WORK HISTORY

2020-PRESENT: DARLING BRAND MAKERY, ST. LOUIS

Created new brand positions and campaigns for Toppers Pizza, the APA Adoption Center, The Watering Bowl, Lake Regional Healthcare System, St. Louis Boxing Club, and so much more.
Improved the quality of creative output, winning an additional fourteen awards in the first year.
Added creative processes and wrote some things I’m really proud of.

2017-2020: BURNS GROUP, NEW YORK

Led Columbia Business School, growing flight risk account by 35% in revenue and managing two teams.
Won and made campaigns for Simmons Sleep, Labatt beer, dntl bar, Betadine, Earth’s Best, Brother and much more.
Managing from the front, creating work I’m proud of, pitching like an animal and notorious for making clients cry with a brand manifesto or anthem spot.

2013-16: GREY, NEW YORK

Worked on many, many accounts at a creative shop at the height of its game. Volvo, Smuckers, Papa John’s, Lunchables and more.
We won Agency of the Year twice while I was there—this obviously had very little to do with me, we were a 1200-person agency and I was in my 20s. It sounds good, though.

2012-13: LANDOR, CHICAGO

Worked on a variety of Kraft and P&G accounts, as well as Google/Motorola and Postmedia News.
A heady mix of brand positioning and naming.
I also handled all their strategy needs, leading workshops and developing strategic positionings.

2011-12: RKCR/Y&R, LONDON

Worked on Virgin Atlantic, Volvic water, Government Awareness Campaigns, the BBC and Vodafone.
It’s where I realized I didn’t want to be a planner—but I also learned an awful lot that makes me a more thoughtful, strategic creative today.

2011-14: WPP FELLOW

Three WPP agencies, three roles, three cities, three years.

2010-11: LUMBERJACK, RURAL FRANCE

Extensive experience with axes, chainsaws and sledgehammers. Rather an idiosyncratic French vocabulary as a result. I also worked in a youth hostel in Berlin for a few months.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree in History from Oxford University.

I am a gardener who learns by killing, an instinctive inverter, a father who can help his daughter to sustain two flesh wounds in one hour. It's in testing ideas and embracing their antagonisms that I find my creative spirit, so when others zig, I zoog.

I bring a beginner mindset and thoughtful engagement to every project, because any client who can afford marketing must have something someone really, really wants.

I'm British and a (new) US citizen, born and educated in England. I've lived and worked in London, Brighton, Oxford, Berlin, Yvelines (France), Chicago, New York and now St. Louis. Traveling and working in so many different cultures has, I think, given me an outsider perspective, willing to question sacred truths and see wonder in the prosaic.

LEARNING:HECKLING:ADAPTING