Where Ideas Meet: UK Insight Leaders Event 2025

Neha Sharma

Consumer and Market Insights Director

Unilever

Mariline Alsuar-Dean

Global I&A Director for Intimate Wellness

Reckitt

Ciaran has followed the tried and tested route from agency to client side role - covering many categories and markets along the way. He started off at Ipsos focusing on all things innovation testing and forecasting, first in London followed by a year in Mexico City. After that he moved to his first client side role, working in Travel and Tourism while living in Vancouver, followed by Whisky once back in the UK. Currently he heads up Ooni’s Global insights program, spanning brand tracking, product development, audience understanding, creative testing, customer experience and everything in between. He believes in the power of good storytelling and engaging deliverables - they are the key to unlocking value from insights, making them memorable to all levels of the business and compelling stakeholders to take action.

Ciaran Acford

Senior Insights Manager

Ooni

Lucia Juliano

Head of Research & Client Success

Toluna

Gilbert Saktoe

Global Social Insights

MetrixLab

Lexi is the Head of Marketing Research and Insights for Amazon Prime Video in Europe, where she leads a team focused on creative testing, campaign tracking, and brand tracking to drive data-driven decisions that optimize the marketing strategy across 11 European markets. With a deep expertise in leveraging insights for strategic growth, she plays a pivotal role in shaping Prime Video’s marketing approach. Before joining Amazon, Lexi led European teams to deliver the brand paid media strategy at adidas and Nike.

Lexi Brown

Marketing Research & Strategic Insights Lead for EMEA

Amazon Prime Video

Paul’s mission is to make consumer planning and insight the lifeblood of every business he works for and to imbue that attitude into his teams and his agencies. He’s not your typical researcher. Paul strives to see insights making a difference and making sure the business makes the right, profitable decisions. Over his career, Paul has been privileged to work on amazing brands from Kinder Surprise to Ferrero Rocher, from Johnnie Walker to Tanqueray and from Guinness to Peroni. He has always prided himself on making a measurable, and commercial, impact through the insight work he and his team deliver.

Paul Thomas

Global Insight Director

Suntory Global Spirits

Ross Antrobus

SVP Insight & Analytics

LIV Golf

Clare Michelmore is not just an Insights Lead at Kimberly-Clark, she's a fellow problem-solver in the world of consumer insights. With a background in both agency & client-side roles, working internationally with big brands like Andrex, Kleenex, and Huggies, Clare understands the challenges and triumphs that come with deciphering consumer behaviour, juggling priorities, and pulling rabbits out of hats at the 11th hour for customer meetings.

Clare Michelmore

Consumer Insight Lead

Kimberly-Clark