Guido Derkx, Chief Commercial Officer at Storyteq, has been with the company since its 2016 origins in his home country of the Netherlands. As the need for content increases, Guido is dedicated to automating the way multiple versions of creative assets are reproduced, affording creative people more time to work on new ideas. After earning his commercial and business stripes in other industries, he decided to further explore his fascination for making things better and simpler within the creative industry. He drove Storyteq’s transition from a video production agency to a Creative Automation platform, after the then five-person agency noticed the problem themselves of painstakingly creating many versions of the same piece of product advertising. Guido is now again one of those faces at the helm of Storyteq’s latest expansion, which offers a one-of-a-kind solution that not only scales creative production but provides a system for the planning and optimization stages of a campaign across workflows, departments, and all marketing operations.

John Kirk, Chief Strategy Officer at Storyteq, has spent over 10 years deeply immersed in the arena of technology-led marketing and content operations for major retail and brand customers across all sectors, globally. John’s focus (and personal passion) is working with clients and industry analysts on directing and driving marketing ecosystem maturity to deliver tangible user and enterprise value, with high levels of technology adoption. John spent many years travelling worldwide with Alliance Manchester Business School to deliver workshops on Strategic Management on the Global MBA program. Here he trained hundreds of senior managers and directors from many leading global consultancies and enterprises. More recently, John was Team ITG’s program director and technology lead supporting GSK’s Consumer Healthcare (now Haleon) digital and marcomm transformation project, which won the Gartner Communications Award 2022 for ‘Excellence in MarComm Technology’.

Dan Birks is a Director at Team ITG and has spent over 20 years within marketing services, focused on technology-led marketing and content operations. Dan’s focus is on ensuring new models, platforms and technologies ultimately deliver an improved day-to-day process for marketers, resulting in outputs that are delivered more quickly, with more impact and at a lower cost. Dan has worked primarily in global roles within marketing services organisations supporting large brands to ensure new marketing services operating models, and particularly the enabling technology, is delivered practically and successfully.