Heads of Department

Andrew Peake
Head of Account Management

Andrew Peake

Andrew joined VCCP in 2008 from WFCA where he was Client Services Director. During his time at VCCP he has worked with a number of our clients, including O2, Standard Life and Very. Andrew has worked in integrated communcations for over 10 years and has created campaigns in various sectors, including Retail, FMCG, Financial Services and Travel.

He now heads up Account Management.

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Jon Boardman
Business Development Director

Jon Boardman

Jon has been in the communications business for over 12 years and is a truly integrated account man. Starting work at DMP, he was exposed to a number of global financial brands such as AIG and JP Morgan. It was here that he gained the fundamentals of dm and crm, perhaps most crucially applied on heavyweight charity accounts such as WWF. After a stint at Heresy to broaden his above the line experience, Jon joined VCCP. With a strong business focus and a passion for creative he has worked on some of the agency's biggest accounts - Texaco, Coca-Cola, Diageo and Hiscox.He is also responsible for the overall business development of the agency.

Jon is a die hard Liverpool fan and has also split his head open twice, hmm, possibly a connection?

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Graham Drew
Head of PR

Graham Drew

Graham is a consumer Public Relations specialist with over fourteen year’s experience. On leaving Shine Communications in 2003 he co-founded Resonate which he built into a multi-award winning consumer agency, including a gold lion at Cannes in 2009. He joined VCCP in 2010 as Head of PR.

Graham has excellent brand building expertise, with an instinct for what will make campaigns memorable and talked about. Client experience includes: 118 118; Vauxhall; FX Channel; Muller, Pernod Ricard; 888.com; Stella Artois; Heinz; Loaded; Stolichnaya; Film Four; Nescafe; The Simpsons.

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Mark Orbine
Creative Director

Mark Orbine is a Creative Director and has been with VCCP since the year we were founded, back in 2002. Within the first two years Mark had become partner and creative director and since worked on O2, Coca Cola, Dyson and Hiscox. Mark has won creative team of the year at Cannes early in his career whilst at Ogilvy and has taken his winning ways and used them on our Award winning work for the COI. Mark oversees all our COI briefs and has produced fantastic work for the Home Office Anti-drinking campaign and the Department of Health's Units work.

 

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Colin Byrne & Jim Capp
Joint Digital Creative Directors

Colin Byrne & Jim Capp

Colin and Jim bring more than 10 years’ digital experience to VCCP along with an impressive list of globally recognised clients, work and awards.

Having worked across an extensive range of clients, from Pot Noodle to Ferrari, the guys have an exceptional understanding of digital marketing and a well-learned knack of exploiting the right channels for the right purpose.

They share the same belief that world-class digital work should stretch beyond the digital channels and into people’s conversations.

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Olly Calverley
Head of TV

Olly Calverley

Olly Calverley has 15 years' experience as a multi-disciplined tv producer, accumulated through stints in both advertising agencies and production companies. Having started out as a runner at the award winning Harry Films, he moved to Rapido Television and was soon installed as their in-house cameraman, shooting pieces for Eurotrash and The Girlie Show, amongst other highbrow Channel 4 and BBC commissions.

Having taken some time out to document a series of charity expeditions in Borneo and Namibia for Raleigh International, he moved over to advertising agency production, and has spent the last 12 years developing campaigns for a variety of clients, including Mars, Proctor & Gamble, GSK, CocaCola, the Home Office, o2, and most recently the multi-award winning comparethemarket.com.
Away from work, he has just had his 3rd child and lives with his family in West London.

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Ben Cole
Head of Creative Services

Ben Cole

Ben Cole is Head of Creative Services and Art Buying at VCCP, where he has worked since it started up nine years ago. Prior to that Ben worked at HHCL on all accounts including Pot Noodle and Tango.

Ben has worked in advertising for over 20 years, was born in London, and now lives in North London with his girlfriend Tessa and their three children Mo, Olive and Walter. He also keeps chickens and drives about in an electric van.

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Conrad Young
Head of Studio

Conrad Young

Conrad Young has been Head of Studio at VCCP since 2003. Prior to that he worked at HHCL and Claydon Heeley. Conrad has worked in advertising for 20 years, was born in Newcastle, and lives in South-East London with his girlfriend Kate. He is also responsible for all of VCCP's plants

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Maggie Frost
Group Finance Director

Maggie Frost

Maggie Frost is the Group Finance Director who qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG where she specialised in advertising agencies. She then spent eight years with a privately owned advertising agency, Clark & Taylor, which was sold to Abbott Mead Vickers. After a year as a Finance Director for a recruitment agency Maggie realised the error of her ways and joined the Chime Group as the Finance Director of their Advertising and Marketing Services Division and then moved to VCCP in 2005. Maggie looks after the finances of the VCCP Group and all the companies that sail in it.

 

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