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Suzanne Powers

Suzanne

Powers

Non-Exec Chair

Suzanne is the founder of Powers Creativity, a company dedicated to helping organizations and people unleash creativity to drive business impact. Prior to this, Suzanne spent ten years transforming McCann Worldgroup, IPG's creative network, into a global strategic and creative powerhouse working across all agencies, geographies, and brands. She held a variety of roles across the company from Global Chief Strategy Officer to Global President, to Global Chief Product Officer, to Chair of FutureBrand.

 

Suzanne was named "2019 Chief Strategy Officer of the Year" and during her tenure, the network won global "Agency of the Year" recognitions from Fast Company, Cannes, the Effies, WARC, Clio, and many others. She's a Board Member for Effie and Clio, has chaired the APG for the 4A's, and is a powerful keynote speaker, zealous mentor, and awards Jury Chair. She was awarded by She Runs It/Advertising Women of NY as a "Catalyst of Innovation." Prior to McCann Worldgroup, Suzanne served as Global Chief Strategy Officer at Crispin Porter + Bogusky and TBWA, two of the world's most creative shops in the advertising industry.
Gary Stolkin, Global Chairman & CEO

Gary

Stolkin

Global CEO

Gary is the Founder & Global CEO of The Talent Business, the world leader in executive search for businesses fueled by innovation and creativity, delivering transformative leadership hires. Since launching The Talent Business in 2007, he has built a 50-strong team across six offices that's motivated by strategic partnership and deeply invested in clients' success. He partners brand owners, communications agency groups and consultancies on business critical hires in the US, UK and other key international markets. He also advises agency groups on acquisitions, and brand owners on their selection of agency partners. Gary is a five-time speaker at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, an Opinion Contributor to Adweek, and has also written for Fast Company, AdAge, The Drum and The Guardian. He was on the advisory council for Business Insider's 'Most Innovative CMO's in the World 2017'.
Tanya Livesey, Global Managing Director

Tanya

Livesey

Global Managing Director
Creative & Design

Tanya is an internationally experienced business leader, talent strategist and leadership coach – who has been developing the careers and profiles of the creative leaders of high-profile creative organisations since The Talent Business launched in 2007. In her early career, she sat on the management teams of some of the top London advertising agencies, learning first-hand about the complexity of leading teams in highly creative, dynamic environments – as well as having a deep understanding of the creative process and what it takes to deliver outstanding work. Since joining The Talent Business, she has helped to build it into the world’s leading global executive search firm in the creative marketing and communications space. Her role as a trusted advisor to creative leaders worldwide has given her valuable insight into the challenges of modern leadership which enables her to identify and deliver outstanding creative talent that can drive genuine business transformation. Tanya has a passion for brilliant ideas and the people behind them – so has been lucky enough to have worked with many of the very best throughout her career. Tanya is also a regular columnist for Creative Review – advising creative leaders on how to tackle some of the many challenges that face the leaders of today.
Andy Wardlaw

Andy

Wardlaw

Global Managing Director
Tech & Innovation

Andy started his career just as the first wave of digital businesses were beginning to establish themselves, transforming entire industries and generating a need for a new breed of innovative, hybrid talent. Joining the first digital specialist search firm, he found himself helping to structure and staff the nascent UK teams of Amazon, Microsoft, AOL & eBay, as well as the first digital communications agencies. Advising businesses and senior talent within the creative and technology sectors has been the focus of his career. He has built cross-functional internal talent team and led staffing and talent strategy internationally for leading creative businesses, including AKQA. He has also run his own talent consultancy. Andy believes that the key to sustainable commercial success is the alignment of transformational talent with business transformation and growth strategy. Since re-joining The Talent Business in 2016, he has been advising brand owners, tech platforms, consultancies and communications agencies on their senior hires, identifying and securing leaders capable of driving business transformation. He has also worked with agency groups on their business acquisition strategies, and advised brand owners on the selection of agency partners. When he can, he runs, skis, travels and spends time with his family.
Will Knox

Will

Knox

Managing Director North America/Europe
Creative & Design

Will spent his youth harbouring ambitions to become many things; a rugby player, an actor, a musician. Unfortunately, for one reason or another, be it ability or application, he was unable to make these goals a reality. (He says it was ability, by the way). Since joining the The Talent Business in 2009, Will has partnered the world’s leading creative businesses, helping them to identify and secure transformational senior creative talent. He now heads up The Talent Business’ European Creative & Design practice out of the Group’s London office. When not running the Creative & Design practice, you’ll find him bothering people about music, barbeques, and Arsenal FC.
Phillipa Campbell

Philippa

Campbell

Managing Director
North America

Growing up with a mother who went to British drama college and a father who moonlighted as a DJ on the River Thames, it’s no surprise that Philippa knew from a young age she wanted to work and surround herself with creative people. A few weeks after graduating, she moved to New York City to take her first job with BBDO working on VISA, Home Depot and Bank of America. After starting out in NY, Philippa moved to San Francisco to join Goodby Silverstein & Partners to help launch HP’s Effie award-winning campaign “The Computer is Personal Again.” Six years later she returned to BBDO in NY to work on Hewlett Packard Enterprise while also leading 3M’s global rebranding. Prior to joining The Talent Business, Phillipa spent two years at Droga5 NY, transforming Under Armour’s marketing with their first global campaign. During her career she has partnered some of the world’s biggest brands and helped them transform their marketing communication. In her experience it takes a long term approach to building relationships to deliver successful business transformation and commercial success. Philippa is thrilled to be part of a team at The Talent Business that understands the challenges involved in helping companies find the best senior talent to shape the most effective teams, and also cares so deeply about helping individuals reach their full potential. When not working, she is spending time with her family plotting or living out their next adventure!
Jayme Schuman

Jayme

Shuman

Head of Creative & Design North America

Jayme has partnered some of the most talented and highly awarded creative leaders in the US to build out teams for some of the world’s most iconic brands. In addition to her creative remit, Jayme has been responsible for hires across disciplines, including strategy, business leadership and production. Operating from a place of creativity, authenticity and modernity, Jayme leads a broad spectrum of searches as The Talent Business’ Head of Creative & Design for North America. When she’s not swooning over the latest and greatest creative ideas, you can find Jayme attempting to keep up with her two little boys while building out her farm to table ranch in Southern California.
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