Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, an attractively vague job title which has allowed him to co-found a behavioral science practice within the agency

He was previously a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988.

He has been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global.

Growit Group provides coaching & consulting for Digital Agencies on how to run successful and profitable businesses.

Clodagh S.Higgins is an ex-Hubspotter, now Agency coach and consultant that has owned her own Digital Agency for 8+ years in Sydney & Dublin. She has worked with over 500+ agencies helping them grow and scale their businesses.

She is the author of A Happy & Healthy Digital Agency and hosts a weekly podcast, interviewing Agency Owners about the highs and lows of running an agency.

Doug Kessler is the Co-founder of Velocity Partners. They are multi-award-winning B2B tech marketing agency who help their clients develop compelling stories, then drive these stories into the marketplace.

Their content, including CRAP and Insane Honesty, have gone truly vial and has been shared millions of times gaining them international recognition in the process.

Nik Govier, she is the Founder and CEO of Blurred.

She set up the company in January 2019 and within 6 months won several major global clients, including, BT, Marriott and Coke. They were named PR Week’s #1 ‘ONE TO WATCH’ FOR 2019.

She was named one of the Sunday Times 35 under 35. Management Today also featured her on its cover in an exhibition of business leaders.

Having read his award-winning book from cover to cover, we had to have a conversation with Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.

He’s a leading light when it comes to innovation, focus, leadership, simplicity and execution. Firms like Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Pixar and Salesforce invite him to speak to their teams, not to mention his appearances at SXSW and the World Economic Forum.

Mike Paton is the co-author of Get a Grip (a fable of best-selling book Traction) which teaches the Entrepreneurial Operating System or EOS used by thousands of businesses worldwide to take the stress out of growing their businesses.

If you are at all interested in using a process to remove the stress and uncertainty of growing your business, then you will find this conversation absolutely fascinating.

https://www.eosworldwide.com/

Brent Adamson serves as the “chief storyteller” for Gartner’s sales and marketing practices. He is the co-author of the best-selling book The Challenger Sale and The Challenger Customer and a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes. 

He is a sought-after speaker, researcher, author, and facilitator with more than 25 years of experience. 

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Ben Quigley is the Group Chief Executive at Everything Different. 

They are an independent group of creative brand strategy, disruptive insight and platform and experiences companies.

Group clients include L'Oreal, Sky, Land Securities and Gulf Bank. 

He leads the way to make Everything Different a destination brand for clients who share the group's purpose to always challenge the status quo.

They are a top 75 Campaign agency ranked 2019. And a top 20 Campaign regional agency ranked 2019.

This is our first Agency Dealmasters live event. Achieve exceptional B2B agency growth where the heavyweight tech and agency Chairman Felix Velarde interviewed Joe Hine from SI Partners.

They discussed:

What are the key tenants of a good strategy

How agencies can increase their valuation

What buyers look for in agencies

What surprises most entrepreneurs in the sale process

When is the right time to sell and more 

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Julianna Richter is a partner at Waypoint Partners, a leading Growth and M&A Advisory firm in the UK and US.

She has spent the last 18 years in senior and agency leadership roles at Edelman, the world’s largest independent communications firm where she served as Chief Operating Officer of the largest region with 2,700 employees and revenue of close to $500 million.

We discuss:

Agency growth

Technology

Leadership

Diversity & Inclusion