Luke Magerko Luke Magerko, Managing Partner, Strategic Consulting, and Head of Data Science, Mather Economics, USA

Luke Magerko is Managing Partner, Strategic Consulting, and Head of Data Science at Mather Economics. Luke has over 15 years of experience leading data science and business intelligence teams across media organizations. Luke’s teams produce significant incremental revenue and cost savings by focusing on a holistic view of subscribers and data-process automation.

Luke leads teams focused on value creation through data storytelling:   strategy, governance, analytics, data science, and MLOps for multiple business disciplines, including hundreds of media brands and websites representing 150 million unique subscribers.

James Hewes President and CEO FIPP

Having held various positions in his 12-year stint at the BBC, James Hewes was part of the team that sold the business to private equity in November 2011. He was then Publishing Director for Top Gear, Good Food, Easy Cook and Lonely Planet Magazine and a Director of BBC Haymarket Exhibitions.
He spent five years in Dubai, running Gulf News Publishing and responsible for more than 30 product areas. He launched the group’s first consumer brand in Arabic – wheels Arabic.
Appointed President & CEO of FIPP in September 2017, he joined from The Art Newspaper, having been Interim CEO since December 2016.

He is also a member of the Advisory Board at Dojoko, an education-focused start-up and a member of Oxford Brookes University’s Journalism Advisory Board.

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