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Raiha Inderbitzin
Activity Coordinator, Client Relations
Raiha’s great-great-grandmother (on her mother’s side) came from a Maori tribe who used to eat people.
Richard Lacey
Flash Developer/Motion Designer, Digital
Richard is the youngest of three Laceys who work at balloon dog.
Natalie Packer
Activity Manager, Client Relations
Natalie saved her Dad from drowning when she was 14.
Rene Van Dop
Web Developer, Digital
Rene was raised on a balanced Dutch diet of cheese and chips with mayonnaise and grew to be 10 foot tall (well almost he is 6ft 8).
Jon Carey
Web Developer, Digital
Jon came second in beautiful baby competition. An urban legend says there were only two entrants in his category.
James Lacey
Art Director, Creative
James once ventured to a secret house party in the mountains of Ibiza, only to discover the villa was owned by Radio One DJ, Judge Jules.
Katherine Yeomans
Senior artworker, Creative
This year after being duped into trying 6 million scoville chilli sauce by my lovely colleagues, I found out the following: it can lead to dribbling, near hysteria and repeatedly saying “this can’t be normal”. It wasn’t normal.
Greg Larter
Art Director, Creative
A passionate angler, Greg’s 15 minutes of fame came when he appeared in the paper and fishing magazines for the capture of a giant carp.
Jude Harvey
Designer, Creative
After picking up her bass guitar for the first time in five years, Jude is re-forming with the band that achieved a number one hit on the Tokyo Indie Charts following their 2007 tour of Japan.
Mark Nelson
Artworker, Creative
Mark doesn’t normally wear a feather boa. He does, however, run a weekly pub karaoke night.
Ange Fox
Head Receptionist
During her time as a Black Thunder Girl for local radio, Ange almost drove into a hedge whilst driving local children to school when the DJ announced live on air that she had felt Bruce Springsteen’s sweat the previous day (she’d been in the front row of his gig but we don’t think that’s what they were getting at ;). The hedge remains unharmed.
Robby Tyrer
Web Developer, Digital
Robby has a passion for setting light to things, which is now channelled into special effects, fireworks and pyrotechnics for the rich and famous. So when he’s not building web apps or hanging with his family - he’s blowing things up! No political agenda!
Rob Hines
Digital Designer, Digital
Rob has rebuilt a 1960s’ VW Beetle and has now moved onto his new baby, a split-screen VW camper van.
Phil Lacey
Senior Art Director, Creative
Phil has worked with 6 Creative directors and 3 MDs through 4 rebrands in 5 different premises over 33 years. All with the same company.
Davy Hill
Copywriter, Creative
Davy once got so drunk, he went to bed leaving £3,000 pounds and all his worldly possessions lying in the street.
Nick Cordell
Creative Group Head, Creative
Nick grew up under the regime of Europe’s last fascist dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Vic Bacon
Assistant to the Commercial Director
Victoria is a former Norfolk Cross Country Champion.
Kimberly Boughton
Activity Director, Client Relations
Kimberly has been interviewed on an Australian news programme about man-eating crocodiles.
Anna Curtis
Relationship Director, Client Relations
Anna is allergic to oranges but not lemon or limes. Everyone she’s told is confused.
Ben Pye
Creative Designer
Ben once worked as part of the Team China pit crew at the A1 Grand Prix in Shanghai.
Kayleigh Jenkins
Account Manager, Client Relations
On numerous occasions Kayleigh has pretended to be an armed fugitive for the purpose of police training.
Dan Lincoln
Digital Activity Manager, Client Relations
Dan was once in the front row of the audience for Bruno Brookes beat the teacher and won a prize from Trevor and Simon for pulling the funniest face.
Janine Wolstenholme
Accounts
Janine is a certified theme park adrenaline junkie.
Stewart Yuill
Financial Controller
You’d never guess to look at him but Stewart is a Freeman of Haverfordwest.
Hayley Moat
Accounts
As a trained abseiling, archery and air rifle shooting instructor, Hayley very rarely hears the word ‘no’.
Sally Kemp
Head of Activity Management, Client Relations
Sally is in training for the UK Great Swim, a series of open water events.
Jemma Marchant
Activity Manager, Client Relations
Jemma’s other half runs a pub. Lucky girl.
Caroline Hardy
Senior Copywriter, Creative
At the age of nine Caroline won a national drawing competition, judged by BBC weatherman Ian McCaskill, with a picture of a windy day. Unfortunately her artistic skills haven’t developed much further since then.
Matt Isherwood
Digital Director
Matt hails from Bury in Greater Manchester and played his first gig with his indie college band at The Corner Pin pub in Stubbins, near Ramsbottom. This was also the venue of Elbow’s first ever gig and, until its closure, the home of the annual Black Pudding Throwing World Championships.
Eleanor Green
Activity Coordinator, Client Relations
When she was born, Eleanor and her family were featured in a sex education TV series called ‘Something New’, which was used fairly extensively in schools in the eighties. It’s the one with the family playing naked volleyball. And no, it isn’t her family. So she claims.
Ben Wilson
Art Director, Creative
Ben’s first job after graduating from art school was as a layout artist for Paul Raymond Publications. He once featured in a photo shoot in a private swimming pool with five naked ladies. Fortunately, he managed to keep his trunks on.
Christos Karakanna
Group director, Client Relations
A man of little fear, Christos once went cage diving with great white sharks.
Dan Stone
Artwork, Creative
Dan’s passion is music production and DJing. Ranked in the top 600 DJs worldwide, he has performed alongside Boy George and Judge Jules.
Martyn Golec
Head of Creative Services
Martyn has just become the proud owner of a scooter and is reliving his misspent youth as a Mod.
Chris Jeffery
IT
Chris can run a sub-13 second quarter mile in a mid-90s supercar.
Nathan Langton
Activity Manager, Client Relations
Nathan won a competition to be ‘the face of Virgin Mobile’. He appeared in an advert for them with Pamela Anderson, which was shot in LA.
Anthony Reilly
Account Planner, Planning and Strategy
Anthony once starred in a ‘lock stock’ style short film for Police sunglasses with Vinnie Jones.
Nicky Rodwell
Digital Activity Manager, Client relations
Nicky played squash at county and national level in her youth.
Giles Luckett
Senior Digital Strategist, Planning and Strategy
An author of six novels, Giles has been to Chateau Latour more times than he’s been to Blackpool, despite having written a wine column for the Blackpool Gazette for three years. He also took Geography A level 5 times.
Chris Haynes
Creative Group Head, Creative
Chris was once awarded a Blue Peter badge for designing a poster.
Louise Yallop
Activity director, Client relations
Louise has worked at the agency for more than half her life!
Richard Brown
Relationship Director, Client Relations
Richard was the frontman for a rock band in his younger days and still keeps his fingers busy with his favourite axe, a 1955 Hofner President.
Will Cole
Senior Activity Director, Client Relations
In 2011 Will followed in the footsteps of such greats as Denise Van Outen, Ben Shepherd and Chris Moyles to reach the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro.
Scott Deakin
Marketing Director
Scott played rugby against the Welsh under-21 Sevens team. In a game that lasted 14 minutes, they were beaten by over 50 points.
Tom Bennett
Designer, Creative
From his days playing Dennis Taylor on the green baize, Tom is now the master of the balloon dog pool table.
Jason Tidswell
IT Manager
Jason has just finished fully restoring his 1982 DP Racing Firebird BMX. In his prime, he was able to jump 18 kids lying side by side.
Miles Mark
Proof Reader
Miles' birthday present, a soap panda, was dropped into New York harbour by his younger brother.
Janet Bramble
Payroll Manager
Janet’s mum is one of seven children, her dad was one of seven and Janet is one of seven. Relatives everywhere.
Andrew Lee
Relationship Director, Client Relations
In his youth Andy harboured a passion for flying and even took a few lessons. While he can take off and fly around perfectly fine, he has yet to master the art of landing, which is generally considered rather important. He’s looking forward to rectifying the situation when he gets some spare time.
James Burrows
Lead Mobile Developer, Digital
James lives a sordid double life as a professional musician in a 60s function band. After performing at Richard Curtis’ 50th birthday party, they were invited to play at the wrap party for The Boat That Rocked where they performed Wild Thing with comedian James Corden on vocals.
Tom Carter
Relationship Director, Client Relations
At 22m 57s on a Honda C90, Tom holds the record for the slowest completed lap on Germany’s legendary Nurburgring.
Ben Sturgess
Head of Digital Creative, Digital
Ben fell off his bike 3 miles into a 100 mile overnight bike race and ended up in A&E. Lance Armstrong has nothing to worry about.
Ashley Bliss
Financial Managing Partner & Company Secretary
Ashley once ended up in hospital in Santa Barbara after trying to get on Arnold Schwarzenegger's motorbike.
Sian Potter
Commercial Managing Partner
Sian has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Frannie Neill
Board PA
Frannie represented Great Britain in Sports Acrobatics Gymnastics. Woop woop!
Eliot Sykes
Group Director, Client Relations
Before finding a natural fit with agency life, Eliot tried his hand at jobs including bingo-caller, cellarman, chef’s assistant, chocolate maker, campsite aide, potato peeler, barman, butcher’s assistant, restaurant publicist and newspaper boy.
Ian Fox
Senior Art Director, Creative
Ian is running out of shelf space. This is because he has every issue of Q Music magazine since it first launched in October 1986.
