Our
London
team
Martin Semmens
Founder & CEO
Before Martin founded Elvis in 2003, he started his career at Lowe & Partners in NYC, then returning to spend 7 years at Claydon Heeley to lead direct and retail for BA, Boots, Unilever and Pepsico.
David Bainbridge
CEO
Prior to Elvis, David was Deputy Marketing Director at Five and was responsible for the launch of the BBC iPlayer as Director of Marketing. He then set up Whoosh, a digital broadcasting agency, before joining MCBD as Vice Chairman.
Fiona Scott
Managing Director
Fiona has a long heritage in direct and digital marketing; previously as CEO of Craik Jones, she led the agency to win Direct Agency of the Year three times and maintained overall responsibility for brands such as Land Rover, Diageo, RBS and Unilever.
John Treacy
Executive Creative Director
Consistently in Campaign's Top 10 Creative Directors, John is one of the best in the industry. Joining from AIS in 2002, he's since won Elvis a host of international awards and runs MAA's Open Creativity Group.
Stuart O'Neill
Creative Technology Director
With ten years experience working in digital media and advertising, Stuart started his career at Sony BMG, then moving to Goodtechnology where he worked with BA, Audi and Microsoft prior to Elvis.
Paul Becque
Senior Planner
After beginning his career at Brann, Paul then founded Gutsy, an ethnographic insight business marrying qualitative research with film-making. He's since lead planning at InboxDMG and Digitas London working on P&G, Nestle and Mercedes Benz.
Tanya Brookfield
Deputy Managing Director
Prior to this role, Tanya was Brand Director at Exposure, responsible for Integrated campaigns for PlayStation, Diageo and LG Mobile across Europe. As Head of Events, she also successfully grew their Experiential offering.
Emma Gardner
Operations Director
Beginning her career in 2000 at CCHM, Emma was client facing on Henderson Global Investors and Britannia International. Developing a flair for Creative Services and operations, she joined Elvis in 2005 after a brief stint at Crossing O'Sullivan.
Caroline Davison
Business Director
From working on Volkswagen, Eurostar and BUPA at Proximity to Vodafone, DoH, Lloysd TSB and Wales Tourism at Partners Andrews Aldridge, Caroline has extensive experience in Direct, Digital and Integrated Marketing.
Kate Tarry
International Business Development Direc
Leading integrated campaigns in the UK, Australia and most recently Singapore, Kate has also successfully set up client servicing for Elvis APAC. She.s worked on brands such as Orange, HTC, Coca-Cola, Disney and Cadbury.
Adam Newman
Senior Account Manager
What I do: "I manage the Premier Foods and NBA digital accounts and have recently joined the Honda team here at Elvis."
Best moment: "Being asked by Prince William to be his best man at our Agency Royal wedding summer party"
Ally Bowers
PA to the CEOs
What I do: "I look after everyone"
Best moment: "Elvis winter party in France..Moulin Rouge theme fancy dress galore. Dance production extravagaza. Drunken girls & boys in sparkly hotpants everywhere....LOVED"
Amar Babbar
Junior Planner
What I do: "Understand what matters most to people to help inspire great ideas - and talk about football a lot."
Best moment: "Conversing with Cobain, Tupac and Aaliyah whilst dressed as Dali - all within my first month. Surreal to say the least."
Andrew Wills
Head of User Experience
What I do: "Connect the dots that make an idea work, doodle in shades of grey, then ensure real people enjoy using what we make."
Best moment: "User testing in Italy and Germany, insightful firsthand look at customer behavioural needs, that led to some great innovations (as well as some sun)."
Anna Sansom
Senior Designer
What I do: "Design"
Best moment: "Watching the sun go down, sitting by the beach, on an Elvis camping holiday."
Catherine Willingham
Senior Account Director
What I do: "Perfecting 'the swan': serene & smiling on the surface, paddling for dear life underneath!"
Best moment: "Unexpectedly winning the DUK pitch. And the snow fireworks at our Winter Party in Riga in 2005. Amazing."
Cathryn Reed
Account Manager
What I do: "I'm an account manager for Sky working across a variety of different projects"
Best moment: "Meeting all the lovely lovely people. They make waking up every morning bearable (just!)."
Chiara Manzoni
Junior Interactive Designer
What I do: "As many cool and interesting things as possible."
Best moment: "Stuart's stories about the past parties."
Chris Clausen
Senior Designer
What I do: "Senior designer."
Best moment: "Starring as a "bad guy" in a Beastie Boys - Sabotage tribute music video on my first day."
Claire Maddocks
Account Manager
What I do: "Queen of multi-tasking, process and sarcasm at top speed."
Best moment: "Schmoozing at Silverstone with Christian Horner."
Dan Noller
Art Director
What I do: "I think of ideas and then colour them in."
Best moment: "Probably either winning the first ever 'Elvisian of the month' or being voted 'male of the year'! #NoBiggie"
Danny Latham-Symes
Creative
What I do: "I'm the official Elvis word inventor, grad pesterer, left midfielder and ad creator. Mostly though, I'm ginger."
Best moment: "It would definitely involve a burrito in some way."
Dave Whitehouse
Account Manager
What I do: "As well as working across a number of digital accounts, I'm also part of the Grad recruitment team."
Best moment: "Dressing up as one half of Jedward for the Elvis party. The only problem was the other half didn't turn up."
Fallon Kirkum
Project Manager
What I do: "Manage people to get brilliant work done."
Best moment: "One of them was Dan Headey presenting his blue and red stick men scamps."
Fergal Andrews
Senior Web Developer
What I do: "Website wiring and plumbing."
Best moment: "The beer trolley on Friday evening!"
Hamzah Ghafoor
Developer
What I do: "I copy and paste."
Best moment: "Having a dance off with the Queen and winning at the Royal wedding party in 2011 #murkage"
Hannah Riley
Senior Copywriter
What I do: "I dig out the most compelling stories across our brands and weave my word magic."
Best moment: "I'm still a newbie at Elvis so the best is yet to come!"
Jason Garfield
Lead Interactive Designer
What I do: "I help produce engaging interactive experiences. I also play air guitar."
Best moment: "Every time I see great work that I have helped to make live is a great moment."
Jay Foster
Head of Production
What I do: "I do all things production. If it needs measuring or printing I'm normally involved."
Best moment: "Being crowned as the 'Knight in shining armour' on St George's Day for having the loudest roar!!"
Jen Hockley
Receptionist
What I do: "Try and be helpful with everything ;)"
Best moment: "General party time with Elvis crazy cats and helping out with recent Virgin Holiday commercial."
Jennifer Noon
Designer
What I do: "Create designs that are visually beautiful."
Best moment: "Free burrito day."
Jonathan Craven
Graduate Account Executive
What I do: ""Graduate Account Executive working across the Virgin Trains, Premier Foods and Auto Trader Accounts""
Best moment: ""The Friday Drinks Trolley. A good way to end a great week at Elvis!""
Keith Moodie
Artwork & Retouching
What I do: "King of the Pixels"
Best moment: "Every Friday when the cheese comes out."
Kim Hopkins
Creative Artworker
What I do: "Creative Artworker."
Best moment: "I joined Elvis just before Christmas - the best time. What a perfect introduction!"
Luise Hales
Project Manager
What I do: "Get the jobs done as best possible and enjoying it at the same time."
Best moment: "Making my acting debut for Virgin Holidays, sun-tanning myself in sunny Waterloo."
Matt Daymond
Art Director
What I do: "Find some nice pictures, put them all together, then trace round them."
Best moment: "Shortlisted for 5 different awards for Elvis in my first year."
Mat Prime
Copywriter
What I do: "Think up ideas. Show them the CD. Tweak them. Get them bought by our clients."
Best moment: "Working on a juicy 'through the line' campaign for Virgin Holidays"
Monique Horrigan
Head of Studio
What I do: "Manage all the work through studio and help resource the Design and Tech departments."
Best moment: "Meeting my husband through Elvis and making lifelong friends. We've had some excellent parties."
Neil Carding
Designer
What I do: "Make things look pretty."
Best moment: "Being knighted on St George's day."
Nicola Anderson
Account Director
What I do: "I work on the Honda Europe account, delivering digital and direct campaigns."
Best moment: "Sending the RNIB email! Great creative and nice to be able to help a charity."
Paul Taylor
Design Lead
What I do: "Sexy design, cultural driving force and chief food taster."
Best moment: "The Latvia party, picked up by limousines at the airport, driven to a castle, black tie dinner, it snowed. Totally perfect."
Rosalind Mair
Account Manager
What I do: "Account manager on Virgin Trains and Southampton FC."
Best moment: "The Moulin Rouge party in France!"
Scott Hunter
Head of Tech
What I do: "I plan and oversee the implantation of digital projects and occasionally get my hands digitally dirty."
Best moment: "Working with cutting edge technologies - completing the first commercial responsive design website has been a recent highlight."
Shwan Hamidi
Associate Creative Director
What I do: "Art Director and Goalkeeper."
Best moment: "Vintage Inns shoot in Yorkshire...and beating Dare 3-0 at football."
Taylor Westoby
Developer
What I do: "I build websites amongst other things here at Elvis, specialising in HTML, CSS and Javascript."
Best moment: "I had a good sandwich once."
Tom Duckham
Senior Account Director
What I do: "I work across Virgin Trains, Honda, Southampton Football and Yakult"
Best moment: "Launching Virgin Trains, dontgozombie.com and Sofa Stadium websites, and the Fly Virgin Trains campaign."














































