Who we are and what we do
CALM Media Investments provide added value to media owners and their customers through bulk forward investment programmes.
We enable significant additional value for media agencies and their clients whilst helping our media owner partners drive additional ad revenue.
If you’d like to know more then please contact (one of us) and we’ll be in touch.
Meet the team behind Calm Media Investments
Meet Carla
Co-Founder
Carla is co-founder of Calm MI, focusing on adding value to our media partners across the UK. Carla started in Media back in 2010 after qualifying with a bachelor’s degree in ‘Media and Cultural Studies’.
Experience
Carla’s career started in the world of start-ups with her first position as a Media Assistant at ‘Mercury’ a media investment firm. There, Carla worked briefly alongside its sister business Miroma, learning about Barter and the evolution of Barter in the UK. The life of a start-up has been the foundation of Carla’s career which saw her climb up the ladder from Media Assistant to Head of Sales over a 12-year span. Carla’s expertise focusses across Outdoor and Print as well as Broadcast.
Personal
Carla is recently married to her husband Gary and believes eloping is the best thing since sliced bread!
Meet Azon
Co-Founder
Azon is co-founder of Calm MI, with a focus on adding value to our media partners. He started in the media industry as a junior TV buyer at DMB&B in 1991, just as the media independent agency sector was becoming established.
Experience
Since then he’s worked in media trading, most of it trading TV and radio in the UK at Dentsu in all of its various iterations and evolutions (TMD, Carat, Aegis, Dentsu) apart from a brief spell as a greengrocer while in his twenties. Latterly he had a spell in an EMEA off-line media trading role for Omnicom.
Personal
He has two children, Lorelin and Leon, has been married to Rosa for over 30 years.
Meet Luke
Co-Founder
Luke is co-founder of Calm MI. In 1996, after a year in the Merchant Navy, he swapped a life at sea for the bright lights of London and a media career.
Experience
Luke brings over 25 years of experience of media trading roles across media owners (ITV, Channel 5, A&E Networks), Agencies (Dentsu, Publicis) and media principal trading (MCap). Roles have included running a media department of 60 people, managing EMEA partner relationships and maximising commercial income. He is a trustee of the charity responsible for funding the restoration of the Folkestone Leas Lift.
Personal
Luke lives in Folkestone, his home town, where he lives with his wife and two young daughters.
Meet Galvin
Co-Founder
Galvin is co-founder of Calm MI, with a focus on adding value to every part of the media supply chain (mainly within served media).
Experience
He has held various roles both buy and sell-side since entering the world of media in 1999, after a brief spell in the music industry. These have included leading the Agency commercial programme for Pinterest globally, leading Digital investment for GroupM in the UK and heading up an award-winning sales team at Specific Media. He is a speaker for Founders4Schools, proud supporter of Bloom and recipient of the NABS President’s Award in 2019 for services to the industry.
Personal
He lives in Brighton and doesn't really miss the commute.