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Jarmila Yu (Chair)

Jarmila Yu (Chair)

Jarmila is the Founder of YUnique Marketing Ltd, she’s a globally ranked Top100 CMO, a Chartered Marketer, and a Top50 Business Advisor. A multi award-winning businesswoman and proud mum, Jarmila enjoys forging strong links between education and business, and supporting entrepreneurship in her home county of Surrey and beyond. She’s a Fellow of the IDM and the CIM, a member of the DMA and the CIPR, and a Liveryman and Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of Marketors. Jarmila has served as Chair of the DMA’s Talent Council and Chair of the Surrey & Berkshire Branch of the IoD and is the Local Leader for Enterprise Nation representing Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire. An alumna of Royal Holloway, University of London, she’s especially delighted to lend support to her alma mater and Chairs the International Advisory Board at The Business School at Royal Holloway; where she also often guest lectures on Marketing, Employability & Entrepreneurship – supporting students to enter the world of work.

With over 30 years of experience in senior marketing leadership roles, Jarmila knows what it takes to develop successful marketing strategies and how to lead a marketing team to achieve peak performance. She passionately believes that both marketing excellence AND marketing talent development are essential for any business. She’s often invited to share her insights on marketing, business transformation and the world of work at events and in the media, and frequently judges business awards. Jarmila is a registered mentor on marketing careers with the CIM, the DMA and B2BMarketing; and most recently developed a Marketing Career Mentoring Programme for the Business School at Royal Holloway supported by the Worshipful Company of Marketors. A full member of the Association of Business Mentors she has offered business mentoring via Virgin Startup, Be the Business, Small Business Britain and The Help to Grow Management Program and served as a Business Growth Champion business in the Enterprise M3 Growth Hub/LEP region. She delights in sharing her expertise and provides advisory services where she gets to encourage business leaders to leverage the power of excellent marketing and to support marketing talent development to drive their business innovation, productivity and growth. She’s on a mission to give entrepreneurs strategies to grow, scale & exit valuable business. She brings the CMO Advantage to clients and her CMO Advantage Attraction Factor Growth Framework™️ delivers personal and business growth. Clients testify that working with Jarmila and her team they’ve achieved dramatic, significant and transformational results. 

YUnique Marketing, the Surrey based marketing consultancy she founded in 2016 upon identifying a gap in the market for a CMO led marketing service and with a strong sense of purpose to reduce the failure rate in startups, delay in growth and low volume of scaleups; works with ambitious Founders and CEOs in start-ups and SMEs to give them access to strategic marketing excellence and a full spectrum of marketing project expertise all led from a Chief Marketing Officer perspective. Services are provided on a bespoke on-demand basis, ensuring both time and cost-effectiveness and maximum impact, supporting business leaders to launch, grow or transform their business so they can drive economic growth, create more rewarding jobs and ultimately deliver a better world. All work and activity is linked to Giving Moments, proudly supporting delivering social impact by embedding giving activities in everyday business operations. Giving ties back to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 goals represent the global community’s next step in ending poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, and tackling climate change by 2030. YUnique Marketing particularly aligns with #GOAL 8 Decent Work & Economic Growth. The Global Goals are interconnected and so more than just one goal is positively impacted. 

Jarmila is a marketer, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist. 

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