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Female-founded team with 100 years’ combined experience at Cannes Lions, Contagious, XEIM, Dow Jones, Haymarket.
Brands&Culture is an events and knowledge series designed for marketers and cultural strategists who are looking to build culturally relevant and resonant strategies which drive better brand growth.
Sustainable, thoughtful culture-led marketing
At Brands&Culture, we know that sustainable, thoughtful culture-led marketing leads to more enduring relationships with consumers - and better business outcomes.
Our mission is to help the marketing community do better at culture-led marketing.
How? By facilitating rich learning experiences where brands and strategists can share ideas, insights and best-practice with candour. We design agendas in collaboration with our attendee in mind: ones which are equally interactive, entertaining and inspiring.
Meet the Team
Michelle Graves
COO / CRO / Co-Founder
As Commercial leader, Michelle brings over 15 years experience and significant success in strategic planning, product development and innovation. Michelle comes from Festival of Media and Contagious, where she was part of the Executive Leadership team leading the Ascential acquisition before co-founding Brands&Culture.
Charlotte Williams
CCO / Co-Founder
Charlotte heads up content, editorial and programming at Brands&Culture after six years as VP of Content and part of the senior leadership at Cannes Lions. Charlotte’s experience spans 20+ years across commercial event organisations and world leading trade publications before becoming the co-founder of The Thought Partnership and Brands&Culture.
Josephine Andrew
CMO / Co-Founder
Jo is a Marketing leader with specialist knowledge spanning 20+ years across live and virtual events, audience and membership growth. Jo was Executive Marketing Director at Wall Street Journal before co-founding the leading content and marketing agency, The Thought Partnership and Brands&Culture.
Piotr Lewicz
Editorial Producer
Piotr is an event strategy, programming and speaker strategy specialist working across the creative marketing, branded communications, innovation and tech industries.
Piotr has spent 10+ years curating content for Cannes Lions, Spikes Asia, Dubai Lynx, The Economist, and Sports Marketing events, and 15+ years in the creative marketing industry across content strategy and development, event programming, and PR, working with leading brands such as Patagonia, Mastercard, McDonald’s, Pfizer, IKEA, TikTok, OpenAI, Meta, Publicis, VML, Ogilvy, McCann, and more.
Melyka Marundan
Administrative & Marketing Assistant
Lyka is a strategic Administrative and Marketing Assistant with over three years of experience driving operational efficiency and executing results-oriented digital marketing initiatives. She built a strong foundation at City of Dreams Mediterranean, where she developed a high level of organization and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment. She later expanded her expertise within a U.S.-based marketing agency, managing multiple client accounts and supporting data-driven campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.