We are pleased to introduce and warmly welcome Niklas Stålberg as Advisor to The Scale Factory (TSF). Niklas is a highly accomplished serial entrepreneur who has founded and built five companies within digital marketing and ad/martech. His most recent scale-up was acquired by GroupM, after which Niklas took on the role of Group CEO for GroupM Thailand. In this position, he led a team of approximately 650 professionals managing more than $500 million in annual advertising inve

We’re delighted to welcome Paul Evans ( LinkedIn )  as an advisor to The Scale Factory. Paul is a rare operator in media and adtech — someone who has worked agency-side, client-side, and adtech-side, and who now focuses exclusively on one of the most misunderstood but commercially critical levers in B2B growth: positioning. Over the past two decades, Paul has held senior international media leadership roles with Vodafone and Microsoft, and latterly operated as a fractional CM

We’re excited to welcome Caspar Schlickum as an advisor to The Scale Factory! Caspar is a seasoned business executive with more than 30 years of experience helping brands grow across EMEA and APAC. He combines deep commercial leadership with hands-on experience in scaling complex, multi-market organisations. He began his career in banking with Deutsche Bank, before spending 16 years at WPP, where he held senior leadership roles across consumer insights, media, technology, and

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