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Lindsay Rogers
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Lindsay was once fired from a magazine, perhaps because her communication skills extend far beyond a glossy page. In fact, she knows the phonetic and fingerspelling alphabets, is an absurdly fast typer, and always up for slightly inappropriate banter.
We mean the kind of banter that makes Lindsay laugh so uproariously that everyone in the studio stops what theyâre doing to look over their monitors in astonished silence. We think it must be the same laugh that won over her imaginary friends Ali and Ixox when she was younger (it sure explains a lot).
Tristan Velasco
Co-Founder & Creative Director
With a bunch of time on ‘client side’, Tristan knew it was time to give full-time content creation a red hot go. He’s a lover of getting down to it, making a way and solving problems. Tris is all about creating cool stuff; written, typography inspired, hand drawn, painted or shot, he’s got the eye.
An early riser, soy flat white drinker and golf extraordinaire. Tris believes ideas come in many forms and that’s the complexity of our weird and wonderful brains.
Philippa Jameson
General Manager
When Philippa started her career in advertising she first worked with Nestle. Sheâs never gotten over her love of chocolate. First love runs deep.
To rival her love of chocolate is a love of France. This Francophile appreciates saucisson, vineyards, the French language, and (happily for us) putting together a cheese board par excellence. While an obvious bon vivant, sheâs always up for a challenge. Sheâs jumped out of planes, off waterfalls, swung over canyons and climbed a live volcano⊠all even though sheâs terrified of heights. She has also run a casual marathon on the Great Wall of China. And though she hasnât fulfilled her childhood aspiration to be a DJ, sheâs still the 80s pop trivia master we all need.
Bec Templer
Finance
Bec is a self-titled âmetal headâ with a penchant for motorbikes. Proper bikes mind you, not those silly little Italian nippers. Yup, welcome to the hardcore-finance era. If that wasnât enough bite already, she’s also got a taste for vampire stories â but not Twilight â the proper grassroots stuff. But like any great thriller, thereâs a twist, sheâs got a softer side too â a proud dog mum of her mini dachshund Frankie. And rumour has it thereâs another fur baby on the wayâŠ
Catherine Tubb
Creative Director
Cat moved to Australia based on the learnings from her childhood diet of Neighbours and Home and Away, taking the reality she encountered in her stride. After all, when youâve lived at both ends of the Northern Line in London, you learn a thing or two about dealing with the unexpected! Once she got here she never looked back; Adopting two cats after working on a Nestle Purina X Animal Welfare League shoot, naming one of them after Coco Chanel, and subsequently starting a fashion label of her own, Mrs Kensington, from scratch. A weirdly logical chain of events when you think about it.
Traci Chapman
Operations Manager
Firstly, we know you’re all thinking it, so we’ll address it up front. No, Traci Chapman does not have a fast car. But what she doesn’t have in wheels, she makes up on the basketball court with her very fast legs. Traci is an avid (albeit lapsed) basketball player, kitchen-knife aficionado and holiday-maker, having travelled and lived all over the world from Vancouver to Thailand. Digging deeper, we found Traci has also been to Ireland, where, unlike Mark, she has landed twice, but never left the airport. We suspect she was there to catch a very fast plane.
Miguel Del Mundo
Traffic Manager
Miguel is a musician and composer. A fanatical monster hunter â not a halloween pursuit, but a video game weâre informed â and avid book collector. But this story doesnât end with a quiet read in the corner; Miguel also likes to spend his, presumably self-allocated time taking photos of things found in everyday life. When he does finally wind-down, heâs notoriously bad at finishing TV series, only having watched Blacklist & Dexter to completion.
Charlie Roberts
Senior Copywriter
Charlie is half-deaf on one side (what was that?) so legally can never be accused of ignoring anyone. Although frustratingly for him, this doesnât stretch as far as an extra parking sticker â though his parents did give it a red-hot crack.
Other trivial points include a small obsession with seaweed, likely an internalised after-effect of a childhood spent on Scottish beaches. And that he is an accredited Football (Soccer) coach. Which in no discernible way helps his writing, but does mean he excels at laying out delightful cone displays.
Natalie Wong
Design Director
Natalie prefers dogs to people. We know this is true because whenever we go out for lunch or drinks we’ll invariably turn around to find that Nat has somehow coaxed a dog into her arms. Luckily she has her own staffy to shower adoration on: his name is Percy â or Percival if he’s being naughty.
Nat travels for food and has had the very distinct pleasure of eating both tarantula and starfish. (She turned down the sheep’s appendage though.) It has been verified that she makes a mean chocolate meringue almond torte.
Shea Bennett
Director of Video
Shea (pronounced like shea butter, not shay-ah as Tristan discovered on day one) spent a lot of time in Asia shooting fast cars and luxury brands and joined our team to capture and release killer shots. An avid lover of James Bond books as well as the movies, he enjoys the fast pace and vicariously living a scandalous lifestyle.
Between the hours of 12-2am you’ll probably find Shea with a breakfast burrito in hand, because yolo, he believes you can enjoy a breakfast burrito at any time of the day.
Natalia Yusenis
Senior Account Director
Natalia is a cat person navigating life in a largely dog-driven office. In true cat-person form, she lives many lives, having once quit advertising to train in psychology and become a hypnotherapist. Not content with mind-control, Natalia is also very well read in Vedic astrology; making herself a closeted astrologist for family and close friends only. Now sheâs back reading the room in agency land. You could say it was written in the stars.
Drou Angelides
Senior Account Director
Spelt âDrou,â pronounced âDrew,â short for âAndroulla,â baptised as âAndrianna.â Drouâs topsy-turvy naming conventions foreshadowed a lifetime of zany misadventures with equally far-reaching, confusing consequences. At an early age she suffered a catastrophic food-poisoning incident courtesy of what she reasonably assumed to be a benign Filet-O-Fish. As a result, Droula now suffers from an acute tomato sauce phobia and would prefer it if this vulnerable information is not widely circulated in an extremely public work bio⊠it has however imbued her with a fearless spirit: from bungee jumping and skydiving in Africa, to hiking the Himalayas, and even sailing a hand-build wooden raft down the Amazon in Bolivia.
Jemma Parkin
Senior Account Director
Jemma is a woman of fleeting hobbies, leading her to make some rather expensive purchases, that subsequently no doubt required a number of hasty online listings. There was the summer of Bondi surf love. Then it was the DJ decks. And coming soon, the fine-line drawing starter pack! One trendy piece that has stuck about however, is her pair of Oakley speed dealer running shades â some things never go out of style eh!?! The point is you canât keep this one still, with her yeehaw country music spirit, and pathological need of exercise. Perhaps itâs something to do with the 4+ coffees a day? Food for thought.
Hugo Freemantle
Senior Account Manager
Hugo, the diehard maroons fan born in Maryborough, QLD is not your average DJ. Winning a Red Bull DJ comp wasnât just about the beats (hello free tickets to Splendour). This music maestro has an unusual Christmas tale too â one involving a car crashing into his familyâs pool on Christmas Eve. Who needs a white Christmas when you can have a splash of excitement? Before Hugo became the life of the party, he spent seven years in the hotel industry. From hotel check-ins to managing client services, safe to say heâs mastered the art of making people feel at home.
Niamh O’Keeffe
Senior Account Manager
Bit of housekeeping, the name’s pronounced ‘Neev’, and if you couldn’t already tell, Niamh (there you go, you got it) hails from the emerald isle, via a few years of London living. Having not long landed in Sydney, Niamh (smashing it mate) is making the most of her love of new brunch spots â clearly not an early riser! Perhaps that’s because she’s spending her nights caught up on Aussie culture through our very distinctive brand of reality TV.
Might be a while before she starts exploring the outback however, as her fear of Aussie wildlife is entrenched and very real.
Kirra Poulos
Account Manager
Kirra is the queen of synchronicity, from keeping complex projects moving seamlessly, to winning state championships in synchronised figure skating! But the seamlessness doesnât end there; sheâs also a pretty crafty seamstress, which comes in handy when youâre into cosplay â sheâs won a state championship for that too BTW. And if that wasnât a seamless enough transition, she also uses her cosplay when volunteering for charity events and fundraisers too. What a princess! Sleeping Beauty in fact, as she suffers from Trypanophobia (the fear of needles) â better watch those little pricks when sewing Kirra!
Ceri Jones
Senior Producer
If spiders terrify you with their insistence on being present in your company, Ceri is the person to call on so that said spider can be released into a vicinity that is not your own. This makes her an asset in an office, and Australia more generally. Yet her first eighteen years of life were spent in small English towns â and London, where she hit the books at Central Saint Martins. With a fascination for the odd and macabre, her weakness is haunted houses.
She is unable to pass one without daring to enter, which may prove inconvenient at times. She is a proud parent to two rabbits, Ballet Slippers and Captain Willard.
Chesca Ruta
Design Lead
Donât be fooled by the fancy-pants name, Chesca is all Yorkshire. Sheâs got the accent thatâs as stuck on as the day she arrived in Australia. Sheâs also a massive tea snob â never without a proper imported Yorkie tea bag. Thatâs not a euphemism, as far as weâre aware⊠Sheâs also pretty handy on, well, pretty much anything. From design software, to up-cycling furniture; and more recently sewing. Her golf swing could use a little work however. So room for improvement.
Becky Gillis
Senior Designer
Becky has two older sisters, 37 cousins and 17 aunts and uncles. Family get togethers must be frantic. And possibly the reason that Becky can eat three times her body weight at twice the advisable speed. This often results in a bout of hiccups so if youâve got a weird hiccup cure weâve got just the person to verify its effectiveness.
Having danced for eleven years she is r-e-a-d-y for any costume party that requires sequins, sparkles and feathers. She has paraglided off the Alps but remains terrified of heights.
Anna Kwakye
Junior Designer
Anna is a massive germophobe. You could say that she was ahead of the covid times, or you could just wash your hands thoroughly before shaking hers. Right, now thatâs out of the wa⊠oh wait, hang on, sheâs also an entomophobe, fructophobe and ornithophobe.
But itâs not all running away from germs, bugs, birds and berries, Annaâs a Love Island devotee, with a horrible sense of direction â lucky âyou canât find love, it finds youâ, as they say. Sheâs also a thrifty lass with her fashion choices, happy to spend the weekend picking through vintage stores; can you imagine the germs those second-hand garms have seen though? That doesn’t stop Anna getting those surgically clean hands on them, because, “faaashun daaarling”.
Olivia Martino
Account Executive
Always hungry, occasionally dangerously hangry. Lucky we always have a well-stocked kitchen with Olivia’s preferred choice of spread â Nutella â not even a brother with a nut allergy would stop her from having the hazelnut nectar in her house growing up!
One well-fed, Olivia indulges her other achilles heel, shopping. She’s a follower of ‘Treat ‘yo’ self’ philosophy, meaning that every task completed, deserves a treat! Though she’s well aware that her handbag aspirations do not match her bank account. Her mascara bill must be high however, given the length of her eyelashes. Something she proudly puts down to her Italian genes.
Lauren Barrett
Junior Producer
When asking her loved ones for weird facts about her for this very bio, someone responded to Lauren, âYouâre from Armidaleâ. Rude! But alsoâŠ? Kinda funny.
In Armidale, she rode horses, competing in dressage and hack. (Weâll save you the Google: hacking is a kind of competitive horse presentation.) A chronic binger of Netflix, sheâll cross over into free-to-air if it involves anything MasterChef. Lauren also happens to love a cheese platter⊠We donât hire cheese lovers on purpose, they just end up here somehow.
Joel Stylis
Senior Motion Designer
Balding Joel, his words not ours, can make anything move. Rich worlds for detailed explainers, clever animations that make the complex simple… he could probably get Nanna out of her chair if you needed him to. But there’s more to this sneakerhead than just video motion. He also harbours a burning fear of dirty fingernails. Which is a tough gig when you have two dogs to pick up after… square that one motion man!
Isabelle Coury
Motion Designer & Illustrator
Did you know there are 196 countries in the United Nations? Well, Issy does. And she can recite them by heart in under six minutes (she’s working on reducing that down to five, because, you know, underachiever over here). Issy also has two (metaphorical) stomachs, her main course stomach and her dessert stomach, because her sweet tooth is really something to behold. But it’s not the only sweet thing about her. She’s also a major foreign film aficionado, anything from Iranian dramas to Soviet cinema, both of which, incidentally, are on the UN list.
Simon Le Couteur
Strategy Consultant
Simonâs been in branding for more than 25 years, and while heâs learnt a lot over the years, he just can’t stop seeking out more. This pursuit of knowledge leads him to buy, on average, 10 or more books per week. And if that wasnât enough literature, heâs also an avid Economist reader. The learning doesnât end when papercuts put him out of action either⊠switching to documentaries, just to wind down you know.
All a bit intense so far, but thereâs a softer side to this Strategist. Heâs a big family man, which drives his other guises as a cooking enthusiast, Lego construction aficionado and Freshwater beach regular.
James Horan
Senior Editorial Photographer
Say hello to James, photographer and human database of great places to eat and drink. This makes him useful on far-flung shoots, apart from his ability to take natural, modern images that evoke the personality of his subjects.
Heâs snapped for big brands and big names like, well⊠ever heard of this guy, Barack Obama? Yeah, he sounds vaguely familiar to us too. James loves lifting weights but if heâs not working you’ll likely find him in the ocean.
Rowena Clarke
Photographer
Despite her passion for all thingsâ photography related â Rowena is not a fan of Nickelbackâs âPhotographâ. But then again, nobody is. She does however enjoy The Cureâs âPictures Of Youâ and âHey Man Nice Shotâ by Filter.
Rowenaâs fascination with photography started when she saw her grandfathers wartime photographs of his time riding camels in Egypt â and has gone on to be published by titles such as The New York Home Observer and Cosmopolitan Bride. We often like to ask Rowena to look at our photographsâŠbecause every time we do it makes us laugh
Gary Peace
CX Strategist
Gary shows all the grey hairs of a long career designing consumer and brand experiences for leading brands across UK, Europe, and APAC. As a strategist, he has won numerous local and global awards across multiple disciplines and is an expert with post-it notes.
In stark contrast, heâs never won anything in his hobbies of cycling, surfing and swimming. All of which he describes himself as enthusiastic but ultimately untalented. Originally from England, he now lives on the Northern Beaches with his two daughters and a cat (called Dave).
Celina Siriyos
Consultant Senior Copywriter
Do you have a pop cultural memory that cannot be Googled? Celinaâs is a Gregorian chant version of âGhetto Supastarâ which she heard in a Sanity near the turn of the millennium. She is unsure now if it was just an elaborate figment of her imagination or a stroke of genre-crossing genius that cannot be unearthed by the internet.
In the time between (supposedly) hearing this song and the current day Celina has managed to: kill a litany of plants, learn Japanese book-binding, and become a writer. She loves turbulence but is terrified of amusement park rides.