John Birger (Managing Partner)

John Birger

About

John has 25 years’ experience delivering targeted marketing and communications solutions. He started his career in the theatre industry, on shows including Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Oliver! and Aspects of Love. His corporate work started with a five year stint of producing some of the  biggest and most complex International Roadshows for clients all over the world including South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, China, the United States and all over Europe.  After that John took the role of Head of UK Operations with a New York based WPP Company, MJM, where he delivered meetings, exhibitions and training programs for clients throughout the UK and Europe. His experience cuts across many different verticals including pharmaceutical, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, consumer goods and energy.

John formed Brands At Work with his business partner Karen Kadin in 2007. Initial years of organic growth with UK based clients has now developed into a $13m business meeting the varied needs of clients in geographies far and wide.

Most recently for Brands at Work John has overseen the delivery of four National Sales meetings for Novartis CV and I&D teams in the United States, as well as a series of Regional Meetings, Town halls and numerous video productions. The Deloitte North West Europe Partner meeting, a very prestigious gathering of 2000 partners from throughout Europe for a three day business meeting in Brussels.

In the UK he has overseen the delivery of the 2018 Domino's Pizza Rally for 1000 store managers in the UK which took place at the ACC Liverpool in March, and also the Novartis UK National Pharma Meeting for 500 delegates in January in Brighton. For the past six years for Deloitte he has managed the delivery of the Audit Summer Technical Training Academy for 3000 Auditors in the Cotswolds, and he is pleased to be repeating this project in 2019.

Prior to this he has delivered many meetings, exhibitions, product launches, websites, print and videos for clients including Prudential Corporation Asia, Prudential UK, Deloitte, Novartis, Vodafone,  Vitality, BMS, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Elanco, Lilly, Biogen and Merck Serono.