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Nadja Bellan-White and the art of questioning the room
She studied foreign affairs, sold the promise of the internet and moved her family to Nairobi. Now Nadja Bellan-White is bringing those lessons to the business of culture at M+C Saatchi.
Shane Smith Built VICE Twice - Once Into an Empire, Then Back Into a Question
VICE began as a free Montreal magazine, became a multibillion-dollar wager on youth media, and collapsed under the weight of that wager. Its co-founder is back behind a microphone, chasing the one asset no bankruptcy court can sell: attention earned by curiosity.
Jonathan Bottomley
Jonathan Bottomley is EVP and Global Chief Marketing Officer of Calvin Klein and, since May 2026, EVP of Group Consumer & Brand Strategy at parent company PVH Corp. Oxford-educated in modern languages, he spent roughly two decades in advertising - most notably eleven years at BBH London, where he rose to joint chief strategy officer and worked on Axe/Lynx, Google, Audi and Samsung - before crossing to the client side as Ralph Lauren's first-ever CMO in 2017 and later CMO of Boll & Branch. Since joining Calvin Klein in June 2022 he has rebuilt the brand's marketing around what he calls an 'entertainment mentality': casting talent with 'cultural velocity' rather than raw follower counts, and pairing archival brand DNA with modern CRM and first-party data. The results have been loud - the January 2024 Jeremy Allen White underwear campaign generated an estimated $74 million in media impact value and roughly 30% year-over-year growth in underwear sales the week it launched, followed by Bad Bunny in 2025 and Dakota Johnson in 2026.