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
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.
Meet Luke
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.
Meet Galvin
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.
Meet Dave
Experience
Starting out in print over 20 years ago working for CN Newsgroup and then Guardian Media Group, Dave moved into Digital with Specific Media in 2009 and has held a variety of roles across Digital since. Dave's focus in his role at Calm is Digital Media, drawing from a wealth experience including roles in Programmatic as Sales Director at Rocketfuel, in Social Media as Commercial Director at JOE Media and then most recently in Ecommerce as Sales Director at Fanplayr.
Meet Nick
Experience
Nick has over 30 years of media industry experience on both agency and media owner sides of the fence. Starting with ITV (Grampian) in London in the late 80s, moving to the agency side at Faulds Advertising in Edinburgh through the 90s and based in Manchester since 2000, working in various roles for Carlton (ITV) and Sky Media. Nick has been working with Calm since July 2024, using his AV knowledge and agency relationships to help grow the business around the UK. Outside work Nick is a keen golfer who enjoys European travel and attempting to learn Spanish...!