KEY STAFF

Nikki Crumpton
Nikki Crumpton
Chief Strategy Officer
 

After studying Geography at Oxford, Nikki joined BMP/DDB where she quickly made her mark on the London advertising scene by being named as one of Campaign’s ‘Faces to Watch’ in 1997. Following this Nikki became a Founding Partner at Fallon where she was Head of Planning and as part of the management team was responsible for the strategic output of the agency.

Nikki has worked across a broad range of consumer and business categories as well as the public sector. Clients have included the BBC, BT, Citibank, Starbucks, Nandos, Unilever, Unison and SC Johnson, with whom she has won a number of APG awards for planning and creativity.

Nikki joined McCann Erickson in 2006 and was instrumental in the Mr Kipling, Heinz and Evening Standard account wins.

Simon Hill
Simon Hill
New Business Director
0207 961 2281
simon.hill@europe.mccann.com
After a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies it was only natural that Simon would find himself working in Australia. After two years in sports marketing, but by all accounts mostly surfing, Simon returned to the UK in 2002. Joining a small London advertising agency, Alphabet, he worked across their portfolio of clients.

Simon started at McCann Erickson in 2004 becoming Account Director on the Cereal Partners and Black & Decker accounts as well as chairing the agency training course, Blueprint.

Simon has been New Business Director since February 2007.
Brian Fraser and Simon Learman
Brian Fraser and Simon Learman
Executive Creative Directors

After both graduating with 1st Class Honours degrees from St Martin’s School of Art, Brian and Simon went on to spend the next 18 years working together at Saatchi & Saatchi, Ogilvy and (BMP) DDB.

They have created some of the best-loved advertising campaigns for Guinness, Volkswagen, Sony, Budweiser, Vodafone, Philips, Lucozade, Spillers and Reuters.

They have won all the top industry awards, including Cannes, British Design & Art Direction, British Television Advertising Awards, Campaign Press and Poster and Creative Circle.

They joined McCann London in 2004, and become Joint Executive Creative Directors in January 2006. They are now in Campaign’s Top Ten Creative Directors in London having driven the creative reputation of the agency to new heights, with 2007 being McCann London‘s best ever year for awards. 

Simon and Brian have also been responsible for leading the agency to significant pitch wins including Heinz, Mr Kipling, Genworth Financial, Evening Standard, Premier Foods (Hovis, Bisto, Quorn, Cadbury Cakes) and Sony Ericsson.

They are both married with kids. But not to each other.

 
Chris Macdonald
Chris Macdonald
Chief Executive
0207 961 2516
chris.macdonald@europe.mccann.com
Chris first joined advertising in 1990 working at DMB&B.  From there, Chris worked at both Lowe Howard-Spink and Publicis�� in London on some of their most prestigious accounts including Vauxhall Motors and Coca-Cola, respectively.
Chris went on to join RKCR/Y&R in 2000 as Managing Partner, responsible for about a third of the Agency’s Client list; including Virgin Mobile, News International’s The Times and Sunday Times and Cadbury Schweppes. He also led the team that won the Lloyds TSB account.

He joined McCann in February 2005 as Client Services Director and was promoted to Managing Director later the same year. In his time at McCann Chris had taken management responsibility for a range of the agency’s key clients, including Xbox EMEA, American Airlines, Heinz, Mastercard UK and Intel EMEA. He is a member of the IPA and Marketing Society.