Our Team
We work as a Flock and celebrate our diversity of experience, style, and personality. Our ways of working are inclusive bringing the best from our experienced team.
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Laura Keates
Marketing Consultant
Laura has over 12 years experience working for well know marketing agencies such as Ogilvy, Geometry and RPM.
There she managed award winning integrated marketing campaigns across B2C sectors in FMCG, Retail, Alcohol, Sport, Travel, Beauty, Pharmaceutical and Technology. She has delivered omni-channel strategic solutions for well-known consumer brands such as Bacardi, Diageo, Mondelez, M&S, Tesco, Danone, and Coca-Cola.
Alongside consulting, Laura is a mentor and coach to junior industry peers, and an author and speaker for the MAA Marketing Diploma, having written and delivered the Shopper and Brand Experience module for the past 2 years. Laura is fiercely disciplined to training in the gym every morning and believes a good start to the day is an early one!
Chris Pointon
Product & Tech Consultant
An internet entrepreneur and technologist, Chris has worked in areas including mobile and desktop apps for major brands, massively multiplayer games, and social media management systems.
He has been technical co-founder of six companies. Two exited, two are still operating, and two were “learning experiences”.
Chris has a BEng in Computer & Electronic Engineering and is a Fellow of the RSA.
John Kersey
Marketing Consultant
Extensive experience working in advertising agencies, film companies and clients as Producer, Production manager, Director, Editor and Cost Controller.
Holds a Diploma in Marketing, certificate in work health and safety and recipient of many advertising accolades and awards.
Katie Szumowski
Marketing Consultant
Katie is an accomplished marketing and media professional with extensive experience in the telecommunications and entertainment industries within both the general and multi-cultural markets.
Her work at Verizon, Turner Broadcasting and Vonage has been focused on all aspects of digital including media, technology, creative & customer experience; traditional media; general marketing strategy and brand advertising. She has been a leader of innovation and contributes her ongoing success to staying on the forefront of innovation as well as her commitment to the use of data, analytics and testing in her decision making & strategy development. During her eighteen-year tenure at Verizon, Katie helped lead the brand to become one of the largest and most innovative cross-platform advertisers. She has also been deeply involved with developing accelerator programs designed to educate entrepreneurs and enable them to build innovative media businesses.
Katie is a graduate of The Ohio State University and is an avid tennis player, reader and sports fan. She also enjoys mentoring and connecting college students & graduates on opportunities within the marketing and media communities.
Henriette Kistrup
Non-Executive Director
International Director with Bring Frigo AB since September 2018. Henriette has mostly worked with FMCG within supply chain focusing on cost savings, optimisation and change management. Prior to the role with Bring Frigo, she has been with Carlsberg for 8 years and Arla Foods for 5 years.
She started within procurement with Marketing as the main category. One of the biggest undertakings was to harmonise Carlsberg’s media buying with one agency and to introduce auditing of the media buying itself, with major savings as a results. From procurement she moved into production complexity management in order to obtain greater production efficiencies and this project took her down the supply chain track leading into roles as head of central planning in Carlsberg and later on as Supply Chain Director for Carlsberg UK for four years (2008-2012).
She moved back to Denmark in 2012 and worked for Arla Foods as Logistics Director in Denmark until 2016 when she was appointed COO of Peugeot Citroen, Nordics and Baltics. The role as International Director of Bring Frigo AB has a strong commercial profile and has taken her back into FMCG.
The four years in the UK has meant that Henriette is strongly rooted in the UK and several British traditions, such as making Sunday roasts and enjoying a nice pint, have been brought back to Denmark. In general cooking is a major hobby and to offset this, fitness and running is a key priority as well.
Laura Maestre
Marketing Consultant
Laura has over 20 years’ experience in consulting firm, creative agency, and client-side marketing environments, giving her a complete 360 view of the marketing ecosystem. She has extensive experience in Financial Services, FMCG, and Technology sectors having served in both corporate marketing and marketing procurement roles in each industry.
Laura has over 20 years’ experience in consulting firm, creative agency, and client-side marketing environments, giving her a complete 360 view of the marketing ecosystem. She has extensive experience in Financial Services, FMCG, and Technology sectors having served in both corporate marketing and marketing procurement roles in each industry.
Laura has had the opportunity provide marketing transformation strategies to such global brands as HSBC, General Mills, GlaxoSmithKlein, Starbucks, Schroders, Dow Corning, Conde Nast, Symantec, Zurich, Experian, Autodesk, Nestle, PayPal, and VISA, to name a few. As a Procurement consultant for Accenture, Laura provided Category Management and Procurement Transformation programs to optimise and increase value of her client’s marketing supply base. Laura also served as Vice President, Marketing at US-based Wells Fargo designing and implementing a procurement transformation initiative for the company’s marketing organization. Outside of work, Laura is a keen cyclist, passionate dog lover, and aspiring chef.
Tim Letheren
Marketing Consultant
Samuel Monnie
Marketing Consultant
A Marketing Transformation Leader with experience in global digital, brand, innovation and culture mobilizing. He embeds capability building, training and people excellence within the DNA of an organization – to change behaviors that transform performance and deliver top and bottom line growth. He co-hosts Across The Pond: Marketing Transformed (podcast): https://www.marketingtransformed.com/
Jaideep Prabhu
Non-Executive Director
Jaideep Prabhu is Professor of Marketing and Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business & Enterprise at Cambridge’s Judge Business School. Jaideep is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing and the Journal of Management Studies, and a member of the senior advisory board of the European Journal of Marketing.
He has consulted with or taught executives from ABN Amro, Barclays, Bertelsmann, BP, BT, the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry, EDS, IBM, ING Bank, KPMG, the NHS, Nokia, Philips, Roche, Shell, Vodafone and Xerox among other organisations in Colombia, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, UK and US. He has been interviewed by or has had his work profiled on BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4, Bloomberg, The Economist, The New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, BusinessWeek,US News & World Report, The Financial Times, Le Monde, The Times, The Times of India, The Economic Times and elsewhere.
Prior to his current position, Jaideep Prabhu held positions at Imperial College London, Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and UCLA. He has a PhD from USC and a BTech from IIT Delhi.