Hall of Fame
Julie McConnell
Brodies LLP
With almost 20 years of technical legal, commercial, multi-industry and client-facing experience, Julie has a deep understanding of the global legal market and the needs and expectations of clients across various industries and jurisdictions.
Mark Gibson
Silver Cloud
Mark is an experienced B2B commercial leader with a strong track record across IT, software and services. Throughout his career, he’s focused on helping organisations modernise through technology, data and smarter go-to-market strategies.
Kate Bremmer
ICAS
Kate is a global B2B marketer known for building high-performing demand-gen engines and complex martech stacks across 40+ markets.
Andrew Dobbie
Made Brave
A true creative at heart, Andrew began his career as a designer and photographer. Since launching MadeBrave on a shoestring budget of just £1000 in 2012, Andrew has grown the agency into a 60-strong, multi-million-pound business — creating award-winning work for many of the world’s leading brands, including Nestle, Diageo and KPMG.
Mercy Abel
Who You Know
Mercy is an award-winning voice on representation, mentorship, and bridging intergenerational teams. She’s passionate about ensuring that creativity, diversity, and the next generation of marketers are not only included but celebrated.
Craig Edwardson
BIG Partnership
Craig is a seasoned B2B digital strategist who’s helped brands in complex sectors build campaigns that actually deliver.
Silka Patel
Leidos
Silka is a senior marketing leader with a career spanning travel, tech, AI and national security. She brings unmatched insight into marketing complex, high-stakes services.
Gregor & Scarlett Hollerin
Story Shop
We are a scrappy, UK-based liberating vs. occupying force for brands with ambition.
We’re journalists, strategists and client-side marketing managers who know how this works. That’s why we do things differently from other PR agencies.
Fiona McLachlan
Made Brave
Fiona is an Account Director at Made Brave. With over a decade of experience in the marketing industry, Fiona has a wealth of knowledge in delivering a successful brand campaign.
Oli Norman
itison
Oli Norman is the founder and CEO of itison. He also produces large-scale experiences and events such as GlasGLOW and Elfingrove, while owning several of Glasgow’s leading hospitality venues including Brel, Sloans and Epicures.
Holly Martin
Whyte & Mackay
Holly thrives on leading change initiatives, solving complex problems and continuously learning. Holly is passionate about transforming how HR is delivered, leveraging technology to create exceptional workplace experiences
Hazel Berryman
Whyte & Mackay
Experienced E-Commerce manager, with a history of working in the retail industry. Skilled in Digital Marketing, Online Trading, Retail and Website UX.
Stuart MacKenzie
C&C Group
Stuart is head of marcomms, strategy and planning at C&C Group, which may be more familiar to you for its brands including Tennent’s Lager, Menabrea and Magners. With over 17 years of in-house and agency-side experience, Stuart has spent his career working with some of the biggest FMCG, sport and entertainment brands in the world. In his current role Stuart oversees consumer-facing marketing and comms for the C&C portfolio and has responsibility for ensuring work is truly effective and ultimately delivering against the commercial objectives for each brand.
Vivienne McLaren
Scottish Women’s Football
Vivienne is an award-winning marketing and digital specialist with 28 years of experience in Scotland and London. Passionate about women’s and girls’ football, she champions expanding opportunities in sports. She's the former MD of an award-winning digital agency, serving on ad tech advisory boards and being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Dave Ward
CreateFuture
Dave is Creative Director and co-founder of CreateFuture, an innovation & design company that puts creativity to work, driving sustainable growth through brand, proposition and experience design. Based in Edinburgh, they work with international brands such as adidas, Expedia and Penguin Random House. Recently acquired by the XDesign group, CreateFuture are part of a 450+ team of product designers and engineers.
Euan Cameron
Peter Vardy Ltd
Euan is Commercial Director at Peter Vardy Ltd, which is one of Scotland’s leading automotive retailers and mobility companies as well as the Principal Partner of Scottish Rugby. In his 17 year career at Peter Vardy, the majority of which has been spent in marketing, Euan has worked with some of the best known global automotive brands such as Porsche, BMW, MINI, Jaguar and Land Rover. In his current role Euan oversees all of the Group’s commercial support functions encompassing marketing, digital, stock and purchasing, academy and training and contact centres.
David Proctor
e-Worx
David Proctor is the co-founder of e-Worx, an Ecommerce specialist agency based in Glasgow who have come to specialise in the Amazon Marketplace. David started his Ecommerce journey at AG Barr in their first Ecommerce role.
David will be telling us about the ins and outs of Amazon, what to look out for and some tips to optimise this platform.
John Bruce
Walkers Shortbread
John Bruce is currently Ecommerce & Commercial Manager at Walkers Shortbread. Prior to this he had similar positions within Professional Beauty Systems and Celtic FC. John is going to tell us about his experience creating an ecommerce infrastructure within large global brands.
Jennifer McLean
Raven Controls
Jennifer has been pivotal in driving Raven Controls to being one of the major players in event control software space. Working with major brands and events throughout her career, her story is both inspiring and empowering.
Wendy McDougall
Firefish
Wendy McDougall, CEO of Firefish Software, is a seasoned expert in recruitment technology with over two decades in the industry. Starting as a recruiter, she founded Firefish Software to merge recruitment with innovative Data Driven Intelligence.
Renowned for her forward-thinking approach, especially in AI applications in recruitment, Wendy has built Firefish into a key player in the recruitment CRM space from scratch