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About Susanna Kempe
A digital, marketing leader with 20+ years experience in international B2B and media businesses, the last 15 of them at Board level.
Susanna's digital experience includes being CEO of the iconic WGSN, growing its customer base and profits to historic highs. An American, German, Brit, she understands global markets completely, has worked all over the world and launched businesses in China, Japan and India.
Her extensive M&A experience includes buying a whole portfolio of Performance Improvement businesses, data businesses and successful PE exits.
Susanna is steeped in events experience. She began her career at IIR and was part of the management team that sold to Informa. There she was the CMO before moving to Emap Networks as CEO, transforming the events business and achieving record profits. She was also a NED of WTG and the interim CEO of Industry Dynamics.
More recently while the Global Partner for Content and Marketing at Brunswick Group, she implemented a new digital first strategy, GTM approach and corporate re-brand.
Susanna is now the CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation which invests in the education of the underprivileged and under represented in order to break the cycle of poverty, reduce inequality and produce a new generation of leaders.
She also has her own boutique consultancy, Flying Trumpets, helping CEOs and Boards position their personal brands and grow their company profits through content, marketing, innovation and digital.
Recent Comments
After a pretty stressful week it was a real pleasure to do this webinar. It was illuminating and fun to swap insights with Maggie. The functionality was really super easy to use. The other advis...
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Yes, and to date it seems that "bad actors" have found it harder to use Instagram for behavioural manipulation. TikTok does indeed seem spectacularly lax and irresponsible. Wouldn't it be lovely...
Ditto re What's App. I think it is different in that they are not selling advertising or sponsored content on it so in theory the misinformation and manipulation can't happen and they aren...
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You are so welcome. It was actually a really good discipline to pull it all together and think about what were the most important things to say within the allotted time span. Glad it resonated. ...
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