ITV and Lloyds to sponsor Marketing Academy

ITV and Lloyds Banking Group have been unveiled as headline sponsors of The Marketing Academy’s scholarship programme. 

Marketing Academy Class 2014
The Marketing Academy’s class of 2014 will be sponsored by Lloyds and ITV.

Marketing Academy’s scholarship programme offers a select group of marketers a year-long programme of mentoring and coaching from senior business leaders and companies.

ITV and Lloyds Banking Group join Mondelez, Microsoft, British Gas, Nokia and Marketing Week.

Sherilyn Shackell, founder of The Marketing Academy says: “ITV and Lloyds Banking Group are both organisations that place Marketing at the heart of their businesses and The Marketing Academy is very fortunate to be able to benefit from the passion and dedication to marketing and talent that they both so obviously have.“

Rufus Radcliffe, group marketing director of ITV, says: “The Marketing Academy offers phenomenal opportunities for the next generation of marketing stars to learn from some of the industry’s most inspiring leaders.”

The participants in this year’s programme were unveiled earlier this month

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