About Us
Illuminari is co-founded by Kerry Collinge and Anna Cairns. Between them, they’ve spent decades producing the events, managing the podcasts, curating the talent and building the rooms where marketing’s most important conversations happen.
From boardrooms to broadcast stages, Illuminari talent will deliver insight that changes how people think - and what businesses do. Whether the need is to provoke, inspire, align leadership or untangle a complex growth challenge, this is where you find the minds who make it happen.
At our core is a deep understanding of talent across marketing and B2B, from innovators and founders to CEOs and technologists.
Illuminari creates meaningful collisions. Conversations that challenge brands, sharpen thinking and move industries forward. Join us to light up the industry.
Why Illuminari
A collective of elite, battle-tested thinkers, each with over 30 years at the forefront of brand, business, and creativity. We bring Real Intelligence: the human judgement, wisdom, experience, and diverse thinking that only decades in the trenches can deliver.
Whether we’re on stage around your boardroom table, or deep inside your brief, Illuminari solves the hard stuff fast. No Fluff, No pitch theatre. Just the best minds in the business, focused on impact.
Built for CEOs and CMOs with tough, urgent problems, we exist to cut through the chaos of modern marketing - where AI hype, youth worship and media complexity often create more noise than clarity.
Our Team
Anna Cairns
Founder
Anna began her career in acting before falling into advertising, She brings 22 years of agency-side expertise, including a decade running the world renowned behavioural science and creative festival, Nudgestock and eight years growing Rory Sutherland’s talent, fame and stage presence around the world.
She knows what it takes to build a reputation, sustain it, and make it mean something in a room that matters, combining sharp instinct with meticulous attention to logistics, relationships and what a space needs before anyone says a word. Where Kerry energises the room, Anna ensures it was worth entering in the first place — together forming one of the industry’s most carefully built and powerful networks
Kerry Collinge
Founder
Kerry brings 25 years of marketing leadership, spanning global giants like Carlsberg, AB InBev and Mondelez International to high-growth brands including Peter’s Yard, TrueStart and Charlie Bigham’s. Most recently, as Director of Marketing and Partnerships at System1 and Managing Director of the Uncensored CMO, she grew the brand’s customer base tenfold and helped it win Marketing Week’s B2B Brand of the Year. She continues as CMO of Uncensored CMO, leading talent, events and partnerships.
Kerry’s rare strength lies in her ability to connect worlds from billion-dollar FMCG boardrooms to founder-led start-ups, bringing the right people together to spark ideas and create moments where marketing truly comes to life
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