Kate Gandhi is a senior marketing leader with over 20 years’ experience building challenger brands across FMCG, media, entertainment, and D2C. Her career began at Diageo, where she spent ten years working across Global Travel, the Middle East, Africa and Europe — living in Dubai, leading portfolio strategy across domestic and duty-free markets, and delivering what became Diageo’s fastest-ever new-to-world innovation that scaled from nothing to £150m in a year.
From there, Kate moved into media and entertainment and then led a transformation scaling a start-up coffee brand. More recently she has operated at VP level within iGaming, sports and lottery, leading an internal marketing function as a full-service agency — spanning digital marketing, strategy, organic search, brand, creative production, and research.
Kate is a Marketing Academy Scholar (2016) and an Executive Coach, and brings both disciplines into her leadership style: empowering teams to think like challengers, move fast, and build things that last. She mentors through Google’s Power programme and leads growth boards for Marketing Academy alumni.
Kate is known for the quality of the teams she builds as much as the results they deliver combining rigorous commercial thinking, a bias for action, and a genuine belief that the best marketing comes from teams who feel enabled to be brave.
