Board members
The DMA Board is the Association's decision making body, and works to an annual operating plan.
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Scott Logie, Occam DM Ltd As well as chair of the Advisory Council, Scott is chair of the DMA. After graduating in the 1980s, Scott started his career at British Aerospace before moving to CACi, Marketing Databasics where he discovered his love for direct marketing analysis. He spent six years at the Bank of Scotland before joining Occam in 2001, where he led a successful management buy-out in 2005. | ||
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Malcolm Green, Yell Malcolm joined Yell over 10 years ago, and is its head of compliance & ethics. Prior to Yell, Malcolm was the head of economic regulation at the ITC (now Ofcom), and was the economic adviser to the British Railways Board during railway privatisation in the 1990s. Malcolm is also a director of the Data Publishers Association, a member of the CBI South east council and trustee of the Yell Pension Fund. | ||
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Chris Combemale, Direct Marketing Association Chris is the executive director of the DMA, with responsibility for the organisation’s day-to-day operations and strategic planning. Holding dual French/US citizenship, Chris has 30 years’ experience in direct and digital marketing and advertising in Europe, the USA and the Asia/Pacific. From 2000 to 2009, Chris developed Emailvision into Europe’s leading email service provider as its chief operations officer and UK managing director. In 2001, Chris founded the Email Marketing Association and led its merger with the DMA in 2002. | ||
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Amanda Merron, Willott Kingston Smith Amanda is a partner at accountants Willott Kingston Smith, who specialise in working with creative, communications and consulting businesses. She works with marketing businesses of all sizes and at all stages of development from start-up to eventual sale. Amanda has lectured and written on management and financial issues in creative businesses. She edits the annual survey Financial Performance of Marketing Services Companies and contributes to the quarterly publication Marketing Services Monitor. | ||
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Bill Gilbert, Aegon Direct Marketing Services Europe Bill has over 20 years’ experience in direct marketing. He spent 15 years at ReMark International performing a number of roles from campaign management to business development. He joined Aegon in 2003 to start up its DM business in Germany and was appointed managing director of Aegon Direct Marketing Services in Europe in 2006. | ||
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Fedelma Good, Barclays Group Fedelma joined Barclays in 2007, where she serves as the head of marketing privacy and suppression management. Prior to Barclays, Fedelma founded Good Consulting, which she ran from 1999 to 2007. She has been an active member of the DMA, chairing a number of the DMA Data Council’s working parties. Fedelma drew up the DMA’s first guidelines on suppression files and has contributed to other data-related best practice guidelines. | ||
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Tony Kane, Touchpoint Communications Ltd Tony is managing director of Touchpoint Communications Ltd, and a non-executive director of MediaVest Group. Previously, Tony has been managing director of Britannia Music, managing director of Kaleidoscope Ltd., a board director of Next Directory, and Group Distribution Director of Next plc. Tony is also an active member of the DMA, serving as the chair of DMA North, a member of the DMA Advisory Council and chair of the Brand, Communications and Culture Working Party. | ||
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Julia Porter, ITV Julia Porter is currently acting group marketing and research director at ITV having joined the company in 2006. This role oversees all B2C and B2B marketing and research for ITV Broadcasting and ITV studios in UK and overseas. Prior to joining ITV Julia was client services and marketing director at Getty Images, responsible for marketing and client servicing for image.net and Media Manager asset management businesses in UK and internationally. | ||
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Shaun Bailey, Jacob Bailey An economics graduate, co-founded Stilton Advertising in 1995 and managed the company’s 400 per cent growth in turnover. He went on to form Jacob Bailey in 1998. Under his leadership, it soon grew to become the largest direct response agency in the East of England, with offices in Suffolk and London. |










