Hi, I’m Adam.

I spent 10 years in digital marketing at NIVEA and am now running marketing for Sampl - the market leader in digital product sampling.

Too many brands still run sampling campaigns like it’s 2005. Unmeasurable and disconnected from the rest of their marketing.

I joined Sampl to help fix that. I hired them when I was at NIVEA, and I've seen firsthand how sampling can become a reliable growth channel.

- Build a CRM of high-intent customers
- Improve PDPs with real reviews
- Collect feedback for NPD and trade sell-in
- Cut media waste by targeting actual buyers

We do this for some MAJOR global brands, and some of my favourite fast-growth brands too. Basically, anyone serious about customer acquisition.

I also host the Beyond the Brand podcast and advise/invest in early and scale-stage companies on how to grow with limited resources.

DM me about:

1) Marketing and growth strategy – campaign planning, funnel design and building traction with lean teams

2) Performance sampling – using reviews, opt-ins and conversion data to prove ROI

3) Speaking and panels – on modern marketing, brand growth and how consumer behaviour is changing

If you’re working on any of the above, feel free to get in touch.

Adam Wright

NEW EPISODE with Tessa Tysome, the marketer who emailed the same person every week for six months until they gave her a job!

Tess's career makes most marketing CVs look very boring

She launched Smirnoff Ice in Cameroon. 
Scaled La Roche-Posay to become Boots' largest healthy skin brand. 
Built an Amazon business from scratch as a one-woman band. 
Ran €82 million of Olympics media spend for Nike.

Then last year, her team got made redundant. She got offered a job at Meta the same day, before now running her own consultancy.

I've recorded nearly 20 episodes of this podcast. Tessa's energy is pretty different!

Within 5 minutes, you will see what I mean

Tess has got so much breadth - Diageo, L'Oréal, PepsiCo, Nike, Meta - but she also talks in such a refreshing way. No humble bragging, and packed with honest reflections on a career building some of the world's biggest brands

Her philosophy: "Persistence beats resistance. I'm like a rottweiler with a bone."

This conversation covers:
▶ Why she quit PepsiCo to drive from Zimbabwe to Cape Town and become a yoga teacher
▶ The L'Oréal brand framework she still uses today
▶ Building a consultancy by doing great work first, letting it find you
▶ Why brands should solve FOR consumers, not sell TO them

If you've ever thought about taking a career risk or starting your own thing, this will inspire you. Or scare you. Probably both

Listen now ▶ https://lnkd.in/eFC5wfne

Precision sampling and cashback campaigns for FMCG brands | Marketing Director @ Sampl | Podcast Host @ Beyond the Brand

Abbott

Responsible for driving growth through digital, e-commerce, customer experience, digital health partnerships, and omni/multichannel HCP and pharmacist engagement for key regions in Emerging Markets Asia.. Key areas of transformation focus:

- E-commerce and online channel development and acceleration
- CRM and marketing automation
- Omnichannel and multichannel HCP engagement
- Telehealth and telemedicine
- Digital marketing and media activation
- Digital ecosystem development
- Omnichannel innovation
- Strategic partnerships

Head of Digital and Customer Engagement, Established Pharmaceuticals

In addition to main role as head of digital, I'm also supporting OTC growth and acceleration through customer engagement, DTC consumer activation, revenue optimization, portfolio expansion, and capability building, in collaboration with global and regional category teams.

OTC (Over-the-Counter) Business Acceleration APAC Champion

talenTtrust

Serving as committee member to support the Talent Trust mission through strategy and marketing excellence. 

Talent Trust’s purpose is to level up talent to amplify good, and our mission is to strengthen non-profits and their impact through skills-based volunteering.

Marketing Committee Member

Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)

Executive Council for Leading Change is a global think tank where leaders strategize with peers, share battle-tested approaches and insights on change management and business transformation.

Member

Tigerhall

Tigerhall is a knowledge infrastructure platform.I am leveraging my years of professional experience and everything I have learnt along the way to  and pay it forward to share my expertise in content pieces with Tigerhall.

What I have recently published: https://tigerhall.com/content/podcasts/how-not-to-innovate

Thinkfluencer

Agthia Group PJSC

Serving as a non-executive director at Agthia Group PJSC (known as: Agthia), a company listed on Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) since May 2005. Agthia manufactures and distributes a broad portfolio of products including Water, Protein, Snacking, Confectionery, Frozen Vegetables, and Animal Feed across the world. A member of the Strategy, Innovation and Investment Committee.

Board Member / Non Executive Director

BEETc.

Serving as Advisory Board Member. The MarTech Summit is a leading marketing technology conference in the APAC and EMEA regions organised by BEETc. The series brings together the best minds in digital and technology innovation from a range of industries. Since 2020, the Summit has built a close-knit and trusted community of over 12,000+ senior-level leaders across 30+ countries and 5 continents.

Advisory Board Member

Philips

Drove marketing transformation through digital and e-commerce with accountability for topline and bottom-line performance of D2C business in APAC for personal healthcare categories. Developed strategy and managed execution of digital paid media, owned media, CRM, consumer engagement and experience, contact center, and data analytics. 

Managed a Center of Excellence / digital and commerce hub in APAC comprised of rock stars in data analytics, CRM, media, e-commerce sales and consumer experience. Managed 9 direct reports. Part of regional Management team.

Key Responsibilities:
Marketing and E-Commerce Transformation:
•	Digital performance marketing activation to generate demand, drive consideration and optimize conversion through efficient A&P allocation and utilization
•	Build and activate an end-to-end D2C consumer experience ecosystem to drive acquisition, engagement, build loyalty and consumer lifetime value, and grow NPS and brand preference
•	Build a connected data strategy (including first party data) through the development of a unified AdTech ecosystem, with media/ sales performance/ digital shelf tooling and visualization 
•	Develop the D2C ecommerce growth model, including a commercial GTM transformation roadmap and geo-expansion plan for Korea, ASEAN, and ANZ
•	Craft the e-commerce strategy articulating the role of D2C webstores and marketplace stores, e-retail, pureplays 
•	Full P&L management and accountability for D2C
•	Build owned media & content excellence across digital touchpoints 
•	Drive a test & learn, continuous improvement and Lean/problem solving culture to accelerate a profitable growth plan 
•	Build effective functional partnerships with IT/Digital Services to deploy and execute CRM (SFMC), optimize the online shopping experience (SAP, Adobe), and scale through Marketplaces implementation
•	Close collaboration with country GMs, finance, and operations partners to deliver annual operation plan
•	Network agency & service providers management

Head of Digital and E-commerce, Personal Healthcare APAC

Sanofi

Head of Digital Business Transformation responsible for enabling the International region to meet commercial and marketing objectives through effective digital transformation, accelerating growth and driving local competitive advantage through strategic and operational digital and data capabilities. Driving digital innovation through experimentation, CX principles, and digital health tech partnerships. Report to Global Chief Digital Officer.

Focused on growth levers through digital:

* E-business and digital commerce acceleration
* Precision/ Performance Marketing transformation
* Data-driven consumer and customer experience delivery
* Social commerce & CRM
* Digital health / personalised health experience
* Commercial transformation

Regional accountability for APAC, China, Japan, Russia, Australia, Africa, Turkey, Middle East (total 90+ markets). Work closely with key global markets (USA, LATAM, Europe) to leverage shared success models and cross-pollinate learning agendas.

Digital Transformation Lead - Consumer Healthcare APAC, China, Russia/Eurasia, Middle East, Africa

Fonterra

The best experiences make us walk away delighted, our problems solved and the interactions efficient and frictionless.  

Key Responsibilities:
-Driving innovation in customer and consumer experiences. 
- Driving strategic partnerships to deliver CX excellence for brands
-Elevating customer needs and solving their problems to drive business results.
-Building Customer Experience capability based on the following principles:
*We base initial hypotheses on data
*We always defer to customers
*We always focus on value
*We take the fastest route to data and learn from it
*It’s safe to experiment and quick failure is acceptable

Global Customer Experience & Innovation Lead, Velocity & Innovation

Global Digital Transformation Lead responsible for delivering best practice playbooks and driving digital transformation and innovation across Consumer (Maternal/Pediatric, Nutrition, Everyday Dairy), B2B and Foodservice business units in key global markets, leveraging enterprise-wide technology platforms (Salesforce, Adobe, social, e-commerce) as well as start-up technology and infusing Customer Experience ways of working. One direct report: Digital Programme Manager. Report to Director, Digital Innovation and Solutions (New Zealand).

	Provide leadership and strategy for global priority markets (APAC, China, USA, ANZ, and South America), translating business requirements into digital roadmaps, defining digital vision and strategy and delivering major digital initiatives specifically pursuing exceptional Customer Experience and cohesiveness across CRM/loyalty, social, e-commerce and advocacy agendas.  Distill brand ambition into appropriate digital strategy - identifying, mapping & leveraging key micro-moments across digital touch points, and delivering digital solutions via agile project management in partnership with IT Delivery.  
	Support the business unit GM / MDs to define the new operations, processes, competencies and resources/structure required to deliver digital marketing aspirations. Lead the digital marketing capability agenda with Group and BU HR functions aligned with Way of Marketing - building digital competency across the marketing organization (vs. a “digital department”) including developing and implementing formal CX and digital training platforms, mentoring & coaching.
	Partner with IT to ensure successful project delivery, enterprise optimization, and standardisation and vendor management within core cloud platforms and associated technologies e.g. Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Experience Cloud, aligning to strategy and Opco business needs.
	Champion Design Thinking and Customer Experience, Agile methodologies and ways of working

Global Marketing Manager- Digital & CRM, Velocity & Innovation

Mirum Agency

Mirum is a global digital consultancy, part of the J.Walter Thompson Company and WPP group of companies. With 46 offices around the world, Mirum is headquartered in Singapore for APAC.

Responsibilities:

•	Connected the local digital agency and global Mirum/JWT capabilities to produce consumer-relevant technology-enabled marketing programs that deliver business value to clients
•	Delivered client and consumer insight to strengthen new business and pitch process and optimize identification of business development opportunities
•	Innovated and evolved business strategy to ensure the agency model continues to build growth and deliver value
•	Translated business strategy into an organizational change strategy with clear executable plans
•	Identified, grew, and improved relationships with key technology platform partners in APAC to meet clients’ needs ( Ex. Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe AEM, Oracle, CXense)
•	Reporting to the Regional MD of Digital Transformation and Consultancy and the APAC CEO, played a lead role in shaping/defining the agency’s vision across APAC and ensure delivery of vision and adherence to relevant core processes
•	Attracted, developed, retained and mobilized the best talent for the agency
•	Managed, led and motivated 80 agency staff members to understand and live company values and to deliver commercial goals and ambition.

General Manager

I am a digital transformation and tech-driven marketing and commercial professional with 20+ years experience across Asia-Pacific, Europe and USA, specialising in digital business transformation in developed and emerging markets. Skilled in building and delivering key capabilities for organisations - customer experience and engagement, marketing transformation, online channel development, digital marketing, and DTC (D2C)/ B2B digital business models.

Industry Experience:
* Healthcare: (OTC - Pain, Digestive, Nutritional, Cough & Cold, Allergy )/ Pharmaceutical / Medical Devices
* Consumer: Infant/ Maternal/ Adult Nutrition, Dairy, Personal Care, F&B, Oral Health, Grooming &
Beauty, Mother &Baby Care
* Tourism & Hospitality, Lifestyle
* Tech: Music streaming, Telecommunications, Cybersecurity

Specialities:
• Digital business transformation: marketing and commercial transformation, customer experience, CRM, marketing automation, digital innovation and solutions, change
management, agile and Lean, marketing and sales tech stacks

• Precision digital marketing: performance marketing, media (paid, owned, earned) strategy,
content excellence, social media & Influencer marketing, media mix modelling, data analytics

• E-commerce: Direct-to-Consumer and Marketplace P&L management, revenue growth strategy, DTC
business models, digital shelf excellence, e-commerce technology, e-retail media, e-commerce
activation

• Consumer brand marketing: Marketing strategy, brand planning, integrated marketing activation, retail marketing, agency mgt

Digital Technology Use Cases Experience:
- Digital Advertising / Ad tech: Adobe, Salesforce, Google stacks
- Engagement / CRM: Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe, Oracle
- Digital Asset Manager (DAM): Adobe, WebDam
- Customer Service: Service cloud
- Digital content: Adobe, Aquia

Recent industry engagements: 
-Speaker and Advisory Board member, MarTech Summit, since 2023
-The Economist Intelligence Roundtable- 2021
-Advisory Board member, Chief Digital Officer Asia Summit
-Digital Marketing Asia moderator/ panelist, Marketing Interactive - Nov 2022
-Advisory Committee member, IDC since 2020
-Chief Digital Officer Summit panelist, CDO Innovation Summit since 2020

My motto: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I currently serve on the board of a leading regional F&B business, working with the C-suite to advance profitable growth via digital capability.

All content is my own perspectives and analyses, not of any current/ past employers.

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