People

Heads of Department

Jon Boardman

Head of Account Management

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 development of account management, with a clear focus on end product, integration and, of course, commercial awareness.

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

Michael Lee

Head of Planning

Michael has over 14 years’ marketing experience which began in the music industry with Warner Music and Sony Music Entertainment. He moved into advertising with VCCP in 2003, and has worked on a diverse range of successful campaigns ranging from the award-winning Home Office/Department of Health anti-binge drinking campaigns to Hiscox, Five, Hyundai, FSA and Capri-Sun before being promoted to Head of Planning in October 2008.

His mission is to create the most collaborative, naturally integrated planning department in adland, crafting inspired strategies that lead to legendary creativity.

Michael also had a spectacularly unsuccessful documentary-making career and sang backing vocals on an Art Garfunkel album. He has a degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University.

Mark Orbine

Creative Director

Mark 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.

Maggie Frost

Group Finance Director

Maggie qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG where she specialised in advertising agencies. Maggie 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.

Ben Cole

Head of Creative Services

Ben Cole is Head of Creative Services and Art Buying at VCCP, where he has worked since it started up seven 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.

Bradley Woodus

Head of TV

Bradley has been working in production for nearly 15 years; during this time he has taken varied roles in both agencies and production companies. His most recent role prior to VCCP was Deputy Managing Director at Bikini Films, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the business and, more interestingly, the signing and developing of directing talent. He has a passion for the moving image and believes his time observing filmmaking from both an agency and production company viewpoint has equipped him well for the ever-changing face of production.

Bradley resides in North London and so can be seen mixing with all those celebrities in the leafy suburbs.

Buster Dover

Head of Digital

Buster started his career at the web design agency DeepGroup and originally joined VCCP two weeks after its inception in February 2002, where he worked predominantly as Account Director on O2, he then moved to TBWA in 2005, as Account Director on the pan European PlayStation Account. He rejoined VCCP in February 2007 to head up the digital account management team.

Buster was christened Buster, much to people's surprise or dismay.

Claudine Allen

Head of Digital Production

Claudine has over 10 years experience, working for both on and offline agencies; working within the various mediums has allowed a full understanding of the processes within each platform. Claud applies her specialist knowledge to VCCP to ensure integration runs correctly; she also heads up the digital production and operations of the company.

Claud cycles to and from work daily and has on numerous occasions forgotten her work attire.

Jo Eggleston

Head of Project Management

Jo joined VCCP in 2008 and truly transformed our project management department into being a fully integrated element of our teams. Prior to working with us Jo was at advertising agency Joshua. Jo is a self-confessed huge fan of Take That, and is not afraid to show so on the dance floor.

Conrad Young

Head of Studio

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

Paul Garrett

Finance Director

Paul is the Financial Director of VCCP. Following qualification as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in London in 1989, he spent 12 years at HHCL and Partners, helping it grow from a small hotshop to a Marketing Communications group and working on the eventual merger with Chime Communications plc. He is responsible for all the financial dealings of VCCP and individual client accounts.

Paul is a keen golfer, so if he's not at his desk then try the 18th green.