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Grant Macfarlane

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Founder & CEO at The-Media-Image
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Grant is the Founder and CEO of The-Media-Image (TMI), an independent digital agency he established in 2008 after a career at Google and DoubleClick. A Rhodes University graduate, he leads a global team focused on performance media. Colleagues describe him as knowledgeable, hardworking, and possessing a "can do" attitude.

Originally from South Africa, Grant maintains a connection to his home country and enjoys fishing and working on his golf putting technique in his free time. He values spending time with his family and a close circle of friends in South Africa.

He was one of Googles first UK hires for the platform that became Google Ads, giving him a foundational role in the evolution of paid search.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Performance Marketing
He founded his agency to deliver outcome-driven performance media and is focused on full-funnel strategies that provide measurable results for clients.
Data and AI Integration
He proudly shares his team's work, including collaborations with Meta to build multi-agent AI copilots that deliver actionable recommendations from performance data.
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Career

Work history

3-2008
Founder & CEO
The-Media-Image
1-2007 - 2-2008
Head of Search & centre of excellence northern Europe
Havas Media
1-2002 - 1-2007
Head of Agency Client Services
Google
2000 - 2002
Client Server Analyst
DoubleClick
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Education
1996 - 1998
BCOM
Rhodes University
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