BRAND LEARNING welcomes five new directors to the team
Underlining our sustained growth despite the recession we are delighted to announce the arrival of five high profile new hires to our marketing consultancy team. As the leading international specialist in marketing capability development we have grown significantly in recent months as more than 14 new client companies have approached us to provide active support in building the capability of their marketing teams to reignite business growth.
Simona Hartley joins as a Marketing Capability Director from Kimberly-Clark, where she was the senior marketing manager for Europe. Simona has over fifteen years’ marketing experience within consumer goods businesses having previously worked for The Kellogg Company, Boots Healthcare International and Unilever.
Rodrigo Barreto joins as an Associate Director. After working for Shell and studying for an MBA, Rodrigo spent five years working for Nestle USA in multiple categories on some of its biggest food brands. He then moved to London and worked for Kimberly-Clark Europe, managing first the Huggies and then the Andrex brands.
Paul Davies is joining as an Associate Director from Diageo, where he has been a senior brand manager for Scotch Whisky & Luxury Brands – Global Travel Middle East. Paul has been at Diageo since 2000, after spending his early career at Nestle.
Emily McEwen also joins as an Associate Director. She previously worked at Constellation, where she was a senior brand manager for Hardys (Europe). Emily has over eight years of marketing experience and has also worked for Manor Bakeries and Campbell’s.
Sarah Jones also joins as an Associate Director from PepsiCo, where she has been a brand manager for Walkers since 2006. Prior to that, she worked at Mars Group for six years.
Andy Bird, co-founder and Managing Director of Brand Learning, comments: “We are delighted we have been able to continue to invest in our people and to attract talented marketers with a passion for building capabilities into our unique team. Brand Learning is growing, as is the category of marketing capability development, as companies from a wide range of sectors internationally are continuing to put serious investment into their people, processes and learning programmes in order to reignite business growth.”