Sam Ismail

Sam Ismail

Brigadier of Boogie

United Kingdom

Current
Past
  • Digital Marketing Specialist at GM UK
Education
  • Aston University
Connections
143 connections
Industry
Marketing and Advertising

Sam Ismail’s Summary

Sam Ismail’s Specialties:

Creating distributed, multichannel experiences for companies that solve business problems.


Sam Ismail’s Experience

  • Director

    London Digital Week

    (Non-Profit; Think Tanks industry)

    May 2009Present (7 months)

  • Blogger

    Brand Republic

    (Marketing and Advertising industry)

    September 2007Present (2 years 3 months)

    The success of AdGrads meant I was asked to blog at Brand Republic from September 2007. By May 2008, we put the BR blog on 'pause' and recently have started to draw up plans for a re-launch of AdGrads on Brand Republic. Watch this space. Hopefully.

    http://adgrads.blogspot.com

  • Founder

    AdGrads

    (Marketing and Advertising industry)

    August 2007Present (2 years 4 months)

    AdGrads is an online community dedicated to being the best place to find out about a career in the communications industry. Come check us out.

  • Creative / Strategist

    Geronimo

    (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    November 2008November 2009 (1 year 1 month)

    My role at Geronimo consisted of leading innovation across all clients and crafting truly interactive and transmedia experiences for potential customers. This consisted of everything from formulating strategy, creative execution and presenting to clients. I like to call the role 'slash' because it was a little bit of everything.

    Clients I worked on included:

    SEAT Automobiles
    GlaxoSmithKline
    ING Direct
    RBS Insurance (Direct Line, Direct Line for Business)
    Kiwi Shoe Care
    Radox
    Ambipur

  • Creative Planner

    TBWA\RAAD

    (Public Company; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    May 2008October 2008 (6 months)

    Creative brand planning for:

    Arabian Automobile Corporation (Nissan and Infiniti)
    Limitless
    Mars Middle East
    Nivea
    PepsiCo

    As a first foray into the world of strategic brand planning, I was blessed to land into the perfect storm at TBWA\RAAD. The combination of a lack of a planning director and two fantastic mentors meant I was thrown into the proverbial deep end with a strategic SWAT team at my back.

    The work I am most proud of is the global brand campaign for Limitless LLC, the global real estate arm of Dubai World (the holding company behind the Palm developments and The World Islands) partly because it was my first brief in my first job for the largest client the agency had on its book and partly because with the help of my two mentors we were able to bring a genuinely distinctive campaign to the cluttered Dubai real estate arena.

  • Shaman

    Apple

    (Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

    May 2007May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  • Digital Marketing Specialist

    GM UK

    (Automotive industry)

    July 2006April 2007 (10 months)

    Worked as part of a small multi-disciplinary team in development of digital assets strategy and maintenance/maintenance of existing assets.

    Gained broad exposure to digital marketing and its various channels and the workings of a multinational client in relation to the advertising process.


Sam Ismail’s Education

  • Aston University

    20042008


Additional Information

Sam Ismail’s Groups:

  •    Advertising Professionals
  •    Social Media Mafia
  •    Marketing Bloggers
  •    we20
  •    London Digital Week

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