Melanie joined Havas helia in 2012 and recently became the Executive Planning Director of the agency. Melanie has worked agency-side for the last eight years leading accounts including Dove, Aviva, Microsoft, Nestle and Sky. Previously she worked in newspaper and magazine publishing, starting in subscriptions marketing and concluding that part of her career as Publisher of MediaGuardian at the Guardian. Melanie is also a Cranfield MBA and published author.

Her digital&data claim to fame is that she has been writing about the internet since before it had pictures. Less glamorously she can also remember being packed off to de-dupe databases by hand in Plaistow.