Plug into Mentoring - Thursday 3rd December - Speakers


THE HOST

Carole Machin
Presenter, BBC and MTV


Carole is currently hosting The National Lottery’s ‘Euromillions’ for BBC1 on Friday nights and a new undercover consumer rights series for BBC3.

Prior to this, she presented programmes on GMTV with Lorraine and the hit Channel 4 series ‘How to Look Good Naked’ with Gok Wan.  Carole also works closely with French skincare brand Vichy as an ambassador, supporting their nationwide campaign.  

She presented ‘The Entertainment News’ for MTV and TMF and has recently hosted London Fashion Weekend at The Natural History Museum for Channel 4 Events and ‘Be The One’ for EA Games in Trafalgar Square.



THE SPEAKERS


Lucy Unger
Managing Partner EMEA, Fitch


Lucy Unger is the Managing Partner EMEA for renowned international design consultancy, Fitch.  Lucy's career progressed through sales and marketing roles with blue-chip multinationals including Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Tesco and Coca-Cola before she jumped ship and opened her own design agency in Sydney.  

From there, Lucy was lured to London in 2001 to work for Fitch and after 3 years she was appointed Managing Director of the London studio.  Working closely with her management team, Lucy engineered a cultural and commercial turn-around of the business.

Without relinquishing her role as London MD, in 2006 Lucy was promoted to her current regional role where she oversees 6 studios in the Europe and Middle East region.  During this period Lucy has formulated and implemented the plan to open the Doha studio and was integral in the acquisition of a business in Dubai to complete Fitch's Middle East portfolio.

She has also successfully made significant senior management hires within the region in addition to steering the London studio to runners up place in Marketing's Design Agency of the Year in 2007.



Charlie Osmond
CEO and co-founder, FreshNetworks and FreshMinds


Charlie co-founded FreshMinds in 2000, moving from the Interactive Marketing Team at Procter & Gamble.  He graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Engineering, Economics and Management.

He has a long-standing interest in branding, social networks and driving innovation online.  In 2007 he co-founded FreshNetworks, a social media agency that helps brands build and manage online communities.

In honour of his entrepreneurial efforts, Charlie was named by Growing Business magazine as one of the UK's "Next Generation of Entrepreneurs".  In 2003 he was named London Entrepreneur of the Year and The Carlton Young Business Person of the Year.  In 2006 he was named by Esquire Magazine as UK Young Entrepreneur of the year.  

FreshMinds has gone on to be named Best UK Agency by the Market Research Society in both 2006 and 2007, as well as Most Innovative Employer.  In 2008 FreshNetworks won the Sunday Times £5M London Entrepreneur Challenge.

Charlie works with a number of charities to promote entrepreneurialism amongst young people and has acted as a special advisor to various government departments on this topic.

In his spare time, he is an occasional blogger for FreshNetworks and Econsultancy and competes as part of the FreshMinds sailing team at international match-racing regattas. Last year the team reached a ranking of 28th in the world.