about

Creative Director building brand systems where culture, technology, and commerce meet.

15 years. Nine formats invented. Five European markets led simultaneously.

Product

Microsoft, Samsung, BMW, Porsche, Oral-B making technology feel inevitable, desirable, human.

Culture

Pepsi, Laphroaig, Krug, Volvo finding the position inside culture no other brand is standing in.

Commerce

Braun, Amex, P&G creative systems that build trust and convert at scale, across markets.

the story

Creative Director building 360 brand systems and integrated campaigns across product, culture, and commerce. Agency roots in branding, art direction, and experiential. Eleven years inside Amazon's Brand Innovation Lab, working up to Creative Director across five European markets.

I turn complex brand and technology challenges into creative systems that scale, perform, and deliver commercial outcomes.

From brand identity and design systems to integrated campaigns, live commerce, and retail media, I lead the full creative arc, brief to execution. I partner with C-suite and senior brand leaders, build high-trust creative teams, and move between big strategic thinking and hands-on creative direction without losing either.

  • £42M+ campaign revenue

  • 9 global formats invented

  • 5 European markets

  • 11 years Brand Innovation Lab.

HOW I WORK

Strategy before spark:

Strategy is 80% of the work. Creativity is the sharp edge that comes from depth not the starting point.

Learn the wheel:

I don't reinvent brands every quarter. I understand them deeply enough that new ideas feel inevitable, not random.

Platforms, not campaigns:

I build creative systems that compound. One idea getting stronger every year, not work that resets every brief.

Human judgment in the loop:

I lead through AI-integrated environments with a clear view of where technology serves the idea and where it doesn't replace the thinking.

Recognition

  • Media Week Award 2025: Shortlisted, Best Use of Retail Media (Alpro Barista).

  • Drum Award 2025: Gold in the Retail Media Category (Alpro Barista).

  • Digiday Media Awards Europe 2024: Winner, Best Brand/Publisher Partnership, Twisted x Pepsi Max.

  • Webby Awards 2024: Nominee, Social Food & Drink Twisted x Pepsi Max.

  • Drum Award Marketing EMEA 2024: Shortlist Twisted x Pepsi Max.

  • Campaign Media Awards 2024: Finalist Twisted x Pepsi Max.

  • Media Week Silver 2018: Volvo V40 x Amazon Prime.

  • PIAF Gold 2015: Laphroaig “Opinions Welcome.”

  • Drum Marketing Award 2015: Advertising Strategy of the Year Laphroaig “Opinions Welcome.”

Experience

  • 2022–2025 EMEA Creative Director, Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon.

    Led global brand campaigns across five European markets for CPG, luxury, automotive, and technology clients.

  • 2021–2022 UK Creative Director, Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon.

    Led UK creative strategy across automotive, finance, and consumer electronics clients.

  • 2016–2021 Senior Art Director, to Creative Lead Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon.

  • 2014–2016 Senior Visual Designer, Brand Innovation Lab, Amazon.

Agency Experience

  • 2013–2014 Senior Designer, White Label.

  • 2011–2013 Lead Designer, Melli.

  • 2008–2011 Designer, The Cobra Group.

finally

“You’re only as good as your last job.”
— Matthew Swan

I've always believed that. Every campaign carries forward what worked, what didn't, what the data said, what the room felt. I stay close to what's moving: campaign insights, design references, AI tools, Reddit threads, cultural signals. Not to chase trends but to stay calibrated. So when
a brief lands, the thinking is already warm.

That curiosity doesn't stop at the desk. It runs through everything football tactics, fashion, a good coffee ritual, how a gym session compounds over months. The same pattern. Show up, pay attention, get better.

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