GYDA - Key Persons


AMY BUDD

Job Titles:
  • CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS
Amy unlocks the potential of client relationships through mapping co-creating and mentoring teams to grow client value.

BEN POTTER

Job Titles:
  • Adviser
  • STRATEGY
Ben is an adviser, mentor and Non-Exec, helping independent agencies win the right clients with a more purposeful approach to business development.

CLAIRE MASON

Job Titles:
  • OPERATIONS
Claire is our Operations Manager. She ensures the wheels keep turning and is the glue between all the GYDA team and their clients. She works and lives in Spain....the rest of us are jealous.

CRAIG RODNEY

After founding, growing (for 15 years) and selling his agency to WPP, Craig now helps clients to focus on growth planning, profitability and exit.

GARRY HAMILTON

Job Titles:
  • Member of the MASTERMIND TEAM
  • BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
  • Founder and Business Development Director at Equator
Garry is a founder and Business Development Director at Equator, a top 10 U.K. agency. He's responsible for over £170m in agency revenue. He knows a thing or two about sales.

JAIME STENNING - CMO

Job Titles:
  • HEAD of MARKETING
  • PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Jaime is the driving force behind our marketing and events. Having worked in the creative world for 15 years, she brings an agency-side perspective to all of our enterprises.

JANUSZ STABIK

Job Titles:
  • He Facilitates Several Google Programs, Most Notably across EMEA
He's built, grown and exited his own digital agency and now helps other agency owners to do the same. He facilitates several Google programs, most notably across EMEA.

JIM MCLAUGHLIN

Job Titles:
  • STRATEGY
Jim helps companies grow. He has worked with over 100 clients - both in the UK and internationally.

LOUISE CLARKE

Job Titles:
  • ACCOUNTS
Louise is our book-keeper and works on all things money related. When it comes to what we owe and what's owed to us, Louise is the person to talk to.

MARK COLGAN

Job Titles:
  • SALES
Mark previously ran a 100-person agency and exited a Digital PR agency in 2022. He's a Sales Prospecting coach and has taught over 1000 students and helps agencies with generating pipeline and closing deals.

NEIL COLLARD

10 years running and growing e3, one of the UK's most respected digital agencies. Neil helps his clients to have a structured strategic approach to motivating management teams to deliver success.

PETE EVERETT

Job Titles:
  • FINANCE
  • Digital Executive
Pete is a seasoned digital executive, with 20 years of experience at C-suite level. He's founded and exited his own agency, and now helps founders to define strategy & deliver long-term commercial success.

PHILIPPA DALE-THOMAS

Job Titles:
  • Member of the MASTERMIND TEAM
  • Business Growth and Leadership Development Coach
  • MASTERMIND LEADER
Philippa is a business growth and leadership development coach. Philippa was managing director of a leading UK communications agency that grew to 130 people generating £15m revenue.

ROBERT CRAVEN - CEO

Job Titles:
  • MANAGING PARTNER
  • Member of the MASTERMIND TEAM
Known for his no-nonsense approach to business growth, Robert has worked with agencies and platforms from London to Dublin, from Singapore to New York.

STEPHEN FARISH

Job Titles:
  • BOARD ADVISORY
Stephen has over 30 years' experience in the marketing sector, and is now a non-exec. He's a former board director at Haymarket Media Group, Centaur Media plc, and chairman of Kantar Millward Brown's corporate and healthcare practices.