John Watson Email & Phone Number

London, GB

30 Gresse Street London W1T 1QR

WPNC is an unusual combination of off-line direct marketing and leading edge digital. Our team, led by Vicky Reeves and John Eversley, has extraordinary experience across all media. We make things work. We move people. And I think we're rather better at doing that than most.

So after 2 years 'garden leave', I convinced Maria Phillips and Tod Norman to set up WPN. We brought in Gail Cookson, John Eversley, Bob Nash, Arno Meddleton, Mick Eglinton, Di Williams, Debbie Wastie, Sandra Money among others. We started in a corner of media company BLM in Marshall Street, following a high level executive decision (ie Maria) to locate in.

London

First Chairman, then Non-Exec Director, of MC&Co, one of the leading independent media agencies in the UK.

After I left WWAV Rapp, Dame Shelia McKechnie asked me onto the Which? board where I worked with her for 2 years. She was a truly remarkable individual.

Chris Albert and Rinalda Ward and I quit THB&W and with backing from BBDO (in the shape of Ivor Samuels) set up WWAV. The 'V' was Bernie Varndell, a production man, who departed pretty quickly. We started in a basement room of BBDO's St Petersburgh Place offices and we grew at a phenomenal rate. As BBDO shrank we took over more space until we finally.

Drayton Bird, Glenmore Trenear-Harvey and I set up THB&W in the seventies. We had splendid offices above Pineapple Dance Studios in Langley Street Covent Garden, and we specialised mostly in direct mail, with a bit of press. DRTV didn't exist, let alone digital. I learned a lot from Drayton (and maybe he learned a little bit from me!). We had a great time.