I’m an award-winning Creative Director with 15+ years of experience shaping brands, inspiring teams, and bringing ideas to life through design that connects and performs.

Co-Founder and Creative Director for a full service, award-winning digital marketing and design agency, currently numbering 30+ full time employees across design, development, advertising, social media and project management.

Building a cross-discipline team from scratch to create a full service digital agency capable of delivering first rate design projects across all media. Directly managing and mentoring a team of nine designers, working across brand, digital, UX/UI design, video production and events. Providing creative direction across all client work and managing brand identities for multiple companies, from small start-ups to global organisations. Overseeing successful client branding projects to raise client profiles, leading in increases in funding, joint ventures and acquisitions. User research and design for online products and applications. Managing relationships with clients, partner agencies and suppliers to ensure seamless on-boarding and delivery, on-time and on-budget

For examples of clients and projects, please visit smallgiants.agency

In-house Creative Direction for one of the world’s largest data providers, with responsibility for transitioning and aligning a new visual identity after the merger of Markit and IHS into a single entity, including the development of new guidelines and the design of a temporary website to promote the merger and educate clients on the new value proposition.

Oversight and mentoring for a team of designers across multiple locations and business lines. Establishing procedures and work flows to ensure the maintenance of consistency and standards. Working directly with senior marketing, sales and product managers to gather requirements and brief design teams. Creative direction of various global events, including CERA Week, World Petrochemical Conference, Explore Energy, Sibos and the Annual Customer Conferences.

Head of Design for a global financial data organisation with responsibility for the ongoing development of the company brand and design direction across marketing and product materials.

Defining the design strategy for the promotion of the company IPO in June 2014, from email communications and website updates to the creation of an animation for the NASDAQ display in Times Square. Leading a team of in-house designers and design contractors and providing direction on maintaining and developing the company brand. Creative direction for an updated version of the company website to align with the post-IPO offering, leading to a 25-30% increase in traffic and increased sales leads. Creation of an online sales portal for the global Intranet to facilitate improved cross-team collaboration for sales and marketing employees. Creative direction for the Annual Customer Conferences across multiple global locations.

One of the founding members of the marketing team for a global financial information services start-up.

Creation and implementation of company brand guidelines and roll-out of global print procurement process. Oversight of Java developers for corporate and client website components. Creation of UX/UI guidelines to align online client product portals. Design integration for 7 acquisitions and two joint ventures. Management and distribution of global sales templates.

Primary design contact for McGregor-Boyall and industry initiative ‘women in technology’.

Managing relationships with external suppliers. Creative direction for campaigns across the London commuter network. Branding of regular client events. Design, maintenance and upkeep of three microsites and the company intranet.

Working as a designer for a global law firm, implementing and maintaining the company branding guidelines across marketing and sales materials, from printed collateral to sales presentations.

Working as a production designer/sub-editor for the UK’s leading provider of multimedia content and services. Proof-reading and content-editing. Design, production and submission of page-ready layouts for regional and national newspapers. Daily updates to the company website.