Chris Ambidge

Commercial Director Collaborate Global

About

Chris is a highly respected strategic leader with a passion for solving problems and accelerating client growth. He brings 20 years of expertise in leading business transformation through innovative, human-first, customer centric solutions. A global operator, he excels in taking local brands global and turning global brands into local icons.

As part of the leadership team at award-winning Collaborate, Chris is disrupting the experiential space - helping ambitious brands accelerate growth with campaign led experiences fusing creativity and technology. He leads multi-skilled teams across markets helping client partners, including eBay, Louis Vuitton, Aston Martin, Hyundai, Novartis and Colgate Palmolive, navigate and accelerate growth in a rapidly changing world.

His entrepreneurial spirit has seen him create growth for Diageo, Pernod-Ricard, Coca-Cola and Cadbury; spearhead a design and packaging practice at Geometry [now VML), and, co-found strategy and design collective Type - offering growth consultancy across healthcare, property development and international banking. Type merged with Collaborate in 2022, bolstering the agency's strategic and client offering.


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2025: A year of creativity in experiential

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The year ahead for experiential will be rooted in empathy, creativity and deeper consumer connections, writes Chris Ambidge, Commercial Director at Collaborate.

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