Janet Markwick

Janet joined Grey in February 2008 as CFO Grey London, two years ago Janet joined the EMEA team as Chief Operating Officer. Having spent the majority of her career working for leading brands including Coca Cola and Sony Electronics where she worked across a broad range of business functions. She has brought a wide range of business experience from the client world to Grey and has played a pivotal role in helping Grey deliver double digit growth in both revenues and profit margins.  She is driven by the challenge and desire to grow and improve the business.
Janet has been fundamental in driving a greater commercial focus within the business and has actively driven the growth and diversification of marketing services at Grey through a number of joint ventures, acquisitions and new business wins. Janet approaches projects with the bigger picture in mind and today Grey evaluates performance using a number of KPIs that have been fundamental in radically changing the financial performance of the business and the behavior and contribution from employees.

Janet will be sharing her views during the session on ‘the agencies speak: where and how do we assign costs?’ Question Janet on how agencies structure themselves financially, how best to work with agencies to create a true partnership and why agencies are successful with some organisations and not others?