Michael was one of the founding partners of Gold Greenlees Trott in 1980. GGT grew to become one of the great names in British advertising, listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1986 and sold to Omnicom in 1998. Michael moved to the USA as CEO of TBWA Worldwide and joined Omnicom’s board in 2001 as Executive Vice-President. He was special advisor to General Atlantic Private Equity Partnership until his return to London in 2007, when he became CEO of Thomson Intermedia (now Ebiquity). Michael serves on the boards of Hewitt Associates and AKQA and is a lay member of Warwick University Council.

Paul Adams
Chief Information Officer

A graduate in computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Paul worked at the Wellcome Foundation and Mintel before joining Thomson Intermedia at its inception, becoming IT Director in 1999. As CIO he is responsible for software development, infrastructure, data capture, QA and all of Ebiquity's system outputs.

Andrew Challier
Managing Director, Billetts UK

Andrew joined the group in 2007.  He previously held Director level positions at Marks & Spencer, Verdict Research and Ninah Consulting. With a pedigree encompassing both client-side and consultancy experience, Andrew brings a results-orientated perspective to the challenge of improving marketing effectiveness.

Mark Reen
Managing Partner, ePublisher

Mark spent 20 years in publishing roles within regional press, national press and consumer magazines, most recently as Group Publisher at IPC SouthBank, with responsibility across all revenue streams for titles such as Marie Claire, Instyle and Homes & Gardens. Mark joined Ebiquity in 2008, as Managing Partner of ePublisher, after completing his MBA.   

Simon Cross
Managing Partner, Media Analytics

Simon spent 10 years at Zenith Media (now ZenithOptimedia) in the fields of media buying, research and systems, and latterly in International Management. He joined Billetts in 1997.  He was instrumental in building the business into the largest media-auditing practice in the UK, developing tools that are now universally recognised as the gold-standard in measuring the quality and value of media placement.

Andy Smith
Business Director / Head of TV

Before joining Billetts, Andy spent 15 years working at media agencies, most notably at ZenithOptimedia where he worked his way through the TV department.

Donna Malone,
Team Leader / Head of Outdoor

Donna has over 20 years media experience. Starting at Brunning Advertising, she moved to MBS media and then Zenith Media where she spent ten years and reached Director level before joining Billetts in 2002. Donna sits on the Billetts board and has a broad experience of media consultancy, campaign evaluation and agency relationship management.

Martin Wheeler,
Account Director

Martin spent 12 years working in the consumer packaged goods sector. His roles covered a broad spectrum of commercial responsibilities including Sales, Marketing and Category Management. During his 5 years at Billetts he has worked with many suppliers helping them to develop promotional effectiveness through insight based strategy and better accountability.

Louise Flin
Business Unit Director

Louise brings 14 years experience of marketing effectiveness to the team, having worked in a variety of marketing and effectiveness roles in both the private and public sector. Since joining the group in 2002, Louise has been helping and training our customers to understand and then optimise their marketing spend.

Andrew Beach
Chief Financial Officer

Andrew qualified at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and worked within their Assurance business for 9 years until 2007, specialising in Entertainment and Media clients and heading up the firm's Publishing knowledge network. He joined Thomson Intermedia in March 2007, and was promoted to Finance Director in April 2008. Andrew also acts as Company Secretary for the Group.

Martin Sambrook
Managing Partner, Billetts' international operations

Martin has 20 years’ experience as a media auditor and consultant and, before that, trained as a financial auditor with Touche Ross (now Deloitte).  Martin joined Billetts from the Media Audits Group, where he was Managing Director of Media Audits UK before taking on a Global Account Director role. Martin holds an MBA from Warwick Business School.

Morag Blazey
Acting Managing Director, Billetts Media Monitoring

Morag spent more than 20 years in agencies; at CDP as a TV buyer, BBH as a planner buyer and most recently at PHD as Group Account Director to work on TV Licensing, the BBC and Prudential. She became Managing Director in 1999 and CEO in 2006. Morag led the agency to its unique accolade of Agency of The Year in all three trade magazines in 2005. After resigning in 2008 her projects included assisting PwC and Fishburn Hedges in the development of a communications strategy for the pensions reform bill, and working with the Olympic Delivery Authority in the development of a communications plan for transport demand management in 2012.She is a Fellow of the IPA, where she led the creation of Touchpoints, and has a Radio Centre Fellowship.

John Ferguson
Head of International Operations

John’s media career stretches back 25 years working in senior network roles including International Media Director for McCann’s European Network.  His last 10 years have been spent at Billetts running the international division of our Media Consulting business establishing a breadth of category experience with many AdAge Top 50 advertisers and building an unrivalled track record improving effectiveness and efficiency of their marketing strategies.  A former top-class runner, John admits to having lost a ‘yard or two of pace’ nowadays.

Ian Crick,
Head of Interactive

After starting work in a creative agency, Ian joined Billetts 10 years ago to help develop the company’s non-broadcast services as clients and agencies became increasingly multi-platform. During this time he became Head of Press as well as developing online competitor monitoring tools. In 2007 Ian became Group Marketing Director and oversaw our company re-branding and product launches.

Tim Howett,
Team Leader / Head of Press

Tim has 14 years experience in the UK media market working for media owners (including Guardian and Capital Radio), media agencies and for the last two and a half years in media consulting. In addition to this experience, Tim has an MBA from Durham Business School and five years on the national press coal face.

Richard Hemming,
Head of Marketing & Insight

Richard joined Billetts in August 2008 to bring together the insight and expertise from within the business and to communicate it externally. Previous experience includes research and marketing roles at BSkyB and IPC Media. More recently he was Head of Advertising Marketing at Emap working across magazines, online and radio where he lead industry research initiatives.

Zeman Bhunnoo
Business Director, Marketing & Media Effectiveness

Zee holds masters degrees in both Economics and Statistics. Since joining Billetts in 2005, Zee has excelled at developing innovative methodologies to solve complex problems, and advising customers on how to improve their marketing and business performance. Zee's areas of expertise are: FMCG/CPG, Retail, Charity consulting, and PR evaluation.