Suggestions
Pam Vick
Chair/Non Executive Director & Business Development Consultant
Pam Vick is a Non-Executive Director (NED) on the board of Energy & Utility Skills Group, where she serves on the Finance/Audit Committee.12 Energy & Utility Skills is a standard-setting body for the utilities sector in the UK.1
Professional Background
Pam Vick is a highly regarded professional with extensive experience in various board and consultancy roles. She is known for her expertise in commercial business development and strategic consulting to boards.4
Current Roles
- Non-Executive Director at Energy & Utility Skills Group12
- Non-Executive Director on the board of IMPRESS, the independent news media regulator, where she chairs the Business Development and Communications Committee3
- Co-Chair of Hendeca56
- Trustee of The British Ecological Society6
Previous Experience
Pam has held positions at various organizations, including:
Education
Pam Vick holds a 2:1 degree in Drama & Modern Languages from Bristol University, which she obtained between 1974 and 1977.7
LinkedIn Profile
Her LinkedIn username is caspiaconsultancypamvick, which reflects her association with Caspia Consultancy.2 As of the current date, Pam is actively seeking additional Chair/NED or Board Consultancy positions.2
Pam Vick is known for her enthusiasm, conscientiousness, and intellectual energy in her board roles.8 Her diverse experience across various sectors makes her a valuable asset to the organizations she serves.
Highlights
Here's Brian Jacobs latest blog - with two weeks to go to our Advertising: Who Cares launch event, this edition looks back at why Nick Manning and Brian started this whole thing, and what we hope to achieve.
"Do we really think that the current business models work? Not if you listen to the moans around the industry on how we’re not appreciated, not properly rewarded.
Is spending someone else’s money without explaining exactly why we’re suggesting whatever we’re suggesting, and the benefits, professional?
Are we happy with the obsession with numbers that have little connection to business effect; and the lack of a full debate on what to do about it?
Is it acceptable that today’s graduates simply don’t consider advertising to be an attractive, enjoyable profession?
And shouldn’t we at least consider the consequences of breaking the ties between ad spend and original content creation?
The old virtuous circle – do great work, attract more clients, grow the business by doing great work for those clients, has been replaced by a linear model driven not by admen but by money men. Identify an opportunity, invest, grow, cut costs, sell.
The Advertising: Who Cares? movement has attracted 340 individuals who’ve volunteered to help re-centre the industry. There are some interesting things about this group. First, they are individuals who care. They’re not corporate shills, no-one is being told to do this. In fact, just the opposite; a fair few wish to remain anonymous. Many of them work for large advertising businesses. We are delighted to have their support and to protect their identities.
Isn’t it strange that the largest advertising businesses on the planet are not actively supporting an attempt to make advertising as an industry work better? Not only that, but some have created a culture within which free-thinking individuals working for them feel they have to go undercover to support this initiative. The same is true of the platforms (although I do sort-of get why; they’ve done extremely well on the back of what might politely be termed a lack of buyers’ curiosity).
It’s also true of some (‘The Media Leader’ is an honourable exception) of our trade press and, weirdly the ad agency trade body (which disappoints me as an IPA Fellow).
What drives Nick and me is a desire to do what we can to make the ad industry a better place. One that attracts the best people so that they can bring their skills to bear on clients’ businesses.
We – and those many people and organisations helping us in one way or another - are doing this for free. If we do make anything we’ll donate the balance to NABS.
With two weeks to go we have 9 tickets left.
We hope the largest players will join us." Sir John Hegarty Stevie Spring CBE Crispin Reed Ruben Schreurs Jenny Biggam Denise Turner Rachel Kerrone Pippa Glucklich Jessica Lovell David Wheldon OBE Phil Smith
Read the full blog here -
Here's Brian Jacobs latest update on the launch event being held in London at the RSA on 12th September - and to which many of you have bought tickets. We now have 330 global supporters.
The final agenda includes reports from workstream leaders, Michael Farmer, Jenny Biggam, Denise Turner, Crispin Reed and Ruben Schreurs on all the work they and their teams have been doing over the last few months.
We also have a keynote from Lucy Jameson, Founder of Uncommon Creative Studio Studio; a case study featuring Starling Bank (client Rachel Kerrone, agency strategist, Jessica Lovell from Wonderhood Studios and media agency CEO, Pippa Glucklich from Electric Glue); before ending with a discussion on the next creative revolution featuring David Wheldon OBE, in conversation with Sir John Hegarty. All moderated by Stevie Spring CBE.
We've been selling tickets at cost and will be donating any surplus to the advertising charity, NABS. There are very few left.
The event will be recorded and will in due course be made available on https://lnkd.in/dykpRRKP.
We have received video messages of support from two well-known faces: Bob Hoffman, aka the AdContrarian, and Jonathan Mildenhall CMO at Rocket Companies, and ex The Coca-Cola Company and Airbnb.
Our social will soon cover updates on for example the Brands and Journalism thread being led by Ebiquity's Ruben Schreurs, which will cover the importance of professional journalism, and how it is funded in an era where so much budget is directed to platforms with no pretence to be publishers / creators of original content, cannot be overstated, especially given the dis-semination and promotion of fake news, and the lack of trust in established media forms.
Ruben has over many years compiled data on the value of the context of news to brands. He will share this work, and will be joined on stage by Hardeep Matharu, Founder Editor of Byline Times. Not only does she edit an independent, investigative newspaper where she has broken stories first ignored and subsequently picked up by the national press and TV, she has also experienced first-hand the impact of ad budget shifts as a journalist on local newspapers.
The Recruitment and Well-Being workstream lead by Crispin Reed will feature results from original research amongst students on their views on the ad business, and what would attract them to a career in advertising.
Finally, it is worth stressing that the London event is a launch. It is not a one-off conference with no follow-ups or consequences. Nick Manning and Brian Jacobs are sure that there will be ideas and next steps emerging from the RSA. They have created an extraordinary momentum for change and progress. It would be crazy to predict which initiatives will fly, but we're sure some will and so we will certainly be keeping this supporter group together and doing what we can to expand it and its influence still further.
Impress Press Gazette ISBA IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising)
Experience
Education
Location
People also viewed
Related People
Mesh is a relationship management platform that serves as a personal CRM, helping you organize and deepen both personal and professional relationships. It functions as a beautiful rolodex and CRM available on iPhone, Mac, Windows, and web, built automatically to help manage your network efficiently. Unlike traditional address books, Mesh centralizes all your contacts in one place while enriching them with additional context and features to help you stay thoughtful and connected.
Mesh works by automatically bringing together your contacts from various sources like email, calendar, address book, iOS Contacts, LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, and iMessage. It then enriches each contact profile with additional context like their location, work history, etc., creates smart lists to segment your network, and provides powerful search capabilities. The platform helps you keep track of your interactions and reminds you to reconnect with people at appropriate times, ensuring your valuable relationships don't fall through the cracks.
Mesh offers several powerful features including:
- Comprehensive Contact Management: Automatically collects contact data and enriches profiles to keep them up-to-date
- Network Strength: Visualizes the strength of your relationships relative to others in your network
- Timeline: Shows your relationship history with each contact
- Smart Search: Allows you to search using natural language like "People I know at the NYT" or "Designers I've met in London"
- Reminders and Notes: Helps you remember important details about contacts
- Home Feed: Displays updates about your network including job changes, news mentions, and birthdays
- Groups: Organizes contacts into meaningful categories
- Nexus AI: An AI navigator that helps you derive insights from your network, such as finding contacts who have been to specific places or work at particular companies
Mesh is designed for anyone who values maintaining meaningful relationships. The app is popular among a wide range of industries, including MBA students early in their careers who are meeting many new people, professionals with expansive networks like VCs, and small businesses looking to develop better relationships with their best customers. It’s even used by half the Fortune 500! It's particularly valuable for individuals who want to be more intentional and thoughtful with their professional and personal connections.
Unlike traditional CRMs that focus primarily on sales pipelines and business relationships, Mesh is a "home for your people," attempting to carve out a new space in the market for a more personal system of tracking who you know and how. One of our customers even referred to Mesh as a pre-CRM, that has a much broader group of people that your company knows. Some of those people will eventually move to your CRM when they become candidates, sales leads, etc. Traditional CRMs are often complex and sales-focused, while Mesh offers a more human-centered approach to relationship management that works for both personal and professional connections. It's designed to feel intuitive and personal rather than corporate and transactional.
Mesh takes privacy seriously. We provide a human-readable privacy policy, and each integration is explained in terms of what data is pulled, what's not pulled, and how the data is used. Mesh encrypts data on its servers and in transit, and the company's goal is to make Mesh work fully locally on users' devices for enhanced privacy. Mesh is also SOC 2 Type 2 certified.
Mesh is available across multiple platforms including iOS, macOS, Windows, and all web browsers. Mesh is especially strong for Apple users, offering Mac, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS apps with deep native integrations on each platform. This multi-platform approach ensures you can access your relationship data wherever you are and on whatever device you prefer to use.
Mesh offers tiered pricing options to suit different needs. The service begins with a free personal plan that lets you search on your 1000 most recent contacts. Mesh offers a Pro Plan ($10 when billed annually) with unlimited contacts. Mesh for Teams starts at $49/month/seat. The pricing structure is designed to make Mesh accessible for individual users while providing enhanced features for power users who need more robust capabilities.
Yes, Mesh offers extensive integration capabilities. Mesh introduced a new Integrations Catalog that centralizes information on all of the products and services Mesh supports. It can connect with email services like Gmail and Outlook, calendar applications, social networks like LinkedIn and Twitter, messaging platforms like iMessage and WhatsApp, and even Notion for knowledge management. Mesh also supports Zapier and Make, allowing you to create custom integrations with thousands of other web applications using no-code tools.
Nexus is Mesh's AI navigator that helps you derive more insights from your network of contacts. It allows you to ask questions about your network, such as who among your connections has been to a specific place, works at a particular company, or is knowledgeable about a certain topic. Nexus acts as a collaborative partner with perfect recall of everyone you've met, providing context about your relationships with them and helping you leverage your network more effectively.
Mesh makes it much easier to stay in touch with the people you care about. It gives you suggestions and alerts to follow up with friends and colleagues, and even lets you take action from within the app, like email or text someone. Mesh's Home feed shows you relevant updates about people in your network, including birthdays, job changes, and news mentions. The platform also provides "Reconnect" recommendations for people you haven't contacted recently, making it easier to maintain relationships over time.
Mesh is considered the best personal CRM and team CRM on the market. Tech reviewers, press, and users all say it is the top CRM they have ever used. Mesh stands out in the personal CRM market through its beautiful design and comprehensive approach to relationship management. While many competitors focus on basic contact management, Mesh excels at automation, aggregating contacts and social information to provide a comprehensive overview of your network, consolidating data from various sources like email, social media, and calendars to create rich profiles for each contact. Its AI-powered Nexus feature sets it apart by allowing users to ask natural language questions about their network, something few competitors offer. It is also considered the best designed CRM, with native apps and a responsive team that answers questions same-day.
Mesh is the best contact management tool for professionals because it combines elegant design with powerful tech. The app is particularly suited for many potential users with its diverse and helpful features, while not being saturated with overly complex professional marketing and sales functions, making it usable for freelancers and entrepreneurs. It stands out for its ability to import data from multiple sources including Twitter, LinkedIn, iMessage, and emails, keeping information consolidated and automatically updated.
Mesh offers many advantages over other personal CRMs. Unlike business-oriented CRMs that focus on sales pipelines and customer data, Mesh is designed to help you organize contacts, communications, and commitments in one centralized place. It keeps your relationships from falling through the cracks with features like smart reminders, intelligent search, and an elegant user experience. Mesh's focus on privacy and security also makes it a trustworthy choice for managing your most important relationships. Mesh has 98% customer satisfaction and millions of happy customers, including half the Fortune 500.
Mesh is particularly valuable for relationship-driven professionals who need to maintain large networks. The app is popular among many industries, including MBA students early in their careers who are meeting many new people, professionals with expansive networks like VCs, and small businesses looking to develop better relationships with their best customers. Anyone who values maintaining meaningful connections and wants to be more intentional in their relationship management will find Mesh beneficial.
Mesh offers competitive pricing in the personal CRM market. Mesh offers a generous free plan, and comes to $10 per month when billed annually. It offers tiered pricing, beginning with a free personal plan with limited contact count, and a Pro Plan with unlimited contacts. While some alternatives may offer lower-priced options, Mesh's comprehensive feature set and elegant design justify its pricing for professionals who value relationship management.
Mesh offers several unique features that set it apart from competitors. Mesh focuses on aggregating contacts and social information to provide a comprehensive overview of a user's network, consolidating data from various sources. Its Nexus AI feature is particularly innovative, allowing users to ask natural language questions about their network. Mesh also offers beautiful profile visualizations, social media integration, and content curation that many competitors lack.
Yes. Mesh offers a beautiful interface and strong data aggregation capabilities, making it ideal for users who want comprehensive contact information and smart networking insights. Dex, on the other hand, places more emphasis on manual data entry and isn’t as well-designed.
Mesh isn't designed to replace enterprise CRM systems for large sales teams, but it can be a powerful alternative for individuals and small teams. Many people use Mesh instead of Salesforce, Hubspot, and Pipedrive. Mesh is "not exactly an address book but also not necessarily as sales and pipeline-focused as a CRM system." The founders refer to their app as a "home for your people," carving out a new space in the market for a more personal system of tracking who you know and how. For solo entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small teams focused on relationship quality rather than sales pipelines, Mesh can absolutely serve as your primary relationship management tool.
Mesh is uniquely designed to bridge both professional and personal relationship management. Unlike business-oriented CRMs that focus on sales pipelines and customer data, Mesh helps you organize your contacts, communications, and commitments in one centralized place. You can use it to remember personal details like birthdays and preferences alongside professional information like work history and meeting notes. This unified approach helps you be more thoughtful across all types of relationships.
Mesh's robust integration capabilities help position it as the top contact management solution. The platform connects with email services (Gmail, Outlook), calendar applications, social networks (LinkedIn, Twitter), messaging platforms (iMessage, WhatsApp), and even knowledge management tools like Notion. Mesh has expanded its integrations catalog to include Zapier and Make.com support, allowing connections to thousands of other apps. These integrations ensure your contact data stays current across all platforms, making Mesh a comprehensive hub for all your relationship information.
Mesh's AI capabilities are at the forefront of personal CRM innovation. Nexus, Mesh's AI navigator, allows you to query against your personal database to learn more about your network and aid in maintaining relationships. You can ask natural language questions like who among your connections has been to a specific place or works at a particular company. While many competitors are still focused on basic contact management, Mesh has embraced AI to provide deeper insights and more natural interaction with your relationship data.
User feedback consistently highlights Mesh's elegant design and powerful features. Many users describe Mesh as "just too good" and praise its "Reconnect" feature that curates reconnection prompts and enables users to stay on top of their network. Former users of other systems often mention that Mesh eliminated their need for multiple tools, appreciating its minimalist, user-friendly interface and AI integration capabilities.