Camilla’s specialism lies in agency business development. She spent 14 years working within agencies - spotting, creating and developing opportunities and briefs, writing and delivering marketing strategies whilst also ensuring a strong conversion rate through the process.
Identifying a need to support agencies with new business growth, she launched jfdi in 2004. The company has now worked with over 800 agencies from the large to the small, across every discipline.
She is passionate about growing business, for both jfdi client agencies and jfdi itself – creating internal new business machines which overtime have a life of their own. Along with cultivating entrepreneurial cultures within agencies, where everyone needs to play their part in driving new business growth.
Camilla has won two awards – Best Female Marketer: Independent Consultant in the Women in Marketing Awards and Best Independent Consultant in the UK Agency Awards.
Mark has extensive agency leadership and client experience. During his time in agencies, he worked across a wide range of clients, categories and disciplines with brands and companies such as Coca-Cola, Cadbury, Nestle, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, InBev, Stella Artois, Bacardi, Durex. He has worked at both independent and multinational network agencies.
Mark continues to build on that agency experience through jfdi, working across a wide range of agency sectors and disciplines, with their leadership teams, to help them grow their agencies by winning more new business.
Mark creates and develops our consultancy, training and coaching products.
mark@jfdi.uk.com / 07711 729 319
Jon’s new business career spans 13 years during which time he’s worked across a range of agency disciplines - design, experiential, integrated/shopper, content marketing and creative. He’s played a leading role in the meteoric rise of both an integrated and an experiential marketing agency, each of which were awarded ‘Agency Of The Year’ in their respective disciplines.
He has finely tuned prospecting skills and his expertise extends to all aspects of new business - creation/development of agency collateral, overseeing agency marketing and PR, networking with key influencers, nurturing relationships with prospective clients and leading pitches.
jon@jfdi.uk.com
Gemma has 14 year’s experience in new business, with skills stretching from lead generation, agency marketing, strategic consultation and agency positioning. She is currently the Head of Marketing and New Business at leading experiential agency, RPM, and an experienced jfdi Insider.
Gemma spent her early working life crafting the cold call approach at lead regeneration agencies MCA and Alchemis, and in later years moved to become part of senior team at Ingenuity. As a consultant Gemma was part of the central new business function for Grayling and associated Huntsworth agencies, with her remit stretching from regional to global new business planning and execution. Alongside Gemma’s core PR and communications agency expertise, she has worked with a wide range of agency disciplines, delivering training and pitch support, and securing strong business wins in experiential, digital and content creation. Over the last decade Gemma has delivered sales and marketing plans for a variety of agencies and businesses.
Gemma is a firm believer that new business as a process must be agile and honest, and able to get a whole agency enthused. She brings infectious energy wherever she goes, firing up teams and delivering great results.
gemmacc@jfdi.uk.com / 07790 352261
Vanessa Fawcett (nee Hogg) has spent the last 17 years as a new business specialist, working in large and small agencies, across traditional disciplines and more recently in content and digital marketing (Kameleon, Be Heard), working collaboratively, to develop commercially focused, robust business development and contact strategies that engage, educate and ultimately win over prospective new clients. After graduating from St Andrews University, Vanessa started life at the coal face of a new business consultancy, making cold calls and setting meetings. She is a proven door opener across a number of sectors including B2B, finance, FMCG, automotive, government and retail.
Since then, Vanessa has been Business Development Director at Interfocus, Bates 141, and Billington Cartmell, where she spent nine years, responsible for defining new business strategy, identifying key prospective clients and establishing external relationships with new clients, intermediaries and relevant partners. Vanessa was part of the senior team that led the growth and transformation of Billington Cartmell from a promotions agency into an integrated marketing communications group across advertising, digital, social, CRM, experiential and shopper marketing.
since working with jfdi over the last four years, Vanessa has worked on a wide breadth of agency disciplines leading to New Business wins across the board.
vanessa@jfdi.uk.com
Rachelle has been in business leadership and marketing communications roles for over 20 years, driving new and organic growth for both independent agencies and worldwide networks, across both emerging and traditional disciplines, and at some of the UK’s most famous agencies; Saatchi & Saatchi, BBH, Oliver.
Her experience spans world leading brands such as Diageo, Toyota, P&G, Tesco, Starbucks and also challenger brands and scale ups such as HTC, Organix and Fever Tree.
As Managing Director at Saatchi & Saatchi X she built the agency’s specialist capability in retail including integrating social, mobile, ecommerce, and specialist design capability, in order to build the business and deliver profit to the group. She also worked as part of the Publicis Groupe "Power of One" cross-agency P&G management team which integrated advertising, PR and media across the group and was a regular feature on Publicis Power of One pitch teams for her retail expertise working most closely with media agencies to ensure a seamless customer journey across all touch-points.
Rachelle helps get people enthusiastic about new business and drives sustainable growth for agencies, by opening doors with senior level clients, delivering opportunities that work well with an agency’s values and culture and working with agency teams to convert them. She is as passionate about quality of expertise, as she is about strong growth.
rachelle@jfdi.uk.com
Claudia has over 20 years experience working predominantly agency side. She worked for some of the big networks Young & Rubicam and DMB&B in the UK, and DDB in Australia, as well as stars of the independents Claydon Heeley. Having co-founded and sold marcomms agency, Oxygen Marketing, she then became a consultant, working to support agencies in the UK and USA. She has been on both sides of the new business fence, from new business roles agency side to managing pitches for client-agency intermediary Oystercatchers. She has worked across most marketing disciplines including design, promotional marketing, event management, research and advertising and her fascination with the role of social media to drive business growth led her to become a blogger and influencer. She also has a particular interest in understanding the psychology behind behaviours and has conducted over 3,000 face to face interviews to enable her to glean valuable knowledge and insights to help drive action and change.
Lee has 18 years experience leading new business strategy and implementation for both networked and independent agencies. For the last 3 years he has led the new business function at branding agency Outlaw and Omnicom shopper agency TPN. He is a highly credible communicator with demonstrable results in winning clients and driving profitability. Expert in proposition development, lead generation, pipeline growth and sales outreach, Lee is a passionate new business "Lifer" whose reputation for personally driving growth is backed up by current and historic client testimonials.
Lizzie’s experience spans both agency and client-side. After 8 years in Account Management including stints at O&M and BBH, she crossed over to become Marketing Director at Capital Radio, Discovery Channel and latterly as Director of Worldwide Brand Strategy and Communications at Orange.
She now runs her own business helping companies with communications, relationships and change through consultancy, facilitation, training and coaching. She has also served as a judge for the IPA Effectiveness Awards.
lizzie@jfdi.uk.com