Amanda Arthur, VP Data and Analytics, Proximity London
Path to power I cut my direct marketing teeth in list-broking and event management. One of my early roles was hosting at the first-ever Direct Marketing Fair! A move to Dun & Bradstreet’s business information division as marketing manager followed, where I acquired business-to-business data-based marketing skills. From there, I spent over a decade […]
Michael O’Connell, Chief Analytics Officer, TIBCO Software
Path to power I was intrigued by maths and music from an early age. I recall being able to divide any four-digit number into any other number before starting school and having to leave the dinner table to uncontrollably shake to Kinks songs on the radio. I did undergraduate and Master’s Mathematics and Statistics […]
Andrew Haines, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, TAP London
Path to power I started as a computer programmer at Miller Starr after responding to a job ad in the Evening Standard at the time, if I recall correctly, Wednesday was IT job day back then. I bypassed university and went straight into work from college as I was always eager to be working. […]
Andy Rowe, Head of Marketing Sciences, Code
Path to power My big breakthrough came in 2009 playing an integral role in the set-up of the Costa Coffee loyalty scheme. I helped design the database eco-system, built the communication segmentations and ran the eCRM program (from an agency perspective). This led to me gaining great knowledge of the application of data as […]
Janet Snedden, Chief Executive Officer, CustomerKind
Path to power My career started in an odd place. Having graduated in maths and stats, I joined an international drinks company and inadvertently agreed to do my first placement in a retail sales role. What a learning curve! But, in some ways, this was my first experience of consultancy, too, where I quickly […]
Anthony Cosgrove, Co-Founder, HARBR
Path to power I started my career in UK government, where I used data to identify complex criminality for which I was awarded an MBE in 2006. Following that, I moved to HSBC where I spent a decade delivering global change programmes in information security, fraud and financial crime. This included the creation of multiple […]
Orlando Agrippa, Chief Executive Officer, Draper & Dash
Path to power It is hard to do justice to what I can only describe as the most fulfilling and rewarding career one can experience. My realisation of data’s potent capacity to transform lives began at university, when I helped reorganise a drug centre’s database. This led to a desire to transform data analytics […]
Jim Conning, Managing Director, Royal Mail Data Services
Path to power As managing director of the specialist data business of Royal Mail Group, Conning is spearheading Royal Mail’s innovation and entry into new markets by harnessing the company’s trusted reputation and data expertise to enable consumers and organisations to interact both physically and digitally in secure and trusted environments.Over more than 25 […]
Ray Eitel-Porter, Managing Director UKI, Accenture Applied Intelligence
Path to power I’ve built my career on a passionate belief in the transformative power of digital technology and, in particular, witnessing the positive impact that data, analytics and AI can have on organisations and our lives. My experience spans working for a management consultancy firm, founding and running a software/internet business, leading sales […]