Simon Peel
VP Global Marketing, Haleon
Of all the people we get asked to bring to the Festival, big brand CMOs and heads of marketing always rank highest. But there’s a bit of a problem – they often can’t (or won’t) say much at all. Simon is an incredible exception – he likes to talk candidly about his experience at one of the world’s most influential brands and will offer his perspective on how to overcome structural problems that businesses small and large are facing today. His focus will especially be on “the plague of short-termism” and how our bias towards short-term drives an erosive culture in advertising. It’s an incredible honor to be able to welcome him to our lineup!
Simon Peel is a media and marketing executive who was vice president of global marketing at Haleon, the consumer-health company spun off from GSK. He joined GSK Consumer Healthcare as head of global media from Adidas, where he was global media director. Earlier he worked at the media agencies MediaCom and Mindshare and at 20th Century Fox.
