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Antony Warne
Antony Warne Executive Planning Director AKQA
United Kingdom

Well experienced managing relationships on both the client and agency-side, Ant has built and managed both small and large, multi-award winning marketing, creative and strategy teams. He boasts a long track record of building successful new brands, (and refreshing old ones) across a broad range of categories, whilst almost religious about bringing the customer to the core of every element of a brand’s end-to-end experience. Hands-on knowledge in leading organisations through a myriad of development stages; start up, transition, and growth. Strong skills with social media marketing, brand management, business and project development as well as execution. Polished communicator with a complementary blend of creative vision, technical and interpersonal talents that have proven highly effective in cultivating long lasting relationships of trust and loyalty. Experience includes: - Customer-led brand strategy (communications and marketing plans) - End-to-end product development (new product / line extensions) - Team management and leadership (small / large scale teams) - Financial management (budgets exceeding $45M) - Creative business strategy consulting (across various industries) - Organisational stakeholder management (franchisee, wholly-owned and mixed-businesses)