“A truly great Mentor is hard to find, difficult to part with and impossible to forget’’
The Marketing Academy passionately advocates the power of mentoring. So much so that mentoring has formed a core part of their coveted Scholarship Programme for the last 9 years. The 9 month leadership development programme for emerging talent attracts hundreds of the industry’s highest profile CEO’s and CMO’s who each gift their time to mentor the Academys Scholars.
For the 9th year running the graduating class of 30 Scholars have each selected just one person from all the inspirational leaders they’ve met during the 2018 programme to receive a ‘Mentor Award’. The awards act as a small way of appreciating the individual whose advice or input made an extra special impact on the Scholar and is one of the only industry awards that recognises leaders on a personal level rather than for the job they hold.
Founder & CEO of The Marketing Academy Sherilyn Shackell said ‘We are supremely lucky to have over 300 mentors & speakers gifting their time to our programmes around the world, freely sharing their wisdom and experience. We created these Awards to celebrate these wonderful people’.
At a graduation party hosted at Unilever House on 7th February The Marketing Academy UK’s graduating Scholars announced this years winners of The Marketing Academy 2018 Mentor Awards;
Ben Slater, CEO & Founder, Bow & Arrow
Chris Duncan, Managing Director The Times Newspaper, News UK
Claire Cronin, SVP Marketing, Virgin Atlantic
David Wheldon, CMO, Royal Bank of Scotland
Deborah Dolce, Group Brand & Marketing Director for TJX Europe
Ed Smith, General Manager Integrated Marketing EU, Amazon
Emma Harris, Founder, Glow
Gail Gallie, Founder, Project Everyone
Guy North, Managing Director, Freeview
Helen Warren-Piper, Sales Director Mars Pet Nutrition UK, Mars Petcare
Hugh Derrick, Partner, eatbigfish
Ian Armstrong, Former Global Head of Advertising, Jaguar Cars
James Brett, Founder, Plant for Peace
John Amaechi, CEO, Amaechi Performance Systems Ltd
Kristof Fahy, Chief Customer Officer, Hostelworld Group
Leila Woodington, Head of Marketing Northern Europe, Facebook
Mark Evans, Marketing Director, Direct Line Group
Martin Garvey, EMEA Lead, Own The Room
Michele McGrath, Co-CEO, Accenture Brand Learning
Michelle Hutton, Managing Director Global Clients, Edelman
Nic Yeeles, Co-Founder & CEO, Peg
Phil Rumbol, Executive Partner, MullenLowe London
Philip Almond, Former Director of Marketing and Audiences, BBC
Russ Lidstone, CEO, The Creative Engagement Group
Sam Conniff, Author, Be More Pirate
Sara Bennison, CMO, Nationwide Building Society
Sarah Warby, Chief Growth Officer, Hyperjar
Simon Boyle, Founder and Chef, The Brigade
Steve Walker, Founder & Principle, Two Sides Communication Ltd
Steven Overman, Former Global CMO, Kodak
