Our Team

John began his career at Dorland Advertising as Media Planner/Buyer in 1979, spending 13 years in full service Agencies with the last 8 years at McCann Erickson as a Media Group Director on the board of the Agency working on accounts Black & Decker, Esso, NS&I, Cathay Pacific and Martini.

He then joined the Sales Department of Sky Television. At Sky he was responsible for a Sales Group selling to major media buying agencies and managing the sales for the launch of Nickelodeon – a joint venture between Sky and Viacom. That role developed into acting as the Commercial Director for Nickelodeon.
In mid 1995 he was appointed as the launch Deputy Managing Director of the Paramount Comedy Channel (now Comedy Central), he was made MD in April 1996. He managed all aspects of the channel for the first six years of its existence and led the team that launched and managed Paramount Comedy Espana achieving profitability for both channels during his tenure.
After spending a year on gardening leave, i.e. fishing all over the world, he was engaged as a consultant to set up an online gambling operation for Harrah’s Entertainment.
Since that time he has consulted for major media companies and advertisers in the UK and Europe. Media companies such as Viacom, News International and IPC Media (Time Inc.) and advertisers such as Unilever, Associated British Foods, Eurostar and IKEA helping with such things as structure, system builds, transformation and pitch management.
When not at work enjoys being tormented by Everton, Somerset and Bath, fly fishing and French builders.

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!

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.

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.