Jon Boardman
Business Development Director
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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Tracey Follows
Head of Planning
Tracey began her career at Mc-Cann Erickson and then Cogent, enjoying chocolate, vodka, whisky and an IPA Effectiveness award along the way. She then went client-side to run One 2 One's advertising. By the time she left, she had helped rebrand it to T-Mobile and was overseeing all European markets' communications as International Advertising Manager. After a short detour into retail, Tracey came back to the world of Telecomms as Head of Consumer Communications at BT, before returning agency-side to indulge in some serious shopperholicism as the planner on John Lewis at Lowe.
She then joined VCCP in early 2009, as the lead planner on O2. Now Head of Planning, Tracey wants to develop the most culturally on-the-ball planning department in London, populating popular culture through brilliant planning, and thinks our planning approach is best summed up by the Emerson when he said: "little minds are interested in the extraordinary, great minds in the commonplace".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peter Grenfell
Head of Digital
Pete’s digital expertise stretches back to the late 90’s when he started designing websites (badly) whilst at university. He then joined Razorfish and realised he was far more adept at working with clients than with PhotoShop. After this he spent 4 years working in the film industry, leading highly creative international campaigns for entertainment properties from Shrek to Harry Potter to Lara Croft. He also set up and ran Paramount’s online advertising and eCRM activity, delivering a number of digital media firsts and accompanying awards.
He then moved on to inferno where he headed up integrated accounts for Premier Inn and VISA before joining VCCP in 2008.
In his spare time Pete enjoys beating Adrian Coleman at golf.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Andrew Peake
Head of Account Management
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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Graham Drew
Head of PR
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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