Well, we have several people. All are from the UK and we all have different perspectives and experiences. These can be very useful when we go into problem solving mode for a client.
Our MD is very clever. He’s the one who goes on and on and on about branding and data, Brand this, Brand that, Corporate identity, Consistency, Differentiation, Return on investment, Catalogue Management, Data Capture, ya da!! ya da!!. After a while, it washes over you. But clients love it because he listens before he opens his mouth, and then he talks to them in a way that they appreciate.
Our Sales Director comes from a land down under (Leicester to be precise) and stands for no nonsense. He’ll tell you he was doing account directing before account directing was around, and that he invented the agency/client relationship. It’s not true, of course, but he has been dealing with clients for about 25 years. So it’s fair to say he knows his stuff. He’ll tell you that himself. Because he’s anything but shy.
And we have a Creative Director (get us!). She’s much more timid than the management, but the more time they spend together, the more she’s coming out of her shell. She got fed up of having her ideas shackled to a desk, and broke free to express herself. Now she draws pictures for a living. That’s progress.
There are others in the ng15 house, and you can meet them when you come over to play. The only thing we ask is that you refrain from feeding them. They are on special diets which help us get the best out of them, and we’d hate the wrong food to affect them adversely.