Agency Dealmasters Podcast

Wale Badamosi-Oyekanmi is the Founder and President of Dare.Win, the international award-winning group offering communication & consulting services to entertainment and content brands. They have recently merged with Sir Martin Sorrell’s Media.Monks. Clients include Netflix, Spotify, PlayStation, Bacardi Group, Google, YouTube, BMW, Disney, Warner Bros and Zalando to name a few.

Matt Harper is the CEO of The Marketing Practice, with their recent acquisitions, they are now one of the leading full-funnel B2B agencies in the world. He previously ran the agency’s US operation prior to becoming group CEO. His goal is to develop a team that’s the best in the world at B2B marketing, delivering a blend of local expertise and global scale that helps clients grow customers, pipeline and partner channels. The company has recently made two significant acquisitions, Omobono, the digital experience company for B2B brands, and Kingpin Communications, the B2B comms specialists, to make them a collective powerhouse of B2B specialists. We talk about:

Matt Harper is the CEO of the Marketing Practice, with their recent acquisitions, they are now one of the leading full-funnel B2B agencies in the world. He previously ran the agency’s US operation prior to becoming group CEO. His goal is to develop a team that’s the best in the world at B2B marketing, delivering a blend of local expertise and global scale that helps clients grow customers, pipeline and partner channels. The company has recently made two significant acquisitions, Omobono, the digital experience company for B2B brands, and Kingpin, the B2B comms specialists, to make them a collective powerhouse of B2B specialists.

Tiffani Bova is the Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Her book: Growth IQ has been translated into seven languages, it was named a Wall Street Journal Bestseller and one of the top 5 books in Leadership and Strategy.  She’s been named as one of the “Most Powerful and Influential Women in California”.  She writes for HBR, Forbes and has been featured in articles from Bloomberg, The WSJ, Economist, Hoovers and USA Today. We talk about:

Tiffani Bova is the Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Her book: Growth IQ  has been translated into seven languages, it was named a Wall Street Journal Bestseller and one of the top 5 books in Leadership and Strategy.  She’s been named as one of the “Most Powerful and Influential Women in California”.  She writes for HBR, Forbes and has been featured in articles from Bloomberg, The WSJ, Economist, Hoovers and USA Today.

Jonathan Leafe ran Strawberry for 27 years, a very successful Creative Marketing Agency, he then sold the agency and became a performance coach. He’s since helped many Digital Agencies, Marketing Agencies and Creative Agencies fulfil their full potential. Helping them turn minus EBITDA into positive success, double their turnover and more than double their profit, as well as going from having no retainer clients to 100% on retainer. We talk about:

Jonathan Leafe ran Strawberry for 27 years, a very successful Creative Marketing Agency, he then sold the agency and became a performance coach. He’s since helped many Digital Agencies, Marketing Agencies and Creative Agencies fulfill their potential. Helping them turn minus EBITDA into positive success, double their turnover and more than double their profit, as well as going from having no retainer clients to 100% on retainer.

Sophie Coyne and Megan Leppan are the co-founders of Raised by Wolves. A fascinating company at the nexus of corporate internal communications with brand advertising. Corporate comms for a long time has been stale but Megan and Sophie have big plans to change that by injecting some much-needed life into the space.  We talk about:

Sophie Coyne and Megan Leppan are the Co-founders of Raised by Wolves,  a creative communications studio focused on helping brands unsettle the ordinary in the corporate and sustainability space.

Perrine Farque, is the author of 'Inclusion', entrepreneur, keynote speaker and inclusion expert who empowers leaders to leverage diversity as their competitive advantage. Perrine was nominated as one of the TOP 50 most influential UK Tech women. She inspires and motivates leadership teams to embrace diversity and inclusion. As well as helping attract and retain top diverse talent. Perrine has worked with global leading companies such as Facebook, Microsoft, IBM and many others. We discuss:

Perrine Farque, is the author of 'Inclusion', entrepreneur, keynote speaker and inclusion expert who empowers leaders to leverage diversity as their competitive advantage. Perrine was nominated as one of the TOP 50 most influential UK Tech women. She inspires and motivates leadership teams to embrace diversity and inclusion. As well as helping attract and retain top diverse talent. Perrine has worked with global leading companies such as Facebook, Microsoft, IBM and many others.

Jim Houghton has over 25 years of international experience working with and within marketing and communication businesses on corporate finance, including M&A, exit planning, joint ventures, deal structuring, post-merger integration and earnout management. This is Jim’s second time on the show. He has had an amazing career from his time at Omnicom in the early 2000s, to BDO then to Results international where he advised many leading marketing services businesses. He’s advised on many deals for Waypoint Partners from We Are Social, Headland to 1000 heads. We talk about: 

Jim Houghton has over 25 years of international experience working with and within marketing and communication businesses on corporate finance, including M&A, exit planning, joint ventures, deal structuring, post-merger integration and earnout management.

Assita Kone is a leading expert in marketing, sales, market penetration and PR with a robust background in tourism and hospitality.  Her career with ONOMO Hotels, Mangalis Hotel Group & being a self-employed consultant has taken her all over the world, from moving to the inner city streets of Paris, to the UK, then onto the UAE, Abu Dhabi and now back to Ivory Coast where she is helping build the country's young people into the future leaders of the country. We discuss:

Assita Kone is a leading expert in marketing, sales, market penetration and PR with a robust background in tourism and hospitality fields.  Her career has taken her all over the world, from moving to the inner city streets of Paris, moving to the UK, then onto the UAE, Abu Dhabi and now back to Ivory Coast where she is helping build the country's young people into the future leaders of the country.

Chris Averill is an experienced entrepreneur, founder, author, leadership coach and mentor. He built and sold a hugely successful business and now helps others achieve their business goals.  He founded WAE in 2003, a leading global service design company and sold it in 2016; to become a consultant, advisor and mentor. His new book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838091807/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk (Build, Sell, Retire) is all about The truth about M&A and demystifying the M&A process.  We discuss:

Chris Averill is an experienced entrepreneur, founder, author, leadership coach and mentor. He built and sold a hugely successful business and now helps others achieve their business goals.  He founded WAE in 2003, a leading global service design company and sold it in 2016; to become a consultant, advisor and mentor. His new book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1838091807/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk (Build, Sell, Retire) is all about The truth about M&A and demystifying the M&A process.  If you are starting a business, growing one or thinking of selling then this conversation is for you.

Tom Perry is the Founder and CEO at Sherpa - a global, specialist, Channel agency. They manage Channel, Alliances & Partner programmes for global technology companies at any stage of growth. They have also developed and now operate the world's first Partner Experience platform, which they have built over the last 3 years, which technology firms use to drive revenue with their partners. Tom also speaks on Channel Marketing best practices, Go to Market for Tech brands and channel marketplaces. As well as being a Dad and ex-international water polo player. We talk about:

Tom Perry is the Founder and CEO at Sherpa - a global, specialist, Channel agency. They manage Channel, Alliances & Partner programmes for global technology companies at any stage of growth. They have also developed and now operate the world's first Partner Experience platform, which they have built over the last 3 years, which technology firms use to drive revenue with their partners. Tom speaks on Channel Marketing best practices, Go to Market for Tech brands and channel marketplaces. As well as being a Dad and ex-international water polo player.

Andy Nairn is a Founding Partner at Lucky Generals, one of the most awarded and revered Ad agencies in the world.  Campaign Magazine has named Andy the No.1 planner in the UK and one of the top 10 in the world. He has won more IPA Effectiveness Awards than any other planner, including 2005, 2007 and a 2010 Grand Prix.  He is now a Fellow in 2010 and the IPA has named him one of the inaugural members of their Effectiveness Hall of Fame. Andy has created impactful work at AMV BBDO, RKCR/Y&R, Goodby Silverstein and MCBD. Clients include Amazon, Yorkshire Tea, Zoopla, Alpro, Co-Op, to name a few.  Andy is also the author of the new book 'Go Luck Yourself', which presents 40 ways brands can stack luck in their favour. We talk about: