Charly Massey


Charly Massey has a background in Molecular Biology alongside two decades working in marketing & communications, including running and selling a successful international business. Subsequently Charly returned to university to study in the field of data science and business analytics.

Charly Massey prevails at the intersection of technology, business and creativity; where arts and culture meet data and science. Discovering new and exciting solutions to clients’ communications problems.

Starting her career in the City (UBS & Enron), Charly found herself naturally migrating to marketing functions. She swiftly advanced to become Head of Innovation at leading ad agency CHI&Partners (now The&Partnership). Commanding a strong working knowledge of all aspects of modern marcomms, Charly has lead senior, global and board level strategy and campaign execution for some world’s biggest and most exciting brands; including Luxottica, Coca-Cola, Converse, Best Buy & ASOS.

EY Partners, Contagious Magazine, Music Tech Europe, Mobile World Conference, NHS Major Trauma Hospitals and Imperial College London have all hosted Charly Massey as a well-received keynote speaker & panellist.

Charly brings her logical approach to the creative arts, fashion and cultural passion projects. Projects have included adtech, medtech and biotech. Charly recently published the whitepaper; “The greatest enemy of innovation is tedium; achieving the ambitions of Universal Health Care via technical implementation.”

An ardent advocate of improving access to opportunities for all, Charly mentors young Protégés including a renowned Parisian Couturier, SXSW innovation winners and Forbes 30 under 30 alumni. In 2016, Charly Massey helped launch #FutureGirlCorp, a business bootcamp community for fledgling female CEOs.

Charly is a founding friend of Courier Magazine and has had work featured in D&AD annual, the V&A, Music Week, Ars Technica, Forbes and most major British News publications.  A supporter of the Arts, Charly has led a variety of passion projects from Jeremy Deller at 1 London House to David Guetta at Dalt Villa Ibiza.

Charly travels widely, in pursuit of her greatest loves; surfing, cycling, sailing and socialising.