THE&PARTNERSHIP - Key Persons
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- EMEA CEO, MSix & Partners
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- Global Head of People
- Global Head of Talent
As Global Head of Talent, Alex leads the strategy for using the power of & to make T&P the most important place in our people's careers. A big believer in the ability of talent & culture to bring competitive edge, Alex works across our agencies to attract and unleash the best talent in our industry as we move marketing forward.
Previously, Alex spent 12 years in strong consumer brands. And prior to that, she left a quiet life in New Zealand to plant herself in London, which she now considers home with her husband and cat.
The&Partnership's leaders have one thing in common: they are committed to re-imagining the traditional agency model. The traditional model doesn't provide clients with the work they need to thrive in the modern world. Our leaders are all dedicated to providing clients with a new agency model that integrates long siloed capabilities, often within clients' walls where it can be delivered faster and less expensively.
In 2013, Andrew (Partner & North America CEO) had established one of the largest and most successful digital and CRM agencies in North America as Chairman and CEO of Proximity BBDO. But he believed that the separation of creative, digital, and media into siloed agencies wasn't well serving clients. So he decided to build a new model, becoming the leader of The&Partnership in North America.
The idea of brilliant creative tied to integrated media and strategy attracted marketers such as The Wall Street Journal, Toyota, Direct Energy, Canada Post, and TELUS. The business grew 45% last year against a backdrop of most agencies declining, merging or shuttering entirely.
Andrew spends most of his time proving to clients that "just another agency" is the last thing they need to solve today's marketing problems. He's created an agency that can fuse data, media and creativity seamlessly. The result is better, more effective work, conceived and executed more efficiently.
From Lego moon bases to kitset Spitfires, André's early love of building things has happily translated into a career in advertising building teams, brands and businesses around the world.
A relentless problem solver, André thrives on the diversity of challenges faced by marketers today and leads a talented team of strategic minds who think very differently about how to tackle them.
Job Titles:
- Executive Creative Director, EMEA
- Executive Creative Director, Worldwide
André oversees the creative development of all our work for Toyota, Lexus, Aon and Mars across Europe, working closely with creative leads and clients in each of the markets.
Prior to joining The&Partnership, André spent six years at Havas, developing the global creative for clients including Peugeot, Huawei and Chivas Regal.
Prior to that, he held roles at Albion London, 180 Amsterdam and BBDO Lisbon working across some of the world's best brands including eBay, Epson, Sony, Opel, Nissan, Danone, Hyundai and Santander.
Along the way he won his fair share of awards, created the world's first one-shot Film Festival and helped the UK Basketball team qualify for its own Olympics - which he's still waiting to meet The Queen for.
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- Head of Account Management
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- Client Director - Australia
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- Director, Business Development
- Business Development Partner, NA
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- Chief Financial Officer
- CFO, North America
- Chief Financial Officer of the & Partnership North America
Chad is the Chief Financial Officer of The&Partnership North America, overseeing the financial management and operations of the agency. He has twenty years of experience working within marketing and advertising agencies, previously holding positions as Global Chief Financial Officer for GroupSJR, Partner at Colloquial, and Chief Financial Officer for J.Walter Thompson, Chicago. With his breadth of experience and proven hands on problem-solving skills, Chad brings the solution oriented thinking required to deliver on The&Partnership's ‘single bottom line' philosophy.
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- Head of Integrated Production
Christian has spent more than 20 years in the advertising industry. His career spans agencies including Ogilvy, McCann Erickson and Euro RSCG (now Havas), where he became the youngest board member in the agency's history.
In 2007, he moved to The&Partnership (then CHI&Partners) - and has spent the past fourteen years running the global new business and marketing team for the network, which is minority-owned by WPP.
He was named a ‘new business firebrand' by The Independent newspaper and was one of Campaign's Top 10 New Business Directors.
During his career he has worked on a range of accounts including RBS, Toyota, Samsung, TalkTalk, Cadbury, Haagen-Dazs, Credit Suisse and Microsoft.
He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.
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- Global CSO, M / SIX
- Global CSO, MSix & Partners
As the Global CSO, Dan leads the strategic relationships with all of the multi-market clients in the group.
Since joining mSix&Partners Dan has led the development of the Flow planning process. This has meant conceiving and activating a truly audience-first way of working, building and testing hypotheses for growth opportunities in real behavioural data. True audience needs then dictate everything from overall comms strategy to specific asset development and distribution.
Dan previously spent 10 years in the GroupM network. He helped setup and run the VW global team at MediaCom, directing strategy across 5 brands and 40+ countries worldwide. He has in his career worked across all major categories, with particular focus on automotive, financial, energy, travel, retail, media and tech.
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- President & MD, Asia Pacific
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- General Manager
- Global CFO
David trained as a Chartered Accountant with industry specialist firm, Kingston Smith, where he got a taste for the ad industry. He jumped ship to go and work for one his clients, Fallon London and in 2013, joined The&Partnership (then CHI&Partners) as UK FD . Since then, David has progressed to Global CFO of the Group. He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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- Global Head of Data Strategy
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- Head of Talent
- Head of Talent for the UK and Worldwide
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- Managing Director
- Managing Director, London
Halpern PR - CEO, Founder, Managing Director
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- CEO
- Director
- Founder
- Managing Director
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- Chief Creative Officer, North America
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- Head of MSix & Partners, Indonesia
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- General Manager
- General Manager, Canada
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- CEO, MSix & Partners UK & EMEA
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- Adviser to VinylBox
- Executive Chair, MSix & Partners
- Global CEO, M / SIX
Jess has been Executive Chair of mSix&Partners since January 2022, following 12 years as Global Chief Executive. She established the business as one of the fastest-growing media planning and buying agencies. As Executive Chair of mSix&Partners, Jess continues to advise a number of clients and is leading development of The&Academy.
With a career spanning advertising, marketing and publishing, Jess has a track record of growth, transformation and building winning teams. Prior to joining mSix&Partners, as Group Managing Direct Jess led the restructure of Natmags and Hearst Digital to address changing digital markets and audience trends. She also headed up the online division of Future Publishing.
Jess is currently adviser to VinylBox, a monthly music subscription service. She has held Non-Executive positions at Quarto Plc, UK Mail Plc, Jacques Vert Plc and TalkTalk Telecom Plc. She was a trustee of The Mix, the young person's charity supporting 13-24 year olds. She continues to mentor colleagues at all levels at mSix&Partners.
Jess is driven by belief in the impact of collaboration aligned to a bold vision, with a healthy dose of passion and energy. Outside of work, she enjoys walking, cooking, golf and crime fiction.
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- Global Chief Investment Officer, MSix & Partners
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- CEO
- Chairman
- Founder
- Founder, Global CEO & Chairman and WPP Global Council Member
- Founder, Global CEO & Chairman, WPP Global Council Member
Having begun his career at agencies including Ogilvy, CDP and TBWA, Johnny joined forces with Simon Clemmow and Charles Inge to set up Clemmow Hornby Inge (CHI&Partners) in 2001. The agency went on to become a top-20 creative agency, picking up accolades including the UK's most-awarded independent creative agency at Cannes Lions in 2016, as well as Campaign BIG's Digital Agency of the Year.
In 2013, Johnny launched The&Partnership, bringing together all marketing disciplines in one full-service team, working to one bottom line, to help clients navigate a rapidly changing industry landscape.
Outside of The&Partnership, Johnny is also Chair of Sentebale, a charity co-founded by The Duke of Sussex and Prince Seeiso, to provide valuable psychosocial support, education and care for children affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
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- Global Client Lead, MSix & Partners
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- Managing Director, the & Partnership NA
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- Global Operations Officer
Malcolm started his career at Leagas Shaffron Davis Chick working on clients including COI, Air France and SEAT cars. He then spent 7 years at DMB&B working on COI, Wickes, Roche Consumer Health and McCain Foods. During this time, he was promoted to the Board. After that he wanted to expand his channel thinking and joined Harrison Troughton Wunderman to run Yahoo!, Whyte & Mackay whisky and the 2003 IDM Business Performance winner, M&G Investments. Malcolm joined CHI in July 2004. As a Partner he's been responsible for RBS Retail and Lexus Europe; and has since created and set up our on-site agencies in London and North America for clients including News International and TELUS. When he is not at work you can find him on ski's - water or snow.
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- Managing Director, Germany
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- Client Services Director, Manchester
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- Chief Creative Officer, UK
Neil has been here since 2002, aka FOREVER. In that time he has worked with all of our clients and today he leads T&P's strategic output, working with his team to find the kind of Big Ideas that power brands and businesses. He has also been a champion of our new agency model, using it to transform the marketing of clients like Toyota and Centrica. When not pontificating about purpose, you'll find him with a good book and a dram.
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- CEO, Worldwide
- Europe CEO
- the & Partnership in 2005 As Joint UK CEO
After graduating from Oxford University, Nick joined Ogilvy & Mather in 1990 and spent 5 years working across the Global Kraft and American Express Business.
In 1995, he joined London Creative Agency, HHCL & Partners and over the next ten years worked across a broad range of business including Unilever, Mars, Guinness. Smirnoff and BSkyB. Nick became Client Service Director in 1999, Managing Director in 2001 and CEO in 2004. HHCL & Partners were named Campaign Magazine's ‘Agency of the Decade' for the 1990s.
Nick joined The&Partnership in 2005 as Joint UK CEO working across key accounts in the agency including Toyota, Lexus Europe and Lexus International. In 2016 he became CEO of The&Partnership Europe and, working closely with m/SIX, has lead the transition of the Toyota and Lexus business to a fully integrated on-site New Agency Model across 19 markets.
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- Planning Partner, Worldwide
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- Group Account Director, Japan
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- Head of Planning
- Planning Partner
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- CEO, the & Partnership NA
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- Managing Director
- Managing Director, London
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- Chief Strategy Officer EMEA & Worldwide, MSix & Partners
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- Planning Partner, EMEA
- Planning Partner, Worldwide
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- Business Director, Finland
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- Managing Director, MSix & Partners NY
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- Executive Creative Director
- Partner
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- European Finance Director
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- Group Commercial & Operations Director