• 20+ years creative experience across 4 continents • 51 International and domestic advertising awards (including Best in Show & Cannes Lions)• 8 time award judge• 6 Automotive brands: Ford, Toyota, Lexus, BMW, Mini & GM.• 60 key clients across all major industries• 4 former hires have gone on to take part in the Cannes Women, ‘See It, Be It’ program.Dave’s a consistently curious, award-hungry Creative Director who’s forever pushing himself – and his team – for that extra 5%. Dave’s desire to constantly learn and improve sets him apart from his current contemporaries. He lives, loves and breathes art direction. If you ask him, it’s the only job he knows how to do instinctively. While a stickler for process and collaboration, he’s a huge fan of breaking the rules and going with gut feeling. Combine that with his love of the strategic approach to advertising, data and research and you have a complete creative. In a career spanning over 20 years, he’s worked in Australia, Canada, China, the USA and the UK at agencies including Global network agencies RAPP, Grey, Clemenger, Bates and Ogilvy.Driven by a passion for creating innovative campaigns based on genuine customer insights, he’s lead teams ranging in size from 4 to 17, and picked up a number of awards for both creativity and effectiveness. Most notably Gold Caples for his work on Toyota in the UK, a Best In Show at Mobius and USPS’ Golden Mailbox Award at Echo, and in recent years made finalist at D&AD, New York Festivals, One Show, AME’s and picked up two Cannes Lions for the Dupé Campaign.Dave tends to say what he thinks and he’s rarely at a loss for words. You know the sort