Adrian Di Francesco

Services

How I work with brands, rights holders and retailers

Fifteen years inside brand, retail, media and entertainment teams — available as consulting, advisory, fractional leadership, or speaking and mentoring.

Based in Sydney, Australia

Selected commercial results available privately on request.

01

Consulting

Campaign and partnership strategy for a specific commercial problem.

Short, defined engagements: a campaign architecture, a sponsorship activation plan, a joint business plan with a retail partner, or a channel strategy that needs to be untangled before the next cycle starts.

  • Audience and positioning work
  • Campaign architecture and moment planning
  • Sponsorship and partnership activation planning
  • Retail and channel pull-through
02

Advisory

An experienced marketing voice alongside a team already doing the work.

Ongoing, lower-intensity support for founders and marketing leads who want a senior sounding board on plans, briefs, agency relationships and partner negotiations without adding headcount.

  • Plan and brief review
  • Agency and partner selection
  • Sponsorship evaluation
  • Marketing team structure and capability
03

Fractional marketing leadership

Senior in-house leadership for a defined period.

Stepping into a business through a launch, a market entry, a partnership cycle or a gap in the team — running the plan end to end with internal teams, agencies and partners.

  • Campaign and calendar ownership
  • Agency and partner management
  • Cross-functional delivery with sales and retail
  • Measurement and post-campaign review
04

Speaking and mentoring

Sessions on sport, entertainment and commercial marketing.

Talks, panels, workshops and one-to-one mentoring drawn from fifteen years across global brands, rights holders, retailers and media — including industry mentoring at Macquarie University and academic board work with the Institute of Data.

  • Conference and panel appearances
  • In-house team workshops
  • University and program guest sessions
  • One-to-one career mentoring

Where I'm strongest

Where brand, culture, partners and commercial delivery meet.

Most of my work sits in situations with several moving parts — a rights holder, a retailer, an agency, a media plan and a sales target that all need to point the same way. Recent examples include partner marketing with major sport retailers, global entertainment IP, and brand and acquisition programs across media.

Start a conversation

Tell me the commercial problem, not the brief.