“The delicate balance of mentoring someone isn’t creating them in your image but giving them the opportunity to create themselves” – Steven Spielberg
At The Marketing Academy we realise that being a mentor and taking time out to help advise, encourage and share experiences with someone is a very special thing to do. The Marketing Academy’s Scholarship programme is based around the generosity of the UK’s most senior business and marketing leaders donating their time to mentor our Scholars and we have devised our Merlin Awards as a way to celebrate those brilliant mentors.
Each of The Marketing Academy’s 2014 graduating Scholars select just one person from all the mentors, leaders and speakers who have donated their time across the Scholarship year to receive a ‘Merlin Award’. It’s their way of thanking and appreciating the individual from whom they received an extra special piece of wisdom, advice, insight or inspiration.
The Merlin Awards, a glass plaque inscribed with The Marketing Academy’s Mascot ‘Merlin’ the Owl, were personally presented to the winning mentors at a Gala Party on Tuesday 12th May at Diageo’s head office in North London.
The winning recipients of the 2015 Merlin Awards are…
Amanda Mackenzie – Chief Marketing Officer at Aviva on loan to Project Everyone
Andy Sandoz – Creative Partner at Work Club
Christian Woolfenden – Managing Director, Retail at Paddy Power
Cilla Snowball – Group Chairman & CEO at AMV BBDO
Craig Inglis – Marketing Director at John Lewis Plc
Daryl Fielding – Director of Brand Marketing at Vodafone
David Pemsel – Chief Commercial Officer at Guardian Media Group
Deborah Dolce – Senior Vice President, Group Marketing Director at TK Maxx Group
Dominic Grounsell – Global Digital Marketing Director at Travelex
Emma Harris – Founder at Glow
James Brett – Founder at Plant for Peace
Jenny Ashmore – Former CMO at Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) Plc
Joe Clift – Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at CFA Institute
Jon Goldstone – Global VP for Baking & Cooking at Unilever UK and Ireland
Jonathan Stead – CEO at Rapier
Julia Porter – Director of Consumer Revenues at Guardian Media Group
Karen Buchanan – UK CEO at Publicis
Lindsay Pattison – Global CEO at Maxus
Mark Evans – Group Marketing Director at Direct Line Group
Martin Stead – Marketing Director at EDF Energy
Michele McGrath – Chief Operating Officer at Brand Learning
Neil Macgeorge – Former Group Marketing Director at TCC (The Continuity Company)
Nigel Holland – Regional President, EMEA at Tata Global Beverages
Richard Larcombe – Brand and Marketing Director at Virgin Media
Russ Lidstone – Former CEO at Havas Worldwide
Sarah Speake – CMO at Clear Channel
Steve Parker – CEO at Starcom Mediavest Group
Steve Walker – Independent Marketing Consultant at Two Sides Communications Limited
Sue Farr – Executive Director at Chime Communications
Tim Duffy – CEO at M&C Saatchi
