we are BXG - The Brand Experience Group
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Our Mission



The Brand Experience Group (BXG) has developed and refined a unique capability to deliver true line-of-sight metrics from omnichannel touchpoints with brands to preference, choice and business outcomes. This allows brand owners to transform marketing effectiveness and efficiency and maximize the engagement of citizens and consumers with sustainable, purpose-led brands.

Our unifying Brand Experience measurement currency quantifies and benchmarks individuals’ engagement with brands across markets, across categories and across all channels and consumer touchpoints, globally. It enables us to tackle and take a leadership position in two very different but overlapping markets:


1.IMPROVING MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS & EFFICIENCY

BXG has a long and demonstrable track record of success in helping businesses optimize the touchpoint mix and thereby transform brand marketing performance. Our methodology and tools have been proven across 4,000+ projects in 100s of product and service categories in 90+ markets and 40+ languages, as well as being validated by leading business schools. At the heart of our approach is a powerful, voice of the individual based brand experience measurement capability that, uniquely, bridges and integrates the digital and analogue/physical worlds.

2. BUILDING SUSTAINABLE BRANDS

Building on our Brand Experience measurement platform, we quantify the impact of brands’ sustainability strategies, actions and narratives on consumer brand preference and choice, so making possible the establishment of virtuous circles of sustainable business models, purposeful brand narratives, consumer engagement and choice at scale. In this way we equip investors and business leaders with the actionable business case for investment in ethical and responsible business practices, as well as equipping marketers with the metrics and diagnostics needed to market sustainable brands honestly.

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What is BXG?
The Brand Experience Group (BXG) is focused on helping brand-owning businesses deliver a step-change in the effectiveness and efficiency of their demand generation spend, accelerating growth by optimizing consumer engagement across channels and consumer touchpoints, globally. The Brand Experience Group (BXG) has developed a unique Brand Experience research methodology and analytics platform (powered by the Market Contact Audit - MCA®) that provides quantitative category, market and brand-specific insights that inform resource allocation and execution decisions and are strong predictors of brand health and market share growth, globally.
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What are BXG's origins?
The MCA® was originally developed and applied for leading CPG companies such as Procter & Gamble & The Coca-Cola Company to help companies optimize their overall marketing and broader demand generation spend to drive sales and market share. It informs product and service-based brands, in any market of choice, about where they are winning and losing in engaging consumers versus competitors, about their performance in marketing communication and about how well this is converting into sales.
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How does it work?
Rather than the input-based measures such as click-throughs and GRPs that have traditionally been used by marketeers, BXG uses true outcome-based MCA® brand experience metrics that correlate with market share. We use our uniquely objective Voice of the Consumer (VoC) research platform to understand consumer engagement with categories and brands and use proprietary algorithms to measure and track consumer Brand Experience in a way that informs resource allocation decisions and anticipates market share and growth results. The foundations are very robust.
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Why are the BXG and MCA® unique?
Alongside our Voice of the Consumer (VoC) research platform and proprietary algorithms, BXG's key differentiator is the ability to understand and measure consumer engagement systematically across channels and markets in our increasingly multi-channel world (digital, mass media, on-line, in-store etc.) with a common Brand Experience currency. This common currency measures synergies and carry-over effects across touchpoints on the path to preference and purchase. It has been used by close to 200 leading brand owning businesses in sectors such as Food & Beverage, Tobacco, Consumer Electronics, Retail, Media, Telecoms, Automotive and Financial Services to help build brand health and wealth, drive growth and optimize demand generation spend effectiveness and efficiency.
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What sorts of organizations does BXG serve?
BXG serves national, regional and global businesses looking to build brands, drive growth and win market share through products and services that meet and exceed consumer demands and expectations in our increasingly multi-channel and purpose-driven world. It is especially relevant to organizations looking to understand how the digital and physical worlds interact to provide a holistic brand and consumer experience that maximizes engagement and sales conversion.
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What data does MCA® need and provide?
The MCA® provides a wealth of insights based on a relatively limited data set. As input into the research, one needs to provide the relevant contacts (or touchpoints), the competitive set, the consumer profiles and the spend data per contact. There is no need for large, historical and potentially incomplete or inaccurate data sets. As such, MCA® allows you to hit the ground running' and increase your insights through ongoing tracking of your activities and results.
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How does embracing the MCA® transform ways of working?
BXG's MCA®-based approach provides, for the first time, a fully cross-channel view of the effectiveness of every element of demand generation spend. At a strategic level, the insight it creates brings a completely new dimension to integrated planning across marketing, sales channels, brands and markets. At a tactical level, it is used by market leaders to shape and manage activation plans, potentially resulting in large shifts in spend allocation across channels and consumer touchpoints. The MCA® is embedded in the marketing planning and execution process and is repeated to assess the impact on consumers of the changes made and identify best practices that can be replicated across brands and markets.
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How does MCA® provide creative quality and impact to business?
Agencies typically struggle to find ways to show the true value of their creative output, i.e. what is it delivering to the business, is it better than previous work, is it winning versus competitors, is it building better consumer journeys? MCA® metrics provide transparency of what's working and what's not providing line-of-sight from marcoms to business performance. Touchpoint performance versus competitors provide insights into what individual creative is working well versus less well, prompting follow-up into consumer response to creative strategy and execution.
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The Team

  • Leadership Team
  • Senior Advisors
  • Client Services
  • Process
  • Research & Development
  • Systems *
    STeP®, Systems that Perform *
Lawrence Hutter
Oscar Yamhure/Jamhouri
Elie Salem
Mohamed A. Fal
James Ng
Nabih Salem
Mike Bambrick
Eric Dherte
Marek Winiarz
Will Sarni
Peter Callipolitis
Anita Rak
George Karaa
Arax Daneghians
Carla Khairallah
Maria Ekizlerian
Charlotte Charbel
Sawsan Khalil
Hagop Anserian
Yasser Batsh
Lawrence Hutter
Lawrence Hutter Chairman

Lawrence brings more than 35 years' experience of working with some of the world's best-known consumer-facing businesses on a range of strategic business performance improvement initiatives across retail, food, beverage, tobacco, electronics, durables, publishing and travel. He started his career with Andersen Consulting, then set-up and built his own consumer products & retail advisory firm which was eventually acquired by Deloitte, led Deloitte's global Consumer Business practice for a decade and, 7 years ago, started Alvarez & Marsal's (A&M's) now thriving Corporate Transformation practice in Europe. Lawrence also spent 3 years leading the World Economic Forum's sustainability programme for the retail and consumer industries, working in close partnership with three global champion' companies (Nestlé©, Nike and Unilever) who were the leading supporters of the programme, and 21 other top-tier global consumer products companies and retailers. He introduced the MCA platform and methodology to A&M as a platform for improving clients' demand generation spend productivity and transforming their commercial operating models. On stepping down from his full-time A&M practice leadership role, Lawrence accepted the invitation to become Chairman of BXG - The Brand Experience Group. Lawrence earned a first-class honours degree in chemistry from Balliol College, Oxford.

Oscar Yamhure/Jamhouri
Oscar Yamhure/Jamhouri Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Oscar is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of the Group. His 15-year tenure at BBDO led to develop an understanding of the role of brands as meta-salesforces and global ambassadors of an enterprise mission & values. It was his personal commitment to delivering more effective, efficient and accountable marketing that resulted in the founding of the BXG Group 25 years ago. With a multi-disciplinary team of experts, Oscar leads the development and deployment of metrics, tools and systems to measure and operationalize the managing of brand experience as an engine of growth and purpose on a global basis. He is a regular guest speaker in the field of Brand Experience and holds degrees in French Literature, psychology and advertising from Sorbonne University.

Elie Salem
Elie Salem Chief Operating Officer

Elie Salem joined the Group in January 2004 as Director of Operations. Prior to that, he was a Deputy Managing Director of a building automation and safety company in Lebanon where he helped build the company into a leading ISO 9000:2000 certified organization.

The focus of Elie's career has been in process improvement and automation as well as the design and implementation of enterprise-wide integrated information solutions.

Elie received his Bachelor degree in architecture from the American University of Beirut.

Mohamed A. Fal
Mohamed A. Fal Co-Founder & Executive Director

Led a successful multinational career in media marketing.

Pioneered ground-breaking industry and media research practices in the MENA region.

Established the highly esteemed Sword Awards, recognized as the most influential award in the Gulf region.

James Ng
James Ng Corporate Director / Group Legal Counsel

James graduated from the University of Canterbury, practiced law both in London and Singapore as a barrister before he joined DY&R [a global joint venture between Dentsu and Y&R] as its General Manager in Singapore.

His career with DY&R lasted 15 years, with postings in Hong Kong and ultimately back to Singapore to establish DY&R's headquarters. In his final position, he was Regional Managing Director, Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific with regional responsibilities for all key global clients including Citibank, Colgate Palmolive, Kraft Foods, Sony and Ford. In 2002, James formed his own consulting firm advising clients on strategic acquisitions/alliances in the marketing space. He has as since become an investor as well as responsible for Asia and the group's corporate affairs.

James sits on several Singapore government committees to support the growth of marketing communication effectiveness within the region.

Nabih Salem
Nabih Salem Chief Information Officer

Nabih is the Chief Information Officer of the Group, a Director of the Equal Holding Group, and Managing Director of STeP - Systems That Perform, the IT and Systems arm of the group. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the American University of Beirut.

For the past 22 years, he has been involved in the management of software research and development in the following areas:

  • Process Automation
  • Research and Integrated Marketing & Communication
  • Business Intelligence and Report Automation
  • Information Management Systems
  • FinTech solutions
  • Knowledge Management and Archival Solutions
  • Custom solutions
Mike Bambrick
Mike Bambrick Executive Director, Global Client Service

Mike graduated with honours from Warwick University Business School. He started his career as media buyer at Boase Massimi Pollitt in 1984, later becoming the Media Planning Group Manager, responsible for over £100million of business. During this time, he won two Media Week Awards for excellence in media planning.

Mike joined the group in 2002, leading the development of its delivery to clients, and establishing MCA/Metrics as the global gold standard of measurement in marketing communications.

Eric Dherte
Eric Dherte Regional Commercial Director, Europe/LATAM

Eric grew up in São Paulo, Brazil, graduating from the FEI engineering school. Four years after working at the French group Saint-Gobain in Brazil he obtained his MBA (international program Getulio Vargas, São Paulo / ISA-HEC, Paris) and worked in Paris in financial services.

For 15 years he occupied senior positions in France, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, in fields such as sales, marketing, e-business, technology, operations and administration.

Eric has worked in product development, electronic banking services and distribution channels (call centres, internet banking, ATMs, etc.), as well as reengineering and process automation.

He joined the group in April 2005 as an MCA Auditor, developing new business opportunities in Latin America. Eric currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Marek Winiarz
Marek Winiarz Senior Advisor - Data Science

Marek's 25 years in corporate management includes The Coca-Cola Company, General Electric and Ford Motor Company. Marek received training and practice as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt at GE, where he implemented Six Sigma systems and processes internally and with over 50 GE business partners.

Marek has experience in the aerospace, automotive, defence, electronics, food, optical media and retail sectors. He has several publications in the area of measurement and instrumentation and holds a patent in high energy laser processing. Marek is a registered Professional Engineer, a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Master of Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

Koen De Staercke
Koen De Staercke Senior Advisor

Koen has been a Senior Advisor with BXG since September 2020. He brings 30 years of experience, split between advisory and operating roles. He has worked across Europe and the US with clients spanning a range of industries including consumer products, manufacturing, life sciences and high-tech. He has worked predominantly in the areas of marketing, sales and technology-led transformations.

Koen started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) prior to moving to Coca-Cola, where he held various positions in the areas of marketing research, technology and sales. In 2000 he joined Deloitte, where he became global co-leader for the Consumer Products sector. In 2014 he moved to Alvarez & Marsal in London, where he led the European Sales and Marketing service line. Koen has collaborated with Integration, (now the Brand Experience Group) for more than 10 years on many joint projects and is an expert in embedding the MCA system as a platform for capability development.

He is a Belgian national, earned a MSC in Civil Engineering (Applied Mathematics) and an MBA, both at the KU Leuven in Belgium.

Will Sarni
Will Sarni Senior Advisor - SUSTAINABILITY

Will is an internationally recognized thought leader on sustainability & water strategy. He has been an advisor to multinationals, investors, technology companies & NGOs for his entire career. He founded DOMANI, a sustainability strategy firm over 20 years ago which was sold to Deloitte Consulting. While at Deloitte, he founded & led the water strategy practice, within the Social Impact service line, working with some of the world's most recognized consumer & industrial brands. Will has written numerous books & articles & presents on subjects such as the value of water, innovations in digital water technology, the circular economy, & the energy-water-food nexus. He is the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the UN-sponsored World Association of Industrial & Technological Research Organization's Global Innovation Summit 2020 He is also a member of several company and non-profit boards & was on the Scientific Program Committee for Stockholm World Water Week & is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Water Security.

Peter Callipolitis
Peter Callipolitis Senior Research Manager

Peter joined the Group in June 2007. He was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated from Rand Afrikaans University with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Industrial Psychology, Business Economics and Economics.

Following a short stint in lecturing, Peter joined a consumer research company, Bateleur Research Solutions, where he spent 10 years.

Anita Rak
Anita Rak Research Manager

Anita joined the Group in January 2012 and brings over 15 years of experience in Market Research.

Anita had worked as a Research Manager at Synovate leading the P&G account team.

Anita was born and raised in Poland where she graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics.

George Karaa
George Karaa Product R&D Manager

George holds an MBA degree from ESCP Europe, and a MS degree in Computer Science from Notre Dame University. He joined the group in 2009 as Project Manager for the Americas along with additional responsibilities in various software development programmes.

He previously worked for five years with STeP, the systems member of BXG, where his responsibilities included project management and quality assurance of software applications.

Prior to joining STeP, George worked for more than six years in the software development industry, mainly in designing and developing web solutions.

Arax Daneghians
Arax Daneghians Operations Manager

Arax joined the group in February 2010 in the position of Project Manager.

She holds a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from Haigazian University and a Masters degree in Computational Sciences from the American University of Beirut (AUB).

Arax had worked for three years as a graduate research assistant at the American University of Beirut.

Celine Salloum
Celine Salloum Training and Support Manager

After graduating from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Celine worked as an associate at AMIDEAST, Lebanon.

Celine had then joined the group's in December 2015 where she took on the role as Project Manager.

Carla Khairallah
Carla Khairallah Accounting Manager

Carla Joined the group in July 2011 as part of the accounting department. She holds B.A in Accounting from the American University of Technology in Lebanon. Prior to joining the group, Carla worked for a touristic company in Lebanon.

Maria Ekizlerian
Maria Ekizlerian Office Manager

Maria holds the position of Office Manager, and assists in the Accounting department. She graduated from the American Academy where she studied accounting and secretarial following which she studied journalism at the KES College in Nicosia, Cyprus.

She worked as a reporter for ANSA (Italian News Agency) covering news in Cyprus and the Middle East for 18 years. Since 2000 she has worked for the group in a part-time capacity, joining full-time in 2007. Maria is fluent in Greek, English, Armenian and Italian.

Charlotte Charbel
Charlotte Charbel Office Manager

Charlotte joined the group in April 2001 as Office Manager.

She holds a BA degree in Civil Law from La Sagesse University in Beirut.

Sawsan Khalil
Sawsan Khalil Office Manager

Sawsan joined the group in September 2004 as Office Manager. She holds a Diploma in secretarial studies and has many years of experience as a Personal Assistant to Executive Level Directors.

Hagop Anserian
Hagop Anserian Head of Information Technology

Hagop joined the group in 2001. He is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure of our online suite of tools and providing technical support, consulting and maintenance to our global network and clients.
Hagop has a BE in Electrical Engineering.

Yasser Batsh
Yasser Batsh Head of Web Development

Yasser joined the group in August 2004. He holds a bachelor degree in computer engineering from Beirut Arab University.
Yasser has previous experience in developing governmental immigration and naturalization systems and Customer Relationship Management Systems [CRM].

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