Meet The Drum Awards for Marketing jury 2021

Rudis is an LA-based strategist and digital director at Yellow Shoes, the in-house agency at the Walt Disney Company. She has worked agency side at Anomaly, TBWA\Chiat\Day, and CP+B on brands including Airbnb, Miller Lite, Twitch, PayPal, and UberEats. She spoke at SXSW about social marketing and often writes about emerging trends and platforms.

Wheatcroft is an exec-level leader of brand, marketing and CX functions across Accor’s Northern European region, delivering customer centric strategies, brand innovation and building preference. He is responsible for developing the commercial strategy for the business across Northern Europe. Previously marketing director UKI for Accor’s dynamic eco brand family, Wheatcroft led brand, digital, PR, partnership and CRM strategies for the brand. Prior to joining Accor in 2013, he was a director at an independent marketing agency, leading Accor’s marketing agency side, in addition to directing multiple national and international brands in hospitality, technology, healthcare and financial services.

Walkland leads Bumble’s operations across Europe, overseeing the brand’s strategy and campaigns. Her career has been driven by supporting and empowering women. She is the founder of ‘The Power of Quitting’ a panel series that explores how professional women pivot to embrace change and find purpose. She is currently a board member for OK Mentor, a programme that supports female graduates into creative industries. Previous to Bumble, Walkland worked in public relations and consulted on marketing for global brands like Google, Uber, Ogilvy, Natwest and Pernod Ricard.

Diamond is the chief marketing officer of UNICEF USA, where she leverages decades of agency and non-profit experience to help fund support for the world’s most vulnerable children. Previously named one of the most powerful women in advertising by Business Insider, Diamonf served as the chief client officer and global executive board member at Young & Rubicam, overseeing client services for 189 offices in 91 countries.

Johnson is the head of marketing, global business solutions for TikTok Europe. He moved to TikTok from Facebook and Instagram, which he joined in 2008 as one of Facebook’s first employees outside of the US. He most recently held the role of director of Instagram, EMEA, and prior to this held a number of senior global strategic and partnership roles during his Facebook career. Johnson plays an active role in championing diversity and inclusion within the advertising industry, holding advisory roles in a number of organisations in the D&I sector. He is also the chairman of the board of trustees of the Ideas Foundation, a UK based charity.

Barwell is the chief marketing officer of Britvic Soft Drinks Plc. He joined the brand in 2014 from Diageo, where he was a senior member of the marketing team for more than 15 years. Barwell was marketing and innovation director for Diageo Europe and prior to that marketing and innovation director for Africa. He also worked and lived in Italy for a number of years with the company. Barwell is the new chair for 2020/21 season of the Marketing Group of Great Britain, a former chair of the advertising association’s front foot group and a fellow of the Marketing Society.

Shimmons is global marketing director, Smirnoff at Diageo- leading projects across comms and innovation, and with global responsibility for Europe and LAC markets. Originally from Northern Ireland, she has worked on a number of global brands (Coca-Cola, Bacardi, Tennent’s Lager) and in start-up companies, in a range of roles across brand, shopper marketing and innovation.

Bolla is marketing manager at Hearst UK. Her role sits within the business marketing team, where she is responsible for driving the strategy and delivery of brand building and insight led marketing campaigns to commercial audiences. Bolla also has over 10 years of consumer marketing experience and prior Hearst, a large stint of her career was at Reach plc. Here she led and delivered marketing and commercial campaigns across Reach’s national portfolio, for brands which included the Daily Mirror and OK! magazine. Outside of her day job, she is a Role Model (mentor) and committee member of Media for All, whose aim is to help ethnic minority and under-represented groups thrive in media.

Lindquist has led the marketing and creative teams of Brompton through a period of transformation over the last two years. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brompton made 800 bikes for NHS staff to travel safely to work, crowdfunded through the Wheels for Heroes campaign, which was her proudest moment of 2020. Before joining Brompton, Christina held various marketing roles in sport and healthcare, working on brands such as Lucozade Sport, Wiggle, Nytol and Jungle Formula.

Watkins is UK country manager for Duolingo. His role is to use whatever means available to encourage everyone to enjoy learning a language, and fulfill the brand's mission to develop the best education in the world, and make it universally available. Prior to this, Watkins looked after comms for Snapchat in EMEA and held senior roles at the BBC, Sky, Channel 4 where he worked on campaigns for Black Mirror, Fleabag, A League Of Their Own and Gladiators.

Kakembo has played a defining role in the transformation of global marketing at Aesop since joining the company in January 2019. He responsible for maintaining the unique ways in which Aesop has connected with its customer for over 30 years and reimagining this experience for abrand that now has a presence in over 23 markets worldwide. Through his creative and strategic leadership, Kakembo unites a global team based out of London and Melbourne. Before joining Aesop he was chief marketing officer at Scotch & Soda, prior to which he was at VF Corporation working on Wrangler, as the vice president of design, product and marketing. Previous brands include Levi Strauss & Co., Timberland and Loewe.

Freeman is an insight-led, possibilities-driven brand executive with an extensive career leading marketing strategy and innovation across the consumer packaged goods, hospitality and restaurant industries. Prior to joining Focus Brands, he led integrated marketing as chief marketing officer for Buffalo Wild Wings. Freeman has also served in marketing leadership roles at Russell Athletic, The Coca-Cola Company and Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG).

Marshall has 20 years experience in marketing, strategy and business transformation that has seen her work across both large enterprises and start/scale ups. These include Yoti, a digital identity platform with over 9m app downloads, EE, Sky and Royal London. One of her proudest achievements is being a founding member of the women in business initiative at EE/BT, and she continues to strive for diversity, inclusivity and women in business.

Desai co-founded TS/28 to partner and help organisations thrive in the conscience economy; and is also, a board member at Female Founders, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the pursuit of gender equality in entrepreneurship and leadership. He is a strong advocate of the responsibility, a purpose-driven business and creativity have, towards society, communities, as well as shareholders. Prior to Dole, he was Edelman’s vice-chairman across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. During this time, he also led Edelman’s Women’s leadership network for the region. He began his career with Mullen Lowe, where he spent two decades, leading the Asia-Pacific region for the last six.

Grimes-Gibson is marketing director, fragrance for the Shiseido Group UK. Her responsibilities cover Dolce & Gabbana Beauty, Issey Miyake, Narciso Rodriguez and Elie Saab fragrances. She has spent the last 15 years of her career working across different marketing roles in premium beauty, retail, corporate gifting, hotel amenities and spas; including a stint as a freelance beauty writer for her local newspaper.

Graham oversees Emmi's yogurt brand Onken. She has over 15 years of FMCG experience, including time at Tate & Lyle Sugars and GSK. During her time at Emmi UK, Graham has driven double digital growth of the Emmi Caffe Latte brand and led multiple NPD launches across the Onken portfolio. In addition, she spearheaded 2019’s renewed focus on ATL media investment, helping to differentiate Onken from its competitors in the category by engaging consumers on an emotional level via a new brand campaign.

Dwight is a former magazine editor who stumbled into marketing over a decade ago. A journalistic background turned out to be quite useful, and during his time at Taylors of Harrogate, he oversaw the rise of Yorkshire Tea to become Britain’s number one brew and one of its most popular brands.

Higgin is responsible for delivering Harry's brand strategy, campaigns, PR, new product innovation, insights and shopper marketing. She is a founding member of the UK team and under her brand leadership has scaled Harry’s to a clear #2 in the mens grooming space. She previously worked as head of marketing at Charlotte Tilbury and started her career on the marketing management trainee scheme at L’Oreal where she learned her craft, working across multiple brands and functions including L’Oreal Paris, Maybelline, Lancome and more.

Brennan is Peloton's global head of creative, where he oversees a talented team focused on creating unique and emotionally rich consumer experiences for the Peloton community around the world. He and his team are responsible for all the consumer touchpoints including Peloton's digital and physical spaces, packaging, advertising, and overall brand identity.