The Atocha Team

Senior operators for marketing efficiency, performance, and commercial accountability.

Atocha combines senior media, technology, commercial, and operating-model experience to help leadership teams make marketing investment financially accountable.

Leadership

The partners who lead each engagement.

Each engagement is led by a partner with a board-level operating background, supported by senior pillar leads.

Founder & Managing Partner

Atocha Lead Partner

Twenty-plus years across marketing operating models, agency commercial structures, and PE-backed value creation programmes.

Media Performance Lead

Media Performance Partner

Senior buy-side and platform leadership; oversees the media performance pillar and benchmark library across engagements.

Technology & Data Lead

Technology Partner

Marketing technology architecture, data infrastructure, and stack rationalisation across enterprise and mid-market.

Commercial Strategy Lead

Commercial Partner

Procurement, commercial restructuring, and contract economics — across agencies, platforms, technology, and data services.

Operating Model Advisor

Operating Model Partner

Marketing operating-model design across in-house, agency-of-record, and hybrid arrangements at scale.

Investor & Board Advisor

Investor Advisor

PE operating-partner experience; supports diligence, 100-day plans, and ongoing portfolio governance.

Expert network

Specialist experience, anonymised by design.

Atocha engages senior specialists across each pillar. Profiles are anonymised so the network can include current operators inside platforms, agencies, and brands without conflict.

Programmatic specialist

Senior Programmatic Advisor

Former senior leadership at a global trading desk; advises on inventory quality, supply-path optimisation, and verification economics.

Procurement specialist

Former Global Media Procurement Lead

Twenty years of media commercial restructuring across multinational brands. Specialises in contract addressability assessments.

Performance specialist

Performance Marketing Specialist

Direct-response and lifecycle expertise; advises on attribution, incrementality testing, and platform-level performance benchmarks.

Data infrastructure

Data Infrastructure Advisor

Marketing data architecture, identity, and measurement infrastructure — including stack rationalisation and warehouse-first patterns.

How the team works

Engaged from the top. Constructive with the existing ecosystem.

Atocha is engaged by the board, the CEO, the CFO, or an investor sponsor. The team works constructively with existing agencies, technology partners, and internal functions to deliver agreed improvements — wherever possible without changing the partner roster.

Top-down mandate.
Shared fact base.
Partner-enabled delivery.

Talk to the team.

Most engagements begin with a thirty-minute conversation followed by a five-day diagnostic.