Leaders of agencies of all sizes are invited to join the BIMA’s CEO & Leadership Council for a discussion and Q&A.
From managing growth and maintaining culture to introducing hierarchy and evolving your leadership style, growing your agency is fraught with unknowns and big decisions.
BIMA’s ‘Growth Stories’ event is here to help. Hosted by Robin Bonn, Co-Chair of BIMA’s CEO & Leadership Council, this is your opportunity to ask questions to industry leaders and growth specialists, listen to their learnings and also share your own experiences.
Regardless of your agency’s size or maturity, you’ll come away with tips for growth, pitfalls to avoid and a real sense of community with your fellow leaders.
For this session, held at Moore Kingston Smith, we will be joined by Richard Neish, CEO of 101 Ways, who will be sharing his growth story.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Your Host:
Robin Bonn, Founder at Co:definery
Robin Bonn is the CEO of Co:definery, a specialist consulting and coaching business that helps agencies create their own ‘Market of One’ – enabling them to accelerate growth, command a premium and attract the best talent in the market.He’s also the host of The Immortal Life of Agencies podcast, a Marketing Week columnist, the co-chair of BIMA’s CEO & Leadership Council and a mentor for SheSays, supporting women and non-binary people in the creative industries.
Speakers:
Richard Neish, CEO of private equity backed data and transformation consultancy 101 Ways
CEO of private equity backed data and transformation consultancy 101 Ways, Richard Neish cut his teeth at BMP DDB and Tribal DDB winning and running digital advertising for Guinness and Budweiser before joining Dare, Campaign’s Digital Agency of the Decade, founding Dare’s digital transformation practice, rising to Managing Director and overseeing the sale and integration of the agency into the Oliver Group.
Appointed by St Ives PLC to turnaround the failing merger of digital agencies Amaze and Realise, Richard began a journey to consolidate a portfolio of eleven digital services acquisitions into a single brand, P&L, and pure-play digital transformation consultancy, launched to the market as Kin + Carta, the first globally certified B Corp to trade on the London Stock Exchange.
Richard served as CEO of Kin + Carta’s MarTech pillar before being appointed Global Chief Strategy Officer overseeing the PLCs strategic direction, expansion in Europe and North America, scaling of nearshore delivery in South Eastern Europe and Latin America, development of enterprise data proposition, strategic M&A, investor relations, and the path to take-private through the 2024 acquisition by Valtech.
Today Richard serves the success of 101 Ways clients, staff and investors as the consultancy scales enterprise custom software and data transformation in Financial Services, Healthcare and Retail.
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
17:00 - 19:00
Moore Kingston Smith LLP Accountants & Business Advisers,
London
Charlotte Building 17 Gresse Street, London, W1T 1QL
