In the business of… marketing and advertising

Join us at this special In the Business of Marketing event, hosted by the Master, with Charlotte Langley (2006) Chief Customer Officer at Bloom & Wild, Julian Douglas, International CEO and Vice Chairman of VCCP Group and Anthony Wheeler (2013) Education Marketing Manager at Dukes Education Group. Current students can register for free via Eventbrite.

Charlotte Langley (2006) is Chief Customer Officer at Bloom and Wild. Charlotte joined Bloom & Wild at the start of 2020 to head up the evolution of Bloom & Wild’s brand and communications, leading Bloom & Wild’s re-brand, including the development of their ‘Care Wildly’ creative platform. Charlotte oversaw the introduction of Bloom & Wild’s annual Sustainability Report and the development of the Thoughtful Marketing Movement initiative. Following the acquisitions of bloomon and Bergamotte, Charlotte has played a central role in the articulation of the vision, mission and values that sit at the very heart of the Bloom & Wild Group. She now also leads the Research function as well as the bloomon brand team, and sits on the Executive Team.Prior to Bloom & Wild Charlotte built her career in the beauty industry, predominantly at L’Oréal, where she worked in both sales and marketing roles in their Consumer Products Division. Charlotte is an alumna of the Marketing Academy Scholarship leadership development programme and a mentor for their Apprentice programme.

Julian Douglas is the International CEO and Vice Chairman of VCCP Group. He joined VCCP London in 2008 having previously worked at WCRS, BBH, TBWA and Grey London (twice). With over twenty years’ experience he has created some of the world’s most successful campaigns for brands including Audi, Lynx, O2, Domino’s and Nationwide.

He has led VCCP’s expansion into Asia, opening VCCP Singapore in 2018 and earlier this year, VCCP Shanghai. Last year VCCP Singapore was crowned as Campaign’s Agency of the Year in only its second year of trading.

Julian is the President-elect of the IPA. He sits on the Facebook’s UK Diversity Council, the Chair of Black Representation in Marketing and is an active mentor through the NABS 100 Club. Committed to making the industry more inclusive, Dougie helped to launch the iList, an industry wide initiative to celebrate champions and role models and originated Advertising Unlocked, the annual joint industry open-day welcoming thousands of young people into the industry from right across the UK.

A firm believer in lifelong learning, he holds a BA and MA from Jesus College, Oxford, an MBA from Warwick Business School and completed a course in business sustainability at Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Outside of advertising, he is a Founder of Lucky Voice, the UK’s premier chain of karaoke bars and online karaoke and also founded Parent Pool, a social enterprise on a mission to transform the childcare market through collaborative parenting.

Anthony Wheeler (2013) is Marketing Manager for the Dukes Education GroupMarketing brings together Anthony’s creative side and love of data. After graduating from MML (Spanish and Russian with Catalan) in 2017, he ‘fell into’ marketing in the international programmes team at Pembroke College, Cambridge before realising a career in marketing was for him.

He is currently a marketing manager at Dukes Education, a family of nurseries, schools and colleges across the UK. There he leads on marketing and engagement for the company wide Dukes Club and marketing for The Lyceum School in the City of London.

Anthony is also active in the charity sector as a trustee, recently serving as Chair of Trustees at Cambridge Student Community Action and was a Founding Ambassador for the Young Trustees Movement.

He became an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2020 and a Chartered Marketer in summer 2021.