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Executive Search for Strategists
Stuart Parkin
SPARKIN is an affiliated group focused on locating and developing strategic talent. We have three decades experience of marketing on the agency and client side and as consultants to a number of the most iconic agency groups in the marketing communications business.
SPARKIN was founded by Stuart Parkin, who worked for and then consulted to agencies ranging from DDB Worldwide, SpikeDDB, TribalDDB, Organic, Fallon, Rapp Collins, Porter Novell, Fleishman Hillard, amongst others. Stuart is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, has a Masters degree in Organizational Psychology and is a published author of fiction and non-fiction including a ‘dubiously’ credited best-selling novel: Trade Secret
Stuart is a British and Australian citizen, and has lived and worked in London, Tokyo, and Sydney. He lives in New York now, with his girlfriend. His network and experience is drawn from a fortunate collection of experiences as well as having traveled to over 150 countries. Travel and culture remain a huge and on-going passion of his.
The Parkin Prize
The Parkin Prize rewards the strategist not simply with the biggest mind, but the biggest heart, to go with the mind! Or, the most ‘empathetic’ individual. The idea behind the award is to encourage a genuine interest in people and a willingness to actively aid their progression. However, it is more than compassion that is being rewarded. This Prize reinforces the fact that, by striving to help others, by communicating a genuine interest in them and their progression and—better still—facilitating it, we enhance our own ability to understand them and so aid them, whether client, creative, planner or suit and, in so doing, we aid our own progression.
Scholarship Winners
 13-19 Year Old Winner |  Ana Parish |  Zach Behrmann |  Stephanie Brint |
13-19 Year Old Winner |  Emelia Pasternak-Albert |  Quinn Husney |  Nikki Kerdegari |
 Natasha Davis |  Trevor Kroon |  Mariana Crespo |  Allison Schneider |
 Victoria Aldecocea |  Krissy Pollock |  Michelle Lee |  Danilo Rameiro |
 Chorong Kim |  Tasha Pelaez |  Julia Schindel |  Rachel Eden |
 Alyssa Fea |  Pedro Osti |  Natalia Aristizabal |  Jenny Regan |
 Kelly Slater |  Marta Domenech |  Greg Donnelly |  Andrew Farrelly |
 Kevin Xiao |  Kiran Carpenter |  Matthew McLaren |  William Allen-Mersh, |
 Amy McEwan |  Jacky Lei |
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