The DMA’s Data Council aims to provide DMA members with thought leadership, practical advice and drive policy development across the entire data space.

If you’d like to find out more about the council’s work or the sector please email data@dma.org.uk

List of Members

Chair
	Mark Roy, The Read Group Plc After starting out as a professional actor, Mark moved into publishing, advertising and marketing. In 1991, using £25,000 of his own money, Mark founded The REaD Group. Having effectively started and run the suppression industry for the past 15 years, Mark has championed best practice, consumer responsibility and quality data.
Vice-chair
	Caroline Kimber, SFW Caroline Kimber, Stepens Francis Whitson Caroline’s first real exposure to data came at data owner and analytics consultancy, CACI. After CACI, Caroline joined Wegener as group marketing director, where she managed the online, viral and affiliate data acquisition programme. She moved to the agency side after freelancing at Rapier and joined Stephens Francis Whitson as head of data planning in 2008.
Members
	Stephen Boyle, Readers Digest
	Colin Bradshaw, Rapp Ltd
	Lisa Chittenden, Transactis
	Jonathan Clough, Acxiom Ltd
	Steven Day, UK Changes
	Tim Drye, Data Talk
	Adrian Gregory, DQM Group Limited
	Colin Grieves, Experian
	Tony Lamb, Royal Mail
	Suzanne Lewis, EDM Media Ltd
	John Wallinger, The Marketing Planning Practice Ltd
	Paul Winters, CACI Ltd
	Johanna Higgleton, Mardevdm2
	Barry Smith, GI Insight