Piers Drake is Head of eCommerce, OMD EMEA, joining in late 2017 to evolve OMD’s eCommerce practice across all our clients. A former client of OMD, he also founded a crowdsourcing startup a decade ago and has held senior Digital and eCommerce roles at Sony, Samsung and Western Digital. He brings over 15yrs client-side experience integrating eCommerce and marketing teams, including launching Samsung’s first ever eCommerce platform in 2012. Passionate about developing end-to-end customer experiences, Piers is also a keen cyclist, snowboarder and father-of-three.

Liz Ericson is a Partner with McKinsey’s Digital McKinsey and Marketing & Sales Practice in London. She is an expert in consumer-facing digital topics with deep expertise in omnichannel, digital organisation, mobile, digital marketing and product management. She serves a broad range of consumer-facing clients facing holistic reinventions of their core businesses as the world becomes more digital and the pace of consumer change accelerates.

Jason is a Data Scientist at ZX Ventures where he leads the European E-retail Data Science and Analytics function. He leverages his expertise in machine learning, consumer analytics and data mining to extract value from customer data. His primary focus is on ensuring a data driven approach to business decisions through democratising data and delivering actionable insights to drive online growth for AB InBev’s portfolio. 

Phil heads up the digital team at Shark Ninja for Europe, focusing on direct and pure player channels as well as online advertising. This new Digital team has helped grow Shark Ninja to become the UK’s fastest growing vacuum brand with Ninja the no 1 in Food Processors.”

Jonathan co-founded HookLogic, acquired by Criteo in November 2016. Under his leadership, HookLogic grew from a boot-strap start-up to a global enterprise powering integrated native advertising programs across many of the world largest and most successful retail sites. Jonathan is the Chief Strategy Officer at Criteo, where he leverages his vast market knowledge to foster deeper collaboration within the commerce marketing ecosystem, delivering maximum performance and profits for retailers and brands.

As Chief Operating Officer, Mollie leads all global commercial teams - revenue, supply, operations and marketing. Mollie joined Criteo in 2014 as Chief Revenue Officer and was instrumental in growing the company to a nearly $2 billion business that sustains a customer retention rate of 90%. Most recently she was honored as Working Mother of the Year in advertising, received a Silver Stevie award for “Female Executive of the Year”, and was ranked one of the most powerful woman in mobile advertising by Business Insider. Before Criteo, Mollie served in executive leadership roles at Millennial Media, Yahoo, Advertising.com/AOL and Time Inc.