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A First at Oxford

Fifteen years at Lowe’s, rising to Creative Director in 1999

More than 60 gold and silver awards

Two consecutive Cannes Grand Prix (Independent TV 1999, Stella Artois press 2000) – the only creative to have won this twice

IPA Effectiveness Grand Prix (Tesco 2000)

Lowe Lintas awarded Campaign Agency Of The Year and Ad Age European

Agency Of The Year 2000, and British Television Agency Of The Year 2001

Began his career in the media department at Lowe Howard-Spink in 1992 working on the General Motors and Olympus Cameras accounts.

Joined Optimedia in 1998 as a Group Account Director to run the L’Oreal Luxury Products business. Promoted to the Agency Board in 1999.

Responsible for developing Optimedia’s integrated communication planning approach, thevillage@optimedia. Made Managing Partner in 2002 after leading the pitch team that won the Conde Nast and GAP pan-European media business.

To TBWA in 2003 to launch the agency communication planning proposition, ‘Connections’. Worked on Masterfoods, Adidas, McDonald’s and Haagen Dazs.

Joined CHI in July 2007 as one of the leaders of the Ideas Planning approach. The coming together of Account Planning and Communication planning departments to create bigger brand, content and channel ideas. Also works collaboratively with Group M to develop a new media model for CHI clients.

Spent five years at Y&R; writing campaigns for Pirelli, Colgate and Hush Puppies.

Had the good fortune to be offered a job by BMP. Spent six years writing campaigns for Volkswagen, London Transport, American Airlines, the Labour Party and Lego. Followed by three years as Joint Creative Director of the agency. Culminating in the Cannes Print Grand Prix and runner-up as Cannes Creative Agency of the Year 2004.

In 2004 joined BBH London as a Creative Director; looking after British Airways, Flora, Castlemaine XXXX and Boddingtons.

In 2005 became Executive Creative Director of CHI&Partners.

From Edinburgh University graduate to Ogilvy & Mather trainee

To CDP as Board Account Director in 1995, and a Face To Watch in Campaign

Responsible for Honda across Europe, as well as Panasonic, MGM, Early Learning Centre and JAL

From Client Services Director at CDP to Group Account Director at TBWA in 1998

Responsible for Nissan, Virgin, the COI, The Big Issue, Holsten, Absolut, Apple and Habitat

Joint Managing Director of TBWA in 2000, responsible for winning and running the campaign that saw Labour to a second landslide victory in 2001

Neil began his advertising career at Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow Johnson in 1996 as an account planner on Goldfish and Nike.

He joined Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe in 1999 and became a Planning Partner there in 2000.

A Campaign Face to Watch in 1997, they named him one of London’s 10 Hottest Planning Director’s three years later.  

He joined Clemmow Hornby Inge in March 2002 and in 2004 became Joint Managing Director.

Neil is also responsible for Account Planning at CHI and will ensure your time in Planning is spent working with his team to develop briefs, manage research and partake in Big Ideas Days’.

Nick joined Ogilvy & Mather as a graduate trainee in 1990 having graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He worked on the agency’s Kraft, Golden Wonder and American Express Business.  Nick worked on the Amex testimonial campaign that featured Sir Terence Conran, Anita Roddick and Richard Branson.

In 1995 he joined HHCL and over the next ten years worked across a broad range of business including Britvic, Unilever, Mars, Guinness and BSkyB.  Notable campaigns that Nick worked on whilst at HHCL included Pot Noodle ‘Slag of all Snacks’, the launch of ‘Go’ the low cost airline and was responsible for Bird’s Eye bringing back ‘Captain Birdseye’.

Nick became Client Services Director in 1999, Managing Director in 2001and CEO in 2004 before joining CHI&Partners as a Managing Partner in 2005.

Paul started his career on the graduate scheme at Canon UK.

In 1999 Paul joined British Airways  as Trade Marketing Mgr. After three years in a number of senior  marketing roles within BA’s marketing team, he became one of  Eba’s first employees. Paul was responsible for setting up Britishairways.co.uk, BA’s first e-commerce website.

After two years running BA’s UK e-commerce business, Paul joined Zinc, as Account Director on Virgin Atlantic, Thistle Hotels and Centura Foods.
In 2004, Paul moved to Agency Republic, as Group Account Director responsible for Dunlop Goodyear, Diageo and Unilever. Paul was instrumental in Agency Republic winning Agency of the Year twice and growing the agency from 20 to 102 employees.

Paul joined CHI in October 2008, as Head of Digital.

After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in French & German, Sarah joined Lowe Howard Spink.  During her time there she helped develop famous and award winning campaigns for clients such as Heineken, UDV, Weetabix, Reebok and Olympus cameras.

Sarah was promoted to the Lowe Board and was the youngest member on that for several years.  She headed up the Agency"s successful pitch for the Orange business which contributed to Lowe being made Agency of the Year in 2000. In January ‘01 she was promoted to New Business Director and in the November joined Clemmow Hornby Inge as their New Business Director.

In July 2003 Sarah was promoted to Managing Director and in July 2006 she was listed as one of Management Today’s top 35 UK women in business..

Postgraduate research at Reading University into graphic design  and communication effectiveness

Account Planner at GGT in 1983

Founder of Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow & Johnson in 1988

Executive Planning Director of TBWA GGT Simons Palmer following Omnicom’s acquisition of both GGT and Simons Palmer and merger of them with its TBWA Worldwide network in 1998

Chief Executive Officer of TBWA/London in 1999

One of ‘The Brainy Bunch’ – indeed, one of the ten ‘stars of the last decade’ –  according to Campaign in 2001

Simon Hall Launched Barraclough Hall Woolston Gray in 1991.  In 1995 the agency was named Campaign’s direct agency of the year.

In 1999 the agency was acquired by Omnicom  which allowed Simon to broadened his skills through merging their sales promotion and digital offerings into Proximity London.

In 2001 Proximity Worldwide was launched and the company grew to over employ 2,200 people in 36 countries.  

In 2002 Simon was made Chairman of the IDM

Simon is a founding partner of Hall Moore CHI, specialising in direct, digital and data.

Simon and Warren will be responsible for your time with their team working on taking Big Ideas through the line and producing response led communications.

Thiago started working in interactive media in Brazil in 1996, at pontoCOM, one of the country’s first digital production companies.

In 2000 he moved to London, working at Organic, the BBC, TBWA\GGT and Tequila\, joining CHI & Partners as a digital creative director and partner in 2006. He helped create one of the world’s first virtual credit cards in 1999, one of the UK’s first viral marketing campaigns for BT in 2001, and one of Campaign’s top 10 viral campaigns for Tango in 2006. His ‘Dangerous Ground’ viral is still the most watched non-profit video of all time in Youtube UK.

Thiago has received recognition from Cannes, One Show, D&AD, Creative Circle, Revolution, DMA, Campaign, Creative Review, Design Week, FWA and the Webbys, among others.

Tim Allnutt runs CHI’s communication planning unit.

His department places creative communication thinking at the heart of the creative development process. It ensures that we bring an objective, ‘platform neutral’ view to the planning of communications, and as we’re part of the planning and creative team at CHI, we can ensure the creative idea is magnified effectively through all the right channels.

Prior to joining CHI&Partners, Tim was Planning Director of Initiative Media. Before that, he was a media board director of Western International Media, where he worked on General Motors, Tesco, and was also part of the team that worked with Lowe London on the COI/FSA ‘pensions miss-selling’ project.

Tim has also worked at BBH as a planner and started his agency life at Lowe Howard-Spink in the early 90’s.

Warren Moore started his career as an art director in GGT Advertising.  In 1996 he was appointed Executive Creative Director of Clarke Hooper.

From here he moved to AMV Group and was appointed to lead the creative department of their digital company - Traffic Interactive.

In 2001 he moved to Proximity London where he led a multi-discipline creative department of 70.  Here the team won over 40 industry creative awards under his leadership.

Warren is a founding partner of Hall Moore CHI, specialising in direct, digital and data.

Warren and Simon will be responsible for your time with their team working on taking Big Ideas through the line and producing response led communications