Cindy Gallop is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, whose background is 38 years in brand-building, marketing and advertising – she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year.  She founded IfWeRanTheWorld, co-action software launched in beta at TED 2010 and subsequently written up and taught as a Harvard Business School case study, enabling brands to implement the business model of the future – Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit (financial and social). She is the founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’ – a social sextech platform designed to promote good sexual behavior and good sexual values, which she launched at TED 2009, and for which she is currently raising funding to scale ‘the Social Sex Revolution’.

She is a board advisor to a number of tech ventures and works as a personal brand/life/executive coach and a consultant on brand and business innovation for companies around the world, describing her consultancy approach as; I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business; Business Insider named her one of 15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today, alongside Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin, and cited her as number 33 on their list of 100 Most Influential Tech Women On Twitter, and number one on their list of Top 30 People In Advertising To Follow On Twitter. Campaign has twice named her number one on their list of Top 10 Trailblazers. She has a reputation as a highly compelling and inspirational speaker at conferences and events around the world on a variety of topics: her talks on the future of advertising and marketing have been tweeted as: ‘The most brilliant speech on the future of advertising ever – not the usual buzzword-laden bullshit’; ‘Watching @cindygallop slice and dice the ad industry status quo like a ginsu knife. #purewin’; and ‘There must be a DeLorean parked outside, because Cindy Gallop is from the FUTURE!’ InfluencerCon NYC introduced her as ‘Cindy Gallop is the truth Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise he couldn’t handle.’ Together with Susan Credle of FCB and Margaret Johnson of Goodby, Cindy is one of three Campaign Review Committee chairs for the AdCouncil in the US, helping to make the work great. Cindy is an outspoken advocate of diversity and inclusion in advertising, tech and business. She was Jury President at Cannes Lions 2015 for the inaugural Glass Lion awards, proposed by Sheryl Sandberg to celebrate advertising that shatters gender stereotypes in advertising, a role she’ll be repeating at Cannes Lions 2024 for the Glass Lion’s 10th anniversary, and she partnered with AARP on their DisruptAging initiative to challenge and change ageism. You can follow Cindy on LinkedIn, and on Twitter and Instagram @cindygallop.

Amber Guild is a known leader of driving transformation and growth across advertising, marketing and publishing. As CEO of McCann New York, she is leading one of the creative industry’s most iconic agencies forward, delivering a culture of creative excellence with her leadership team. Her career includes roles at Ogilvy, COLLINS and The New York Times. At the latter, she was President of T Brand Studio and co-authored “A Call to Action: Building a Culture That Works for All of Us,” a public report that sparked one of the most transparent cultural transformations taken by a major news organization, reshaping systems to create an inclusive workplace that allows all talent to excel.

Amber’s value-based and people-first approach is what she believes ignites growth and innovation – citing diversity, equity and inclusion as a core pillar in her growth strategy and as the key to what fuels the creativity needed for brands to have impact with audiences.

Amber has been recognized by She Runs It’s “Working Mothers of the Year,” Campaign’s “Most Inspiring Women Leading Change,” and she has received the New York Times Publishers Award. She has also been featured in the book “Leap to Leader,” The New York Times series “Corner Office” by Adam Bryant and on The Today Show. In 2024 she served on the Cannes Lions Creative Business Transformation Jury and currently serves on multiple boards, including the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), ANA Educational Foundation (AEF), VCU Brandcenter, and is a founding member of CHIEF.