Sam Rudder

BIO

Sam Rudder – Founder and CEO Graduating in 1979 from Cambridge University with a hockey Blue, Sam then trained as an accountant with Price Waterhouse. He moved into advertising starting in McCann Erickson and at the age of 27 became a Board Director at Ted Bates and subsequently Dorlands and Lintas. He spent 12 years managing over 40 clients and £150m advertising budgets for the likes of Unilever, DHL, and Heinz. He then co-founded the first UK digital agency in 1995 and has since worked with well over 200 clients who have since issued 40m digital tokens and processed over £400m worth of transactions. The Hub Platform won the Cannes Grand Prix for interactivity in 2001 and many awards before and since, the latest in 2020 being an Innovate UK grant for Covid-19 mobile apps plugged into The Hub Platform for NHS test and trace support.