Gillian has twenty years’ experience within the print and packaging industry, strategically developing packaging to meet the needs of clients and consumers / end users. After joining in June 2000 Gillian has grown the packaging development arm significantly, using her expertise to help new and existing clients while working collaboratively with the creative, legal, graphics and digital teams in the business. Gillian and the team now develop packaging for a number of household names with services that span from value engineering to sustainability and innovation, always ensuring creativity does not compromise technical functionality. These services are enjoyed by international brands and retailers such as Jerónimo Martins, Unilever, Spectrum Brandings, Liverpool Football Club, Heineken, 2 Sisters Food Group and Duerr’s.

Michael Carroll is a Senior Packaging Specialist at Nestlé NPTC confectionery York. He has over 26 years’ experience as a packaging professional working in the packaging supply chain, including graphics, print, materials, value engineering and processes improvement. He has worked at 3 Major food brands Müller, Kellogg and most recently at Nestlé

Nic has spent the last 15 years working with Financial Services and Retail clients developing solutions to automate marketing processes and deliver highly personalised communications, including Barclays, Sun-Life, LV, HSBC, Centrica and HomeBase. After completing a PhD in Neural Networks, Nic worked in technology development for 10 years in a variety of client facing and leadership roles.

Ewan leads the Channel 4 Nations & Regions commercial business based in Manchester, working with advertisers, agencies and producers across the breadth of the UK & Ireland. He is passionate about television and believes bringing brands together with great content and audiences is enormously powerful.

Prior to joining Channel 4 he held a series of roles with ITV. Ewan holds Channel 4’s most senior role outside of London and is a strong advocate of the talent that thrives within the creative industries outside of London.

Newsworks is the marketing body for the UK’s national news brands in all their forms, working with advertisers and agencies to help them harness the influence and context of the national press to deliver effective campaigns in a multi-platform world

Vanessa has worked in the media and marketing industry for over 25 years. She joined Newsworks in September 2012 as head of client services and strategy, overseeing & developing the relationship with media agencies and advertisers, championing the role of newsbrands in the media mix. Vanessa was appointed chief executive in November 2016.

Olga provides strategic direction for the Institute’s thematic strands by working closely with global brand owners, retailers and packaging manufacturers, ensuring that the institute’s research methodologies can inform their strategic & innovation priorities.

Olga has a MA and BA in Philology from University of Warsaw, followed by career in marketing, where she worked on award winning media campaigns for large European retail developers, and experience in academia, where she was involved with university strategic research projects.

A graduate of UMIST, Joanna has worked in the print and packaging industry for over 25 years. She was formerly a Global Product Director at Dow Chemical, Marketing Director Packaging Inks Europe at Sun Chemical and latterly, Global Marketing & Innovation Director, LINPAC Group. Having worked as a marketing partner to Parkside Flexibles since 2014, Jo supports the company with marketing and communications strategy, enabling the management team to drive its packaging sustainability new business growth strategy.

Jon Bailey has over 20 years’ experience of cutting edge digital print technology and is dedicated to keeping print relevant. He sits on the global board of DSCOOP, one of the world’s largest digital print user groups with over 7,000 members where he continues his mission to show people why it really is better, printed. Jon’s passion for print combined with his approach to leadership and culture make for an engaging and interesting look at the world of marketing operations. Once a local traditional print company in Sheffield, ProCo has been transformed into a 140-strong, dual site marketing operations business which is recognised as one of the world’s most innovative print and direct mail production facilities.

Damian is the Director of Creative Media Labs and a leading researcher in Audio and Music Technology, with his work on virtual acoustics, spatial audio, physical modelling, and audio signal processing placing him in over a hundred leading journals. His creative work has appeared in both galleries and festivals of international reputation.

Despite working in Print for over 11 years, Andy is in fact, a millennial. A demographic that are changing the world we live in. With hundreds of messages being thrown at us every day, Andy understands the importance of marketing that stands out, and has a huge part to play in today’s world. Print brings huge strengths that when enhanced by the power of digital engagement, result in great brand loyalty.

As director of the largest printing technologies exhibition in the world, Sabine has a unique international perspective on the on the world of print.

The Dean of Leeds Business School at Leeds Beckett University, George has 16 years’ experience as a senior academic in the fields of entrepreneurship and the strategic management of technology and innovation. George’s research interests are primarily in the areas of enterprise, innovation, organisational change and consumer behaviour. In addition, he has particular interest in the factors contributing to the sustainable growth of businesses.

With over 30 years’ experience in the technology sector – particularly in the fields of digital and search marketing – Rob has managed services for some of the UK’s largest brands including Tesco, O2 and Pets at Home.

An expert in the graphical industries and the European policies affecting their activities, Beatrice leads the strategic, lobbying and information activities of Intergraf’s members at EU level in the areas of environment, social policy, competitiveness and standardisation.

Roger Marsh has been Chair of the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) since 2013 and during that time has led the LEP through a period of significant transformation, including securing the country’s largest ever Local Growth Deal with Government.

Roger chairs the recently formed NP11 which brings together the 11 Northern LEPs to work with the Northern Powerhouse Minister to support the Government’s vision for the Northern Powerhouse.  He also chairs the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund Strategic Oversight Board and the European Structural & Investment Fund Local Sub Committee. Before joining the LEP, Roger was Senior Partner at PwC and boasts over 30 years’ experience in the private sector. In 2015, he was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for Services to Business and the Economy.