Camilla’s specialism lies in agency business development. She spent 14 years working within agencies - spotting, creating and developing opportunities and briefs, writing and delivering marketing strategies whilst also ensuring a strong conversion rate through the process.  

Identifying a need to support agencies with new business growth, she launched jfdi in 2004.  The company has now worked with over 500 agencies from the large to the small, across every discipline.

She is passionate about growing business, for both jfdi client agencies and jfdi itself – creating internal new business machines which overtime have a life of their own. Along with cultivating entrepreneurial cultures within agencies, where everyone needs to play their part in driving new business growth.

Camilla has won two awards – Best Female Marketer: Independent Consultant in the Women in Marketing Awards and Best Independent Consultant in the UK Agency Awards.

camilla@jfdi.uk.com / 07976 700 746

Mark has extensive agency leadership and client experience. During his time in agencies, he worked across a wide range of clients, categories and disciplines with brands and companies such as Coca-Cola, Cadbury, Nestle, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, InBev, Stella Artois, Bacardi, Durex. He has worked at both independent and multinational network agencies.

Mark continues to build on that agency experience through jfdi, working across a wide range of agency sectors and disciplines, with their leadership teams, to help them grow their agencies by winning more new business.

Mark creates and develops our consultancy, training and coaching products.

mark@jfdi.uk.com / 07711 729 319

Emma is often called ‘a new business machine’.  With over 18 years of experience working within agencies, and dealing with everything from booking local market credential meetings to running global pitches, she understands that new business is the life blood of any agency. She also knows that it has to be a team effort and not just about investing in one person to lay the golden egg.

Starting life as a new business manager, ‘cold calling clients’, she has seen every aspect of new business and knows how important it is to have the right toolkit and structure in place to go out there and win.  She has worked with large networks, like Starcom and Leo Burnett, overcoming the problems faced when devising a new business strategy to smaller independent agencies specialising in design, digital, data or start up creative agencies.   

After leaving the role of Managing Partner at Havas Media, Emma now works as a consultant across all elements of new business; from making agencies pitch ready, preparing strategy and credentials all the way through to mentoring new business managers and developing teams.  

emma@jfdi.uk.com

Alex specialises in marketing businesses in the marketing services sector.

With over a decade's experience helping agencies maintain their market position and supporting growth, he’s uncovered what works, what doesn’t, and where they should be focusing.

He knows the marketing services sector very well having worked for corporate communications, creative, digital and branding agencies. He also understands the unique dynamics and realities of running an agency, and what it takes for marketing to flourish in that environment having worked at large and small, and independent and group owned businesses.

Having started in a new business role, Alex brings an overview of how the two departments should work together. With experience of leading marketing functions, developing their approach, and establishing new ones implementing processes and structures, he also blends top level strategic thinking with execution.

Gemma has 14 year’s experience in new business, with skills stretching from lead generation, agency marketing, strategic consultation and agency positioning.  She is currently the Head of Marketing and New Business at leading experiential agency, RPM, and an experienced jfdi Insider.

Gemma spent her early working life crafting the cold call approach at lead regeneration agencies MCA and Alchemis, and in later years moved to become part of senior team at Ingenuity.  As a consultant Gemma was part of the central new business function for Grayling and associated Huntsworth agencies, with her remit stretching from regional to global new business planning and execution.  Alongside Gemma’s core PR and communications agency expertise, she has worked with a wide range of agency disciplines, delivering training and pitch support, and securing strong business wins in experiential, digital and content creation.  Over the last decade Gemma has delivered sales and marketing plans for a variety of agencies and businesses.

Gemma is a firm believer that new business as a process must be agile and honest, and able to get a whole agency enthused.   She brings infectious energy wherever she goes, firing up teams and delivering great results.

Highly organised ex PR professional with expertise in event organising and project management, Rachel began her career working with various 90’s pop groups. She learned the fundamentals of old fashioned PR and developed her dubious taste in music working with everyone from the downright cheesy, Mr Blobby to the supremely sexy Right Said Fred.

Big agency experience beckoned in the form of Weber Shandwick’s ‘Paragon Communications’ where she worked on banking industry clients, Woolworths and Bass Breweries. Rachel was then tempted in house to work as Woolworths PR Manager and spent several years freelancing for agencies, consumer projects and art shows. 

More recently, Rachel has run the private lives of HNWIs, organising them ‘till they squeak’, as one client says. 

At jfdi she’s responsible for marketing the services that are offered and providing support where needed whether it be internal or client facing.

rachel@jfdi.uk.com

Jon’s new business career spans 13 years during which time he’s worked across a range of agency disciplines - design, experiential, integrated/shopper, content marketing and creative. He’s played a leading role in the meteoric rise of both an integrated and an experiential marketing agency, each of which were awarded ‘Agency Of The Year’ in their respective disciplines.

He has finely tuned prospecting skills and his expertise extends to all aspects of new business - creation/development of agency collateral, overseeing agency marketing and PR, networking with key influencers, nurturing relationships with prospective clients and leading pitches.

jon@jfdi.uk.com

Gemma has over ten years experience of new business generation within the marketing services world.

She’s worked both within the new business agency arena and agency side. So, her experience is vast. From all things creative (Brand, advertising, digital & sales promotions), through to digital media, international production/transcreation and marketing effectiveness consultancy.

She has a holistic view of the marketing mix for National and International businesses and the types of challenges they can bring.

Having worked with both established agencies and start-ups, her ethos is the same... simplify, uncover a point of difference, showcase how you can solve a business problem - and - this will open doors.

gemma.k@jfdi.uk.com

Honey has been working in communication agencies for 24 years as both a pitch and new business director resource.

Agencies she has worked with have ranged from the large networks to the smaller independents, from the well-established to the start-ups, from the specialists to the multi-disciplinarians.

Over her time as a consultant, she has gained invaluable experience of the entire new business process from the planning and executing of the new business strategy to the winning and embedding of new clients for the agencies.

Her roles have incorporated leading global & local pitches, compiling new business strategies, strategic prospecting, agency positioning, creds and website redesigns, agency marketing projects, profile building, post-pitch analysis, conference/ speech research &event planning.

Workshops she has conducted for IPA and PRCA members have included 'Online New Business for Agencies' and 'CSR For Agencies'.

Successful pitches have included: H&M, FedEx, Henkel, British Govt, The Premier League, British Heart Foundation, Autoglass, National Foster Care Association.

honey@jfdi.uk.com

With over 15 years’ experience as a business development consultant within the creative sector, Suzannah has worked across a range of agency disciplines.  Her experience includes agencies in the following fields  - film and video production, brand, creative communications, marketing and advertising from digital, PR, social right the way through to events. 

Suzannah is skilled in networking and developing relationships on a consultative basis driving new business pipelines for agencies at a local and international level.  Her capabilities span the whole process of winning business from strategic prospecting through to negotiation and closure. 

suzannah@jfdi.uk.com

Vanessa Fawcett (nee Hogg) has spent the last 17 years as a new business specialist, working in large and small agencies, across traditional disciplines and more recently in content and digital marketing (Kameleon, Be Heard), working collaboratively, to develop commercially focused, robust business development and contact strategies that engage, educate and ultimately win over prospective new clients. After graduating from St Andrews University, Vanessa started life at the coal face of a new business consultancy, making cold calls and setting meetings. She is a proven door opener across a number of sectors including B2B, finance, FMCG, automotive, government and retail.

Since then, Vanessa has been Business Development Director at Interfocus, Bates 141, and Billington Cartmell, where she spent nine years, responsible for defining new business strategy, identifying key prospective clients and establishing external relationships with new clients, intermediaries and relevant partners. Vanessa was part of the senior team that led the growth and transformation of Billington Cartmell from a promotions agency into an integrated marketing communications group across advertising, digital, social, CRM, experiential and shopper marketing.

Since working with jfdi over the last three years, Vanessa has worked on a breadth of new business strategies for production and post production houses, launching new vfx products, building up dialogue with agencies, broadcasters and production houses. 

vanessa@jfdi.uk.com

Emily is a creative new business and marketing professional who has been helping businesses attract new clients by driving reputational growth for over 12 years.

Prior to consulting, she spent a decade at global network Havas, leading the giant’s UK new business and marketing function as Group Marketing Director, where she oversaw its portfolio of agencies spanning media, creative, experiential and entertainment as well as its brand strategy, luxury and data consultancies.

From refreshing credentials and creating bespoke content to developing websites and producing lead-generating events, Emily is a ‘strategic doer’ who understands the vital role of marketing in driving new business and gets stuck in to make it happen.

emily@jfdi.uk.com

Over the last 15 years Jack has worked in a range of creative and digital agencies, consulting at C-Suite level with organisations ranging from startups to multinationals.

His roles have included working independently, managing teams, and sitting within senior management teams.

Jack now uses that experience to help his clients create and implement effective business development strategies and achieve their business goals.