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Tame the Mobile BeastTranscending Traditional Boundaries in Marketing with Michael Kassan, Founder & CEO of MediaLinkIn today’s episode of Masters of MAX, Tom is joined by an amazing guest, Michael Kassan, Michael is the founder, chairman, and CEO of MediaLink, the media and marketing industry’s most trusted and connected strategic advisory firm, specializing in identifying areas of opportunity, optimization, and ultimately growth for its clients. Michael is an absolute veteran in the industry, having worked with executives at brand companies across various spaces. On the show, he emphasizes the importance of being a good storyteller as a CMO both externally to customers and internally to leadership and finance teams. Michael belie...
2023-12-1332 min
Building Successful BusinessesS3 E3.4: Building Successful Businesses: Duncan Painter, CEO, Ascential plc
In ECI's podcast, "Building Successful Businesses," we speak to business leaders about the building blocks of their success and the lessons they've learned along the way. In our last episode chatting with Duncan Painter, we chat about making M&A work and what lessons he’s learned about successful execution.
2023-10-1809 minBuilding Successful BusinessesS3 E3.3: Building Successful Businesses: Duncan Painter, CEO, Ascential plcIn ECI's podcast, "Building Successful Businesses," we speak to business leaders about the building blocks of their success and the lessons they've learned along the way. In our third episode we're chatting to Duncan Painter about why CEOs should have a hands-on view of clients and why dashboards are on their way out...
2023-08-2911 minBuilding Successful BusinessesS3 E3.2: Building Successful Businesses: Duncan Painter, CEO, Ascential plcIn ECI's podcast, "Building Successful Businesses," we speak to business leaders about the building blocks of their success and the lessons they've learned along the way. In our second episode chatting with Duncan Painter, CEO of Ascential plc, we discuss the importance of mentorship and what needs to happen as you scale to make sure your business doesn't drown in process.
2023-08-1711 minBuilding Successful BusinessesS3 E3.1: Building Successful Businesses: Duncan Painter, CEO, Ascential plcIn ECI's podcast, "Building Successful Businesses," we speak to business leaders about the building blocks of their success and the lessons they've learned along the way. In the first of our episodes chatting with Duncan Painter, CEO of Ascential plc, we chat about how to create an aligned global team and how to make empowerment work in practice.
2023-08-1607 min
Better Under Pressure#21 - Myriam Coupard - Listen to Your BodyIn this episode, I’m talking to Myriam Coupard, who has worked all over the world leading and shaping creative businesses. A customer-centric entrepreneur at heart, she’s launched, run, reshaped and grown successful companies in France, the UK, China and Singapore. Myriam trained as a professional dancer in Contemporary Dance in Paris, specialising in the Martha Graham technique until that career was cut short following unsuccessful knee surgery.
Following that, she dedicated many years to Ascential PLC and more specifically to Cannes Lions, the organisation behind the renowned film festival, where she worked across a breadth of E...
2023-02-161h 00
How Success HappensMichael Kassan, Founder and CEO of MediaLink, on Seizing Opportunities Michael E. Kassan is the founder and CEO of MediaLink, a leading strategic advisory firm. Described as the “ultimate power broker,” he is a trusted advisor on speed dial with every major executive in the media, marketing, entertainment and technology C-Suite. They seek his insights and instruction for solving their most complex business challenges. MediaLink is a part of UTA, which acquired the firm from Ascential pLc in 2021.
2022-06-2245 min
How Success HappensMichael Kassan, Founder and CEO of MediaLink, on Seizing Opportunities Michael E. Kassan is the founder and CEO of MediaLink, a leading strategic advisory firm. Described as the “ultimate power broker,” he is a trusted advisor on speed dial with every major executive in the media, marketing, entertainment and technology C-Suite. They seek his insights and instruction for solving their most complex business challenges. MediaLink is a part of UTA, which acquired the firm from Ascential pLc in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-06-2246 min
A culture of kindnessNilema Bhakta-Jones Talks KindnessNilema is the most recent member of the Kantar’s Executive Team and Group General Counsel. Before joining Kantar, Nilema was COO of Farillio, a legal tech platform for SMEs, CEO of Alacrity (a platform business for enterprise), and General Counsel of Ascential plc (250 FTSE). Last year she was named as Cranfield University’s 100 Women to Watch 2020.Nilema also founded the Courageous Leadership Event to empower leaders to find the courageous leader within themselves. The event was set up to fund an education project for disadvantaged girls to continue their education in Zimbabwe run by charity Plan Inte...
2022-01-0939 min
In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai69. Leadership, Sustainability & Building Brands In A Digital Age / Rita Clifton CBEToday I speak with Rita Clifton CBE – a global brand expert and former Chair of Interbrand, described by the Financial Times as a ‘Brand guru’, and by Campaign magazine as ‘The doyenne of branding’. Alongside her board chairing and non-executive roles, Rita is a writer, keynote speaker, conference chair and practitioner on all aspects of brands, branding and business leadership.
A regular columnist and media commentator, Rita is the author of several books, including the best-selling title The Future of Brands, two editions of The Economist book Brands and Branding, and her new book, Love Your Imposter, which explores new types of b...
2021-10-2434 min
PR GIRL RANT!PR Girl Rant! Episode #5 Back to School Series! Going beyond traditional PR -What corporations are looking for in a PR professional or agencyBack to school means a time to continue to learn, grow, and achieve great things. Typically the term is used for those starting back up the school year after summer break. It’s also a season to start anew i.e. new jobs, new careers or learn a new skills to enhance your current potion to make more money. On today's episode PR Girl Rant! Back-to-School series, I chat with Monique Ruff-Bell, Event Director for Money20/20 USA & VP of Events, Ascential plc. (public limited company), on the topic of Going Beyond Traditional PR -What Corporations Are Looking For in a PR P...
2019-09-0636 min
HR FuturesHR Futures, Ralph Tribe, Chief People Officer, Ascential PlcThe first episode of The HR Futures Podcast features Ralph Tribe, Chief People Officer at Ascential Plc (a FTSE 250 media and data company), and formerly HR director at Sky Plc and Getty Images. In this podcast we explore HR's use of data and how it needs to evolve, to become more evidence focused. We also get under the skin of Ralph’s view on how HR can make more of a difference. This podcast is informative yet entertaining.
2019-07-101h 01
System Execution PodcastEpisode 32: How to Plan a Large-Scale Event with this Event Planning System, with Sanjib KalitaSanjib Kalita is Chief Marketing Officer of Money20/20, a business he helped grow from startup to the world’s largest event focused on payments and financial services innovation within 3 years. A fintech leader for over 15 years, he has worked for large organizations like Google, Intel and Citi as well as several successful startups including TxVia, a payment platform building technology company acquired by Google in 2012, Irynsoft, a Kauffman Foundation supported mobile education technology company highlighted in Best of 2010 lists by Time and Fast Company magazines, as well as Money20/20 which was acquired by Ascential plc in 2014. ...
2017-05-3123 min
The Tech Cat ShowThis week's guest, Xavier Kochhar, The Video Genome ProjectThis week we chat with Xavier Kochhar, the Founder and CEO of The Video Genome Project® (The VGP), a company whose mission is deeply rooted in the belief that the world's data should be accessible for all to use. VGP is revolutioning video content curation tools (such as search, recommendation, and personalization) and the way that publishers, content providers, marketers, and users all over the world will utilize any form of video content. It's a mind blow. Prior to VGP, Xavier was Managing Partner of MediaLink (acquired by Ascential plc), a strategic advisory firm operating at the intersection of t...
2017-03-2900 min