The 2023 Judges

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Alex has +12 years experience in digital and performance marketing. He is a former Managing Partner Programmatic at Omnicom Media Group Germany and currently Managing Director at Jung von Matt.

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Charlotte has worked in media for 8 years and has experience working in PPC, affiliates, lead-gen and app download for various client verticals. As Affiliate Business Director, Charlotte oversees key decisions and ensures the smooth delivery of client objectives. She has overall responsibility for team output and provides a holistic and integrated POV on the overall marketing mix.

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Over 17 years’ experience in digital advertising with a deep knowledge of the Display, Video & Programmatic marketplace. Worked at PHD for the last 12 years, currently running the Programmatic+ team across clients such as Chanel, Volkswagen Group and Red Bull.

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After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Fashion & textile technologies Daan started working at a performance marketing company in 2015. From there on he worked for an international fashion retailer, a neobroker and is currently managing the affiliate & partnerships program at NextEnergy, a Dutch utility company. All of his life, Daan has been an active field hockey player and likes to think that being part of a team also reflects back on his work ethics – He believes that performance marketing is all about achieving the best possible results as a team by working together.

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Omnichannel digital marketer with a track record across ambitious D2C and B2C businesses and building and developing high performing teams.

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Danny Nagra currently works as Head of Performance Marketing and Activation at Readly AB. He has a decade and a half experience in performance marketing, having worked agency, client and platform side. He is really looking forward to seeing the innovation, creativity and effectiveness of the awards entries in this years GPMA.

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Elisa Charbonnel is the Director of Global Paid Media and Performance Partnerships for Disney Streaming, a direct-to-consumer business unit within The Walt Disney Company’s Disney Entertainment division that oversees all consumer-facing digital video subscription services across the company. Elisa’s team is responsible for managing paid acquisition campaigns across various performance-driven channels, including Affiliate and Influencer, and piloting new acquisition channels for Disney such as Direct Mail, Email, and more for Disney+, The Disney Bundle, and STAR+ globally. Prior to joining Disney, Elisa worked in various roles driving growth for Jet.com, Walmart eCommerce and Goldman Sachs. Elisa graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Political Science and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

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Emily has worked in the Online Marketing growth space for nearly 10 years. Joining the HelloFresh Group, the largest international meal kit company she worked as the Global Head of Affiliate Marketing leading a team who oversee all affiliate and strategic partnerships activity for 13 markets and 18 programs across APAC and EMEA. Emily is now the Director of Growth and Brand at Drop Technologies, leading the performance marketing strategy for scaling activity in Canada and US.

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With over half a decade of digital marketing experience spread across the UK’s leading brands, Emily is a well-rounded expert. She has driven award-winning strategies in the UK and Europe. She is passionate about sustainable media and driven by innovation and a desire to change the industry for the better. Emily currently occupies the role of Programmatic Media Manager at The HEINEKEN Company.

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Emmanuel has 17 years’ experience in digital marketing. A former Googler, he had a rapid ascension on the agency-side, gaining in-depth hands-on knowledge in performance marketing. He was in charge of the UK and French markets at Artefact and EMEA at Ibex digital.

Emmanuel is now the co-founder of Zesta, a consultancy designed to empower businesses and give them the opportunity to take back control of their marketing. Zesta advises agencies and brands of all sizes.

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For 12 years, I dual-careered, balancing international athletics with a commercial career at the most prominent publishers and network in the UK. 50% of my time leading the UK GTM and the other half of my time coaching my teams on how to build mutually beneficial performance-based partnerships. A key highlight was the “Industry Disruptor” win in 2019.

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Having graduated from Southampton University in Economics and Finance and starting my career at Deutsche Bank like many quickly found a passion outside of finance which was media and digital marketing. Now armed with over 15 years experience across desktop, mobile, video and programmatic have a wealth of knowledge and experience to share. Launched Dealmoon UK in 2017, with the business now having grown to over 40 people in the UK alone, and subsequently launched FR and DE markets in recent years Outside of work enjoy travelling the world having been to over 75 countries, and have a strong passion for all sports, including the tough task of being a Wolverhampton Wanderers fan. A self proclaimed Barbeque expert, claim to be one of the finest at producing world class cooking off the grills.

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Jennifer Goodwin is one of the most respected and award-winning talents within the affiliate marketing industry and is currently Founder of Peacock Consulting LLC. In the past 14 years, Jennifer has built and nurtured strong relationships with all partners including top-tier advertisers, publishers, agencies, affiliate networks and SaaS providers. Her past experience includes work at Honey, ForwardPMX, Coupons.com and BradsDeals. Also, Jennifer has been part of multiple successful corporate acquisitions, including Honey’s acquistion by PayPal.

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South East Asia based affiliate marketing executive with more than 20 years experience in the region.

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Julius is a senior advisor on Entrepreneurship, Investment, e-Commerce and Marketplaces, Digital Marketing, Performance Marketing, and Pitch Consulting for diverse clients ranging from start-ups to large corporations.
His passion for an in-depth understanding of market trends and for leveraging opportunities on behalf of diverse clients has been the guiding force throughout his 18-year career.

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Marshall Nyman is the Founder and CEO of NYMO & Co., an affiliate marketing consultancy that helps emerging brands grow. He is also the host of the Performance Marketing Spotlight podcast. In 2011 Marshall moved to New York City to get his start in the performance marketing world at a startup affiliate network. Four years later he would end up in Los Angeles at Onestop, a full-service e-commerce agency, where Marshall ran affiliate campaigns for premium fashion brands. In 2017 Marshall launched NYMO with his first client and the goal of helping serve early stage startups interested in leveraging affiliate marketing.

 Today, www.nymo.co serves 30+ DTC brands across a plethora of verticals. Marshall is based in Los Angeles with his wife Olympia and children Myla, Oriana, and Morty. He enjoys the outdoors, travel, music, cooking and basketball.

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Passionate about performance marketing, Matheus has been working in the affiliate business since 2017 with global brands and helping scale business across Americas.

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A career beginning as an SEO Copywriter that was “volun-told” to upskill in PPC because, “It has something to do with words.” Matt found out he has an insatiable thirst to understand more and more about the digital eco-system. Growing up and working in South Africa on global campaigns for a myriad of brands across numerous verticals including FMCG, travel, banking and more for networks such as Omnicom and WPP – Matt has been living back in London for just under 3 years.

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Michelle is an innovative and results-driven performance marketer with 13 years of experience in working in the digital marketing and advertising industry. She is skilled in Marketing Management, Brand Partnerships, Digital Strategy and Customer Acquisition.

Michelle is currently the AVP of Performance Marketing for Fluent, overseeing Fluent’s core direct-to-consumer rewards product. Michelle’s team is responsible for managing highly established branded buyers across various verticals, including Subscription Commerce, Streaming Services, Mobile Gaming and more. She is a passionate team leader with proven accomplishments in working with large brands to develop their business strategies.

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Naimeh started in the advertising industry in 2000. She worked in a very successful classified ad agency followed by other integrated ad agencies in the media department across off-line media in Tehran. Since 2010 she’s been in the digital media space in London at Omnicom & Starcom before wearing the client’s hat at Experian & TalkTalk working with Jellyfish and Group M.
More recently she’s set up her own boutique paid media agency, Mediatative, in London in 2019 and has been growing the agency since then.

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Neguin is the General Manager in the Performance Marketing business unit at GrowthOps. She’s a performance marketing advocate who enjoys strategic thinking to help brands achieve their goals through data-led decisions and cost efficiently, via partnerships, technology and digital marketing tactics.

With over 14 years in Digital Marketing, Neguin leads high performing teams and has worked with leading brands worldwide in network, agency and advertiser roles and has experience across multiple industries including retail, fashion, travel, entertainment, market research and finance.

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Odhran works with performance orientated FinServ advertisers at TikTok, helping them to scale & drive business impact. He has a 10+ yr performance marketing background working at agencies like Merkle and Artefact. With strategic and hand-on experience across multiple channels as well as consulting on AdTech and MarTech solutions.

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Sasha is a Director of Affiliate Marketing and Performance Partnerships at Mindshare where she manages global teams across the entertainment/streaming, consumer electronics, fashion, luxury, and energy verticals. She’s a uniquely well-rounded affiliate marketer having also spent time on the brand side with Marriott International where she led their global affiliate program as well as on the network side with Rakuten Advertising. She is enthusiastic about leading global affiliate campaigns and incorporating these efforts into her clients’ broader marketing initiatives. As a multilingual marketer, Sasha enjoys working collaboratively with partners across different regions and integrating these different regional business practices to benefit global teams. In her personal life, Sasha likes to travel, work in the garden, and dote on her dog and two kittens. She also works with NGOs that provide support to eastern Ukraine, where she lived for two years teaching English as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

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An international award-winning and solutions-driven Senior Digital Marketing Leader with an entrepreneurial attitude and a collaborative working style. A proven track record of utilising performance analysis to optimise digital marketing functions to align with key business objectives.

Experienced in providing creative direction to clients, senior-stakeholders and multi-channel marketing teams, implementing strategic campaigns across Onsite Merchandising, SEO, PPC, Programmatic Display & Video, Affiliates, Influencer Marketing and Paid Social and identifying leads, promoting consistent new customer growth and maximising online conversion rates.

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Sophia is a seasoned digital marketing professional with over five of experience in the industry. She currently works at Harvey Nichols as an Affiliates & Partnerships Manager managing both UK and global affiliate programmes.
Prior to joining Harvey Nichols Sophia has worked both network and agency side managing a variety of brands within the retail, telco and travel sectors.

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Sophie manages affiliates, partnerships and influencers for tails.com UK. Having been part of tails.com since 2019, she has valuable experience in developing and delivering efficient marketing campaigns across a variety of channels and markets.

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After a stint living Down Under, Stephen has spent the last 9 years launching Australian performance marketing businesses into the UK market.

With over 14 years of performance marketing experience, Stephen is currently Finder UK’s commercial strategy lead tasked with growing the Finder brand and to establish Finder as a major player in the UK’s hyper competitive financial comparison space.

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Suresh sits on the Global Management Team and is responsible for driving growth across all the markets Virtue operates in. A senior marketing, communications and growth operator with over 20 years experience, Suresh has led growth at Ogilvy Group, Zeno Group (part of Daniel J Edelman Co) and Blue Focus Group (China’s largest marketing communications network). Added to a portfolio of driving growth in the agency world, Suresh is also a vocal and active champion of equality and diversity, in and outside the marketing communications industry. He has been named onto the FT and Yahoo! Finance lists of Executive Ethnic Minority Leaders as well as LGBTQ+ Leaders for 6 years running (2016-2022).

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Tatiana Goncalves is a seasoned performance marketing expert and an industry leader in driving efficient growth and maximizing ROI in both large coorpoerations as well as start-ups and scale-ups. With a track record of launching and optimizing successful campaigns across diverse channels such as Google Ads, META, TikTok, Snapchat, and more, she has a deep understanding of the online marketing ecosystem and a passion for delivering measurable results. As the former Head of Performance Marketing at Dott SAS and Head of Affiliate Partnerships at Meetic SAS, Tatiana’s strategic mindset and data-driven approach have contributed to significant increases in customer acquisition and revenue.

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Tom’s career started in Search, working across both SEO and PPC in-house in the travel, commerce and publishing verticals, working both client-side and agency-side roles before joining OMD EMEA and establishing, leading, and growing their regional digital teams. Tom joined MG OMD in 2022 as Chief Digital Officer and works with the MG OMD digital leadership team, client teams and centres of excellence across OMG to deliver excellence in digital execution, data strategy, measurement & effectiveness across our clients’ campaigns.

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Vishal has experience of working in the Affiliate industry for 6+ years in various different sectors including telecom, finance, retail and subscription. She has worked on both Client and Network side and has proven record of thriving in challenging times.

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Affiliate partnerships expert with over 13 years of experience working across brand, agency, and tech vendor side while working with some of the largest global advertisers that include the likes of Apple, UBER, Net-a-Porter, Nike and New Balance