Graham Taylor-Media and Advertising Consultant and Chair of TAMI Judging Panel
Graham has been a leading figure in the Irish media and advertising world for over 35 years. Recently CEO of Havas Media, Graham started Ireland’s leading independent media agency GT Media, also creating Ireland’s first independent digital media agency GT-I and was a founding and shareholding member in the largest global network of Independent media agencies Columbus Media, now Local Planet. Working with major national and international clients creating strategies which saw them achieve brand leader status in the Irish market he pioneered of the use of creative broadcast sponsorship being the first media expert to win both Ad/FX and Creative awards. Graham recently received the Media Hero award at the 2022 Media Awards Ceremony in Dublin.
Zoe Harkness-Head of Training, Thinkbox
Zoe started her career working in airtime sales for ITV and subsequently Channel 4. Her passion for the field of broadcast partnerships led her to roles such as Senior Account Director at Drum PHD, Sponsorship Controller for Sky Networks and Planning Director at Sponsorvision. She has worked at Thinkbox for more than ten years, first as Head of Planning and more lately as Head of Training, with primary responsibility for Thinkbox’s online training programme, TV Masters.
Bernard Bermingham-Head of Investment Sky Media Ireland
Bernard has 20 years’ experience in Media and joined Sky Media Ireland 3 years ago in 2022 as Head of Investment. He spent 10 years in various planning and investment roles across agencies including Dentsu and Core before leaving to spend 3 years with Digicel as Head of Advertising across APAC and Caribbean markets. More recently, before joining Sky, he held the role of Head of Programmatic Trading in DMG Media for 3 years.
Linda Nolan, Head of Marketing, Boots Ireland
Linda Nolan is currently Head of Marketing for Boots Ireland, where she assumes responsibility for all marketing operations in the Republic of Ireland. Linda joined Boots Ireland in 2021, after coming from Samsung Electronics where she worked for 14 years, with her last positions as Director of Marketing, a role she held for over six years. She has extensive knowledge of consumer behaviours from both store and online retail dynamics.
Nuala Long, Media Consultant
Nuala Long is a seasoned Media Consultant with over 20 years of experience, most recently at Spark Foundry for the past 5 years. During that period, she worked on Three, Ferrero, and Yuno Energy. Prior to this, she worked as a consultant in media agencies (OMD, Maxus, and Starcom). Nuala started her career in McConnells as the TV buyer on Diageo, Danone and others before becoming a Board Director.. She has always had a particular passion for AV and has a strong track record of managing AV-focused accounts.
Treasa Davis, Trading Manager RTÉ
Treasa has worked in the Media Industry for the last 20 years. Having started her career in 98fm Treasa then made the move into Digital advertising sales. In 2013 she joined the Digital Sales Team in RTÉ Media Sales and in 2016 moved to the RTÉ Trading team working across TV, Radio, Digital and Print.
Heather Murphy, Retail Marketing Manager, Centra
Heather is currently the Retail Marketing Manager for Centra. She has over 12 years of experience in the Insight Industry, having spent 8 years at Spark Market Research, where she advanced to the role of Research Director in 2016. Heather has worked across various sectors while in her insight role including finance, Telecoms, and Retail, both domestically and internationally. In 2020, she moved to a client-side role in Musgrave, and in 2023, she became the Strategy Brand Manager for Centra. In March this year, Heather had taken on the role of Marketing Manager for Centra.
Jill McGrath, CEO, TAM Ireland
Jill McGrath has been CEO of TAM Ireland since 2012. Jill has worked across the entire spectrum of the Irish Ad business. Her career has included working in Ad Agencies, the Press, Radio, Online and now the TV Industry. On the client side Jill was Marketing Director in FM104 for many years and set up the first online dating site in Ireland Maybefriends.com. Jill is a Graduate of the Marketing Institute.
Julian Dobinson, Research Consultant, TAM Ireland
Julian started his career as a media planner at Saatchi and Saatchi and Zenith Media, and then spent a few years in econometrics consultancy OHAL before joining ITV where he was Head of Research. He joined Sky in 2000 just as the migration to digital was taking off and was Research Director at Sky for 18 years, managing Sky’s audience research through a time of great innovation and change. During this time he represented Sky on the Boards of both BARB and TAM Ireland and also developed the first set top box return path data panel of its kind in the world. He joined TAM Ireland as Research Consultant in March 2018.
Stuart Matthews, Media and Communications Strategist
Stuart is a senior media and marketing strategist with over 20 years agency experience, complemented by expertise in global brand marketing and digital sales
Eimear Keane, Head of Marketing TAM Ireland
Eimear has over 25 years’ experience in the media industry having started her career in Carat as a TV buyer before moving to radio buying and then client management. Eimear then became an Account Director working with MEC and then Starcom. She then moved to the brand side of the of the business for a number of years before joining TAM Ireland as Marketing Manager in 2017. Eimear was promoted to Head of Marketing in 2021. Eimear is a graduate of DCU where she obtained a Bachelor of Business Studies (Marketing).
Anna Millington,Managing Director, Post TV at Business Post Group / TG4 Commercial Sales
Anna is a broadcast media professional with extensive experience spanning across several television networks, advertising agencies and media companies with a focus on trading, negotiation, content creation, strategic business development & team building.