Speakers:

Host: Colin Stickland - Regional Director The Marketing Centre

Colin joined the Marketing Centre after starting, scaling, and exiting his own trading business. Prior to this, he held senior Marketing and Sales roles in multiple sectors, including Engineering, Industrial Supplies, Retail, Healthcare, Technology, and FMCG, at companies such as Argos, Beiersdorf, SCA, and Smiths Industries.

Andy Beech - Regional Director, Kiss The Fish

Andy is an extremely experienced and inspirational trainer, facilitator and coach. He focuses his time on enabling individuals, teams and whole organisations to go beyond what they think is possible and achieve even greater results. His clients include many global blue-chip companies as well as smaller businesses in diverse industry sectors including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, oil and gas, manufacturing and facilities management. He has designed and delivered projects in Europe, USA, Canada, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia and China.

Stephen Rumbelow - Regional Director, The Marketing Centre

Stephen joined The Marketing Centre in 2024 and is a seasoned Global Sales & Marketing Leader with a 20-year digital marketing track record. He excels in diverse sectors - from startups to established corporates, both client and agency sides - having held senior roles at companies such as Optimise Media, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Hiscox, and Virgin.

Kathryn Marshall - Regional Director, People Puzzles

Kathryn has over 25 years of experience and a wealth of expertise from her time on Executive Boards at major companies like Aviva Serco Atomic Weapons AWE and Balfour Beatty plc. Her approach is warm, pragmatic, and rooted in common sense, making her a go-to resource for businesses looking to scale, navigating change and transformation. Her track record speaks for itself: she's helped businesses turnaround losses, overhaul structures for customer-centricity, implement cloud-based solutions, and foster customer-centric cultures. Kathryn's style is straightforward and results-oriented, driven by a passion for aligning purpose, culture, strategy, and people.

Tim Higginbotham - Principal/CIO, Freeman Clarke

Tim has successfully held senior IT leadership and director roles in many organisations ranging from FTSE100 through to start-ups, covering the logistics, postal, publishing, insurance and retail sectors. Tim has significant experience in setting up and managing projects for success, managing business requirements and creating solutions across processes, people and IT. Notably this has centred around ERP solutions, as a key enabler to many businesses. Coupled with abilities to define strategic roadmaps and leading successful teams, Tim joined Freeman Clarke to draw on this experience to help clients drive value from technology.

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