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AI & Commerce Leader 🗣️LinkedIn Top Voice 🎤 Keynote Speaker 🤖 Ads in AI 🛒 Retail Media ✨AI Commerce Newsletter 💯 The Drum Commerce Media Power 100💡 RETHINK Top Retail Expert 🏛️ WFA & IAB Council 🎓 BSc & MBA

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Retail media is a $150B industry still being built in real time. AI agents are about to reshape how every product on earth gets discovered, compared, and bought. I work at the intersection of both.

As Global Retail Media Lead at Diageo, I operationalised the retail media strategy across 200+ brands and 180 markets for the world's largest premium drinks company. Before that, I spent 20+ years on both sides of the table: agency, retailer, adtech, and consultancy, working with and inside businesses like Woolworths, Amazon, Criteo, GroupM, and WPP.

What I focus on now:

🤖 AI Commerce & Agentic Shopping: How AI agents, protocols like Google's UCP and OpenAI's Operator, and conversational interfaces are rewriting the commerce playbook. I frame this as Defense (AI on retailer sites) vs. Offense (your brand inside AI platforms).

🛒 Retail Media Strategy: Full-funnel planning, measurement standardisation, and making retail media networks actually work for advertisers. Founding member of the IAB Australia Retail Media Council and the WFA Global Retail Media Taskforce.

📣 Thought Leadership & Industry Development: IAB & WFA Retail Media Councils, Jury President of The Drum's inaugural Global Commerce Media Awards. Keynote speaker. Author of the AI Commerce Brief, a weekly newsletter read by 6,000+ commerce leaders.

🧠 Advisory & Consulting: I advise brands, retailers, and platforms on retail media maturity, AI readiness, and commercial strategy. Past and current clients include L'Oreal, Unilever, Ebiquity, and CitrusAd.



If you're a brand trying to figure out retail media, a retailer building a media network, or an AI company entering commerce: let's talk.

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🌐 Consultancy: www.retailmediaconsultancy.com

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Experience

  • Thrad Graphic

    Chief Commercial Officer

    Thrad

    - Present 3 months

    Global CCO at Thrad, the infrastructure enabling brands to show up in AI conversations, and publishers & retailers to monetise AI interfaces

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    Jury President, Global Commerce Media Awards

    The Drum

    - Present 9 months

    Serving as Jury President of The Drum's inaugural Global Commerce Media Awards, recognising best-in-class work across retail media, measurement, creative, and full-funnel commerce strategy.

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    Principal Consultant

    Retail Media & AI Consultancy

    - Present 3 years 3 months

    Founder & Principal Consultant delivering specialist retail media advice & consultancy for businesses such as L'Oreal, Diageo, Unilever, Ebiquity & CitrusAd.

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    Retail Media Council

    IAB Australia

    - 3 years 6 months

    Founding member of the Council & co-creator of the 'Retail Media Foundations' certifications

  • Diageo Graphic

    Global Retail Media Lead

    Diageo

    - 2 years 1 month

    Global retail media lead at the worldwide leader in premium drinks with +200 brands across 180 countries - including brands like Guinness, Baileys, Tanqueray, Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff.

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    Global Retail Media Taskforce

    WFA

    - 2 years 1 month

    Member of the Global Retail Media Taskforce for the World Federation of Advertisers.

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    SVP Business Development, APJ

    CitrusAd

    - 8 months

    Senior Vice President for retail media sales strategy & biz dev across Asia-Pacific & Japan

  • Ebiquity plc Graphic

    Global Lead, Retail Media

    Ebiquity plc

    - 3 months

    Global lead for the design & development of Ebiquity's retail media solution.

  • Criteo Graphic

    Head of Retail Media, ANZ

    Criteo

    - 1 year 6 months

    Established the Criteo retail media business, partnering with retailers to monetize their assets & data.

  • WPP Graphic

    eCommerce Lead, WPP AUNZ

    WPP

    - 2 years

    eCommerce lead & subject matter expert at WPP AUNZ, collaborating across the holding group.

  • GroupM Graphic

    General Manager, GroupM Commerce

    GroupM

    - 2 years 6 months

    Founder of GroupM Commerce, the dedicated practice for e-com, retail media & retail consultancy.

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    Interactive Board Member

    Media Federation of Australia

    - 5 years 10 months

    Member of the Interactive Board of digital leaders from across the media agency industry.

    We championed best practice and created the MFA Digital Foundation Certificates:
    - Cert I: Display, Video, Social & Search Engine Marketing (SEM).
    - Cert II: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Content Marketing, Programmatic & Measurement

  • Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Graphic

    Juror, Creative Commerce Category (2020 & 2021)

    Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

    - 3 months

    Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

    Jury member for the Cannes Lions 'Creative eCommerce' category award for 2020 & 2021.

  • MediaCom

    MediaCom

    4 years

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      Head of eCommerce & Digital Shelf

      MediaCom

      - 2 years

      Leadership of our technology partnerships & e-commerce practice, including product development and delivery of client solutions for P&G, Mars, Fonterra & Revlon. Driving development & commercialisation of GroupM e-commerce tools and services.

    • MediaCom Graphic

      Head of Digital

      MediaCom

      - 2 years 6 months

      Leadership of the MediaCom Digital team, driving investment & commercial targets and working with our client teams across data, tech and tools to deliver best in class media planning & systems for our clients.

  • News Corp Graphic

    Head of Strategy, Sports Central

    News Corp

    - 3 years 3 months

    Head of Strategy for Sports Central, the sports integration division at NewsCorp. I developed the go-to-market value proposition and created cross media solutions for advertisers, driving $45m incremental revenue.

  • MediaCom

    MediaCom

    4 years 1 month

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      Business Lead

      MediaCom

      - 1 year 6 months

      Leadership of comms planning, digital and direct response.

    • MediaCom Graphic

      Digital Director, The Response Group

      MediaCom

      - 2 years 7 months

      Sydney, Australia

      Founding digital lead for TRG (The Response Group), the agencies specialist direct response practice for clients like Dell & IAG

  • PHD

    PHD

    4 years 10 months

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      Interactive Media Manager, PHD IQ

      PHD

      - 3 years 9 months

      London, United Kingdom

    • PHD Graphic

      Media Buyer, Broadcast Department

      PHD

      - 1 year 2 months

      London, United Kingdom

  • ExxonMobil Graphic

    Marketing Analyst, Esso UK

    ExxonMobil

    - 1 year

    London, United Kingdom

Education

  • Lancaster University Graphic

    Lancaster University

    Bachelor's degree Marketing Management & Advertising [BSc 2:1]

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    Activities and Societies: Courses: Advertising, Marketing, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, New Venture Planning Societies: Sky Diving & Pendle College Pool Captain

    Lancaster University Management School is ranked in the UK top 10 & world top 100 business schools. The only UK business school to be top ranked across all major activities (MBA & Masters, Undergraduate, PhD, Research & Executive Education).

  • Bradford Grammar School Graphic

    Bradford Grammar School

    A-Level: Economics [A] History [A] Biology [A]

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    Bradford Grammar School is one of the top three independent schools in the North of England and 80th nationally, according to the Sunday Times

  • MiniMBA Graphic

    Marketing Week Mini MBA with Mark Ritson

    Mini MBA Marketing

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    The Marketing Week Mini MBA in Marketing is a CPD accredited, MBA level course. Covering the same content and theories as the marketing core class taught on MBA programmes at the top business schools, but in just 12 lessons, providing the tools to become an exceptional marketer.

  • IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising)

    Foundation Certificate Advertising [Distinction]

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    The IPA programme covers the complete brand communications process. Including advertising & communication in context, understanding the client's business, the strategic planner's toolkit, media planning, creativity & creative development, and advertising effectiveness.

Licenses & Certifications

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Publications

Courses

  • Amazon Advertising Accreditations (Strategy, Sponsored Ads, Programmatic) - First Person in Australia Certified

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Honors & Awards

  • Retail Media Leader of the Year

    Unmade

    The Unmade award recognises individuals who have made a significant contribution to building Australia’s retail media landscape through leadership, vision, innovation and contributing to the wider industry.

  • MediaCom eCommerce - SPARC Digital Shelf Analytics

    Marketing Asia & AMY Awards

    Marketing Asia eCommerce Awards: Best eCommerce Solution [Finalist]
    AMY Awards: Best Customer Acquisition Product [Finalist]

  • Dell Alienware Clan Challenge

    Various

    IAB: Brand Awareness & Positioning [Gold]
    IAB: Cross Platform Integration [Shortlist]
    MFA: IT & Consumer Durables [Won]
    Asian Digital Awards: Online Advertising [Won]
    AMI [Won]
    AME: Most Innovative Use of Media [Bronze]
    B&T: Best Media Campaign [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Integrated Marketing Campaign [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Entertainment Platform [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Event / Activation [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Use of…

    IAB: Brand Awareness & Positioning [Gold]
    IAB: Cross Platform Integration [Shortlist]
    MFA: IT & Consumer Durables [Won]
    Asian Digital Awards: Online Advertising [Won]
    AMI [Won]
    AME: Most Innovative Use of Media [Bronze]
    B&T: Best Media Campaign [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Integrated Marketing Campaign [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Entertainment Platform [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Event / Activation [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Use of the Digital Landscape [Shortlist]
    Festival of Media: Best Use of Emerging Technology [Shortlist]
    ADMA: Information Technology [Shortlist]

  • Dell Design Studio ‘Choose Art…’

    Campaign Asia Digital & ADMA Effectiveness

    Campaign Asia Digital Awards: Display [Shortlist]
    ADMA Effectiveness Awards: Information Technology [Shortlist]

  • amaysim – Unlimited Launch

    ADMA

    Telecommunications Category [Shortlist]

Languages

  • English

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Organizations

  • Media Federation Australia

    Interactive Committee Member

    - Present

    The purpose of the Interactive committee is to build the efficiency and effectiveness of interactive advertising, with a focus on developing and educating best practice within the industry and safeguarding the interests of agencies and their clients. We recently created the MFA Digital Foundation Certification, an program for new industry professionals.

  • IPA 44 Club Committee member “to inform & inspire the younger people working in the advertising industry”

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  • PHD Social Committee member “to organise & initiate the social events within PHD”

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