Kit Altin

Kit Altin

Chief Strategy Officer at The Gate London
London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

About me

The Gate is a full-service advertising and media agency with offices in London, Edinburgh, New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It is part of MSQ Partners, the UK's fastest-growing independent group.

Our culture is Boundless. When you take away boundaries, exciting things happen. We're open plan, open-minded and free from red tape rules and old-school "no can do’s". We’re nimble, independent and offer formidable creativity matched with boundless enthusiasm. So boundless, in fact, that if you pop in you’ll find our Creative, Strategy, CRM, PR, Digital and Media teams working closely alongside each another. Because an idea unbound by discipline is a very powerful one indeed.

Positions

Chief Strategy Officer
London, United Kingdom
Before joining The Gate, Kit was Global Planning Director and Head of Innovation at Leo Burnett, where as well as leading strategy for P&G fabric care brands worldwide, she founded Change, the Group’s agency dedicated to positive social impact. Change produced many effective and award-winning campaigns, and demonstrated the power of agile, collaborative working. This was recognised by the IPA with a “Woman of Tomorrow” award.
The work Kit is most proud of of tackled the toughest challenges: from transforming how the nation felt about McDonald’s’ Olympic sponsorship (We All Make The Games, which won Gold at the Marketing Society Awards for Excellence) to changing British law in six weeks flat for the NSPCC (Flaw In The Law, which won a coveted Gold Effie).
Kit is a member of D&AD’s professional training faculty, and teaches all over the world. She is also an active member of the Board of the MAA, the UK’s leading body for future-thinking communications agencies. 
Production
Hornet Inc
New York, United States

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