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Alfie Buisson Associate Director
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Stephanie Fox International Consultant
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Julian Boulding President
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Anna Poloczek Database Coordinator
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Helen Anderson Managing Director
As Associate Director at thenetworkone, Alfie plays a pivotal role in shaping the company’s growth and supporting its global community of independent agencies. From managing member relations and facilitating referrals to leading community initiatives, Alfie is dedicated to fostering collaboration and creating opportunities for agency leaders worldwide.
Alfie has been instrumental in delivering key projects, including the Indie Forum in Cannes and the Indie Awards. His entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness, and drive have led to the successful execution of events, newsletters, IT initiatives, and digital content, ensuring the continued development of thenetworkone’s offerings.
With a diverse professional background spanning agency and in-house roles, Alfie brings expertise in website design, lead generation, social media campaigns, and international communications. His time at the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) further honed his ability to manage complex projects and build strong relationships on a global scale.
Outside of work, Alfie channels his creativity and passion into music and travel. As the founder of a successful electronic music brand in London, he has organised events with up to 1,000 attendees, blending his love for cultural exploration and the arts. His long-term vision includes launching his own agency, focusing on music and festivals across genres.
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As thenetworkone’s International Consultant, Stephanie is an expert when it comes to helping our member agencies find the right partners. She is responsible for administering thenetworkone’s Inter-Agency Staff Exchange Program as well as our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Stephanie graduated in 2012 from the University of Nottingham in UK, with a degree in Art History. Following her graduation, she spent four months improving her language skills at Alliance Francaise in Paris, as well as interning with a law firm, an auction house and a PR agency; and undertaking volunteer work in the Ukraine.
She then spent a year working for Tondo, a start-up social media platform for the art world before joining thenetworkone in March 2015.
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Julian began his career in advertising sales, before working in independent agencies in London. He then joined the DMB&B Group, now part of Publicis, where he spent fourteen years in a succession of senior roles. While with DMB&B, he lived and worked in UK, Europe, USA and Latin America, where he spent 3 years as Regional Client Service Director for Salles DMB&B in Brazil.’ During this time, he directed global advertising campaigns for companies like Procter & Gamble, M&M Mars, Avon and Philips Electronics, rising to be President, International for DMB&B’s sister network, NW Ayer.
In 2003, Julian left the world of traditional agency networks, to co-found thenetworkone.
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Anna joined thenetworkone in 2021 with the responsibility of ensuring that the large amount of data we have on independent agencies from around the world is up to date and accurate.
Anna graduated from the University of London with a degree in French Language and Literature. She started her career with Sopexa, organising large trade events for the food and beverage industry before spending time in Brazil, utilising her language skills to teach English to senior business executives from Unilever, P&G, AMEX and Ford.
More recently, Anna has held multilingual client service positions in London with international real estate experts, Sifex and Hamptons International. In these positions, she helped high value customers from around the world, identify and purchase overseas property.
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Helen joined thenetworkone as our Managing Director in June 2023. She is a Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), a Chartered PR practitioner and Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).
Before joining thenetworkone, Helen led the global Marketing and Communications team at the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and held other significant marketing and communications roles at the US Chamber of Commerce in London, the City of London Corporation, the Association of Town and City Centre Management and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). She brings a rare combination of enthusiasm, pragmatism, empathy and determination to succeed and is very much looking forward to meeting everyone in our network.
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