laid the foundation for a career defined by openness to cha...
Blanche Brown
EY
Supervising Associate, Global Brand, Marketing & Communications
Blanche Brown is a rising star in global advertising and brand communications. First joining EY in 2021 as a fresh graduate, she hit the ground running and co-led the branding and creative rollout of one of EY’s signature programs, Entrepreneur Of The Year™ (EOY) — achieving 98% adoption across 60+ regions and unifying creative storyte...
Gursharan Panesar
Seen Studios
Senior Creative Strategist
Gursharan became Seen Studios' first in-house strategist towards the end of 2024. Within just 12 months, she elevated the framework that defines the agency's strategic IP and product, transforming how strategy is delivered. Her approach rejects algorithmic trends and buzzwords in favour of genuine human insight, grounding brand strateg...
Lucy Muggleton
McCann Birmingham
Copywriter
Lucy Muggleton, a midweight copywriter at McCann in Birmingham, is a rising star in the advertising industry, celebrated for her compassion, leadership, and commitment to inclusivity. Since joining McCann as an intern in 2021, Lucy has demonstrated resilience and determination, overcoming personal challenges, including a significant me...
Nicole Sime
Ear to the Ground
Digital & Social Content Lead
Nicole Sime is an outstanding emerging leader who has already reshaped how Ear to the Ground delivers culturally powerful, social-first creativity. Recently promoted into a brand new agency role of Digital & Social Content Lead as a result of her consistently driving measurable impact across some of the agency’s most important work. ...
Zoe Stevens
Craft Media London
Comms Planning Director
Zoe joined Craft Media London as an intern in 2019 and has progressed to Comms Planning Director within six years, consistently recognised for her leadership, problem solving skills, and positive influence. She oversees multi-market planning on some of Craft’s most ambitious accounts, holds the IPA Advanced Certificate in Effectiveness...
Rising to the Top - Marketing
Alexandra Fuscas
Fireaway Pizza
Brand Manager
Alexa is an exceptional Brand Manager whose rapid development, creativity, and commercial impact have transformed Fireaway Pizza’s marketing performance over the past year. Joining the company as a Marketing Assistant after studying Design, she quickly established herself as a standout talent and was promoted earlier this year. A...
Alexandra Kirk
UKTV
Senior Digital Creative
Alex Kirk is an absolute tour de force in the world of entertainment marketing. With her never settle attitude, she’s consistently advocates for better creativity across all formats, overdelivering against campaign KPIs and driving significant business success. At A+E Networks, on her own initiative she led the charge for Sky Histor...
Imogen Davies
Procter & Gamble
Senior Brand Manager
We are delighted to nominate Imogen for Campaign’s Rising to the Top Award. Imogen has made an extraordinary impact during her time at P&G, and in the past year, has not only driven business transformation across two flagship brands, but crucially has shaped the future of P&G’s marketing talent. Recognising an opportunity...
Judit Plein
Netflix
Digital Campaign Manager
In an industry defined by rapid change, Judit Plein has emerged as a talent whose impact far exceeds her two years of experience. She has held leading roles across two of the world’s most influential tech companies. First, helping build TikTok Shop into the powerhouse it is today, and now, growing Netflix’s ads tier. Her career has bee...
Kanisha Jhaveri
Uncovered
Marketing Manager
Kanisha stepped into Uncovered as its first ever B2B Marketing Manager with a blank canvas and a big brief: build a marketing engine that elevates the agency’s reputation and accelerates growth! With experience across brands including Mercedes-Benz Vans and NordVPN, Kanisha quickly aligned leadership and creative teams to help shape a ...
Luisa Pisaturo
Seen Studios
Creative Partnerships Manager
Making waves within experiential marketing, Luisa specialises in ideating and executing culturally relevant brand experiences that connect global brands with local communities, with her work delivering measurable brand impact across diverse European markets. She independently led partnership initiatives for Timberland's 'Advice of an I...
Noelle Runo
Making Science
Head of International Marketing & Communication
Noelle Runo is an exceptional candidate for the Rising to the Top award, representing a new benchmark for strategic marketing leadership and innovation at Making Science. Based in London, as Head of International Marketing & Communications, she has been a catalyst for significant business growth, successfully managing the commission an...
Rising to the Top - Media
Arayo Ajeigbe
Publicis Media
Global Partnerships Manager
Arayo is a fast-rising Global Partnerships Manager at Publicis Media whose work sits at the intersection of strategy, culture and commercial innovation. Since entering the industry in 2021, she has demonstrated exceptional trajectory, securing multiple promotions in record time and becoming a trusted strategic partner for some of the a...
Hollie Lamond
WPP Media Solutions
Client Services Associate Director
Throughout my career, I have focused on empowering emerging talent and creating environments where people can grow with confidence. As an Associate Director at WPP Media, I’ve led on major accounts across EssenceMediacom, while ensuring my team receive the tailored training, exposure and support they need to progress. My leadership app...
Kenya Williams
Digital Cinema Media
Project Manager
Kenya’s hallmark calmness under pressure has seen her secure roles at McCann Manchester, HydraFacial and now, DCM Studios, where she quickly turned a fixed-term contract into a permanent position. Since then, she has delivered standout experiential work for leading brands including LEGO, JD, Little Moons, Channel 4 and Kia. A na...
Skye Wilde
Dentsu B2B
Account Director
From a 17-year-old apprentice to leading £43M accounts today, Skye exemplifies the next generation of women leaders. Navigating high-pressure environments and complex briefs at a young age demanded resilience and confidence, and Skye embraced every obstacle as an opportunity to learn. Her ambition, empathy and ability to innovate make ...
Yas Frasso
Mediaplus UK
Digital Business Director
Yas’ career so far has been driven by her ability to see what needs to be done, take ownership independently, and deliver work that moves teams, clients and the agency forward. In seven years, she has stepped naturally into leadership roles, supported by a Mini MBA, four years of MIPA status and multiple industry qualifications that un...
Zoe White
OMD UK
Associate Director, AV
Zoe stepped into media as one of the first people to be accepted onto OMD’s apprenticeship scheme in 2021. While she didn’t come with the traditional credentials or top grades, what she did have was even more important - curiosity in abundance and a willingness to step outside her comfort zone. Four years on, Zoe is an Associate AV Dir...
