Simon started his advertising career in 1979 as a graduate trainee at DDB. At the beginning of 1982, he joined TBWA, but left soon after to join the new start up, BBH, as the agency’s first Account Manager.

He was appointed to the agency's Board in January 1986, and took over the responsibility of running New Business as Business Development Director in early 1988.

Simon was appointed Joint Managing Director at the beginning of 1989, and became Managing Director in 1991.  After several years of running the London agency and with a Campaign Agency of the Year award under his belt, Simon relocated to Singapore to start BBH's first overseas office in 1996. In September 1998 Simon moved back to the UK as Chief Operating Officer responsible for BBH around the globe.

In January, Simon became Group Chief Executive Officer

 

After various false starts in hopelessly unsuitable occupations, John began his advertising career at Saatchi & Saatchi in 1984.

Whilst there, he won numerous awards across clients as diverse as the NSPCC, Swan lager, and British Airways including D&AD silver, Campaign golds and silvers and British Television Awards.

With partner Russell Ramsey, he jumped the fence in 1990.  John has continued his winning ways at BBH gaining awards for work on Audi, Levi’s, One2One and K Shoes among others.

John was made Executive Creative Director in 2000 and since then has presided over some of the most successful campaigns in BBH’s history.

John was voted one of the most creative people in the media industry in 2003 by the Financial Times and was Campaign magazine’s Creative Director of the Year in 2004 and 2005.

Ben joined BBH straight out of Oxford in 1994.  At Keble college he won a Rugby Blue having represented England at Colts and Students level.

During eight years in London, Ben worked across a range of BBH business and ran accounts such as One2One and Lynx.  Ben was appointed to the BBH board in 2000.

In 2002, Ben moved to Singapore to take the position of CEO BBH Asia Pacific.  During Ben's time in Asia, BBH doubled in size and won Ad Asia's agency of the year two years out of three.  In his role as Regional CEO, Ben was responsible for launching BBH's Shanghai office and developing BBH's offering in Tokyo and Singapore.

In March 2006, Ben returned to the UK to take up the role of Managing Director of BBH London.

Richard started as a graduate trainee at McCann Erickson where he worked on Nestle Cereals, Bacardi, Coca Cola, Tourism Ireland and the London Fire Brigade.

 In 2003, he joined BBH and has worked on Barclays, Baileys, Axe, Birds Eye and Google.

 On the global accounts Baileys and Axe, Richard was  responsible for managing the relationships of the big five European markets.  

 In 2007 he was promoted to Head of UK New Business.

After graduating from Christ Church College, Oxford with a degree in English in 1981, Nick joined BBH in December 1986 to work on Levi’s and later on Whitbread (Boddingtons, Murphy’s) and Häagen-Dazs.

In December 1989 he was appointed to the Board and in 1992 was made Head of  Department. Having won an IPA Effectiveness Gold for Häagen Dazs he completed a term as Convenor of Judges for the Awards for 1998.

He was promoted to Group Planning Director in September 1998, and in this role was responsible for the planning product and departments of BBH across the globe as well as working on global brands such as Johnnie Walker and  Bertolli.   

Nick now acts as Group Strategy Director helping define, develop and refine BBH’s own brand positioning and future strategy.

In his spare time he helped create and now acts Chief Examiner for the IPA Diploma - part of the UK industries push to create professional qualifications and described as ‘the MBA of brand thinking’.

John started in advertising as a junior Art Director at Benton and Bowles, London in 1965.  He almost finished in advertising 18 months later, when they fired him.  He joined a small Soho agency, John Collings & Partners, going places.  They did -  out of town.

In 1967 he joined the Cramer Saatchi consultancy which became Saatchi & Saatchi in 1970, where he was a founding shareholder.  One year later he was appointed Deputy Creative Director.   John left in 1973 to co-found TBWA, London as Creative Director.  The agency was the first to be voted Campaign (the UKs leading advertising magazine), Agency of the Year in 1980.

In 1982, John left to start Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Four years later, in 1986, BBH was voted Campaign magazine's Agency of the Year and won the title again in 1993, 2003, 2004 and 2005.  BBH Worldwide was voted Campaign magazine’s first ever Network of the Year in 2004.

John’s industry awards include two D&AD Golds and six Silvers, Cannes Golds and Silvers, and British Television Gold and Silvers.  He was awarded the D&AD President's Award for outstanding achievement in the advertising industry. In 2005, the International Clio Awards awarded John with the Life Time Achievement award for his outstanding achievement in the industry.  In the same year he was inducted into The One Club of New Yorks Creative Hall of Fame. 

In 2007, John received a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours for services to advertising.

Jim began his working life in 1987 as a Qualitative Market Researcher for the Strategic Research Group.  In 1990, Jim became an Advertising Planner when he joined the small Agency, Madell Wilmot Pringle.

In 1991, Jim was hired by BBH.  His key role in his early years was heading up strategic planning on the Levi’s business (1993-1997).  During this time he also worked on One2One, Sky TV and Interbrew.  More recently, Jim has worked with Audi, Barclays, Lynx, Woolworths, KFC and Vodafone.

Jim was appointed to the Board of BBH in 1993 and he ran the Planning Department from 1998 to 2001. In 2004 Jim was made UK Chairman.  He is also a member of the Agency Group Board.

Chris started his career as a Unilever trainee in 1980, moving across to advertising in 1983 when he joined Saatchi & Saatchi during a very exciting time in the agency's history.  During seven years there he worked on Sainsbury, Tesco, K.P., Ross, ICI and Campbell Soups - the last two years being spent at the agency's New York office.

In 1990 Chris, joined BBH for the first time and was the Board Account Director running Nat West, Addis/Wisdom, John West and Ambra/IBM as well as Head of Account Management.

He left in 1993 to be European Client Services Director for The Lowe Group and then C.O.O. and a Group Director at Still Price Lintas.

With the restructuring of BBH, the time was right for Chris to return and he rejoined in April 1996 to lead one of the agency's new teams.  He then went to Singapore to run BBH’s Asia Pacific office, establishing its reputation in the region and adding a number of key clients as well as opening the office in Tokyo.  

In 2002 he returned to London as President of International Operations where he is responsible for running two major global accounts: Diageo (Johnnie Walker, Bailey’s Gordon’s) and British Airways.