Ant Duffin is a Vice President Analyst in the Gartner for Marketing Leaders practice based in the UK specializing, and leading Gartner's research efforts in digital commerce. Ant advises on and provides insights into the complete end-to-end digital commerce customer journey across digital marketing, routes to market, and operational capabilities (People, process, technology, structure). Mr. Duffin works with senior leaders from both B2B and B2C to influence and shape their digital commerce strategies to deliver growth and business change across several industries such as CPG, retail, manufacturing, and financial services. He is also responsible for personalization strategy and technology insights as an author of the Personalization Magic Quadrant research. Ant has over 20 years of global digital experience in senior commercial and technology roles across a range of industries including CPG, retail, and Consulting. In these roles, he led a variety of activities including business strategy development and execution, budgeting, and business change such as organization structures, governance, processes, and talent development.
Previously, Ant was the global digital director for PZ Cussons leading digital strategy / transformation for the group covering digital brand strategy, multi channel commerce including Amazon & D2c, Martech / data and analytics and digital operating models plus capability development (Talent development, agile for marketing teams, partners).
PZ Cussons (International), Global digital director, 2 years
PZ Cussons (International), Global head of digital solutions, 6 years
Reckitt, Senior digital solutions analyst (Product manager), 4 years
Customer Acquisition and Growth
Digital Commerce
Marketing Channels and Content
BSc (Hons) computer science and info systems @ SalfordHND software development @ Salford
Digital marketing and commerce strategy
Digital commerce structure and operating models
D2c strategy and implementation (in house or with partners)
Digital business capability development (Talent, agile, Martech)