Gavin McLauchlan
Partner, B2B
Strategy, Leadership & Innovation
Technical Skills
Industries
Gavin ran the netTV project for me in New Delhi. The Indian Government had a desire to launch television, broadband and VOD services over the nascent broadband networks provided by MTNL and BSNL, the two telcos. Back then, it was called Triple Play services. We had many infrastructure challenges, but no matter what we threw at him, Gavin always found a way to deliver, coming up with solutions that suited the unique conditions here in India. We launched a cutting-edge service and had a great time doing so.
Gavin is a partner in the Strategy, Leadership & Innovation practice, working extensively internationally as well as in the UK.
A strategic, creative and pragmatic thinker, Gavin has a proven industry record of creating new ways of ‘thinking and doing’ for diverse companies such as Nielsen, BT, the BBC, Sainsbury’s, Boots, Asda and Media City. As well as holding senior positions in GfK, Microsoft, and the BBC amongst others.
Gavin’s extensive experience spans customer insight, partnerships, business planning and forecasting, brand communications, digital strategy, product development and launches, TV technology, GTM strategy, digital marketing and marketing optimisation.
Described as a true “rainmaker”, Gavin delivers a constant stream of new ideas. He explores technology innovation in the complex, ever-changing digital world, bringing an energy and enthusiasm that is rarely matched. He takes decisive action when needed to make ‘good things’ happen but balances this with attention to detail, so nothing falls by the wayside.
Gavin quickly builds trust across teams and can spot opportunities for collaboration between companies and partners to innovate. He seeks smarter ways to achieve the end goal and applies a rich knowledge of data, media, and analytics to make the right decisions.
Key achievements include:
Gavin’s work on BT Vision has been a key part of the Platform’s successful launch. He is calm and focussed under pressure and he is very outcome-orientated.
We worked together on BT Vision for more than three years in a co-operative and collaborative fashion, and it never felt like we were working for different companies: just one product.
He is also great company on business trips.
During his time with Nielsen Gavin always brought an energy to work, added value as a consultant and showed his flexibility to adapt to changing needs. It’s been great to have him at Nielsen over the past couple of years.
Gavin helps businesses to rapidly achieve their business goals, and can support you with:
Some of Gavin’s experience:
Gavin loves learning and is always doing something to improve his knowledge base, the last two years he has relearnt French which he used to be fluent in. He also loves skiing and rugby.