Nick Simons

After a brief stint in the TV industry, Nick’s marketing and communications career began in earnest at M&C Saatchi before moving on to run, amongst others, Droga5 London and Martin London, fitting in a spell at Droga5 New York along the way. Nick has been instrumental in leading problem-solving teams for Blue Chip Clients on both sides of the Atlantic including British Airways, American Express, Georgia Pacific, Hennessy, Belstaff, Coutts, Netflix, HM Government, Maserati, Unilever and many others. He has been a Company Director of a number of businesses and has been responsible for turning a number of them around during his career.

Biff

Biff - seen here with his best pal Sparky - is Nick’s beloved black Labrador. Biff came with Nick to New York for five years before they both returned to West London. Biff hates fireworks, steals food, is obsessed with cheese, loves swimming and gets very confused when a chased squirrel disappears up a tree.

John Partridge

John - aka JP - has over 40 years’ of experience in ad agencies, media owner sales and television channel management. He is a former Board Director at McCann Erickson, past General Sales Manager at Sky TV and former European Managing director of Paramount Comedy (Comedy Central) at Viacom. He brings extensive consulting experience, having covered all aspects of off- and online media topics for global clients such as McDonalds, Ford, News International, Viacom and Toyota. JP is also a qualified butcher and makes wonderful homemade sausages.

Peter Birch

Peter is a media industry veteran with over 25 years’ experience in TV broadcast media sales, online, mobile and digital advertising, interactive TV and broadcast sponsorship. After a meteoric career at ITV where, amongst other achievements he helped establish ITV.com, he segued into mobile and has been at the very forefront of digital innovation for twenty years. He spent ten of those years based in Sydney where he successfully launched numerous digital platforms, garnering extensive insight into the APAC markets. He now lives in West London with his wife and beloved three dogs.

Victoria Partridge

Victoria is an experienced and accomplished marketer with proven success leading B2B/B2C brand, marketing and communications for multi-million dollar companies across diverse industries. She is expert in conceptualising, developing and executing marketing campaigns that build memorable brands and drive revenue. She has a solid history of success in product development and marketing, cost control & reduction, budget administration, acquisition and retention, key account development, partnership and promotional marketing.

Jeremy Hemmings

Jeremy has spent more than 25 years in the advertising industry most recently at M&C Saatchi where he was Chief Client Officer.  He has previously held executive positions in a number of agencies, including WCRS and Publicis. He has led the advertising accounts for some of the most iconic brands in the business, including BMW, British Airways, Pernod Ricard, Renault and Reuters, helping to steer their strategic and creative development. He has extensive corporate experience dealing with brands such as GE, Reuters, E.ON and Thames Water.

Rob Jenkins

Rob is a T-shaped digital practitioner with a focus on User Experience in the digital product development process. Rob uses lean startup and user-centered design principles to bring the views, feedback and needs of users into the whole development lifecycle, ensuring the team build products people actually want. Clients include: Gucci, Close Brothers, Vauxhall / Opel, Neilson Holidays and Brother printers. Rob Co-founded Know Digital with David Edwards

Damian El Dabh-Mckeown

As ex CSO of the Martin Agency (London) and executive planning director of Dare, with senior positions at DDB, RKCR/Y&R, and PHD amongst many others, Damian is a heavyweight strategist and agency leader. He has accumulated a rich range of experiences and knowledge across a 25 year career that has spanned disciplines and importantly, cultures. Equally at home solving upstream commercial questions, advising on brand guardianship to providing inspirational insight or provocative POV’s for downstream creativity and brand activation, he is able to deliver ideas and insight that help brands and businesses grow.

Patrick Donoghugh

After a 15 year career working at some of London’s best advertising agencies, in 2010 Patrick started as a Coach specialising in business relationships. Businesses revolve around people. People revolve around relationships. Everything he does is centred around understanding and developing professional relationships to maximise their potential. This includes but is not restricted to, negotiation, leadership, conflict resolution and pitching.

David Edwards

David is an award winning digital designer who worked in advertising agencies including Leo Burnett and M&C Saatchi before founding Know Digital. He has created work for clients including Vodafone, Ebay, Porsche, Mini, Gucci, Neilson Holidays, Brother printers and MAM baby.