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London, United Kingdom

Leading Strategy and Sustainability for the 14 office Global network. Helping some of world's most exciting brands take a bold, responsible leap forward. Winning Cannes Lions Gold for Creative Strategy, Oystercatchers Agency of the year and two APG Golds in 2021.Leading Iris' Future Strategy proposition that helps organisations keep up with tomorrow by accelerating the switch towards sustainable, people-centric and socially valuable business models. Driving industry climate action as part of the Purpose Disruptors including development of Advertised Emissions, Create and Strike, the Great Reset and the 'Ecoffectiveness' industry standard. Named Campaign's #2 Trailblazer 2021.

London, United Kingdom

Global Head of Strategy building a 100+ Global Strategy Unit encompassing a full spectrum of specialist teams: Creative, brand, content and comms strategy | Commercial and Corporate strategy | Performance, Pricing, Data-Driven. For Samsung, Adidas, Starbucks, Alcon, PayPal.Putting Participation at the heart of our approach - swarming teams around a client problem and clients, customers and specialist talent together with no boundaries or bias. Developed the Participation Brand Index, a 14,000 person study of the changing consumer/brand relationship.

London

Leading the creative strategy in iris' quest to build world-class Participation Brands. Things I'm most proud of:- 5 years of rapid growth in agency creative quality leading to Campaign and MAA Agency of the Year 2016, Cannes Lions Silver, APG Silver- Growing planning income three-fold in 5 years with a team of 25 of the most progressive and diverse planners in the business- Winning and building brand strategies for Samsung, MINI, Wickes, Nectar, Britvic, Virgin Active and Philips- Winning 2015 Admap prize for strategic thinking in advertising on 'data and creativity', speaking at SXSW, Cannes, Adweek

New York

- Built the iris strategy function across the New York, Atlanta, Miami and Mexico offices - the first iris planning outside London- Helped turn iris NY from a rough n' ready startup to an established and award-winning 70-strong agency- Won Digital Agency of Record for all 23 of Reckitt Benckiser's US brands - Made some great work for Adidas, Coke, IHG, Xbox, Diageo, Coty, Nautica & Sony

London

Working at the sweetspot of technology and culture for the Government (COI), Sony Ericsson, Orange, VW, Jack Daniel's, Barclaycard and Save the Children.

FLOX is a revolutionary and intuitive metaverse event platform. Harnessing the ideas and creativity of each individual to fuel the power and progress of the collective. Helping people get off planes and on to platforms.

Helping Nickelodeon, Samsung and Nintendo become 21st century entertainment brands

Leeds And London

A unique musical combination of some of the UK's finest jazz musicians, beats n bass and whole lotta soul.

Helping brands add some value to the world of music. Working with MTV, Allied Domecq, Nokia, Kylie Minogue

Leeds, United Kingdom

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Graphic Design And Photography

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