The work speaks for itself, doesn't it?
Yet the work's only half the story.
The other half is the wonderful people I've worked with that have helped me build an agency in South Africa from 6 people to the third largest group nationwide - a company that also boasted a top media company, digital and design agency, and strategic planning company. And then another group of people that helped me turn around Lowe London, back into the number one creative agency in Uk (Campaign Annual 2004) following a tough merger with Lintas. And a huge global group of people, at different agencies with the same name that helped me, over seven years, consistently have Lowe winning global accounts on Unilever, ABINBEV, Nokia, Electrolux and beyond - at the same time as recording Lowe's best performances at Cannes.
My special team at The Bull-White House that managed, against all odds, to win the global Corona account against three big networks and the Unilever "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" account against, you guessed it, three top global networks. And to make me happy every day I came to work.
Then wonderful people of mcgarrybowen, who embraced my push and desire for change, change that led to us being named AdAge Comeback agency of the Year 2017.
And now the brilliant members of SoloUnion, a business challenging the way agencies should be run, and focusing entirely on the work.
I consider the greatest achievement of my career the teams I have had the pleasure of building, and the work that has come out of those teams.
Together with all these people, I have worked on global business for Stella Artois, HSBC, multiple Unilever brands, Nokia, Microsoft, Chevron, United Airlines, Crayola, Smirnoff to name a glorious few. And multiple local brands in South Africa, The UK and the USA.
I hope that my clients past and present will tell you that our work helped make fortunes for them and their brands. (contact numbers and emails are all on this website).
The annuals will tell you that, amongst others, my teams have won 24 Cannes Golds, 15 D&AD pencils, 3 One Show golds. I have left countless other awards off that were won for teams under me when I was CCO of Lowe - I merely helped, I didn't shape.
What my teams and I have strived for above all is the core idea which feeds many executions over many years and - of course - many brand managers. So, whilst I hope you enjoy some of those executions on this site, I’d ask that you look beyond them at the power of the idea that fed them. After all, they are only a sprinkling of all the work I, and we, have done.