Nelio Leone on how Italian grannies are the ultimate weapons of mass surveillance & why privacy concerns should be on everyone’s mind

The Lighthouse Conversations

Jul 01 2020 | 00:41:44

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Show Notes

This week, Hashem Montasser is in conversation with Nelio Leone, Founder of Urban Monks, a growth marketing agency he started in early 2019. Before going down the entrepreneurial route, Nelio was a marketing manager at L'Oreal in Paris, Director of Brand at Careem and Head of Growth at Washmen. Nelio shares his approach to building a company around a “collective" of independently-minded creatives, why he changed his view on the role of customer privacy in the new age of digital and how performance marketing is evolving in the post-COVID era.

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