Gavin Downes

Gavin has over 20+ years experience in both client and agency side roles within the marketing, advertising and events world. Client side experience includes time with Telefonica O2 and Just Eat working across TTL marketing comms, sponsorships, retail marketing, and live events. His varied agency background has included senior roles working on both Live Brand Experience and Employee Experience Solutions in Ireland, Australia and the UK.

Over the course of his career, Gavin has been lucky to have worked with & managed multi-million commercial deals with some of the greatest brands, sponsorships, festivals, talent and partnerships on the planet - across the EMEA, North America and APAC regions - with brands such as Facebook, Indeed, Dell, eBay, Intercom, Accenture, Irish Life, Just Eat, Pinterest, Telefonica O2, Vodafone, 3Mobile, Movember, Nokia, Ford, Bulmers, Corona, Budweiser and Heineken.

Gavin is the founder of XMI (Experiential Marketing Ireland), has spoken at a number of international conferences & events, guest lectured in the Smurfit Business School @ UCD; and he holds a Masters in Business Studies from the Michael Smurfit Business School, UCD, a Postgraduate in IT and a BComm from University College Galway.