The managing director of The British Arrows Awards looks back on her time in advertising, nurturing talent and not sweating the small stuff.

Lisa Lavender is a business leader with over 40 years’ experience building and running businesses in the advertising industry at a local and global level. Having worked with numerous global brands, broadcasters, agencies and production companies, she has a deep understanding of business processes and the changes impacting the marketing supply chain.

Lisa is the founder of The Traffic Bureau, the UK's largest outsourced specialist supplier of TV admin (Business Affairs) services. After selling TTB to Adstream (XR Extreme Reach), Lisa held a number of roles within the advertising technology company culminating as the former CEO of Adstream UK where she managed operations, account management and sales teams for Adstream's largest operating market outside of the USA.

For the past five years Lisa has been running the British Arrows Awards, the UK’s longest running and most prestigious moving image advertising awards which incorporates the Young Arrows, celebrating and recognising emerging talent in the advertising industry. It’s full circle back to creative which is what inspired her to get into advertising in the first place!

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